Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Michael Irvin Wants the Odell Beckham Jr. Gay Taunts to Stop

Plus, words from R. Kelly and Aretha Franklin.

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Michael Irvin isn't amused by the Odell Backham Jr. gay rumors: - “He deals with it a lot. For some reason, everybody goes after him with gay slurs. He’s a different kind of dude. He has the hairdo out, he’s not the big muscular kind of dude. The ladies all love him. He’s a star. I wonder why people are going in that direction. It blows my mind. I told him he can’t let stuff that people say get to you."(Photo: Mireya Acierto/Getty Images)

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Rick Ross thinks he's a global sex symbol: - "I'm a global sex icon, you dig? Not only a f*****g rap superstar, megastar... not only that, I'm the only fat n***a with a two pack. All I want is two... I don't want all that s**t, that s**t corny... I want my belly... I want the two at the top.”(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for BMI)

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R. Kelly was not here for questions about his past in his latest interview: - “I didn’t come here to be interrogated. I did not come here for a deposition. Do you know what that is?”(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

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Big Sean wants you to know that his crew is smart: - "I’m thankful for the people around me. I don’t hang around a lot of dummies. I got a lot of people that I started with but everybody seems to be on the same vibration."(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

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Lil' Durk and DeJ Loaf are still a thing: - "She’s amazing. She’s different with the music. She came up different. She definitely got a lot of fans and she versatile. That’s one thing about it. When we first did our song, when we got our song together, it wasn’t no six or seven tries. We got in and we put it in."(Photos from Left: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Def Jam, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)

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Lil' Durk and DeJ Loaf are still a thing: - "She’s amazing. She’s different with the music. She came up different. She definitely got a lot of fans and she versatile. That’s one thing about it. When we first did our song, when we got our song together, it wasn’t no six or seven tries. We got in and we put it in."(Photos from Left: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Def Jam, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)

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Pusha T's heard Kanye West's new album, and he says it's amazing: - “His new album is incredible. Everybody is gonna be in for a treat. I can say that it's a mixture of all of the best Kanye moments I love.”(Photo: Mireya Acierto/Getty Images)

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Aretha Franklin shows Beyoncé some R-E-S-P-E-C-T: - “I heard she was a fan of mine so we’ve got a mutual admiration society going. She’s a hard worker, that’s what I really like about her. You can see it in her presentation that she has put some time and energy into it and she’s got plenty of that… She’s a virgo. Virgos are very hard workers… Michael Jackson, B.B. King.”(Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images)

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Mariah Carey is super excited to be spending New Year's Eve with her new boo: - "To be heading over for New Year’s Eve with James and to be able to put on a performance at Crown Melbourne — it’s incredibly exciting."(Photo: D Dipasupil/Getty Images)

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Iman Shumpert tells Teyana Taylor’s childbirth story first-hand, and it’s like a movie: - "She’s telling me, 'I’m not going to make it to the hospital.' But I’m like, 'You got to make it to the hospital because I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what to do.’"(Photo: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

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Raven-Symoné sort of apologizes to NeNe Leakes for shading her on The View: - "I feel sad for her. She came to my house party. I don't understand what happened, but that's her right if she felt that way. Just like our opinion, that’s her opinion. Sorry, girl. My bad.”(Photo: D Dipasupil/Getty Images for WE tv)

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Tamera Mowry-Housely says her son Aiden already has a nickname for his baby sister: - “Aiden’s first response was giving her a nickname. He saw her in this little glass basket at the hospital and he said, 'Baby sister. That’s Ry-Ry.' We thought that was the cutest nickname for her!"(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)