Ashanti and Nelly are apparently relevant again! Ashanti, in a Barney purple prom dress, and Nelly, minus his trademark bandaid on his face, were quite the 2001 power couple at the pre-BET Awards dinner at Vibiana in LA last night. Nelly was honored to be the co-host of the BET event.

So I’m going to pretend I sort of care for a second. Are these two really a couple? Seems like they’re always pictured together and I’m pretty sure they’ve been going out for years now, but Ashanti recently gave this statement to People Magazine:

“Me and Nelly, we’re good friends. We Kick it – hang out a lot. No engagement, but definitely in the future.”

Does she have one of those “deals” with her friend that says if we’re not both married by the time we’re 35 let’s just get married? I’ve one of those. I actually have about 6 of those deals. At first it just seemed like really good planning, but the more girls I have enter into this deal the closer I will eventually get to start my own Polygamy Sect and move to Texas and have everyone wear blue, green, and pink paper dresses. Ahhh, one can dream.

Ashanti’s sister, Shi Shi? Holy Shi Shi is right! I love when siblings of celebrities are discovered and especially when they appear to be of train wreck status. It’s great because you know that these siblings totally embarrass their celebrity counterpart. Isn’t Mariah Carey’s sister like a crack-whore prostitute or something? Google it, I think she is. Anyway, Ashanti’s sister, Shi Shi, is a delightful hot mess. Now, I’m not totally convinced yet that these aren’t just pictures of Lil Kim without makeup and I’m also not convinced that this isn’t the 8th grade graduation picture of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s daughter Bobbi Christina. I’ll research it and get back to you and by that I really mean I’m not going to. Regardless, wherever Shi Shi is looks really nice and clean and not crawling with sexually transmitted diseases, at all.