8 Surprising Facts About Diana Ross

She recently appeared on American Idol. “I’m living my dream,” Ross said to the audience. “I just wanted to sing, be a wife and a mother. A: We never had professional singing lessons, so we became examples of what young girls can be when they dream.

In the 1990s, Ross made several appearances on the small screen. Ross then took on lighter fare with Double Platinum (1999), starring as a famous singer who had abandoned her child to pursue her career. Well-known pop performer Brandy played her daughter.

• Diana Ross grew up in a talented neighborhood.
• The Supremes weren’t an immediate hit.
• She got booed at a funeral.
• A Supremes reunion didn’t go very well.
• She performed for nearly half a million people in Central Park.
• She was going to star in The Bodyguard.

By its final season, the sitcom had only 2.1 million viewers (per ABC Medianet). According to TV Series Finale, The CW ultimately canceled Girlfriends in 2008 “based solely on the considerable cost to license each episode in an extremely unusual business environment,” a spokesperson for The CW said.

Not only was the show cancelled prematurely due to a highly-publicized writer’s strike, but showrunners announced that they would not be filming any new episodes due to the fact that it would be too expensive, according to IMDb.

The reason for Toni’s departure was that actress Jill Marie Jones didn’t want to renew her contract. She was contracted for six seasons and had said she felt it was a good time to go and try other things, one being movies. Jill told Essence: “I left because I wanted to do movies.

Actress Sondra Locke, who was Clint Eastwood’s girlfriend for more than 13 years, has died.

Aaron Waters

The actor who gained fame as William Jerrowme Dent, Esq. on the beloved Mara Brock-Akil-created series is having a rough go at life 20 years after the hit show premiered. On Friday, the Chicago native was hospitalized for congestive heart failure in Los Angeles.