News Archive

October 2005

Vanessa is on the cover of Black Noir Magazine. The title of the interview is Vanessa Williams Life After Rick Fox. 

Vanessa did some modeling for MSN Lifestyle.  Check out the beautiful pictures and more information at Lifestyle.msn.com

Vanessa went Houston to support hurricane survivors.  Link1 Link2

Vanessa and Proactive have won again an award.  Link

 Vanessa is not only featured on Tom Chapin´s new CD but also on Gerald Leverts new CD called "Voices" (also released on September 27) with a brandnew song called "The last time I saw you", and addionally she is also on Charly Brown Christmas 40th anniversary CD (released on October 4).

September 2005

Vanessa is a featured guest on the new children's album by Tom Chapin, titled "Some Assembly Required," due to be released in the US on September 27, 2005.  Vanessa sings on "Only One Shoe," which you can stream from here . More information on the release can be found in Tom Chapin's bio

A nice article about Vanessa can be found at Nytheatre-wire.com

New information about My Brother can be found at its page on the IMDB site

Vanessa has teamed up with Chaka Khan, Toni Braxton and other artists to pay tribute to festive cartoon favorite "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

August 2005

Check out the report and interview clip on WTNH-TV regarding Vanessa´s concert in New Haven, CT

Vanessa will receive the first Alumni Award at a gala in Miami . My congratulations to her. :-)

South Beach, the upcoming UPN show that stars Vanessa, will be a midseason replacement series, which means that it probably won´t air until January or even later. You can find Vanessa´s picture on www.upn.com  

June 2005

My congratulations to Vanessa, she has won a Mother Hale Award in New York for charitable work

Vanessa and other famous celebrities will join the festivities of the Discovery Channel's upcoming television event, Greatest American

May 2005

A lovely interview with a bit of a motherhood theme can be found at Lancasteronline.com . You´ll need to fill out a very small survey to gain access to the interview page. And an older interview can be found at Sidewalks.tv 

April 2005

Vanessa was recently at the radio station KOST 103.5 and they posted a few pictures of her on their website

An intesting article incl. a short concert review can be found HERE

The Fox Theatre in Redwood City will host Vanessa and other artists this summer as part of a collaboration with Montalvo Arts Center. Vanessa is suppose to perform on September 24. MORE INFO

Vanessa is on board to topline UPN's drama pilot "South Beach". "South Beach" is an ensemble drama about three young adults in Miami. MORE INFO

Vanessa performed today at a tribute for Broadway actor Gregory Mitchell

Some details about Vanessa´s upcoming movie "My Brother" can be found in this article.

March 2005

Vanessa was at the Howard Stern Show on March 23, and contactmovie.com article on it can be found HERE.

Great video clip of Vanessa from 1989´s NAACP Image Awards

Another very nice article can be found at Baltimore Times Online. The article mentions that Vanessa is currently working on a movie called "My Brother" and overall very imformative article.

Read the latest article Tackling Ignorance, Embracing Solidarity

Congratulations to Vanessa, she received the Entertainer of the Year award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters

Vanessa, Slash and Rob Thomas join the Pro-Radio Campaign

Vanessa will be performing on the TV Land Awards on March 16

Vanessa will be at the Special Olympics event in Nagano.

Vanessa talks about the Fashion Week in New York

February 2005

An interesting article appeared in the Westchester County Business Journal where Vanessa talks about heart diseases in her family and what she does to prevent them.

Check out this cool NPR radio interview

A few reviews of "Everlasting Love"  Link1  Link2  Link3

On Contactmusic.com you can find two articles based on Vanessa´s The View appearance.  Link1  Link2

Vanessa will be on Life & Style and on the Tony Danza Show both on February 18

Vanessa will perform at the Daytona International Speedway during an extravaganza before the Daytona 500 on February 20

Check out these interviews with Vanessa on www.rainbownetwork.com and www.nypost.com

There´s article about Vanessa on www.contactmusic.com

There is also a new Proactiv infomercial that debuted February 5 with Vanessa interviewing Britney Spears, Alicia Keyes, Jessica Simpson and P. Diddy.

Just as last year, Vanessa attented The Heart Truth fashion show, but this time she did not only model her red Kenneth Cole dress but she was also the host. As she previously mentioned on The View, heart disease is the #1 killer of women in her family so it has a very personal meaning to her. Lets hope awareness was raised and that we all take care of ourselves and do regular medical checkups.

January 2005

HERE is the transcript of Vanessa´s appearance on the Tavis Smiley Show  

As it was reported earlier Vanessa will be on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson on January 27th and on the Tavis Smiley Show PBS/KCET on January  28th.

The japanese version of Vanessa´s new CD "Everlasting Love" has a 15th song intitled "You are everything (Full/Extended Remix Version 4:06)

And HERE is the latest interview/article with Vanessa.

Vanessa will be doing a tsunami benefit concert sponsered by The Whiteweld Foundation ( www.whiteweldconcerts.org ) on Febuary 11 at Carnegie Hall in New York.

And make sure you check out this news article with addional info about "Everlasting Love" and on Vanessa´s official site you can listen to the albums first single "You are everything".

December 2004

Check out the video of Vanessa´s Holiday performance at ExtraTV.com

Top40Charts.Com has a nice article on her upcoming CD "Everlasting Love"

Check out a great Q&A Vanessa interview at Broadway.com

And finally on more article this time at TBO.com

Check out this funny article, and this review of her West Palm Beach concert.

Read this great review of the Live by Request show

Check out this interview clip from Vanessa´s appearance on the Tom Joyner show. Click HERE

I have received a great review of Vanessa´s performance at the Palace Theatre (Dec. 2), click HERE and if you want to read Michael´s review of her Atlantic City performance from earlier this year, click HERE
(Many Thanks to Michael K. Watts)

Check out Vanessa at Live By Request

Vanessa Williams - Silver and Gold CD Review

More Vanessa articles at Sptimes.com and Playbill.com

November 2004

There is an article in the new Essence issue, and you can read it HERE

October 2004

DVD releases for following Vanessa´s movies:

"Bye Bye Birdie" on September 21, 2004
"Courage To Love" on November 30, 2004

September 2004

NBC Universal is getting ready to lauch its next daytime talk show diva: Vanessa! Read more about it HERE

Lava Records has signed Vanessa Williams for two themed albums. A Christmas set, "Silver & Gold" is due Oct. 12, and will be followed in February with an album of classic love songs from the '70s.

Vanessa will be interviewed on Entertainment Tonight today and HERE you can read about the interview.

August 2004

Rick Fox filed for divorce earlier this week. His cheater ego couldn´t deal if Vanessa had filed it first, so he did it, what a stupid loser.

July 2004

As many already know, Vanessa´s and Rick´s spokespersons announced that they are seperating earlier this month.  HERE you can read more about the details, and so far there were no official reports on a divorce yet.  I wish Vanessa and her family all the best for her future.

Johnson Family Vacation will come out on DVD, August 10th.

June 2004

Our fellow fan Ryan was one of few lucky people to actually see Vanessa performing live in Atlantic City, click HERE to read his great review of a great show!

May 2004

Vanessa used to be a spokesperson for Jolson Jewelers. Their site still has a few nice pictures of Vanessa!

Beck & Call is the title of the upcoming UPN show with Vanessa. This drama is set in the New York fashion world and the pilot episode will premiere this fall.

Vanessa just signed with Lava Records. They added her already in their artist line up on their website @ www.lavarecords.com

April 2004

Vanessa´s new movie JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION premieres tomorrow in US theaters!
You can find pictures, links, exclusive interviews and much more on my Johnson Family Vacation page.

ProActive Ad Video Clip with a great looking Vanessa

March 2004

Vanessa has been given the lead in UPN's Lisa Kudrow/Dan Bucatinsky pilot Beck and Call.  Williams will play Zoe, the editor of a fashion magazine. The Warner Bros. TV/Sherphard-Robin drama revolves around personal assistants and execs in the fashion world.

Vanessa will join Radio Shack commerical co-star Ving Rhames on the show The Sonny Liston Story, in which he’ll be also joined by former roommate Stanley Tucci.

January 2004

On January 13th a new Vanessa Williams complation CD was released in the US, intitled "Love Songs". It features new songs and a different cover picture than the asian version.  You can hear song samples on sites like allmusic.com, or bestbuy.com or vh1.com.

The February issue of InStyle magazine went on sale a few days ago, featuring Vanessa´s house. You can find preview pictures here in my magazine section

October 2003

This month were two Vanessa CD´s re-released, the very successful Christmas CD "Star Bright" and the "Best of Vanessa Williams" CD. The "Star Bright" CD contains the same songs as the originally released CD but "Greatest Hits" CD does not and several fans have noticed an improved sound on both CD´s.

George Clooney's ex-agent is back. Michael Gruber was one of Hollywood's top reps before leaving CAA last year after feuding with Clooney. Now he's moved to the other side of the negotiating table with a production company, whose first TV project is an NBC sitcom starring Vanessa Williams. "This is Vanessa's first foray into the sitcom world," Gruber said. His new company, SideStreet Entertainment, with MGM to develop films for the studio. Gruber started his career in the mailroom of William Morris Agency and worked his way up, repping stars like Ice Cube and director Brett Ratner. He walked away from the agency world after Clooney axed him over a real estate deal. "This is a continuation of what I'vealways been doing: finding great talent," Gruber said.

July 2003

This season Vanessa joins the cast of BoomTown as Katherine Pierce, an intelligent, hardworking supervising detective.

May 2003

I have some bad & good news for everyone. That show that Vanessa was working on for NBC will not happen.
Instead Vanessa has signed on to do 10 episodes of "BoomTown" next season on NBC. However she is still in talks with NBC for other possible TV projects.

April 2003

Vanessa is on the cover of the May issue of "Redbook" magazine. Vanessa shares the cover with Cindy Crawford and Michael J. Fox's wife. The article inside is a huge interview with the 3 of them along with several other celebrity moms. V talks mainly about her marriage, her kids, and how she balances it all. She also says they are going to try to have one more kid and they're hoping it will be a boy.  The magazine also includes colored full-page Crest ad with Vanessa.

March 2003

Great News!! Vanessa won The Golden Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture made for TV for Keep the Faith, Baby
Read more about it on the Golden Satellite Award Website

 Vanessa Williams, Steve Harvey, Bow Wow, Solange Knowles and Gabby Soleil are joining Cedric the Entertainer in "Johnson Family Vacation" for Fox Searchlight Pictures. Read more about it HERE

Vanessa has signed to co-star with Ving Rhames and Ja Rule in the feature film "Back in the Day".

January 2003

Great News in the new year, Vanessa's "Into The Woods New Cast Recording Album" has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.

November 2002

First the bad news, its official that Vanessa´s final Into The Woods show will be on December 22

Now its time for the good news, and they are saying that Vanessa is developing a Comedy show for NBC. She is set to star as a Broadway diva who moved back into her small homn town to raise her kits. Vanessa will not only be the main character and leading actress but also be a part of the sucessful producer staff as the executive producer of the show. Read more about it on Entertainment Weekly

In addition to A Diva's Christmas Carol being released on VHS & DVD November 19th, that same day Another You will be released fo the first time ever on DVD.

Vanessa will be on vacation from Into The Woods, in mid-november, where she will be preparing for her "Carmen Jones" SOLD OUT shows in Washington DC November 15-17. The official website for Carmen Jones

September 2002

Vanessa is the new spokesperson for Crest toothpaste Rejuvenating Effects line. Ads are featured in the October issues of American Elle, Essence magazines. She'll be starring in the television ads as well and you can also check her out on the official website .

June 2002

The "Into The Woods" new cast recording soundtrack has been pushed back 1 week. Instead of being released on June 18th it will now come out June 25th. You can see the full 20 track listing & cover on www.amazon.com

On the show "American Idols", the participating people had to sing "Save the Best for Last" at the audition. Thats cool, isnt it.

Vanessa unfortunetly didn´t win the award for her Tony nomination, whats makes me think if everything went right when the best rated female acting performance didn´t win the award. "Into the woods" itself just won 2 awards (10 nominations) but at least one of them was the major one "Best Musical". My congratulations.

May 2002

Kevyn Aucoin, one of Vanessa´s dear friends and a very talented makeup artist, died today. My condonlences go to his family and friends and so are our prayers.

How exciting, Vanessa received a Tony nomination for "Best leading actress in a muscial" for her performance in "Into the woods", which got altogether 10 nominations.

Vanessa is in an all new Radio Shack commercial with Ving Rhames, where she shows a man's razor and offers to give Ving a mohawk hair cut. lol

Vanessa is scheduled to be on CBS's Morning Show Monday, May 6th. The Tony nominations are supposed to be announced that day, so let's hope "Into The Woods" gets nominated.

April 2002

Thursday May 2nd, the cast of "Into The Woods" will be doing a performance on The Rosie O'Donell Show. It is very possible that Vanessa will be there as well.

Vanessa (and indeed our the real Vanessa Williams) will be on the Ally McBeal show on April 29.

Vanessa will be both on the Today show and the Rosie O´Donnell show on April 18. It might be the last time she is on the Rosie show since Rosie will retire in May.

February 2002

Vanessa has signed with a new Manager Jim Morey of Morey Management Group. It appears that V has been without a music manager for a few years. Morey said that the first thing he is going to do is find V a new record label (and he's said to be in talks with some of the majors). As for now V will remain with Creative Artists Agency for bookings.

On another note Vanessa was planning to  do a remake of  "We Are Family" with a host of other stars. Apparently Vanessa was rounded up with Busta Rhymes, 'NSYNC, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and  a few more other celebrities by famed producer Nile Rodgers. The article went on to say that the song would be recorded in two sessions, one in New York and one in L.A. Rodgers said that he was still trying to decide which charities should benefit from the proceeds but he made it clear that he wants the money to help those of the survivors and families who were killed in the WTC disaster. This article was dated to back in September, so I have no idea if they actually went ahead and did it. Hopefully they did.

December 2001

There is a new book by photographer Matthew Jordan Smith named "Sepia Dreams: A Celebration of Black Achievement Through Words and Images". Matthew had photographed Vanessa several times. The book includes pics of Vanessa and the introduction of the book is written by Vanessa Williams.

Vanessa sings "Jingle Bells" and "Santa Baby" (with Patti LaBelle, Eartha Kitt) on the Santa Baby soundtrack

More info on Santa Baby (60 min.)
Contemporary versions of holiday songs are featured in this animated musical starring Gregory Hines as Noel, a songwriter who's lost his groove, and Patti LaBelle as Melody, the partridge (from "the pear tree") who helps him find it, along with a renewed Christmas spirit. When Noel's daughter Dakota (Kianna Underwood) asks the magical Melody for a hit for her father, the songbird decides Noel needs to reconnect with life---starting as a bell-ringing sidewalk Santa. Other voices include Vanessa Williams and Eartha Kitt, who offers two new takes on her 1953 classic "Santa, Baby;" one a hip-hop version, the other a jazzy collaboration with LaBelle and Williams.

Starting February 1,2002. Our fine Lady, Ms. Vanessa Williams will be staring in the Broadway bound Sondheim musical "Into the woods" at Taper Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale NOW!!!! So lets support Vanessa and buy the tickets.

November 2001

Vanessa is one of the voices in the cartoon "Santa Baby" that will be shown on December 17, 2001

Lil' Romeo remake of "Parents Just Don't Understand" (where Vanessa plays his mother?) will premiere on MTV's Making The Video on Moday December 3rd at 5pm eastern. The song is from the Jimmy Nuetron Soundtrack.

As earlier reported Vanessa is on the show "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" on NBC on Wed. 8pm eastern and she is suppose to perform with Tony Bennet a duet called "Winter Wonderland". Most likely she we can expect a few performances from Vanessa to promote the Christmas CD that she's featured on

Also check the PBS special out, showing the concert Christmas in Vienna all through out the month of December

Also don´t forget that the Christmas album "Our favorite things" was released in October. As earlier reported it includes many new songs with Vanessa. This album is also available on DVD, since there was also a live concert and they taped it, and released it at the same time on DVD. Click HERE