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4:55 PM ET, October 23, 2006

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Dan Mangan / New York Post:
DAD TO MADONNA: WHOA, MAMA  —  NOW SAYS HE NEVER WANTED TO GIVE UP SON  —  Madonna's already controversial adoption of an African baby got even stickier yesterday - when the tot's dad said he never meant to give the Material Mom permanent custody of his son.
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Boy's Dad Confused Over Madonna Adoption  —  The father of the 1-year-old boy who Madonna plans to adopt is saying he didn't realize the pop singer was taking the toddler "for good," the Associated Press reports.  —  "Our understanding was that they would educate and take care of our son …
Caryn Midler / People.com:
Madonna to Talk About Adoption with Oprah  —  Madonna will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show this week to discuss her decision to adopt David Banda, a 13-month-old boy from Malawi.  —  The show will tape Tuesday and air Wednesday, a spokesperson for Harpo Productions tells the Associated Press.
Daily Mail:
Madonna: I will let David decide where he lives when he is 18
Discussion: Hollywood Rag and Celebrity Gossip
Associated Press:   Madonna to talk about adoption on Oprah
Daily Mail:
Kate flashes her sparkler from Pete  —  Kate Moss arrived back from a romantic trip to Italy with Pete Doherty wearing a ring on her wedding finger.  —  The picture captured at Heathrow fuelled speculation that the couple are engaged.  —  However, it later appeared that the supermodel …
Discussion: POPSUGAR
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Jo Knowsley / Daily Mail:
Pete gives Kate a quick ring in Florence
Sky News:   HAS KATE GOT TWO SECRETS?
New York Post:
STUDIO TOO FAR OUT ON A LIMB  —  WARNER Bros. stands accused of making empty promises to provide prosthetic limbs to orphaned African amputees and then reneging so that the studio's movie "Blood Diamond" could get extra publicity.  —  During filming of the flick, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio …
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Noelle Hancock / US Weekly:
Blood Diamond Reneges on Promise to Amputees  —  Warner Bros. — the production studio behind the film Blood Diamond — stands accused of making empty promises to provide prosthetic limbs to orphaned African amputees so that the studio's movie could get extra publicity, Page Six reports.
Discussion: Dlisted
TMZ.com:
Lindsay Lohan: Danger on Wheels?  —  Lindsay Lohan's driving almost caused a collision in front of our cameras last night.  —  After a night of partying at hotspot Hyde, Lohan raced off in her Mercedes, jetting into the road without looking first and dangerously cutting off an oncoming vehicle in the process.
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Hollywoodtuna:   Lindsay Lohan's Breasts Are Real, Now Give It A Rest
Phil / Egotastic!:
Paris Hilton: Drug Smuggler  —  Um, I think Nick Carter is my hero.  No, not because he was in the Backstreet Boys, and not because he has some stupid new reality show.  No, Nick Carter may be my new hero because of his recent allegations against Paris Hilton.
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CARTER: 'HILTON STUFFS TEDDY WITH CANNABIS'  —  Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)  —  BACKSTREET BOYS star NICK CARTER has slammed ex-girlfriend PARIS HILTON for being reliant on marijuana, and he insists she even resorted to stuffing …
Rob Howe / People.com:
Anna Nicole Ordered to Move Out  —  The day after Anna Nicole Smith buried her son Daniel, a letter was hand-delivered to her house in the Bahamas ordering her to leave the residence by Oct. 31, PEOPLE has learned.  —  G. Ben Thompson, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., developer, says he owns the property …
Jeannette Walls / MSNBC:
Paris Hilton's version of 'Spamalot'  —  Friends of the heiress' MySpace account are getting phony emails  —  Paris Hilton's "friends" are getting spammed.  —  Several furious sources who are on the list of the heiress' friends via her MySpace account say they received emails supposedly …
Discussion: A Hot Mess! and The DarkHat
X17 Online:
X17 EXCLUSIVE: Making Memories In India  —  Between all the car accidents and the overzealous security, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's recent Indian excursion has been something of a P.R. nightmare - so when Brad tried to balance the scales by posing for a few light-hearted photos with the cast …
Discussion: celebrity terrorist and Just Jared
Brian Orloff / People.com:
Gwen Stefani: Hard to Lose Baby Weight  —  Five months after the birth of her son Kingston, Gwen Stefani managed to drop her pregnancy weight through a combination of healthy diet and exercise.  —  "Let's just talk about how hard it's been," Stefani told Ryan Seacrest during an interview Monday …
NY Daily News:
Sister throws the book at Anna Nicole  —  Anna Nicole Smith can look forward to some fresh grief — courtesy of her estranged half-sister Donna Hogan.  —  In her forthcoming book with Stacy Brown, "Train Wreck: Anna Nicole Smith Unauthorized," Hogan holds Smith responsible for the death …
Just Jared:
Wentworth Miller: High School Pictures  —  Looks like Prison Break's Wentworth Miller was quite the young stud dork back at Quaker Valley High School in Sewickley, PA. He was voted most r-r-r-romantic, photographed concentrating on a judo match, and quoted for saying, "Mr. Moxie because he's so patriotic."
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Lance Bass's Beau: I Was Assaulted in the Military  —  Actor and model Reichen Lehmkuhl, who won season four of The Amazing Race and dates Lance Bass, was sexually assaulted while in the U.S. Air Force, he says.  —  Lehmkuhl, 32, tells ABC News that when he entered the Air Force Academy …
Phil / Egotastic!:
Brooke Burke Bikini Baby Bump Pictures  —  At first, I totally didn't realise that Brooke Burke is quite a bit pregnant.  Let's just say a woman's stomach is not the first place my eyes go.  —  Of course, pregnant or not, Brooke Burke in a bikini is something to stop and appreciate.
Associated Press:
Nic Cage Puts Up Bel-Air Home For $35M  —  Nicolas Cage is leaving Bel-Air.  The actor has put his home in the tony community on the market for $35 million.  He bought the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom spread eight years ago for a mere $7 million.  —  The 11,000-square-foot Tudor-style home sits …
 
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