Investing into the future

Below is an excerpt from the story (via Vibe.com ): BEFORE HANNA CHRISTIAN started working for Kanye West, she was a waitress at The Mercer Kitchen. The exclusive restaurant serves as the cornerstone of New York City’s Mercer Hotel, where West and Jay Z camped out in early 2011 to record their album, Watch the Throne. When West returned in October of that same year to take a series of meetings, Christian, then a 21-year-old college dropout and aspiring visual artist, struck up a conversation. For a week, West picked her brain about everything from architecture to fashion to art. He invited her to a Watch the Throne tour stop in New Jersey. She came back to work the next day raving about the elaborate stage design. Noted visual artist Es Devlin (a frequent West collaborator who’s also worked with Lady Gaga and Rihanna) projected video of sharks and Rottweilers onto enormous cubes that doubled as podiums for West and Jay Z during the show. After gushing about the design elements, Christian went for broke. “I love The Mercer,” she blurted out to Kanye. “But I want to work with you!” Christian was hired on the spot as West’s personal assistant. And within 24 hours, she was attending the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in NYC. Three months later, he announced his latest venture, DONDA, an experimental design agency named for his late mother.

Not worried about this: Kanye will appear on Kris Jenner’s chatshow on Thursday ‘He didn’t want to lose any street cred. So he turned it down.’ Instead songwriter and record producer Dr Luke, real name Lukasz Gottwald, is in talks to take over the role. If he accepts it he will join Keith Urban, who is returning for his second year as a judge, and Jennifer Lopez, who is poised to make a comeback after a year’s break from the show. And while Kanye felt appearing on American Idol would be bad for his image, his relationship with Kim Kardashian means some publicity is unavoidable. Despite Kanye’s apparent fear of going ‘mainstream’, the 36-year-old will this Friday appear on Kris Jenner’s chatshow. As his girlfriend’s mother Jenner obviously holds a lot of influence over Kanye, which she used to land him as the star of the final episode of her six-week trial chatshow. Kanye will be opening up about his love for Kim, according to Entertainment Weekly.. According to insiders he also shares the first photo of their two-month-old daughter North. If true, snagging North’s first photo will be a huge coup for Kris, who has enlisted her famous daughters to help drum up interest in the show. Meanwhile while West is not keen to rejoin Idol, J Lo looks set to return to the show. Too mainstream: Dr Luke, left, is in talks to join the American Idol panel, alongside Keith Urban and Jennifer Lopez, who are already confirmed A source close to the show says her return will be announced this week.

‘He didn’t want to lose street cred!’ Kanye West turns down American Idol… as J Lo looks poised to rejoin the panel

The super-couple, RadarOnline.com has learned, rejected a $4 million offer from an Australian news outlet for publishing rights to the first photos of their newborn daughter North , and instead will let Kims mother Kris Jenner unveil a photograph of the child on her much-in-need-of-a-boost talk show, Kris. In the image, which is said to be unveiled on the show this Friday, baby North is by herself, lying on a comforter in a very expensive onesie , the insider said, adding that Kanye will get final approval on the segment, as well as the entire episode around it . PHOTOS:Cheating, Gay Lovers, Incest, Drugs & Lip Synching! 50 Of Hollywoods Most Juiciest Confessions A source tells us the decision never came down to money for Kim and Kanye, as theyre rolling in dough as it is. They were planning on giving it all away to [Kanyes] charity anyway, the source said. Its not like [North] needs to worry about [her] trust fund, Kanyes already set aside a serious chunk of change . EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Kardashian Kids Never-Before-Seen Childhood Photos Right now, she is worried about the safety of Nori because paps are throwing stuff over the walls, yelling awful things at her,said the source. She feels threatened and scared right now that if they dont just let everyone see the kid, you all are gonna go cray cray on her when she does finally emerge . One insider said a separate offer was well above $10 million, and the couple still might consider taking it, and donating the proceeds to charity. Kim pointed out how much that could help a charity and that they could look back on it and think of all the kids who got to better their situation because of one photo shoot, the source said. And contrary to rumors, the source said that Kris Jenner was never handling the negotiations for the ballyhooed first pics. PHOTOS: Top 10 Reality TV Bikini Bods The reality TV matriarch would only have looked things over to make sure that the brand and her daughters best interests were represented, the source said, adding that the Momager has learned to stop taking sh*t so seriously with them that Kim is in love and shes kinda lost the control, and has to be OK with that, or else lose Kim as her daughter. Kanye will decide how to handle distribution of the images, and an insider said that hes looking at a monthly magazine in the vein of W or Vogue. He wants it to be shot by someone like Mario [Testino] and have that art quality, the source said. With his fondness for fashion, the College Dropouts looking to go in that direction with the pics, and thinks the artsy, classy nature of it would only enhance Kims image, an insider said.

Taylor Swift pokes fun of Kanye West’s 2009 MTV VMAs interruption with gift to Ed Sheeran

Taylor Swift is not going to let this joke finish. The 23-year-old singer continues to poke fun at Kanye West ‘s infamous interruption of her 2009 VMA acceptance speech by gifting tour partner Ed Sheeran a jar of jam with a note attached clearly mocking West. “Yo Ed-I’m really happy 4 you and I’m gonna let u finish but this is the best JAM OF ALL TIME. -T,” the pop star wrote. Christopher Polk/Getty Images ‘Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you I’ll let you finish,’ Wes told Swift after he jumped onstage after she won the ‘Best Female Video’ award at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Sheeran posted the pic to his Instagram with the caption, “Taylor made me some jam. Amazing.” RELATED: JAY-Z CALLS OUT TAYLOR SWIFT ON ‘GREAT GATSBY’ SOUNDTRACK The not-so-inside joke between Swift and Sheeran is directly referring to West grabbing the mic from the “I Knew You Were Trouble” singer while she was addressing the audience after winning “Best Female Video” that year. “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you I’ll let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!” West said on stage at Radio City Music Hall smack in the middle of Swift’s big moment. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Jingle Ball 201 Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift pose for a pic at Z100′s Jingle Ball in 2012. RELATED: KANYE WEST TO PERFORM BLACK SKINHEAD AT MTVS VMAS This marks the second time Swift has referred to the past incident in recent months. “Two VMA nominations!!