When James Wright Chanel Met Patti LaBelle
Entertainment
“Y’all remember The Color Purple? And remember when Whoopi didn’t see her sister for a long, long, long, long, long time, and she was like, ‘Nettieeeeeeee!’? That’s how I felt. I felt like I was in The Color Purple,” is how viral star James Wright Chanel described meeting legendary diva Patti LaBelle for the first time. Chanel became a sensation via a video review of LaBelle’s WalMart sweet potato pie. The video created a buying frenzy and eventually landed Chanel a gig co-hosting a special on the Cooking Channel that aired last night called Patti LaBelle’s Holiday Pies. It was so good, it felt like heaven.