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  • Vanilla Ice Avoids Jail by Doing What He Already Does for a Living

    Vanilla Ice Avoids Jail by Doing What He Already Does for a Living

    Vanilla Ice was arrested on February 18 of this year. Police said he took furniture, a pool heater, artwork and other items from a vacant home next door to a house that he was renovating. Vanilla Ice owns a home renovation company and has a reality TV show called The Vanilla Ice Project. Vanilla Ice claimed he had bought the home. But when police questioned his employees, it turned out that he had not actually bought the house, but was just thinking about it.

    Even more interesting is that the home he took the items from had a deceased owner.

    While the case made the papers and got him better attention than his movie To the Extreme did, it did put the future of his reality TV show in jeopardy. But now it looks like Vanilla Ice can chill out and get back to swinging a hammer for the cameras.

    Vanilla Ice appeared before Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer this week only to have a plea deal announced. His attorneys and the prosecutor struck a deal that specifies that he is to perform 100 hours of community service and pay the deceased homeowner’s estate more than $1,100.

    “I’m happy to get this resolved,” Vanilla Ice said. “I never had any criminal intent. It’s just unfortunate, but here we are. I’m moving forward.”

    The plea deal comes just in time, since his reality TV show will premier on the DIY Network this weekend. Not only is he off the hook, but he gets free press leading into the launch of the show.

    Add to that the fact that the work he will be performing couldn’t be more up his alley, and the deal is pretty sweet. Vanilla Ice’s 100 hours of community service involves building homes for Habitat for Humanity. So Vanilla Ice will be working off his plea deal doing what he likes to do anyway.

    “I’m going to do what I do anyway,” Vanilla Ice said of the plea deal. “This is an easy thing. It’s like asking the Pope to pray.”

  • Vanilla Ice Will Avoid Jail by Building Houses, Which He Already Does

    Vanilla Ice, also known as Rob Van Winkle, used to rock the mic like a vandal. Then he was arrested for robbing a house like a burglar.

    Vanilla Ice was arrested on February 18. Police said he took furniture, a pool heater, artwork and other items from a home next door to a house that he was renovating. Vanilla Ice owns a home renovation company and has a reality TV show called The Vanilla Ice Project. Vanilla Ice claimed he had bought the home. It turned out that he had not.

    The case caught minor national attention, but is now coming to a peaceful resolution. Vanilla Ice appeared before Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer only to have a plea deal announced. His attorneys and the prosecutor struck a deal that will see the celeb perform 100 hours of community service and pay the deceased homeowner’s estate more than $1,100.

    “I’m happy to get this resolved,” Vanilla Ice said. “I never had any criminal intent. It’s just unfortunate, but here we are. I’m moving forward.”

    His reality TV show will premier on the DIY Network this weekend, so the plea deal comes just in time. And the work he will be performing couldn’t be more up his alley. It involves 100 hours of community service for Habitat for Humanity.

    So Vanilla Ice will be working off his plea deal doing what he likes to do anyway.

    “I’m going to do what I do anyway,” Vanilla Ice said of the plea deal. “This is an easy thing. It’s like asking the Pope to pray.”

    Maybe they should’ve come up with something more fitting and useful. Like having him drive across the country collecting and destroying every VHS copy in existence of his film To the Extreme.

  • Vanilla Ice Helps Couple’s Baby Announcement Rock a Mic Like a Vandal

    Vanilla Ice only really had one hit. Sure, there was a followup to his To the Extreme album, which contained “Ice Ice Baby”. But that was Extremely Live, which was panned like mad for being a live album of his only studio album, and containing lots of drum only bits where the onstage act must have been dancing.

    There was more, but Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, had pretty much seen his high point. His story is far more interesting than his music, including the rumor that he was threatened with being thrown off a balcony by Suge Knight unless he signed over publishing rights to “Ice Ice Baby”. Legend has it that Suge used that money to launch Death Row Records.

    Van Winkle dated Madonna. He worked in home renovation for a while. Then he was on some reality TV shows. On one of those he was in a boxing match with Todd Bridges.

    There were drugs, tattoos, dreadlocks, and a lot of activity with little notice. Rob Van Winkle will always be the guy who did “Ice Ice Baby”. And Rob Van Winkle has grown to embrace that.

    Nowadays, Van Winkle helms a TV show called The Vanilla Ice Project on the DIY Network. The show follows him as he buys, renovates and sells homes.

    Recently a couple in Wellington, Florida found out they were pregnant. Emily and Jason Teck love “Ice Ice Baby”, so they took a chance on an idea for a cute baby announcement.

    Lots of couples have been coming up with creative ways to announce pregnancies on social media.


    The Tecks went for it.

    “It was a long shot and it was in the ‘didn’t hurt to ask’ category,” Emily Teck said.

    They emailed Van Winkle’s manager, and floated their idea. Van Winkle said Yes.

    In the picture that they sent to friends, the couple are standing with Van Winkle. Jason is holding a cup of ice, Van Winkle is in the middle pointing to himself, and Emily is holding a picture of the ultra sound.

    Ice. Ice. Baby.

    “We are starting them off from the beginning. We are bringing more Ice Ice Babies into the world,” Van Winkle said.