In the first place, why would anyone want to work for Sean “Diddy” Combs? Yes, money! Second of all, why would anyone want to compete for this job, during a television show? Yes, fame! And, third, don’t you have the impression that you’ve seen this before? Yes, on “The Apprentice” with Donald Trump.

“I Want to Work for Diddy” is somewhat like “The Apprentice” but a lot more “street-like.” According to USA Today, the show will begin tonight at 9 on VH1. The basic story is that there are the contestants and the judges, including former Diddy assistants who get to describe the wonderful job of beginning with a job assistant for Sean “Diddy” Combs and climbing up the hierarchy scale, being part of Diddy’s organization. The contestants have to compete with each other, in order to get to work for Diddy.

Capricorn Clarke, one of the three judges on “I Want to Work for Diddy” talked about the “easy” job he had, acknowledging that it paid off..eventually.

“I couldn’t do it anymore. I needed my life back. It’s like being a Navy SEAL,” said Clarke, according to USA Today. And what does Clark work now? He is marketing director for Combs’ Sean John fashion wear business. Not bad, heh?

Encouraging the contestants, Diddy described some of him demands.

“I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. I’m not really human. I’m like a machine,” said Diddy, making sure the contestants know what’s coming.

Some of the contestants are: Rob, a war veteran; Andrew, a personal trainer; Deon, who says he is a “radiator of pure light”; Laverne, a transgender woman; Stefanie, a Boston College graduate; Red, a club promoter and Kim, who calls herself Poprah.

“This is a new area for reality TV. It’s hyper-reality,” said VH1 programming chief Jeff Olde, adding that “Diddy has the keys to the kingdom when it comes to acting, entertainment, music and fashion.”

American lawyers are rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of a massive lawsuit following the revelation on Wednesday that the Los Angeles Times was the victim of a hoax when it reported that the rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was behind a gun attack on another rapper, Tupac Shakur, in 1994.

The Times reported last week that the attack on Shakur at the Quad recording studios in Manhattan, when he was pistol-whipped and shot three times, was carried out by associates of Diddy and that the rap impresario knew of the plot beforehand.

The newspaper’s report, written by Chuck Philips, was based on FBI reports filed with a federal court in Miami. But the documents have been exposed by The Smoking Gun (TSG) website as fakes, put together by an imprisoned con man, James Sabatino, who is an accomplished document forger.

Sabatino, 31, is a fantasist, says TSG, who has long tried to insinuate himself into important events in hip-hop history, including the shooting of Shakur and the murder in 1997 of another rap star, the Notorious B.I.G.

In his fantasy world, Sabatino has ‘managed’ hip-hop stars and conducted business with Combs, Shakur and others. In fact, says TSG, he is “little more than a rap devotee, a wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida” currently doing time for fraud.

The purported FBI reports were filed by Sabatino in connection with a lawsuit against Combs in which he claimed he was never paid for rap recordings in which he said he was involved (another fantasy).

How did Chuck Philips, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent six months compiling his report, fall for Sabatino’s hoax? He says he believed in the authenticity of the documents in part because they had been filed in court. But TSG claims the Times overlooked numerous misspellings and unusual acronyms that should have cast doubt on the documents’ authenticity.

Also, the documents appeared to have been prepared on a typewriter. A former FBI supervisor told TSG that the bureau ceased using typewriters about 30 years ago. TSG also discovered that the documents could not be found in an FBI database.

The LA Times has apologised to readers and is to launch an internal review.

P. Diddy, will receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Diddy, who spilled the beans on Jamie Foxx’s XM radio station, says: “I’m from Harlem, New York, so to get a star in Hollywood is just mind-blowing.”

Of the event that will take place on January 11th, 2008, he continues, “You can get a lot of things but when you see those stars on the ground… that’s something I can’t even say I dreamed of and to be getting recognised for it is definitely something I’m gonna have my whole family out there for.”

Aside from music, he has dabbled in theater (A Raisin In the Sun) and in movies (Monster’s Ball). Plus, his clothing lines, deal with Ciroc vodka and restaurants.
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