This summer, the Black Eyed Peas announced they were going on hiatus. “This isn’t going to be the last time you’ll see us,” Fergie promised.

And I guess that was true, technically…!

MediaTakeOut has a hot, unconfirmed tip—take it or leave it—that Fergie is leaving the Black Eyed Peas. I know!!!

But that isn’t all, you guys. Rumor also has it, the Black Eyed Peas have a replacement already lined up: Grammy-award winning singer Ashanti.

Obviously, if all this is true, it is such a bad move on Fergie’s part—Fergie is inimitable!—but I can totally respect that she wants to start a family.

And good on Ashanti! Wow! She’s kept a really low profile these last few years, and the Black Eyed Peas could honestly jumpstart her career again. In the meantime, the Black Eyed Peas are getting mmmmaybe a little stale, and Ashanti could be just the dose of ready talent they need.

I don’t know about you all, but I, for one, am really excited that football has started. I just love football. Even though my team didn’t do so well this past opening week (WHO DAT), I’m still all about the game itself. I love it.

Something I don’t love? The way Fergie, doubtless a good singer, has to grunt and growl her way through every song like it’s ‘My Humps.’

What did you guys think – better than Christina Aguilera‘s Superbowl flub, or just as bad in its own special way?

Stacy Ferguson was photographed in LA this past week wearing some pretty questionable pants. I totally love how the guy on her right is looking at her like, “Girl, where you think YOU’RE going?” and how everyone’s trying not to point at her chicken neck. (That’s what happens after too many facial surgeries, you know.)

Most times when I post these Love It or Leave It things, I’m, like, laughing inside because the answer is ALWAYS, ALWAYS “leave it.” This time, however, I actually love these pants. Seriously. I know many of you probably think that I’m joking, but I’m being completely honest. What do you guys think?

Image via Celebuzz

And wouldn’t you, if you were Fergie? I mean jeez. Celebrities are celebrities for a reason, it’s not like they’re going to hijack and plane and ransom the passengers for things like a chin reduction or more Botox or something. Celebrities just don’t do those sorts of things; they should be held to different standards and rules, you know? I mean, could you imagine: Fergie the Terrorist? Laughable.  It could almost be an off-Broadway production. And anyway, you remember good old John Wilkes Booth – he was an actor, a celebrity of his day, and HE didn’t get the old patdown on his way into Ford’s Theater in DC of all places, did he?

What the hell, TSA?

It appears that Stacy Ferguson has undergone some ill-advised surgeries of the plastic variety. It looks as though she’s gotten a new nose and had some of the fat taken out of her lady lumps and injected into her face since she first appeared on Kids Incorporated alongside another one of our favorites.

I never understood the whole “Fergie’s hot” thing. I think she’s a fine singer who’s in a popular band and that they collectively do an above-average job of producing radio hits, but something about her look is just terribly off to me. I don’t think it’s “meth face”, although I’m sure her history with the drug didn’t help.

Check out the gallery below to see how Fergie morphed from a naturally pretty teenager to somewhat of a swampthing and let me know what work you think she had done in the comments.

If you haven’t heard already, Josh Duhamel – or Fergie’s lapdog – was removed from an aircraft this past Thursday for violating flight protocol. Apparently Josh thinks himself as something of an exception to that whole ‘please turn off electronic devices while we try to get this 150-ton hunk of scrap metal off the ground, OK’ thing because when asked to turn his phone off, he said, ‘No thank you,’ and continued texting.

When Josh – or ‘John,’ as People.com refers to him in the top tab as seen here:

didn’t comply with the steward’s continuous suggestions, then requests, then demands, to turn the phone off, the plane was turned around and Josh was removed by flight staff.

I mean, Josh should know that any variety of things will get you kicked off a plane these days – including being fat – so why would he think that being a douche wouldn’t be one of them? Because even if he didn’t refuse to shut off his mobile, I’m sure they would have figured out another reason to get his smarmy ass off of the aircraft.