Jennifer Hudson walks the Red Carpet on a Trip to perform in Barbados, Apr 9

New Year's Rockin Eve Performances

From Ke$ha to Willow Smith to a slimmed-down Jennifer Hudson, artists performed on the annual Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest-hosted special

Jennifer Hudson Organizes a Toy Drive in Memory of Her Late Nephew

Jennifer Hudson suffered a tragedy, but they used this experience to brighten the holidays of other children, as the star of a campaign to organize the game in memory of killing her cousin.

Dreamgirls star wanted to focus on happier times, with seven-year-old Julian - who brutally murdered two years ago with the singer and actress mother and brother, Darnell Donerson Jason Hudson - Chicago event organized to help other children to enjoy the festive season.

She said: "It was a good way to Julian memory alive of the grace of other people during the holiday season for us, we have a Holiday Birth nooit'n sad, so we want Holiday Birth of other children as much fun for us was great .."

Jennifer's sister Julia has agreed to this and is the best way to honor her son's death.

She said: "Julian has always been a game you go home and see his bike in the street and say:" Why is your bike in the street? "." Oh, I've gone. "It would be right in the job I think I know he smiled, something that would be for him to do exactly .."

Jennifer - a son 16 months, David Daniel, her fiance David Otunga that - for the detection engine to create a game in memory improved Julian Holiday Birth, The David and helped with the children of this tragedy.

She said: "This is what makes me happy during the holiday season just a smile to someone sees or hears them or fluttering just very excited and it makes my holiday.

Jennifer Hudson Breaks Her Silence About Family Murders "surreal"

Jennifer Hudson broke her silence and spoke publicly about the 2008 murder of her mother, brother and Nephew for the first time.

On last night's episode of VH1's "Behind the Music,"Jennifer Hudson revealed how she handled the emotional pain of the murders. Jennifer said, "I'd pray when I get up in the morning, and pray before I lay down at night," Hudson said of how she's managed to stay strong. "If I didn't, I'd wake up depressed."
The one-time "American Idol" contestant, who went on to win an Academy Award three years ago for a supporting role in her feature debut "Dreamgirls," said the 2008 triple-slaying was "surreal."
The bodies of Hudson's 57-year-old mother Darnell Donerson and 29-year-old brother Jason Hudson were discovered inside the home where Hudson grew up in Chicago. Her 7-year-old nephew Julian King was later found dead in a vehicle.
All three had been shot. William Balfour, the estranged husband of Hudson's sister Julia, has been charged with the murders.


Not long after the murder, Hudson got engaged to David Otunga which whom she had a son last August. Her debut self-titled album went on to win a Grammy award.

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Kate Hudson - “Elle” February 2009

Kate Hudson looks yummy in yellow on the February 2009 cover of Elle.

In the featured article, we learn that Jennifer Meyer, the jewelry designer and wife of Tobey Maguire, has known Kate since childhood (her dad was the agent of Kate’s mom, Goldie Hawn). In high school, Jennifer recalls Kate getting sent home for wearing her skirts too short. Scandalous!

Kate also sounds off on the paparazzi enraging her. “They’ve become an entity to themselves,” she says. “But eventually they’ll implode. They’re creating a house of cards that will inevitably fall. These are not nice people. When you’re taking your child to school, and they’re trying to get on school property to get a picture, it literally makes you want to just smack them.”

During the interview, the 29-year-old actress gets defensive at the suggestion that she lacks range. She says, “I could be in an interview and people would keep going, ‘So why do you always do romantic comedies?’ Do I want to do darker roles? Of course. It has to be the right thing, though. I’m not just going to, like, make a movie that’s, Oh, she’s a whore, prostitute, and heroin addict.”

Jennifer Hudson, New 007 Lead Academy Invitees

Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson have been asked to join Hollywood’s most exclusive club.

They were among 115 actors, filmmakers, studio executives and others invited into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that hands out the Oscars.

Others on the invitation list released by the academy Monday include actors Daniel Craig, Aaron Eckhart, Christopher Plummer, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Danny Huston.

Along with Hudson, the former “American Idol” finalist who won the supporting-actress Oscar for last year’s “Dreamgirls,” Oscar winners from 2006 invited to join the academy include screenwriters Michael Arndt (“Little Miss Sunshine”) and William Monahan (“The Departed”); makeup artists David Marti and Montse Ribe (“Pan’s Labyrinth”); and composer Gustavo Santaolalla (“Babel”).

Besides Murphy, nominated as supporting actor for “Dreamgirls,” nominees from last year asked to become academy members include actors Adriana Barraza (“Babel”), Ryan Gosling (“Half Nelson”) and Jackie Earle Haley (“Little Children”); directors Paul Greengrass (“United 93”) and James Longley (the documentary “Iraq in Fragments”); screenwriters Guillermo Arriaga (“Babel”); Patrick Marber (“Notes on a Scandal”) and Peter Morgan (“The Queen”); and costume designer Consolata Boyle (“The Queen”).

Academy rules would have allowed nearly 150 new members this year, but the group’s selecting committees endorsed fewer candidates than the maximum. The academy adopted policies four years ago to slow its growth, with the number of members eligible to vote on the Oscars holding steady at a bit below 6,000 since then.

“The numbers are stabilizing nicely,” said Bruce Davis, the academy’s executive director.

Among other notables invited into the academy were J.J. Abrams, creator of “Lost” and director of “Mission: Impossible III”; composer Carter Burwell, a frequent collaborator of the Coen brothers; directors Antoine Fuqua, Monte Hellman and D.J. Caruso; and producer Jonathan Glickman, son of Dan Glickman, who heads the Motion Picture Association of America.