Gossip & Gists: Liam Payne's Friend Suffers Burns After Fire Breaks Out At One Direction Singer's Apartment

This isn't the sort of hot stuff we usually mean when referring to One Direction. A friend of Liam Payne's suffered second-degree burns to his upper body when a fire broke out on the balcony of the singer's London flat on Monday night.

A source tells us that Liam is doing "fine," but his mate remains hospitalized.

The young man who ended up being rushed to the hospital was reportedly trying to refuel an outdoor heater on the terrace when the blaze started. Payne was in the kitchen at the time but quickly rushed out to help douse the flames and then rode with his pal in the ambulance.

There's been no word from Liam, via Twitter or otherwise, about the incident.

The 1D member, who was in New York the previous weekend attending the MTV Video Music Awards and the Big Apple premiere of One Direction: This Is Us, returned to London to celebrate his 20th birthday on Aug. 29.

According to the Daily Mail, he partied with new girlfriend Sophia Smith at the Funky Buddha nightclub that night.

Gossip & Gists: iCarly's Jennette McCurdy Romanced Online: See Their Adorable First Meetup!

Jennette McCurdy, best known for playing Sam on Nickelodeon's iCarly and the spin-off Sam & Cat, appears to have found romance online!

After months of being the subject of Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond's Women Crush Wednesday (#WCW) posts on Statigram, McCurdy started following him on Twitter.
She then reached out on Aug. 7, tweeting, "@DRE_DRUMMOND_ I wanna watch you play!" to which he replied, "@jennettemccurdy ill let you know when I play in LA!"

Well, they must have realized pretty quickly that neither wanted to wait that long to meet, considering the 2013-14 NBA season doesn't kick off until late October.

As chronicled by the Detroit Free Press, which first noticed the attention being paid by Drummond to McCurdy, the 20-year-old athlete started sending the 21-year-old actress gifts, such as flowers and a teddy bear, which she then proudly showed off via social media over the past month.

McCurdy also showed off a pic of Drummond for #ManCrushMonday last week.
And after a few weeks of this, they finally met up in person on her home court, as evidenced by various tweets and cozy pictures posted online throughout Labor Day weekend.

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"With @DRE_DRUMMOND_ ahhhh!!!" McCurdy tweeted on Thursday. 
"Words can't explain...Add your own caption," Drummond then wrote on Friday along with a pic of him giving her a piggyback ride—which, yes, was an easy feat considering he's 6-foot-10 and her IMDb-listed height is 5-foot-2. 

According to Twitter (we're loving this transparency), the weekend also included laser tag, a trip to Disneyland and McCurdy happily going to bed wearing a hat that Drummond gave her.

"Beverly Hillsing it with @andredrummond0," she wrote alongside another cute selfie-for-two that was posted just yesterday.

If somehow this is not a romantic relationship, then it's at least the beginning of a positively adorable friendship.

Music: Johnny P Osita Drops New Single, "Eziokwu"

John Prince Osita Okonkwo is a talented hip hop and R&B artist from Ideato North LGA, music has always been his passion and now he has finally come up with a hit for his fans and music lovers.

The song, EZIOKWU was produced by Snowzy, enjoy!

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Gossip & Gists: First Female 'Life' Editor, Judith Glassman Daniels Dies At 74

The first woman to serve as the top editor of Life Magazine has died at her home in Maine. Judith Glassman Daniels was 74.

Daniels blazed a trail for women in the publishing world. She served in senior editing positions at The Village Voice and New York magazine and at Time Inc. and Conde Naste over a career that spanned 35 years in New York. Her husband, Lee Webb, says she died from stomach cancer on Sunday.

Daniels was a Massachusetts native and a Smith College graduate. During her career she oversaw creation of a magazine for executive women called Savvy and helped to found the Women’s Media Group in New York. She oversaw Life magazine’s 50th anniversary.

Her family is planning an October memorial service.

Videos: Baene Drops "Element" Video

Here is the long awaited video for the pop single "Element" by former TV host "Baene", the song talks about the four elements we have around us, Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.

Lovely video with all the necessary proofs of the four elements of life.

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Gossip & Gists: "My Marriage Is Intact" - Wazobia FM’s Lolo Tells

Popular Wazobia FM On-Air Personality (OAP) Lolo has discredited recent rumours that her marriage has hit the rocks.
 

Omotunde ‘Lolo’ Adebowale says her marriage is absolutely intact.

Speaking with a correspondent in a telephone chat on Monday August 26, 2013, the OAP denied the reports, blaming it on malicious individuals who according to her probably want her marriage to crash.

Lolo, whose real names are  Omotunde Adebowale told our correspondent, ‘please, there is nothing wrong with my marriage. I’m a mother of four and my husband is at home with me and my children. I don’t have issues with my marriage, I don’t even know how the story started spreading, please people should stop carrying such rumours’.

Gossip & Gists: 43 Year-Old Supermodel Naomi Campbell Goes Nude For Magazine Shoot

Naomi Campbell covers Interview Magazine. Photo – Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

How can a 43-year-old woman look this sexy?

Assuming there was minimal photshopping done here, Naomi Campbell still has got one hell of a hot body…

The Supermodel recently threw her clothes to the floor for US ‘Interview Magazine’ shoot. The magazine’s September issue shows off Campbell posing stark naked for one of seven monochrome covers.

Campbell talks about her career which hits three decades in 2015;

‘They always say, ‘Fake it till you make it’. [laughs] No, I’m determined, and I’m passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don’t know something, I’m going to ask, and I’ve got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don’t look it. Yes, I am’, an excerpt from the interview reads.

Gossip & Gists: "I Am The Best Rapper In Nigeria’ , Yung6ix Declares

Last year, M.I crowned Yung6ix as the rap ‘King of the South’, a year later, the young yet-to-debut rapper is claiming to be better than the Choc Boy and every other rapper in Nigeria…

Yung6ix, a talented budding MC declared his new self acclaimed status on Twitter yesterday (August 31, 2013); ‘I am the Best Rapper in Nigeria , if you have an opposing Opinion , now is the Best time to keep it to yourself #Controlstateofmind‘.

Obviously inspired by Kendrick Lamar’s recent declaration as being the ‘King of New York‘ and all the controversy it’s brought, Yung6ix is probably looking to spin some contention around himself.

Earlier this year, he took a swipe at a Benin-based rapper Cyrus tha Virus after the latter contested his (Yung6ix) claim to being the rap ‘King of the South’.

Yung6ix is signed to Storm 360. He says he will be releasing his debut album in 2013.