Gray Line New York, New York City’s premier double-decker bus and motorcoach tourism company, honored singer-songwriter, actor, producer and New York icon, Marc Anthony as the newest “Ride of Fame” dedicatee at Pier 78 today. The event was a ribbon-cutting ceremony where Anthony unveiled his own Gray Line New York bus with his likeness on the front of the vehicle. Mark addressed the crowd with words of gratitude and sentiment, prior to revealing the front of the bus for all to see.

“A lot of my dreams came true on these streets. Today, to see this kind of recognition in a city that means so much to me is absolutely overwhelming and to receive it in a landscape that means so much to me and that I understand is an honor beyond belief,” Anthony stated. He then proceeded to act as a tour guide to his fans on top of the bus, and said into the microphone, “This is a great way to the see the city, right?”

Since 1926, Gray Line New York has been a proud staple of the New York City tourism industry, bringing visitors to all the must-see stops in New York City on its signature red double-decker tour buses. Now with its “Ride of Fame” campaign, Gray Line New York is recognizing and honoring leading New Yorkers, whom they identify as exemplary community figures by bestowing a bus in their fleet to each dedicatee.

 

“Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false,” they said through Smith’s publicist.

“We are still together, and our marriage is intact.”

The definitive denial comes after In Touch Weekly reported the A-list action hero and his actress wife had separated.

The report, which did not name a source, followed just weeks after the couple’s close friends Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez announced their own separation.

Pinkett Smith and Anthony play love interests on the TNT medical drama “HawthoRNe,” and Pinket Smith’s publicist quickly dispelled online chatter that the co-stars had extended their romance off the set.

“Everything about the Marc Anthony story is completely false,” publicist Karynne Tencer told Entertainment Tonight.

Will Smith’s 18-year-old son from a previous marriage slammed the rumor on Twitter.

“No they did NOT split! False information,” Trey Smith tweeted about his dad and stepmom.

Smith and Pinkett Smith have two children together, actor son Jaden, 13, and budding pop star daughter Willow, 10.

The couple met in 1990 when Pinkett Smith auditioned to be her future husband’s girlfriend on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.” She didn’t get the role, but the couple became friends and eventually married on New Year’s Eve 1997.

Smith, 42, said in 2008 that divorce was off the table.

“What I found is divorce just can’t be an option,” he told Ellen Degeneres. “It’s merely that simple. And I think that’s the problem with L.A. There are so many options. So a huge part of the success for Jada and I is that we just removed the other options.”

The superstar spouses have laughed off reports they have an open marriage and freely discuss their active sex life.

“Be sneaky…your girlfriend’s house at a party. The bathroom. A bedroom,” Pinkett Smith told Redbook magazine in 2009. “Have a fantasy date. Be his secretary! Pull over on the side of the road.”

They also admitted a romp in a limousine on the way to the Academy Awards in 2010.

“Will started looking at me in this way that drives me wild,” she told Shape magazine. “Well, let’s just say we missed the red carpet, and I ended up with almost no makeup on.”

But Pinkett Smith, 39, confessed to Uptown Magazine in June that she enjoyed time alone.

“People think that Will and I don’t spend a lot of time together. Too much time, actually, if you ask me,” she said. “It’s always nice to have a little time apart. Sometimes you need that.”

 

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are ending their marriage. The Latin power couple announced the news online over the weekend.They didn’t reveal why they’re splitting, but J-Lo’s racy roles in some upcoming movies could be factors. J-Lo has a long list of lovers. She dated Sean Combs and Ben Affleck, and even wedded one of her backup dancers. Her divorce from Anthony comes at an odd time. The couple is getting ready to launch a joint clothing and housewares line at a major retailer. How will J-Lo and Marc Anthony divvy up all their other…assets?

Check out Next Media Animation’s latest video on J-Lo and Marc:

 

Despite reports that Jennifer Lopez is “devastated” by her split with Marc Anthony, J. Lo’s confidantes say her soon-to-be-ex-husband was “very controlling” behind the scenes of her “American Idol” career.

Friends of the couple say Anthony was known to turn up on the “Idol” set and make demands on her behalf.

Meantime, according to unconfirmed reports, the split may have been the result of an affair J. Lo allegedly had with William Levy, dubbed “The Brad Pitt of Cuba.” But Levy flatly denied that he and Lopez had a relationship while filming her music video for “I’m Into You” in April.

 

The shocking announcement of his split from wife Jennifer Lopez on Friday insisted it was an amicable decision. But Marc Anthony has fuelled speculation that the breakdown of his marriage isn’t quite as it seems.

The singer made a cryptic reference to his personal life during a concert in Bogota, Colombia last night. He told the crowd: ‘They say I am a single man.’

It was the 42-year-old’s only comment on the subject at the event, but his remark attracted great applause and cheers from the audience, Colombia’s Caracol television network reported.

His bitter-sounding statement comes amid reports that he and his estranged wife are fighting over who should feature in new reality TV show Q’Viva! The Chosen.

Media mogul Simon Fuller wanted both of them to front the new programmes – but now it appears J-Lo is most likely to pull out as the pair can barely speak to each other except about their children.

Meanwhile, Colombian TV network Caracol also reported that Anthony’s management went to great lengths to shield the singer from the press at the Parque Simon Bolivar stadium last night, and that the security measures around him were ‘extreme’ to prevent him having to answer questions.

Marc sang 15 of his hits including Contra la Corriente (Against the Current), Valio la Pena (It Was Worth It), and Tu Amor Me Hace Bien (Your Love Does Me Good).

 

Jennifer Lopez brought the showbiz world to a standstill when she announced her shock split from husband Marc Anthony on Friday. It has now emerged that the couple were scheduled to attend the glittering Bafta gala in Hollywood, and were guests at the top table, where they would have been seating with Prince William and Kate Middleton. Jennifer Lopez dumped her husband just hours before, and instead brought along her mother Guadalupe, a former teacher from the Bronx. Royal Aides and celebrities were baffled at Marc Anthony’s no-show, and it did not go unnoticed that Lopez had removed her wedding ring.

All became clear the following Friday, when J-Lo released a statement to E! Online explaining that her marriage was to be dissolved. The statement read: “We have decided to end our marriage.This was a very difficult decision. We have come to an amicable conclusion on all matters. It is a painful time for all involved and we appreciate the respect of our privacy at this time.” The couple got married in 2004 and have 3 year-old twins, Max and Emme. At this stage, the facts on the split are still unclear. There has been rumours in recent weeks that Marc Anthony was unhappy the J-LO was prioritising her career over their young family.

 

With three failed marriages between them, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony finally seemed to find true love together when they married seven years ago. They had twin children, went on tour together, did a movie together and even planned a music-based reality show they were working on together.

But on Friday, the pair announced they were no longer together.

“We have decided to end our marriage. This was a very difficult decision,” the couple said in a statement by Lopez’s publicist. “We have come to amicable conclusion on all matters. It is a painful time for all involved and we appreciate the respect of our privacy at this time.”

It was a surprising split for one of Hollywood’s most high-profile couples. They seemed inseparable: Lopez even danced in the background for her crooner husband when he performed on “American Idol,” where she debuted as a judge this past season.

The pair, both of Puerto Rican heritage, married in 2004 after years of knowing each other. He was ending a marriage to former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres, while she had recently endured a high-profile breakup with Ben Affleck.

Lopez had been married twice before in brief unions to Ojani Noa and Chris Judd and had a famous romance with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Her union with Anthony was her most enduring public relationship. The pair did a joint tour together and starred in the movie “El Cantante” in 2006.

They also had two children, twins Emme and Max. They were Lopez’s first children; Anthony had a child from Torres and another from a previous relationship.

In April, the pair, both 42, announced plans for a television show together, “Q’Viva! The Chosen,” with Simon Fuller, the creator of “Idol.” The show was to feature the superstar couple as they traveled the world to find the best performers in Latin music, dance and other arts with the goal of creating a live extravaganza.

The show had no airdate, and it’s unclear if it will continue.

Lopez released her latest album, titled “Love?” this year. Her career, which lulled in recent years, has surged since she became an “Idol” judge.

 

The ‘On The Floor’ hitmaker – who has three-year-old twins Max and Emme with husband Marc Anthony – had to pay to have her pool professionally cleaned after Max had an accident while potty training at the couple’s California home.

Marc explained: “He had an accident in the pool and it got into the filter system and they charged us to clean it. That was expensive. He took a $6,000 dump in the pool.”

The Grammy Award-winning singer – who recently celebrated his sixth wedding anniversary with Jennifer – revealed while potty training is in “full force”, the twins have worked out ways to trick their parents into giving them treats in return for correct toilet use.

Speaking on Jay Leno’s show, he added: “Potty training is in full force, but they figure out things. I don’t know how they do it.

“Every time they use their potty we give them a lollipop. Then a few days passed and we ran out of lollipops. I’m like ‘You should probably get them checked out if they’re using the potty that much.’ ”

 

This is the moment Marc Anthony storms out of a Spanish-language TV interview after he is asked about wife Jennifer Lopez’s intimate home video.

The Latin singer was talking to Univision’s news show El Gordo Y Flaca from his New York offices when he was quizzed about alleged nude video of Lopez and her former husband Ojani Noa.

He could be seen looking angry, waggling his finger at the camera, and switching from Spanish to English and repeating the words ‘Next question’ in the clip.

He talks to a publicist off camera then stands up and walks out.

Lopez previously won a legal round in a Los Angeles Court after a judge ordered that 27 hours of home footage that originated from her first husband Noa be locked in a safety deposit box to prevent its sale or release.

But last month it was reported how Noa managed to find a loophole in the law that allowed the release of the tape, winning the fight to air the footage which has been rumbling on for years.

He apparently sold the footage to his girlfriend Claudia Vazquez for her to release.

The American Idol judge had successfully managed to block the release by saying that Noa making the footage public violated the confidentiality agreement he signed after he divorced the star.

But in a ruling issued by a Los Angeles judge last month, Vasquez is now allowed to release the footage that JLo has been battling so hard to keep under lock and key.

Ed Meyer who is Noa’s agent and the executive producer of the project said the release of the tape is now imminent.

‘Claudia Vazquez has been allowed to release the home videos of Ojani and Jennifer.

‘The project will deal with JLo’s rise to fame, and her marriage to Ojani.’

Legal documents state that the mother-of-two is seen flashing her private parts and displaying other ‘deviant behavior’.

‘This is among other nudity on her part in the now 21 hours of home movies that we have so far recovered’, Meyer had said in the papers, adding that Ojani is continually finding more and more home videos with Lopez that he didn’t remember he had.

Although the tapes do not contain full sex scenes they could be of great embarrassment to the star.

The written ruling states: ‘Vasquez argues she has and is suffering harm in that she has had difficulty in obtaining work as a result of Lopez’s attempts at enforcing the injunction against her.’

‘Vasquez argues that Lopez, on the other hand, will suffer no harm if Vazquez’s preliminary injunction is granted.

‘Lopez puts forth no arguments contradicting those of Vazquez and, in fact, fails to address this element of the preliminary injunction test altogether.

‘As a result, the Court finds that the balance of the equities weighs in favour of Vazquez.’

Lopez and Noa married in February 1997 after meeting when he worked as a waiter in Miami.

They divorced just a year later but remained friends as Lopez appointed him to work in her restaurant Madres in April 2002.

She fired him in October of that year and that is when she made her ex-husband sign a confidentiality agreement.

Four years ago, Lopez sued Noa to prevent him from publishing a book containing details of their short-lived marriage.

In 2007, a court-appointed arbitrator issued a permanent injunction forbidding Noa from ‘criticizing, denigrating, casting in a negative light or otherwise disparaging’ the Love Don’t Cost A Thing singer.

Lopez was awarded $545,000 in compensation and Noa was ordered to hand over all copies of materials related to his proposed book to Lopez’s legal team.

In November 2009, Lopez again sued Noa for breach of contract and invasion of privacy, citing the previous confidentiality agreement between the two of them to prevent Noa from releasing his planned film, How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J-Lo and Ojani Noa Story and ‘previously unseen home video footage’.

Meyer had argued in the court filing that he is not personally held to a prior settlement between the former couple because he did not benefit from it and didn’t know Noa at the time.

Lopez had another failed marriage to backup dancer Cris Judd which lasted nearly 18 months.

She is now happily married to Anthony for seven years and the pair have three-year-old twins Max and Emme.



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