Bow down, witches cause Demetria McKinney is on the show! You Might Know Her From Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, Saints & Sinners, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Bobbi Kristina, and Motherland: Fort Salem. We saddled up with Demetria when we were down in Atlanta and got all the scoop on her forthcoming Freeform witch series Motherland, getting a gig in Dreamgirls with a co-sign from Jennifer Holliday, and the struggles from portraying her number one: Whitney Houston.
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Discussed this week:
Matt Lauer making Ann Curry cry as she’s kicked off Today
The great Al Roker reading Matt Lauer for throwing Ann Curry “under the bus”
Natalie Morales’ quiet departure from Today
Natalie’s Florence Henderson special
Kit Hoover of Road Rules fame
Talk show guests we’d have on: Meredith Viera, Katie Couric, Sally Jesse Raphael. Leeza Gibbons, Tempest Bledsoe, Ricki Lake
Damian thought The Monster Season 2 of The Masked Singer was Nikki Blonsky. It was Chaka Khan
Bobbi Kristina biopic
Demetria McKinney’s IMDB
Playing Anacostia in Motherland: Fort Salem
Dragonball Z Kameha
Demetria being classy on the Real Housewives of Atlanta
Real Housewives of Atlanta (Nene; Porsha & Kenya)
Demetria and Kandi Burruss’ song “Unnecessary Trouble”
“...and I’m sensitive about my stuff (shit)”
The Muny (Dreamgirls & The Wiz)
Jennifer Holliday asked Demetria to be her Deena
Deborah Cox is doing The Bodyguard musical but Demetria would fight her for it
Tamara in Saints and Sinners
Stage play of Set it Off starring Demetria, Letoya Luckett, Kyla Pratt, and Da Brat
Playing June Pointer in BET’s American Soul
BJ Armstrong vs Scottie Pippen + BJ’s shot
The Paynes on TBS, BET, OWN (Oprah has the shrimp)
Top 5 voices: Whitney, Celine, Aaliyah, Pink, Aretha
Survivor back for its 40th season
The Steve Wilkos Show (who was a little Magoo)
Kewl TV colleges: A Different World, Fresh Prince, The Quad, Felicity
Directed by Jasmine Guy twice (I Dream, The Mountaintop)
Science store full of goos (Anne loves silicone) Rhen’s Nest Toy Shop in Atlanta
