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Jamie Foxx getting real with MTV and VH1

Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:19pm EST
Jamie Foxx performs at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Trumpet Competition in Hollywood October 28, 2007. oxx is getting into the reality-TV business with MTV and VH1. REUTERS/Max Morse

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jamie Foxx is getting into the reality-TV business with MTV and VH1.

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The Oscar-winning actor and his business partners, Jaime Rucker King and Marcus King, are already developing a project under their two-year production deal with the sibling cable channels: "From Gs to Gents," an MTV series in which guys compete to become gentlemen.

Foxx won an Oscar for playing Ray Charles in "Ray." The role also earned him an MTV Movie Award nomination, but he lost to Leonardo DiCaprio for "The Aviator." In 2001, he hosted the channel's flagship Video Music Awards ceremony.

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