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Janet Jackson is apparently going to make her triumphant return to network TV on the 2008 Grammys, if this overly excitable backup dancer who talked to MTV Canada--because he's from the Great White North, duh!--is to be believed. The standards and practices department at CBS is already on high alert about this appearance, no doubt. [MTV.ca via Kevipod Music]
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Janet was born the last of nine children in Gary, Indiana to parents Joseph and Katherine Jackson. Living in a two-bedroom house with eight older siblings, Janet’s father, Joseph, worked as a crane operator in a steel mill, and before she became a devout Jehovah’s Witness, her mother Katherine worked as a store clerk for Sears. Before Janet’s birth, her father decided to try a hand at a music career fronting the R&B band the Falcons, but never got as far as the top nightclubs in Indiana. According to reports, Janet’s father was gregarious and stern while her mother was deeply religious and saintly.
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PRWeb - The Atlanta Chapter of The Recording Academy selected Goodie Bagz to help create celebrity gift bags for Usher, Janet Jackson autobiography, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? and explore Pete s contributions to social justice and American music
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Jackson continued her acting career, appearing briefly in a short-lived but Emmy Award nominated sitcom titled A New Kind of Family which ... starred Rob Lowe, but was cancelled in early 1980. In 1981, she landed a recurring role on another family sitcom, Diff’rent Strokes, playing Charlene Duprey, the love interest of Willis (played by Todd Bridges). In 1984 Jackson reluctantly took the role of Cleo Hewitt in the musical series, Fame. She later told interviewers that her father told her to do the role. After a year, Jackson asked to be let go of her contract, and did not appear in another television series for nineteen years.
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The Velvet Rope ... saw Jackson toy with her sexy image. In particular, a cover of Rod Stewart's "Tonight's The Night" seemed to be addressed to a female love interest. Additionally the album had some fairly blatant sexual material. Photographs inside showed Jackson tied up in bondage ropes on a bed. Close ups of her nipples (with a piercing through them) were featured. There was also a non-musical interlude track featuring Jackson (possibly simulating) having phone sex with a female.
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During her performance on last night's Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, Janet decided to give the people what they wanted to see, minus any wardrobe malfunction. At the LG Chocolate Party afterwards, Janet bundled up in a luscious long white coat and black scarf.
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