Invoice Bellamy
Ananda Lewis Was ‘Black Barbara Walters’ …
MTV VJ Might Speak to Anybody
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Ananda Lewis left her mark on the leisure world in her quick time on Earth … a feat Bill Bellamy says he is lucky to have witnessed in individual!!!
TMZ Hip Hop caught up with the tenured comic on Thursday, simply as the truth of Ananda’s death after a prolonged breast most cancers battle had set in.
Ananda handed away yesterday and Invoice says he at all times referred to Ananda as his “little sister,” however licensed she had an enormous aura.
He even notes how they began as rivals … Invoice was a rockstar MTV host on the identical time Ananda’s profession skyrocketed at BET because the host of “Teen Summit.”
As soon as Ananda joined MTV within the late ’90s, Invoice says they had been an unstoppable drive concerning the community’s African-American protection, interviewing the blossoming careers of the likes of Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and even politicians — Invoice says Ananda was just like the “Black Barbara Walters” when it got here to the interviews!!!
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Invoice tells us they nonetheless stored tabs on each other and he realized of Ananda’s most cancers analysis a number of years in the past … however he was below the impression that she’d beat it.
He plans on attending the memorial … Ananda’s sister tells TMZ Hip Hop they’re anticipating a star-studded gathering of mourners, and Invoice’s predicting a bittersweet reunion with the ol’ MTV gang.