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Just a few months after legalizing their marriage, Farouk Sempala commonly known as Pharouque and wife Julie Underwood are expecting their first child. The two appear to have a tighter bond that even before.

Legendary actress from the Ebonies Julie Underwood, commonly known for her acting name Sharon, has been engaged to Pharouque Sempala for over four years. The two went public with their relationship in 2015 after Pharouque broke up with celebrated socialite Zari Hassan.

Julie Underwood had been married to fellow legendary actor and comedian Simon Kalema since 2009. The two have two children between them but their marriage hit the rocks and eventually broke up in 2015. The actress then met Pharouque and the two formed a bond that later saw them become a lovely couple.

Their relationship has been marred by lots of controversies and criticism based on allegations of man-snatching but they held it down till they were officially joined as husband and wife earlier in April this year with a tradiional introduction ceremony in Rubaga.

The two appeared hand-in-hand in public in Munyonyo over the weekend and we could not avoid noticing Julie’s bulging baby bump.

The Kampala food elite will once again get the chance to hop from one restaurant to another since the organizers of Kampala Restaurant Week announced that the annual restaurant showcase will be coming back for its fourth edition this year, starting today Wednesday August 1, 2018.

“We thought we would give food lovers a seamless fine dining experience by making it possible for them to enjoy meals at dozens of top notch restaurants in Kampala as well as major Ugandan towns without them having to pay cash,” said Pearl Guide’s Philip Kalibwani.

The event that was first introduced on the Ugandan social calendar in 2015 is about showcasing Uganda’s premium restaurants while giving customers discount value on some of the most delicious and creatively made dishes on the market.

Some of the  participating restaurants include Liquid Silk, Piato Restaurant, Pizza Hut, Riders Lounge, Prunes Café with some up country in places like Jinja ,Mbarara plus a holiday partner Chobe Safari Lodge  signing up to participate in the show.

Organized by Pearl Guide and powered by Tusker Lite the showcase will be running for 10 full days during which people in and around the city will be able gain access to all premium restaurants giving services at a fixed and discounted price.

Price will be going as low as 15,000/= for casual dishes while signature dishes will be at 25,000/= across all participating restaurants.

The week will be topped by an awards gala to be held at Kurbs Kisemeti on August 13.

She might be poor at the Queen’s language, but singer Spice Diana is having a steady progress musically.

After holding a successful concert in February this year at Entebbe road based Front page ,the 32 singer has announced 25th January next year as the date for  her concert.

According to her management, they have decided to move to a more spacious venue,  Freedom city that has a capacity of about 30k fans .

Details are yet to follow

Another restaurant has opened it’s doors to Kampala’s foodies community. Located on the top most floor of Thobani Centre on Jinja Rd opposite Orient House, Capital Kitchen opened its first outlet in Kampala on Saturday 28.

Guests were treated to an amazing global  food trip as they served a buffet that featured  best moving contemporary cuisines from across the world.

Saturday was a big day for gospel musician, Judith Babirye as she introduced fellow MP, Paul Musoke in a colourful ceremony. Babirye invited only a few friends and the event was highly guarded as there were fears that exes from both sides would disrupt the occasion.

The two lovers kept smiling at each other, but these smiles could be temporary as Babirye’s first husband, Samuel Niiwo, has said that he has never divorced Babirye.

When she filed for divorce last year, they were supposed to have several meetings to iron out things or proceed with the divorce, however, they only one meeting.

Niiwo says he didn’t sign divorce papers

According to the law, it is illegal for a woman to be married to two men at the same time. There are fears that Niiwo could sue Babirye and the new husband although he doesn’t say whether he has such intentions.

All is not well with socialite, Don Zella. The mother of three has been struggling with debts of over 370M she acquired from city money lenders.

Sources say, some of her apartments in Bwebajja have been taken over by  money lenders.

She had promised to pay back  after staging parties dubbed ‘Girl Power’ in Dubai, but the shows  flopped.

The houses are now being put on sale, and this has left Don Zella  frustrated.

Aziz Magically, real names Aziz Mawanda, has been allover the news for the past month for all the controversial reasons. The 19 year old, who fell for a 70 year old Swedish woman, is in the news again.

Last week, old photos of him and local songstress Mary Bata made rounds on social media. The two are reported to be former close friends and associates since Aziz also had a shot at music. The photos showing Aziz very close to Mary Bata raised mixed reactions on social media with many people pointing out that the young boy has always had a thing for women older than him.

To confirm that he is the one in the pictures and to elaborate more about when they were taken, Aziz appeared in a video which was published online and he also claimed he had a love affair with Mary Bata. He also noted that the two have a child between them, something which the songstress strongly refuted.

Mary Bata came out to deny that she has ever had anything more than friendship with Aziz and that what he was saying were pure lies but Aziz continued to claim paternity of the child.

This forced Mary Bata to report a case at Katwe Police station claiming that Aziz Magically is aiming at defaming her. Aziz was arrested and spent yesterday in jail. The songstress wants Mawanda to be disciplined so as he can stop abusing people on his social media platforms.

The latest landing our desk indicates that Sheebah is now in high gear preparations to travel to Canada where she has been booked for a number of shows already.

Our snoops have learnt that Sheebah’s tour dubbed “Rebel tour” will start on Friday 10th August in Montreal Lescape before heading to Ottawa Lusitania Portuguese centre of Ottawa and will later climax in Toronto on Friday 17th August.

Well, go girl, go make Uganda proud. We shall keep you posted.

Apass is currently open for collaborations only if the artistes interested can cough 10 Million each exclusive of production fees.

A Pass announced this intent through one of his social media platforms were he posted, “I am now welcoming collaborations with any Ugandan artist who has 100 fans and above, you will have to pay me 10 million cash that doesn’t include productuon of the songs. #collabos.”

It is a habit for established artists to ask for money from upcoming artistes who ask for collabos from them.

Do you think A Pass is worth that much money for a collabo?

We shall keep you posted