Sherri Shepherd

Will Smith brought his kids Jaden and Willow to support their mom Jada at the LA premiere of her Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa yesterday. The happy foursome posed for photos while Ben Stiller and his wife Christine made it a date and left their kids at home. Fergie was also on hand to walk the green carpet, though her big smile may have more to do with her wedding than the movie. Her plans are moving along and supposedly she is now working with Karl Lagerfeld to design her dream gown. She and Josh Duhamel have been engaged for a year already but they don't seem in to rushing the big day anytime soon.

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Well, we all know that The View's Sherri Shepherd can be a bit dense, but in this clip, she comes off as downright mean, when she brings up the fact that her co-host (and former Oscar host) Whoopi Goldberg wasn't featured in last night's montage of hosts. The gals then spend the next two minutes trying to make her feel better, while inevitably just making it worse.

Sherri Shepherd announced on The View this morning that she's never voted. At 41 years of age, Sherri turned 18 in 1985. She claims that she's missed every single election because she didn't know what the dates were. (Sherri? First Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Always.) Adding to the abomination that she's a US citizen turning her back on her duty as an American, it seems like Sherri is also scorning all of those women who are still without the right to vote. In Sherri's lifetime, 18 countries have granted women's suffrage, including Switzerland in 1971 and Zimbabwe in 1978. It seems that this isn't a right women should take lightly.

Do you live somewhere that recently gave women the vote? Which is worse: that she hasn't voted, or that she's taking for granted the fact she can?

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