{"id":95012,"date":"2026-04-26T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95012"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:42:07","slug":"jackson-julie-andrews-cher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/jackson-julie-andrews-cher\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, Julie Andrews & Cher"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Michael Jackson <\/strong>biopic opened to record-breaking box office numbers.  Michael<\/em><\/strong> itself got pretty awful reviews \u2013 not that anyone suggested the film is badly acted or directed.  The words used were more like \u201csanitized\u201d, \u201csurface-level\u201d, \u201cgreatest hits\u201d.  Even Jaafar Jackson <\/strong>got off (so to speak) as a capable actor and an even better dancer and performer.  But anyone looking for depth or reality about Jackson\u2019s life should look elsewhere.  You\u2019d also better look elsewhere if you\u2019re trying to find Janet Jackson<\/strong>.  We got the lowdown from LaToya <\/strong>(who never met a microphone she didn\u2019t like, in one way or another).  \u201cI wish everybody was in the movie.  [Janet] was asked and she kindly declined so you have to respect her wishes.\u201d  It should be noted that the Jackson family has a huge financial stake in the flick, and Michael\u2019s \u201cson\u201d, Prince Jackson<\/strong>, is an executive producer.  Paris<\/strong> and Blanket <\/strong>are not involved.  Paris, in particular, has criticized the film as having \u201ca lot of full blown lies\u201d.  \u201cThe film panders to a very specific section of my dad\u2019s fandom that still lives in the fantasy.  And they\u2019re going to be happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

You should know that the film planned to include the child molestation allegations in the final section.  However, attorneys for the Jackson estate realized that there was a clause in Michael\u2019s settlement with Jordan Chandler <\/strong>that \u201cbarred the depiction or mention of him in any movie\u201d.  So that entire storyline was scrapped and the film ends in 1988.  There is, however, talk of a sequel.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the diva story that everybody\u2019s talking about \u2013 Cher<\/strong>\u2019s secret granddaughter.  First, let\u2019s clear this up \u2013 the kid was no secret.  Cher heard about the child that Kayti Edwards <\/strong>gave birth to in 2010 and knew there was a good chance it was sired by her son, Elijah Blue Allman<\/strong>.  Kayti says, \u201cCher got in touch with me last June and asked if it was true, so I had to confess.\u201d  Believe it or not, that\u2019s not the craziest part.  Kayti Edwards\u2019 step-grandmother is Julie Andrews<\/strong>!  So this kid has a great-grandmother who was Mary Poppins <\/em><\/strong>and a grandmother that straddled a 16-inch naval gun on the battleship USS Missouri clad in a black leather thong bodysuit!  Talk about diversity!<\/p>\n

By the way, Cher has once again petitioned the court to place Elijah under a temporary conservatorship.  She claims he \u201chas no concept of money\u201d and \u201cis unable to manage his financial resources and is unable to withstand fraud or undue influence\u201d because of his \u201csevere mental health and addiction issues\u201d.  Elijah\u2019s half-brother also told the court that he \u201cis currently a danger to himself and unable to manage his life and any funds that would become available to him.\u201d  Elijah Blue is also estranged from his wife, Marieangela King<\/strong>, who filed for divorce last April.  She was granted $6,500 a month in temporary spousal support along with custody of their 2017 Toyota Prius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Michael Jackson biopic opened to record-breaking box office numbers.  Michael itself got pretty awful reviews \u2013 not that anyone suggested the film is badly acted or directed.  The words used were more like \u201csanitized\u201d, \u201csurface-level\u201d, \u201cgreatest hits\u201d.  Even Jaafar Jackson got off (so to speak) as a capable actor and an even better dancer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95013,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95012\/revisions\/95013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}