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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Are Still Very Much Together

Aug 232011

“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.”

A Boxing Promoter Will Pay $1 Million To Get Will Smith And Mark Wahlberg In The Ring Together

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Dec 212010

A boxing promoter wants to get Mark Wahlberg and Will Smith in the ring together for a celebrity boxing match, RadarOnline.com reported.

Damon Feldman, the head of the Hollywood Boxing Federation, is offering a cool million to each of the stars, both of whom starred in boxing movies.

Wahlberg’s film “The Fighter” opened on Friday and Smith starred as Muhammed Ali in the 2001 movie.

Unlike many of the fighters the Hollywood Boxing Federation has showcased, both Smith and Wahlberg have been trained by professionals.

To prepare for his role as a boxing champ in “The Fighter” Walhlberg said in an interview with Sports Illustrated that he flew his two trainers, gloves and speed-bag to the sets of other movies and would get up as early as 4 a.m. to work on his fighting form. While on set, he reportedly would spar with the other three fighters in the film for hours.

“I spent more money paying my trainers and having them travel with me than I got paid, by a good half a million dollars,” he told the magazine.

Under Feldman’s proposal, Wahlberg and Smith would fight three one-minute rounds. Regulation amateur boxing rounds are normally three minutes long.

“We don’t think these two are going to rip each others heads off,” Feldman reportedly said. “We’re just hoping to get into the ring and have a little fun duking it out.”

If the duo – who have shown no signs of accepting the offer – get into the ring, it would certainly be a coup for Hollywood Boxing Federation, which normally snags C-listers. Previous competitors include Jose Canseco, Rodney King, Tonya Harding and Rodney King.

“It would be a great event too,” Feldman told Radar. “Can you imagine?”

Photos: Holiday Tree Lighting Of The LA Kings Holiday Ice At L.A.

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Dec 052010

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Will Smith Has Stopped Filming “Men In Black 3″ Over Dispute About The Script

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Oct 122010

Work on Will Smith’s “Men in Black 3″ has been temporarily halted amid rumors the star clashed with producers about the script.

The movie, which went into preproduction here last month, has been shut down for a second time because of arguments among Smith, director Barry Sonnenfeld and the producers, sources said.

While Sony studio bosses blame the delay on a change in New York state movie incentives, our source said, ” ‘Men in Black 3′ has gone on hiatus again, this time for two weeks, after having shut down for a week and started back up. Smith, Sonnenfeld and the producers have been fighting. The start date for filming had already been put off.”

The disputes are believed to be about the script for the film, which also stars Tommy Lee Jones and will be released in 3-D.

“I Am Legend” star Smith is known for making waves. In March, he reportedly created drama on the set of his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s TNT show “HawthoRNe.” The cast was given an eight-day hiatus after it was reported that Smith was “inserting his input and requesting so many changes to the script that it pushed back the production schedule tremendously and caused everything to spiral out of control.”

Smith was also recently blasted by his former “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” co-star Janet Hubert, who said in her book, “Perfection Is Not a Sitcom Mom,” that he “had people around him who made sure no one outshone him.”

A Sony Pictures rep told us, “The only reason production will begin in mid-November as opposed to late October is to take advantage of recent changes affecting New York State film incentives. Suggesting that a disagreement triggered the shift is complete fiction.”

Another movie source told us, “Will and Barry have worked together on numerous films and they are friends as well as creative collaborators.”

A rep for Smith didn’t respond to e-mails and calls from the media.

Could Will Smith’s Daughter Sign To Rocafella?

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Sep 092010

Will Smith’s 9-year-old daughter is an overnight singing sensation, and she’s got Jay-Z to back her.

Willow Smith’s first song, “Whip My Hair,” started making the rounds on the Internet on Tuesday, and has quickly generated some serious buzz.

The head-banging track, which is already being played on New York hip-hop radio station Hot 97, has even triggered some premature comparisons to pop superstar, Rihanna.

“I whip my hair back and forth,” Smith sings on the catchy chorus.

Like Rihanna, Smith is getting a helping hand from Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z, who has reportedly signed her to his label, Roc Nation.

It was Jay-Z who also signed Rihanna while he was president of Def Jam.

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have already seen their daughter handle the pressures of acting.

She joined her father in “I Am Legend,” and then with her mom in “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.”

Her big brother, Jaden, 12, has also flirted with superstardom as an actor and rapper. This year, he starred in “The Karate Kid” and teamed up with Justin Bieber to rap on the song, “Never Say Never.”

The Twitter community also can’t stop talking about Willow Smith.

Beyonce’s sister, Solange, took to Twitter to give the rising singer some props.

“WIllow Smith make me wanna whip some haiiirrr in this house. Ummm kill em girl. Kill em!” she tweeted.

Singer Jazmine Sullivan is also a fan.

She tweeted, “why is “whip my hair” by willow smith my soonnnng. how dare she make me like a 9 year olds music? lolol. love it!!!”

Will Smith and Jaden Arrive In Tokyo

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Will Smith Denies Broadway Debut

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Jul 182010

Hollywood couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s representative has slammed reports the stars are to make their Broadway debuts in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

Earlier this week, the New York Post reported the pair has been approached to play Stanley and Stella Kowalski in the Tennessee Williams play, which previously starred a then-unknown Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in the late 1940s.

They were reportedly set to appear in the show’s revival next year, but a spokesperson has now refuted the speculation, telling GossipCop.com, “There is no truth (to the reports) whatsoever.”

The Smiths have been a fixture on the New York City theatre scene since they signed on as co-producers of Tony Award-winning musical Fela! last year.

“The Karate Kid” Gala Premiere In London

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Jul 162010

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Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith Fought Over Jaden’s Role In The Karate Kid Remake

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May 172010

Movie couple Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith fought over their actor son Jaden’s tough work schedule on the set of THE KARATE KID remake – because mom was convinced the 11 year old was too young for the extremes his dad had planned.

Will is the producer of the film and set his son a tough schedule of work-outs and filming, while Jada felt Jaden needed a break.

The I Am Legend star insists the whole project was akin to teaching his son to hunt – while his worried mom watched from afar on set in China.

In a family chat on Oprah on Monday, Jada said, “I learned why, in African tribes, men would come to the village and remove their sons to initiate them into manhood, because, as a mother, it is an excruciating thing to watch… That mother instinct kicks in.

“It was a ferocious fight… I was like, ‘My priority is Jaden’. It’s a balance. I told Will, ‘I understand that there’s certain things you are trying to put in, but, at the end of the day, he’s 11. We just had to find a nice balance. I’m telling you he’s a different child from his experience in China.”

In trying to explain his motives for working his son hard, Will added, “We’ve been having this passionate debate. I feel like greatness lives on the edge of destruction… The reason why someone is great is because they survived death.”