Janet Jackson’s Movie Role Weight Gain Excuse Crumbles

Though Janet Jackson told Oprah Winfrey and anyone else who has asked she gained 60 pounds to play a character in the movie ‘Tennessee’, Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com hears that isn’t the case. Movie insiders claim Janet, who has a history of piling on pounds between albums, was never told to gain that weight, and it wasn’t called for in the script. Taking her place in the project, which begins shooting in January, is Mariah Carey.