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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 Says Burglary Charges Are “Blown Out Of Proportion”

    Vanilla Ice says he’s just dealing with the charges of theft that have been levelled against him.

    Vanilla Ice was arrested on February 18th and charged with burglary and grand theft when a foreclosed house near the home he was renovating for The Vanilla Ice Project was robbed.

    The former rapper, who is now host of his own DIY show, has reportedly been fully cooperating with police, but it’s not over for him yet.

    “It’s all blown out of proportion. It’s a mess, and I’m dealing with it,” he said when first asked about the incident.

    Vanilla Ice was on Good Morning America when the questions inevitably landed.

    Family and Friends – without it you have nothing.

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    But, Vanilla Ice obviously didn’t want to, and couldn’t, talk about the case.

    He said he has been cooperating and working with authorities, but can’t say much.

    Vanilla Ice said, “I wish I could elaborate.”

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    That finally seemed to be the hint that Good Morning America‘s Lara Spencer needed to move on.

    The incident happened earlier this month when Vanilla Ice was questioned by police as they were investigating reports of squatters in an abandoned home close to the Florida home he was renovating.

    Vanilla Ice told police that he had bought the home, but police later found out that he hadn’t actually bought it yet, that he only intended to buy it.

    Then, when they came back to search the home that Vanilla Ice was renovating at the time, they found missing items from the abandoned home in his possession.

    Among the items were furniture, a pool heater, and artwork.

    That’s when they booked Vanilla Ice for burglary and grand theft.

    After the fiasco, the DIY network issued a statement saying that they were looking into it, but they haven’t taken any action yet.

    The Vanilla Ice Project is still slated to return on March 8th, so perhaps there’s not as much to these charges as we feared.

    What do you think about the charges against Vanilla Ice?

    Do you watch the show?

  • Vanilla Ice Arrested For Theft While Renovating Home Next Door

    Vanilla Ice made his name in the early ’90s as a rapper, but these days he’s renovating homes in Florida for the DIY Network. As of Wednesday, he may be reconsidering his career move, as he was arrested for burglary and grand theft after police found items in his home that had been taken from a house next door to one he was fixing up.

    Among the stolen items were a pool heater and some furniture, and Ice (real name Robert Van Winkle) says he thought the home had been abandoned. The property is in the midst of foreclosure, however, and the owners identified the items as their own.

    “The property was identified by the victim at the location and returned to the rightful owner,” a police statement read.

    Ice has been doing his show, The Vanilla Ice Project, for quite a while now on the DIY Network, but before that he was still making music. He made headlines earlier this year when Gwyneth Paltrow revealed to Howard Stern that she almost took the lead role in his film Cool As Ice before her dad forbade it.

    “My dad, he was like the greatest asset in my life, and he was so smart. I said, ‘Dad I don’t know what to do. I got offered the lead in the movie.’ I must have been 19 years old, I was so thrilled. It was like $50,000 and I was starring in a film. And he read it. On the first page the guy asks for my phone number and the number ends in 69-69. He was like, ‘I forbid it!’” Paltrow said.

    Right now it’s not clear what will become of Vanilla Ice following his arrest.

  • Gwyneth Paltrow: I Was Almost in a Vanilla Ice Movie

    Gwyneth Paltrow stopped by to chat with Howard Stern. Right off the bat, Stern brought up a dark piece of Paltrow’s past that she might have wished stayed buried.

    It seems that Gwyneth Paltrow was offered the female lead role in the movie Cool as Ice back in 1990. Paltrow would have been about 19 years old, and the role paid. She seriously considered it, but thankfully she had an advisor right in her house.

    Paltrow’s parents are actress Blythe Danner and producer/director Bruce Paltrow. Bruce Paltrow was the producer of the television series St. Elsewhere.

    “My dad, he was like the greatest asset in my life, and he was so smart,” Gwyneth Paltrow told Stern.

    “I said, ‘Dad I don’t know what to do. I got offered the lead in the movie.’ I must have been 19 years old, I was so thrilled. It was like $50,000 and I was starring in a film. And he read it. On the first page the guy asks for my phone number and the number ends in 69-69. He was like, ‘I forbid it!’”

    It wasn’t just a matter of not wanting his daughter to ever say something racy. Rather, the elder Paltrow had her career interests in mind.

    “I think his worry was, ‘If you’re in Cool as Ice and it doesn’t work, then you’re forever the girl who was in Cool as Ice.’”

    The girl who ended up being “the girl who was in Cool as Ice” was Kristin Minter. Minter had already done the annual holiday favorite Home Alone, where she played Kevin’s older sister Heather. Her quotable moment from that movie was this:

    Kate McCallister: Heather, did you count heads?
    Heather McCallister: Eleven, including me. Five boys, six girls, four parents, two drivers, and a partridge in a pear tree.

    Did Cool as Ice kill Kristin Minter’s career? Hardly. She was a regular on ER, has 67 credits to her name, and still works today.

    Still, her career obviously has not had the attention that Gwyneth Paltrow’s has. Maybe Gwyneth lucked out in having parents in the business.

  • 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.

  • Vanilla Ice And The TMNT, Together Again

    Vanilla Ice is responsible for some of the most questionable fashions to come out of the late ’80s and early ’90s, but he’s also responsible for some pretty catchy tunes, and one of them just happens to be an anthem for the Ninja Turtles. Don’t act like you didn’t get pumped up when you heard it.

    With the reboot of the TMNT movie comes the inevitable marketing blast, and one of the products to plaster the turtles all over itself is Kraft Mac & Cheese. The commercial doesn’t star the lovable green guys, however; it stars Ice himself, working as a stockboy while singing “Go Ninja, go Ninja, go!” under his breath. The dancing mom is cringe-worthy, but a little bit of nostalgia never killed anyone.

    Ice has actually been quite successful over the years, and not just in the music biz; he began “The Vanilla Ice Project” in 2009 on the DIY Network that focused on renovating a Palm Beach home and still works in the real estate business. He also still performs, most recently on tour with New Kids On The Block and Boyz II Men during their 2013 sold-out tour.

    Image via YouTube

  • Ice Ice Baby Gets ‘Sung By The Movies’ Treatment

    It’s Monday, and you need to experience Vanilla Ice’s classic Ice Ice Baby as pieced together from bits of nearly three hundred well-known movies. DonDraperSaysWhat has you covered. What more needs to be said?

    [via Laughing Squid]

  • Vanilla Ice Dead According To Facebook Hoax

    Get outta here. Word to your mother.

    The latest celeb to meet the icy hand of death on social media is 44-year-old Rob Van Winkle – you may know him as Vanilla Ice. According to the reports, the rapper, actor, and producer lost control of a friend’s car on Interstate 80, hit the center divider, flipped it several times, and died on scene. He was going approximately 95 mph and police are investigating whether substances were a factor.

    Or, here’s how it happened:

    Vanilla Ice died in a single vehicle crash on Route 80 between Morristown and Roswell. He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics responding to the vehicle accident and was identified by photo ID found on his body. Alcohol and drugs do not appear to have been a factor in this accident – June 17, 2012

    Fortunately for everyone involved, both of these accounts of the incident are incorrect – because the incident never occurred. It’s just the latest in the seemingly never-ending string of celebrity death hoaxes – which continue to fool people who mindlessly share before they confirm.

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    It’s more common for these types of death hoaxes to spread on Twitter. In recent months, Twitter has killed off Madonna, Justin Bieber, Fidel Castro, Jon Bon Jovi, Cher, Eddit Murphy, Soulja Boy, and many more. But the ease of “sharing” on Facebook also makes it a great way to virally spread fake news.

    Like the majority of celebrity death hoaxes, the source article that people are linking to comes from fake news generator Global Associated News.

    At least Vanilla Ice is being proactive in dispelling the rumor:

    Double check before you share, people. And if you see that a celeb was killed in a “car crash” or a “ski accident,” you should probably be extra skeptical.

    [Facebook hoax screencap courtesy Sophos]

  • Vanilla Ice To Record Album With Adam Sandler?

    In the upcoming Adam Sandler/Andy Samberg film “That’s My Boy”–in which Sandler plays Samberg’s partying, estranged father–’90s rapper Vanilla Ice plays himself and Sandler’s best friend, and Ice has hinted that they may be partnering for something else.

    Sandler plays a seen-better-days child actor named Donny Berger whose main claim to fame was getting his middle school teacher knocked up. The result is Samberg’s character, Han Solo. If that premise doesn’t sound funny enough for you, throw in a little V-Ice to the mix. The movie doesn’t open until this Friday, but I’m sure there will be various references to his past rap career and (hopefully) fashion choices. And while Ice has been notoriously irked by references to his early days in music, he has since come to terms with it and–dare I say–embraced it.

    “Why am I hating on all this?” he said after being asked about his ire. “This is the best thing that ever happened. We are who we are because of who we were.”

    Ice has been out of the musical spotlight for a while now but has enjoyed a modicum of success on reality shows, including “The Vanilla Ice Project”, a real-estate based show on the DIY channel. Now, however, he’s about to be thrust back into the prying gaze of Hollywood; his most notable film credits to date are “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze” and “Cool As Ice” (if you haven’t seen the latter, I suggest you do so. Right now. You can thank me later).

    When asked in a recent interview if he would be collaborating with Adam Sandler on an album, Ice just smiled and said, “Wait and see,” which in my mind means it’s already in the works. Hopefully, if it comes about, it’ll be funnier than Sandler’s previous few tries at comedy. Here’s hoping “That’s My Boy” will be, too.