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"Sunday was a very special day for me in terms of my ministry and spiritual growth," the one-named TV talent told us exclusively. "God is in control and I'm moving in divine direction!"
The 37-year-old star of 'The Apprentice' and 'Celebrity Apprentice' has been a member of the K.W. Tulloss-led Weller Street Missionary
Baptist Church for two years."I love my church! It's a small little church, but God is doing big things," she shared.
Omarosa recognizes that there will be some skeptics who will never let her live down her bad girl ways. To them she offered: "Like the gospel song says, 'My Worship is For Real!"
Despite starring in a dating show 'The Ultimate Merger' for TV One last year, Omarosa is currently in a relationship with Oscar nominee Michael Clarke Duncan. The two have been an item since spring of 2010.
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VIDEO: Watch a clip of Omarosa preaching.
Reality Bites
Sharisse "Shar" Jackson
Affiliation: 'Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp' on VH1
Side note: Though some may remember her as the sidekick Niecy Jackson on the groundbreaking UPN sitcom 'Moesha,' Jackson gained international tabloid attention as the mother of two children with Kevin Federline (who was married to pop superstar Britney Spears for three years). All together, she has four children.
Fantasia Barrino
Affiliation: 'Fantasia For Real' on VH1
Side note: The 'American Idol' champion (2005) is a best-selling author ('Life is Not a Fairytale') and garnered critical acclaim as Miss Celie in the Broadway musical 'The Color Purple.'
Nene Leakes
Affiliation: 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' on Bravo
Side note: The brazen Queens, NY native is a domestic abuse survivor and a former stripper – all revelations she detailed in her 2009 memoir 'Never Make the Same Mistake Twice.'
Terrell Owens
Affiliation: 'The T.O. Show' on VH1
Side note: Alabama's very own football star simply known as "T.O." -- literally let it all hang out for the photo shoot promoting his new reality series, in July 2009. The show revolves around his life off the field as he searches for love, repair family relationships and make the move from Dallas to Buffalo.
Ray Cunningham
Affiliation: 'College Hill: Virginia State University' on BET
Side note: One of the more memorable characters from the Black Entertainment Television network reality ranks, Cunningham has become an openly gay LGBT advocate, budding actor and busy blogger, who was featured in Adam Bouska's groundbreaking NoH8 Campaign, which assembled California notables responding to the state's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage. Cunningham was also cast in acclaimed filmmaker Maurice Jamal's new forthcoming TV project 'Friends and Lovers.'
Miss New York
Affiliation:'Flavor of Love' and 'I Love New York' on VH1
Side note: The upstate New York drama queen competed for hip-hop hype-man Flavor Flav's love twice and was rejected both times.
MC Hammer
Affiliation: 'Hammertime' on A&E
Side note: Stanley Kirk Burrell seems to have done it all: Joined the navy; won Grammy Awards; danced for KFC popcorn chicken; fathered six children; wiggled his manhood in a Speedo bikini on a music video; went bankrupt; became a preacher; and now doing reality TV. 'Hammertime' is a look inside the family life of the man formerly known as one of the riches entertainers of his era.
Keyshia Cole
Affiliation: 'The Way It Is' on BET
Side note: In an interview, thuggish ruggish rap icon Young Jeezy claimed that the hip-hop soul songstress asked him to marry her but he turned her down.
Mo'Nique
Affiliation: 'Charm School' on VH1
Side note: While promoting the movie 'Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins,' Mo'Nique told Oprah Winfrey that co-star Martin Lawrence once gave her invaluable advice about show business.
Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth
Affiliation: 'The Apprentice' on NBC and 'The Surreal Life' on VH1
Side note:The former White House staffer proudly became the superbitch of reality TV.
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By: youngblacked on 2/23/2011 11:30AM
As christians and people of love we gotta respect her and belive that what she is doing is real there isnt any other way. Go support her and all the rest of the young black and educated celebs out there...see who you find on this list of black people doing POSITIVE things.
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By: Church Girl on 2/23/2011 2:33PM
Amen!!!
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By: TVF on 2/24/2011 8:00AM
What is there to respect? The problem is that too many people take the church, god, & Christianity for a joke! What can she tell anyone? You CANNOT date and sleep around being a minister. She has to be "Married" and be living a DECENT life. She's a fake and is making a mockery of the church. I am an atheist, but based on all that I know of Christianity there's NO WAY she can be for real. You don't have sex with boyfriends "fornication" then tell people god is speaking through you.
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By: nrb on 2/24/2011 12:45PM
@tvf - Since when did the bible say you can't date? ...and unless you're in the bedroom, who are you to say that she's out fornicating?
Michael Clarke Duncan professes to be a Godly man, so I can't understand why 2 Christian people can be together in dating and everyone automatically think they are having sex.
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By: Debra on 2/27/2011 6:19PM
READ AND STUDY YOUR BIBLE. WOMEN ARE NOT PREACHERS!
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By: SMH on 2/23/2011 11:33AM
I always thought Omarosa was a very nice.
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By: girlkking on 2/23/2011 1:04PM
SMH, that wasn't nice at all.
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By: Deanna Jameson on 2/23/2011 2:25PM
GOOD FOR HER!! She has a new grown man and new outlook on life. I always believed she was a smart woman, but got caught up in reality TV and played up to this fictious evil character just to bring in the money. I wish her well.
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By: Ron on 2/23/2011 2:35PM
Praise God. God answers the prayers of the righteous.This is good news!I'm rejoicing for my sister.
If God be for you who can be against you.Give God the Glory always In Jesus name.
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By: Helen Thomas on 2/26/2011 11:17AM
@Ron: You are easily deceived.
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