Janet Jackson is turning her attention to fashion design - she’s to launch her own line of lingerie.

The Nasty hitmaker, who is known for her provocative dress sense, made the announcement at the Versace menswear show on Saturday during Milan Fashion Week in Italy.

And while she remained coy about specific details, she did tell reporters: “I’m working on it.”

The underwear range is due to hit stores later this year.

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Janet Jackson might feel “allergic to marriage,” but the pop star is ready to have a baby, says longtime boyfriend Jermaine Dupri.

“Yeah, soon,” Dupri told People Sunday at a dinner party hosted by New Era and Belvedere Vodka at West Hollywood’s STK restaurant. “Right after the tour.” (Jackson, 42, recently announced she’ll be on the road this fall.)

The producer – who has a daughter, Shaniah, from a previous relationship – is so excited to start a family with Jackson, he doesn’t even care if it’s a boy or a girl.

“It really doesn’t matter,” he explained at the even honoring rapper Nelly. “Janet would be a great mom. She was around so many brothers and sisters all her life, so she’s got to know what that is [like]. And her mom is a great mother.”

According to Dupri, Jackson is also a great companion. “The greatest thing in life is just to have a friend,” he said. “When I have problems in life, I share them with her. When she has a problem, she comes to me.”

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Janet Jackson has reportedly scrapped any plans to hit Europe with her forthcoming Rock Witchu tour following her record label’s decision to cease promoting her latest album, Discipline.

The Nasty singer was due to play a series of live dates across Europe after embarking on her first series of concert shows for seven years in the U.S. and Canada, with her first gig in Vancouver, Canada on September 10th.

However, the singer has now decided to just dedicate herself to the North American leg of her tour, citing frustration with her Def Jam label bosses’ lack of support in promoting her new album, according to People.com.

The star tells hip-hop website SOHH.com, “It was definitely in my heart to go to Europe and to support this album… it’s about teamwork, it’s not something I can totally do on my own. Unfortunately, things have turned out the way that they have with the differences between the label and myself.”

Earlier this month, Jackson told how there will be no further singles from her Discipline album, after record label bosses were disappointed with sales - shifting only 392,000 copies in the U.S.

She explained, “I’m trying to figure out a way to say this, but just to say it and to be quite honest, they just stopped all promotion whatsoever on the album, so I don’t think you’re going to hear another single off this album.”

At the height of her popularity, Jackson scored 19 hit singles from just three LPs - Control, Rhythm Nation: 1812 and janet. And she still holds the record for scoring number ones in America from the same album, over three successive years.

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Janet Jackson has another album flop on her hands - bosses at her record label have ceased promoting Discipline and there are no more single releases planned.

Jackson, who once broke chart records with seven U.S. top five hits from one album - Rhythm Nation 1812, has scored only one hit from her new release, Feedback. And there are no plans to try to top that.

Jackson writes, “We started off with Feedback and the label and myself haven’t quite seen eye to eye since the Feedback single so they’ve kind of basically stopped all promotion. I’m trying to figure out a way to say this, but just to say it and to be quite honest, they just stopped all promotion whatsoever on the album, so I don’t think you’re going to hear another single off this album.”

At the height of her popularity, Jackson scored 19 hit singles from just three albums - Control, Rhythm Nation: 1812 and janet. And she still holds the record for scoring number ones in America from the same album, over three successive years.

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Janet Jackson made a dream come true for U.S. TV presenter Sherri Shepherd by making a surprise appearance on her chat show The View.

Shepherd has long been a fan of the singer and recently announced she would be willing to sleep in the street to secure tickets to Jackson’s forthcoming tour.

But the pop star made a surprise guest appearance on the show on Tuesday and presented a delighted Shepherd with seats to one of her autumn concerts.

The TV presenter was overwhelmed, embracing Jackson and telling her, “I’m such a fan of yours. I have every album; I have every poster; I have all of your programme books. Aside from Michael (Jackson), you are my second favorite, girl.”

The Control hitmaker will open her Rock Witchu tour in Vancouver, British Columbia on 7 September.

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Is Jermaine Dupri the jealous type?

Yes, according to longtime gal pal Janet Jackson.

The R&B songstress has a steamy love scene in her new video, “Rock with You,” with a much younger man, 21-year-old choreographer Tony Testa, and she says her beau didn’t really seem to like that plot element.

“He said nothing! Nothing,” she tells Extra. “I said, ‘Okay, I can tell there’s a little bit of jealousy.’”

Jermaine has nothing to worry about though. He and Janet have been together for six years and she only sees a future with him — and possibly one with children.

“At some point in my life I do [want to have kids],” she says. “When I was younger, I used to babysit. I used to babysit my nieces and nephews.”

Janet was, of course, surrounded by kids herself during her childhood, being the youngest of nine children. And how about all those rumors of a Jackson family stage reunion in Las Vegas?

“This is the first I’ve heard that,” she says. “I would love for my brothers to get together.”

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