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Wednesday 15 February 2012

Beyonce will soon release two albums at once.

Beyonce is working on two new albums, according to one of her co-writers.

Ryan Tedder - who has worked with the singer before and also penned tracks for Adele's '21' LP - told MTV that the pair had already started conversations about the follow-ups to her last studio album, '4', which was released in June last year.

Tedder, who is also the frontman for OneRepublic, said:

The conversations about her next album literally just started and there [are] two projects happening. All I can say is you kind of feed her the best that you have and she's this phenomenal filter and she takes it all in.

Earlier this week (February 13), Tedder revealed that he was working on a collaborative track for 'Video Games' star Lana Del Rey and '212' rapper Azealia Banks.

Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z welcomed their first child Blue Ivy Carter into the world in January of this year. Earlier this month (February 8), it was reported that the couple applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on January 26 to own her name.

Blue Ivy Carter has already been honoured in one particular way, however, after drug shops in California named a new strain of marijuana after her.

Beyonce Knowles is reportedly planning to start work on two new albums.

The 'Love on Top' singer only gave birth to her first daughter Blue Ivy Carter last month but is already said to be thinking about her music career and planning the follow up to '4', released last year.

producer Ryan Tedder - who co-wrote Beyonce's hit 'Halo' - told Theboombox.com: "The conversations about her next album literally just started and there are two projects happening.

"All I can say is you kind of feed her the best that you have and she's this phenomenal filter and she takes it all in."

OneRepublic frontman Ryan added the 30-year-old singer is being as forward thinking as ever, and planning what will sound good next year.

He added: "She's not interested in 2012, she's interested in what's going to sound good for 2013."

One of the projects could prospectively be the soundtrack to Clint Eastwood's planned remake of 1954 film 'A Star Is Born', about a young starlet helped by an ageing movie star, in which Beyonce is lined up for the female lead role.

Beyonce isn't about to let motherhood slow her down - she's working on two new albums following the birth of her baby daughter Blue Ivy in January.

The R&B superstar, whose husband is rapper Jay-Z, took some time out of the spotlight last year as she prepared for the arrival of her first child, but her songwriting friend Ryan Tedder says Beyonce is already setting her sights on a chart comeback.

"The conversations about her next album literally just started and there (are) two projects happening," Tedder told TheBoombox.com.

However, the OneRepublic singer has warned fans not to get too excited - because he has no idea when the new music will be released.

"All I can say is you kind of feed her the best that you have and she's this phenomenal filter and she takes it all in," he adds.

Beyonce's last album, 4, hit music retailers in June.

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Tuesday 14 February 2012

Jeremy Lin has found a home

Jeremy Lin has found a home.

The New York Knicks point guard, who slept on his brother's couch in Manhattan early in his tenure with the team, is moving to a swanky apartment in a suburb of New York City.

According to a report in the New York Daily News, Lin has moved into the Trump Tower in City Center, in White Plains, N.Y. The building is in close proximity to the Knicks training facility in Greenburgh, N.Y.

According to the Daily News, Lin has sublet a two-bedroom apartment from former Knick David Lee. The paper reported that it's the same two-bedroom apartment that Knicks forward Amare Stoudemire rented before he moved to Manhattan.

Lin's lodgings became a hot topic when he said that he slept on teammate Landry Fields' couch the night before he scored 25 points and handed out seven assists in a win over the New Jersey Nets last Saturday. He also revealed that he'd been staying on his brother Josh's couch. Josh is a graduate student in Manhattan.

That night's win over New Jersey was the first of six in a row for the Knicks (14-15). All of the wins came with Lin playing major minutes; he's started in five of the last six games of the winning streak.

Lin is the first player to have at least 20 points and seven assists in each of his five career starts since at least 1970, when the Elias Sports Bureau became the official statistician of the NBA. The Harvard grad had scored 136 points in his first five career starts, which is the most by any player since the NBA and ABA merged in 1976. John Drew had 139 in 1974. In his last six games -- all Knicks wins -- the 23-year-old Lin is averaging 26.8 points and 8.5 assists.

Lin, an Asian-American, is the first American-born player of Taiwanese or Chinese descent to play in the NBA. Lin's parents emigrated from Taiwan in the 1970s. A grandmother remained in mainland China.

Lin was an end-of-the-bench player for New York for most of the season. The Knicks sent Lin to the D-League for one game in January and he played just 22 minutes in his first month with the team.

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Sunday 12 February 2012

Bobbi Kristina Brown Released from Hospital, Recovering

Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, has been released from the hospital and is recovering with her family, her father, Bobby Brown, tells People.

"My daughter did visit with doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles," Brown said in a statement. "She has been released and is presently with my family, including her siblings."

Whitney Houston's daughter rushed to the hospital after singer's death

Bobbi Kristina, 18, was taken to the hospital twice over the weekend after Houston, 48, was found dead in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday. Brown, 43, had been on tour with New Edition - and performed the night Houston died - but he flew to Los Angeles Sunday to be with his daughter following her second trip to the hospital.

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"Obviously the death of her mother is affecting her," Brown continued. "However, we will get through this tragedy as a family."

An autopsy was performed Sunday, but a cause of death was pending toxicology results. Houston's body was flown back to her home state of New Jersey on Monday, with a funeral expected later this week.

One day after the tragic death of Whitney Houston, her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown was rushed to hospital, TMZ reports.

Brown, 18, was taken out of the Beverly Hilton — the same hotel where her mother was found unconscious and pronounced dead — on a stretcher Sunday, according to a photo obtained by TMZ.

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Law enforcement sources told the site that police and fire departments responded to a call for a medical emergency, but would not confirm who was transported to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

According to TMZ, this was her second trip to the hospital after her mother's passing. She went late Saturday, but not by ambulance, because she was said to be "hysterical, exhausted and inconsolable," a source tells the site.

TMZ reported on Saturday that Brown got into a verbal argument with police officers outside her mother's hotel room when she was denied access to her mother's body.

Brown's father, Bobby Brown, was in Mississippi for a New Edition concert when Houston was pronounced dead. "I would like to say, 'I love you, Whitney,'" he told thousands of concertgoers Saturday evening, according to The Associated Press. "The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this stage."