*We don't know the exact cause, but a representative for Janet Jackson says the singer has been hospitalized after falling ill shortly before a concert.

The news comes on the heels of Jackson's boyfriend, Jermaine Dupri, getting ill at this birthday party last week and throwing up on her.

According to statement released by W&W Public Relations, the singer, 42, canceled her concert in Montreal on Monday after she "got suddenly ill" during her sound check and had to be rushed to the hospital just before show time.

The statement says Jackson is being monitored at the hospital and hopes to reschedule the show. No further information was given about Jackson's condition.

A phone call placed to W&W after hours went unanswered, and a representative did not immediately return an e-mail seeking more information.

Jackson is on a North American tour.

African Americans also are 38 percent to 43 percent more likely to die from colon cancer than are Whites, they add.

But when it comes to whether race alone is a factor in the higher incident and death rates, Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, puts on the breaks.

He said the conclusions the Oregon researchers reached from the data are flawed because the study doesn't take into account socioeconomic factors as well as the fact the Blacks tend to get fewer screenings, and, as a consequence, tend to have more advanced cancers and larger polyps because their cancers are found later.

"We've known for some time that Blacks are less likely to get screened for colorectal cancers than Whites and that their cancers are detected at a later stage," he says. "Studies looking into this have indicated that access to regular screening rather than biology drives much of this difference."

For the Portland study, researchers looked at where polyps (larger than 9 millimeters) were located in African-Americans and Whites who were screened but had no symptoms. They also compared how prevalent those polyps were in both races.

Information from colonoscopy screenings of 5,464 African-Americans and 80,061 Whites from 67 screening centers around the United States revealed that "asymptomatic Black men and women undergoing colonoscopy screening are more likely to have one or more polyps sized more than 9 mm, compared with White individuals," the researchers wrote. "The differences were especially striking among women."

Brawley says, however, that the size of a person's polyps may be affected by a number of things, including when in the person's screening is taken and whether the person had ever been screened before.

"They [the Oregon researchers] conclude that the biology of colorectal cancer in Black Americans may be different than in Whites and that in individuals over the age of 60, current screening methods may be less beneficial in Black Americans than in White Americans," Brawley says. "An accurate assessment of the underlying differences documented by this data demands we correct for socioeconomic status and related polyp risk factors, and for health seeking behaviors when doing Black-White comparisons."

Brawley does, however, agree with the researchers that colon cancer screenings are important for people of all races. For more on colon cancer to Cancer.org.

Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo says he harbors no ill will toward R&B singer R. Kelly, despite having just won a lawsuit against him to collect $700,320 in damages for being kicked off of his 2007 tour.

"I don't hate R. Kelly," he told the New York Daily News. "It wasn't even really a feud. It's all in the past. I think I'm going to use the money and open up a club or a cigar bar in Atlanta."

Ne-Yo, whose new album "Year of the Gentleman" was released Tuesday, wasn't acting like much of a gentleman when hanging out with Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs recently.

"We were all in London a while ago, and I ended up doing so many shots of Patrón because I thought everyone else was," he recalled. "But they were just putting them down without drinking! So nine shots later, and I'm hanging out of Jay's Maybach, losing my lunch! He called and joked he was going to send me a cleaning bill for the carpeting."

*Star Jones and her former husband of four years, Al Reynolds, reached a divorce settlement on Wednesday just moments before they were due to appear in a Manhattan court room.

Jones' rep released a statement saying the former couple "reached an amicable settlement in their divorce proceeding... Both parties are moving on with their private lives."

The New York Post is reporting that Reynolds was allegedly upset with the prenuptial agreement he signed, leaving him "basically nothing," though he gave up the fight in order to avoid higher court costs.

Jones, 46, filed for divorce on March 26 at Manhattan's Supreme Court in New York, and it was subsequently labeled an "uncontested matrimonial" case by officials.

As previously reported, she has recently been linked romantically to chef Herb Wilson.

Michelle Obama Visits "The Ellen Degeneres Show" - Sept. 8, 2008 (Part 2)

*Michelle Obama got her groove on with newlywed Ellen Degeneres during Monday's broadcast of the talk show host's sixth season premiere.

During her dance to the chair, the wife of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama broke into The Prep and Jay-Z's "Dirt Off Your Shoulders," which her husband did famously before a speech during the primaries.

Mrs. Obama agreed with Ellen that she has better dance moves than her husband, who cut a rug with the TV star when he appeared on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" last October.

*A new book by Sandy (Pepa) Denton of the rap duo Salt-n-Pepa reveals details about her personal life highlighted by a number violent episodes where she was both the victim and perpetrator.

"Let's Talk About Pep," co-written with Karen Hunter, features Denton speaking candidly about her rise from poverty, her hot temper and her string of bad relationships.

The rapper was once married to Naughty by Nature front man Treach (Anthony Criss). She also had a child with Tyran (Tah-Tah) Moore, a rapper accused by 50 Cent of having a role in his 2002 shooting. (Tah-Tah was never charged.)

Her most turbulent experience came from a decade-long romance with a man she calls "Brad."

During one of their apocalyptic fights, she writes, "I had the hot iron in my hand and he had a handful of my hair. He grabbed the hand with the iron in it and was pushing [it] toward my face. ... He ended up pressing that hot iron against my other arm. I heard my flesh sizzling, and the smell was sickening. I started screaming from the pain. He dropped the iron and I turned to run, and his nail swiped across my eyeball and shredded my cornea." The incident left her with deep scars and an eye patch.

The couple had another brawl at actor Omar Epps' house, where, she says, "Brad" threw her through a glass coffee table and tried to push her down the stairs.

Pepa, meanwhile, had a violent streak of her own. She tells of one night when she had to check Christopher "Play" Martin of the rap duo Kid 'n Play.

"Play tried to clown me at the table. ... Everyone started laughing. I got up and grabbed him by his collar and dragged him down the whole length of the table, knocking everybody's food and drink onto the floor. Play never made fun of me again," writes Pepa.

One rapper who did impress her was Tupac Shakur, whom she met on the set of the "Whatta Man" video. "He was a good guy. I remember him telling me that he had never been in trouble with the law until he got into the music business. [He said,] 'I ain't never had a record until I made a record!'"

*Photographs of Star Jones and her new man kissing in the stands of the U.S. Open last weekend hit the Internet yesterday morning. By the afternoon, People.com had exposed the mystery man as Herb Wilson, the executive chef at Manhattan's Soho and Tribeca Grand hotels.

"This was one of the first times they were out in public together," a friend of Jones' tells People. "It's a new relationship, and he makes her very happy."

Jones personal rep would not confirm the relationship after refusing to talk about his client's personal life. However, another source close to the former "View" host said the two are dating.

"He's a very nice guy," the source says of Wilson. "She's never been happier."

Jones, 46, and her husband of 3 1/2 years, Al Reynolds, 38, filed for divorce in March.