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Mike Fleeman / People.com:
Britney Spears to Host Las Vegas Club Opening — Britney Spears, a fixture on the Los Angeles club scene, will host the opening of LAX nightclub in Las Vegas next month, a club rep tells PEOPLE. — LAX, whose investors include Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie's former fiancé DJ AM, opens Aug. 31 in the Luxor Hotel.
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Britney to Host Vegas Club Opening — Party momma Britney Spears gets a new gig as a Vegas club host. — ET has learned that BRITNEY SPEARS will host the grand opening of LAX nightclub at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. — Club promoters tell ET exclusively that the pop princess is confirmed …
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Chris Benoit on Steroids During Murder-Suicide — Professional wrestler Chris Benoit was on testosterone, painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs when he killed his wife and son and later comitted suicide in his Atlanta, Georgia, home last month. — Over the weekend of June 23, Benoit, 40 …
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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Winona Ryder Finally Speaks Out About Her Arrest — With her career getting back on track after several years of self-imposed exile, Winona Ryder is talking for the first time about her December 2001 arrest after she'd been videotaped trying to make off with merchandise from the Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue.
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Phil / Egotastic!:
Really Sexy Tara Reid Bikini Pictures — Yeah.... I think I'm going to throw up, and I really wish that Tara Reid would stop wearing bikinis. Her stomach looks like leftover Play Dough. Be careful looking at the pictures, becaue I'm pretty sure if you stare too long, you will turn to stone.
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Megan Lynn / Us Weekly:
Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson Aren't Walking Down the Aisle Yet — Contrary to online reports, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are not engaged. Simpson's rep tells Usmagazine.com that the rumors of their impending nuptials are "absolutely not true." — Gossip website Popcrunch claims that Wentz …
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Pay Up Skanks — A tribunal ordered Sting and his troll wife, Trude Styler, to cough up $51,000 to their former chef after she won a sexual-harassment claim last May. — Jane Martin, said that she was fired after she got knocked up. She claimed Trudie became angry when she got pregnant …
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Tina Dirmann / E! Online:
Paris Singing a New Tune...or 10 — RECOMMENDED (0) — Less than a month removed from her sojourn in a Los Angeles lockup, Paris Hilton is itching to make the transition from jailbird to songbird. — "I'm already working on my new record," Hilton tells E! Online.
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Michael K / Dlisted:
We're Doing This Again? — Paris Hilton will get a second album.
We're Doing This Again? — Paris Hilton will get a second album.
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Michael K / Dlisted:
3 Nipples Are Better Than 2 — Lily Allen happily whips out her third nipple for all to see on a British TV show. It looks more like a dick bruise than a third nipple, but I'll believe her. — VIA Gawker
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TMZ.com:
Dave Chappelle — I'm So F**king Tired, Bitch! — TMZ has confirmed Dave Chappelle went to the hospital this past weekend because he was wacked out. But Chappelle's rep told TMZ any wackiness was due to exhaustion — not drugs. — The rep says Dave went to the emergency room for "physical exhaustion."
Mark Simpson:
Attack of the TwinkyClones — Life after fantasy blockbusters and magically permanent adolescence can get a little hairy. One of these actors used to be an apprentice Wizard (and is this month's cover star of US metromag Details). One used to be a Hobbit. One used to be a nerdy Spidey.
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New York Post:
COMIC CLOBBERS COMIC IN L.A. — IT was fight night at an L.A. comedy club last week when Jon Lovitz roughed up Andy Dick over the murder of their "Saturday Night Live" colleague, Phil Hartman. — Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who witnessed the assault, said, "Jon picked Andy up by the head …
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Michael K / Dlisted:
I Hope That's A Light Beer — What happened to ICE?! God Dayum! Val Kilmer used to be walking sex and now he's a walking turkey drumstick! Somebody get that girl a colonic and something with fiber. — Well...at least he can play the Penguin now in the new Batman movies.
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Starpulse News Blog:
Jaime Pressly Slams 'Ugly Betty' Over Plastic Surgery Message — Actress Jaime Pressly has blasted hit TV sitcom Ugly Betty because she fears the show sends out the wrong message about plastic surgery. — The new mom, whose show My Name Is Earl goes up against Ugly Betty on Thursday nights …
Cher Tippetts / Entertainmentwise:
Katie Holmes Pregnant With Baby No.2? — She's snapped with tell-tale baby bump... RSS Feeds — YOUR SHOUTS: — Katie Holmes sparked another round of pregnancy rumours when she arrived at the L.A. premiere of Hairspray in a clingy little black dress that revealed what looked like the beginnings of a baby bump.
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ABCNEWS:
A Different Kind of Bling: Bracelet Tracks Alcohol Consumption — Monitoring Device Like Lohan's Samples Sweat, Records Ethanol Levels — Strapping on stiletto heels just got a little bit harder for celebrity starlet Lindsay Lohan. — Lohan is now donning an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet along …
Jeffrey Slonim / People.com:
Lance Bass Recalls First Encounter with New Beau — Connecting with new boyfriend Pedro Andrade was a real high for Lance Bass: He first spotted him 35,000 feet up in the air. — "He was asleep in the back of the plane on the way over," the former 'N Sync star said of the Brazilian model …
Lisa Ingrassia / People.com:
NBC Gives 'Second Chance' to Isaiah Washington — When Isaiah Washington was fired from Grey's Anatomy, it took nothing short of bionic powers to revive his career. — "We believe in second chances," said David Eick, executive producer NBC's upcoming Bionic Woman, which has hired Washington for five episodes.
Jay Bird / Cele|bitchy:
Simon Cowell tells Kelly Clarkson to be quiet — The drama between Kelly Clarkson and RCA head Clive Davis will not settle down. The two got into a pretty public feud (well Clarkson said a lot of stuff that Davis said and no one denied it) about the quality of Kelly's most recent album "My December."
Forbes:
The World's Top-Earning Models — In 1990, supermodel Linda Evangelista uttered what has become the most famous quote in modeling history: "We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day." — She was referring to herself and fellow supermodel Christy Turlington, both of whom were a core part …
Lisa / TMZ.com:
Love Hurts — Either the '90s are back — or Courtney Love is spearheading the return of heroin not-so chic! Paging Kate Moss! — Ms. Love was snapped leaving a plastic surgeon's office in Beverly Hills on Monday, looking hollow, gaunt and broken. Supermodel!
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