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10:30 AM ET, November 16, 2006

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Associated Press:
Houston reportedly faces foreclosure  —  NEWARK, N.J. - Whitney Houston's New Jersey mansion is slated to be sold at a sheriff's sale because she is more than $1 million behind on the mortgage and taxes have not been paid this year, according to reports published Wednesday.
Discussion: Holy Candy and Bossip
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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Whitney Houston's Home on the Block  —  Whitney Houston's $6 million New Jersey estate is slated to be put on a sheriff's auction block Jan. 4 because of more than $1 million owed in back taxes and other charges, according to published reports.  —  The sale was scheduled Tuesday …
Discussion: Dlisted
Monica Rizzo / People.com:
Emmitt Smith Wins Dancing with the Stars  —  Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke on Tuesday night's Dancing with the Stars  —  It was a partisan crowd that cheered former NFL great Emmitt Smith onto victory at the Dancing with the Stars finale on Wednesday night in Los Angeles.
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Erin Carlson / Associated Press:
Emmitt Smith wins ABC's 'Dancing' title  —  NEW YORK - Emmitt Smith danced off with the mirror ball.  The three-time Super Bowl champion, who proved to be as nimble on his feet in the ballroom as on the football field, was named the winner of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" Wednesday night.
People.com:
Jaime Pressly Expecting a Baby  —  My Name Is Earl star Jaime Pressly and her deejay fiancé, Eric Cubiche, are expecting a baby, she announced during a taping of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday.  —  The four-months-pregnant actress told Leno that after her doctor showed her an ultrasound …
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Noelle Hancock / Us Weekly:
Jaime Pressly Confirms Pregnancy  —  My Name is Earl star Jaime Pressly is four months pregnant.  The actress announced the good news during a taping of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Wednesday.  She told the audience that she won't find out the sex of the child until Monday …
People.com:
Stars Head to Rome for Tom & Katie Wedding  —  With Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's nuptials merely days away, some of their high-profile pals hopped a plane to Italy on Wednesday, PEOPLE has learned.  —  Expected wedding guests, including Brooke Shields, Jada Pinkett Smith …
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Daily Mail:
Mission Impossible for 'too big' Cruise to fit into wedding suit  —  It's a problem many brides-to-be can relate to and now it would appear that Tom Cruise is having trouble fitting into his wedding suit.  —  Designer Giorgio Armani has made outfits for Cruise and Katie Holmes, who are due to marry this weekend in an Italian castle.
Sky News:
RENEE SPILLS THE BEANS  —  Renee Zellweger has spoken out about her brief marriage to country singer Kenny Chesney, at last.  —  And she's told us what we think we might have known already...  "I made the biggest mistake of my personal life," she admitted to Now magazine.  —  "I felt a fool.
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POPSUGAR:
Renée Helps the Kids  —  Yesterday my dad was telling me about his lovely experience meeting Renée Zellweger on the shuttle to DC where she was headed to do charity work.  He said she was so sweet to everyone who spoke to her and looked even more beautiful in person.
NY Daily News:
Ray's guy in a sizzler  —  Kitchen queen Rachael Ray has more to worry about than whether her meat loaf is burning now that another woman is claiming that she carried on a kinky, five-year affair with Ray's husband.  —  Jeannine Walz claims in The National Enquirer that Ray's hubby …
Miuvonf / A Socialite's Life:
TomKat Takes Suri Cruise Out in Public  —  See they do love Suri after all.  I'm actually kind of surprised that Suri looks so peaceful being held by relative strangers.  Doesn't Tom look like he's gained a few pounds?  —  More photos of Tom, Katie and Suri after the jump.
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Michael K / Dlisted:   It's Suri!
Jeannette Walls / MSNBC:
Is Timberlake taunting Janet Jackson in song?  —  Plus: Michael Jackson's diva demands at World Music Awards  —  Remember that infamous Super Bowl incident with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake?  Apparently it's created a rift between the two singers, and Timberlake may be making it worse with a song.
Discussion: TMZ.com and Rhymes With Snitch
Sky News:
JACKO'S BIG NIGHT  —  It was all about Michael Jackson at the World Music Awards in London.  —  The gathered fans went bonkers when Jacko took to the red carpet.  —  It's been nine years since he last performed in the UK and quite some time since he made any sort of official public appearance in Blighty.
Discussion: POPSUGAR
Noelle Hancock / Us Weekly:
US EXCLUSIVE: Idol's Kellie Pickler Admits Suffering Child Abuse  —  Former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler, 20, may have a sitcom in the works, and a debut album, Small Town Girl, at No. 1 on country charts, but she suffered a traumatic childhood.  —  While most AI fans already knew …
NY Daily News:
Reality biter and 'Stud' finder eye TV  —  Celebrity lives will always have second, third and fourth acts - so long as we have reality shows.  —  We hear Mike Tyson wants his own program after doing a cameo on "Being Bobby Brown."  Word is the troubled champ is shopping the idea with his daughter Mikey …
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Surf's up for Wilson bio  —  Beach Boy tunes up for biopic … Chief Beach Boy Brian Wilson has made a deal with producer Mark Gordon to tell his life story in a feature film.  —  Gordon is teaming with filmmaker David Leaf (who chronicled Wilson's creation of the album "Smile" in his docu …
Discussion: Cinematical and stereogum
the Film Threat / filmthreat.com:
FILM THREAT'S FRIGID 50: THE COLDEST PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD 2006 (TOP 10)  —  1. Mel Gibson  —  The good news is that Mel finally has something in common with the most popular man in America.  The bad news is that Borat hates Jews too.  In even worse news, Borat is fictional and he was joking.
Discussion: Defamer and The Celebrities Weblog
Bumpshack / Bumpshack.com:
BumpHotties: Mia Troche is a Puerto Rican Firecracker  —  Mia Troche was born and raised in New York City.  She is of Puerto Rican and French descent.  As a child Mia studied tap, ballet, jazz, and figure skating.  Mia then realized her love for the stage and began attending the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in NYC.
 
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Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Jackson's comeback wrecked by stage fright
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TMZ.com:
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