Usher, the world's number one proponent of dancing like a waiter carrying a stack of invisible plates across the greasy floor of a ferry in a hurricane, was supposed to get married this weekend – but that was before Usher blew it off at the last moment.
Usher was due to get married to his pregnant girlfriend Tameka Foster on Saturday, but the ceremony never happened because Usher called it off right before it was supposed to happen. Everything from security concerns to Usher's furious mother have been cited as reasons why the Usher / Tameka Foster wedding was suddenly cancelled, but one enduring explanation is that Usher simply got cold feet about it. Now, it would have been nice if Usher had thought this through before he spuffed a baby into Tameka's belly, but who are we to judge?
Unless you're Paul McCartney or Charlie Sheen or David Hasselhoff or Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson or Marilyn Manson or that annoying girl from Lost, marriage is a sacred, life-long union that effectively means you'll care for and support one other person for the rest of your life. So fair play to Usher for bailing while he could, even if it did mean cancelling his wedding at the eleventh hour.
On Saturday, Usher was due to take a break from having a sore throat and driving a car illegally fast to get married to Tameka Foster, a woman nine years older than Usher, 100% more pregnant than Usher and, following him abandoning the wedding, probably about a million times angrier than Usher. People reports:
On Saturday, only hours before the afternoon ceremony was to take place… Usher's publicist Patti Webster issued the following statement: "It was announced today that the wedding ceremony for Usher Raymond IV and Tameka Foster was canceled. No additional information will be given regarding the circumstances of the cancellation, but we hope the privacy of this matter will be respected." According to the New York Post, the 70 to 100 guests who needed to be informed there was to be no wedding included couples Beyoncé and Jay Z, as well as Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri.
But why did Usher decide to sack off his own wedding day? Well, it appears that Usher and Tameka only decided to get married a fortnight ago, plus Usher's mother – who used to be his manger until he fired her, and wasn't even invited to the wedding – was thought to be strongly opposed to the marriage plus, and we promise you this is real, Usher wanted a barbecue at the reception and Tameka didn't.
So now who knows what the deal is. Some sources are claiming that the wedding has merely been postponed, some say that the wedding is off forever and others say that Usher and Tameka might not even be a couple any more. Speaking personally we're disappointed that Usher cancelled his wedding because we had bought him a wedding gift that we thought he'd be in dire need of. But no matter – we still have the receipt so we'll return it to the personality shop and get a refund instead.
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none says
The PEOPLE mag SAY Tamkeka wanted the BBQ not Usher.
hmm so who’s wrong?
KD Griffin says
Wow what a mess. I hear she’s in labor. Wonder if thats true.
raemika says
IM GLAD HE CANCELLED THE WEDDING…AND THATS NOT USHER BABY….TAMEKA NEED TO GET HER SHIT TOGETHER…AND HE
PROBABLY
CANCELLED THE WEDDING BECAUSE I MEAN WHO WOULD WANNA MARRY SOMEONE WHO HAS ALREADY BEEN MARRIED AND
ALREADY HAS WHAT 3 OR 4 KIDS AND HE DONT HAVE NONE…I WOULD RATHER FOR HIM TO HAVE A BABY BY CHILLIE…. BUT
IM HAPPY HE CANCELLED THE WEDDING!