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It’s Jamia’s day
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fans of CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” will get a good, long look this month at the daytime soap’s newest star — 11-year-old Jamia.
The Oscar show singer and “August Rush” co-star, who shortened her performance name from Jamia Simone Nash to Jamia, begins appearing on “Restless” today as Ana, the daughter of single mother Tyra Hamilton (played by “America’s Next Top Model” winner Eva Marcille).
Jamia, who lives in Buford, is in Los Angeles all this month taping 21 episodes. On today’s show she attends the 21st birthday party for the character Lily (Christel Khalil) and sings “It’s Your Day.”
“My whole family is out here with me,” Jamia said by phone Monday as the actress/singer and her father, James Nash, were en route to a meeting with record executives.
She says a soap is a lot different from some TV shows she watches, like “That’s So Raven.” “It’s fun because you can have a dramatic side.”
While in California,
she plans to visit Six Flags Magic Mountain (“I’m very excited about it”). And
when she returns to metro Atlanta in August, she’ll be getting ready for her 12th birthday.
“Turning 12 is going to be a big thing,” she says. “That’s the last number of being a preteen. Then after that, it’s all teenager.”
For viewers who can’t wait until the show airs at 12:30 p.m. on WGCL-TV, “Y&R” has posted a sneak peek of “It’s Your Day” on YouTube. Here’s the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQQgxNw01lg.
ABOUT A BOY
For about 10 minutes Tuesday, we rummaged through our Reagan-era wardrobe, looking for our weathered Culture Club concert T-shirt. After all, Boy George had just announced an Aug. 19 Atlanta stop at Center Stage on his U.S. summer tour. Alas, not even an hour later, word arrived that the tour has been scrapped because the Culture Club frontperson has been denied a visa by U.S. authorities.
The tour was to include a free concert at the New York City Department of Sanitation’s Family Day in August. Faithful Buzz readers will recall that the singer worked for the department in 2006 while performing court-ordered community service in a drug case.
His managers say the singer has been denied a visa because he’s awaiting trial in London.
The singer, whose hits include “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me,” has pleaded not guilty to imprisoning an alleged male escort in the basement of his London home (sigh, haven’t we all had that problem at one time or another?). The U.S. Department of State, meanwhile, tastefully declined comment, citing confidentiality of visa records.
OVERSCENE
R&B singer Mario, taking a break from the recording studio to party on the rooftop of the Glenn hotel downtown. Other celebs taking in the nightspot and the new Maxim Prime eatery in the hotel included Chris Redman of the Atlanta Falcons and Zaza Pachulia of the Hawks , MTV’s “Real World: Paris” castmates C.T. Tamburello and Ace Amerson and Emmy winner and author Leslie Jordan.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Movie director Sidney Lumet is 84. Actress June Lockhart is 83. Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 61. Actor Ricky Gervais is 47. Singer George Michael is 45. Actress Angela Kinsey (“The Office”) is 37. Actress Linda Cardellini (“ER”) is 33.
Contributing: Bob Longino and news services
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