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4:55 PM ET, January 2, 2008

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Us Weekly:
Reps: Ashlee Simpson “Not Engaged” to Pete Wentz  —  Ashlee Simpson and Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz are not getting hitched, their reps tell Usmagazine.com.  —  Talk of their engagement started after the singer rocked a ring on her left finger while celebrating the new year at Miami's Shore Club with Wentz.
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Libby Keatinge / PageSix.com:
Ashlee Simpson Not Engaged
Discussion: Webster's Is My Bitch
Us Weekly:
Kim Kardashian Tells Us: “I Am Not Engaged”  —  Ashlee Simpson isn't the only celeb denying an engagement.  —  Reality star Kim Kardashian, 26, tells Usmagazine.com that she didn't make it official with NFL running back Reggie Bush, 22, over the weekend in Miami, despite an OK! magazine report.
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OK! Magazine:
Rumor Mill: Kim Kardashian Engaged  —  Sources close to Kim Kardashian are revealing to OK! that the 27-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star is now engaged to her boyfriend, 22-year-old Heisman trophy winning football player Reggie Bush.  —  The pair were together in Miami on Dec. 31 …
OK! Magazine:
OK!  Exclusive: Jamie Lynn Gets Support From K-Fed  —  Amid all the hateful, untrue rumors of family turmoil following Jamie Lynn Spears' decision to talk exclusively to OK! about her shocking surprise pregnancy, the 16-year-old star has received some support from a very unexpected source — Kevin Federline.
Discussion: X17 Online and Perez Hilton
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For Celebrity Magazine, Pregnancy Is a Bonus  —  OK!, the celebrity magazine, could not possibly have purchased all the attention it enjoyed in late December after it got the scoop that Jamie Lynn Spears, the younger and until then less sensational sister of the troubled pop queen Britney Spears, was three months pregnant.
Discussion: Perez Hilton, Jezebel and Lifeline Live
Michael K / Dlisted:
KFed's Totally Going To Be The Godfather
Discussion: OH NO!!
New York Post:
JUST ASKING  —  WHICH 40ish actress has finally gotten pregnant for the first time?  Her rep is denying it because she's only a month into it, and has suffered miscarriages in the past.  Said our source: “Watch for her to get bangs and start wearing hats to hide her...
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Flawed  —  Nothing says “the happiest day of my life” like selling your majorly airbrushed wedding pictures to a magazine.  Aww....true love.  OK!  Magazine got the first pics of Katherine Heigl's wedding to Josh Kelley.  Aren't they precious?  —  It looks like one of those fake wedding pictures they put in picture frames.
Discussion: Yeeeah!
Karen Nickel Anhalt / People.com:
Knut: Coming to Theaters and Voiced by Suri Cruise?  —  A production company's first pick for the voice of Knut?  Suri Cruise  —  Everybody loves Knut, the polar bear at the Berlin Zoo, who turned one in December.  Katie Holmes visited him with daughter Suri, Annie Leibovitz photographed …
Nicholas White / People.com:
Jessica Simpson Starts Work on Country Album  —  Jessica Simpson is getting back to her roots.  —  The singer, 27, has begun recording a country album in Nashville, Billboard reports.  —  “I am a country girl,” she told the magazine.  “I grew up in Texas, and country music was what I listened to.
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Michael K / Dlisted:
She's C**try!  —  Jessica Simpson has started working on her country music album in Nashville.  The new album is due sometime this year.  Jessica spoke with Billboard about going c**try.  —  She refused to say who she's working with, probably because she's not working with anyone.
Michael K / Dlisted:
Britney Sure Can Pick 'Em  —  Brit Brit spent her New Year's with her kids and a married man.  OK! reports that Brit and the pap, Adnan Ghalib (above), rang in 2008 at a private home in Dana Point, CA.  Brit cared for SPF and JJ while KFed partied in Las Vegas.
Discussion: POPSUGAR
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New York Post:
BRIT SITS  —  Britney Spears enjoyed a quiet New Year's Eve …
Discussion: Daily Blabber and Vh1 Blog
Ulrica Wihlborg / People.com:
Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds Marry  —  Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds were married on New Year's Day on a private island off Bora Bora in French Polynesia in front of 25 friends and family, their reps tell PEOPLE.  —  In a sunset ceremony on the beach Tuesday, Edmonds walked barefoot …
New York Post:
SOAK WHAT?  —  ASHTON Kutcher and Demi Moore seem to be persona non grata at hot Chrystie Street cabaret The Box, where owner Simon Hammerstein privately applauded a performer who spilled drinks on the Hollywood power couple this week.  “[Bleep] Ashton and Demi, they are so up their own arses …
Discussion: MollyGood and WOW Report
Daily Mail:
Sir Paul McCartney has heart operation as divorce takes its toll  —  Sir Paul McCartney has undergone heart surgery, it has been revealed.  —  The 65-year-old musician has been mired in a bitter divorce battle with Heather Mills for the past 18 months.  —  He complained of feeling unwell …
Us Weekly:
Jake Gyllenhaal Takes Reese Witherspoon's Kids Hiking in Malibu  —  It's all in the family for Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal!  —  The on-again pair, who met while filming their CIA thriller Rendition, spent an afternoon hiking around a Malibu, California, park December 30.
Jim Windolf / Vanity Fair:
Keys to the Kingdom  —  Between them, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have made 13 of the 100 top-grossing movies of all time.  Yet they struggled for more than a decade with the upcoming fourth installment of their billion-dollar Indiana Jones franchise, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Cele|bitchy:
Tyra Banks really did serve McDonalds at staff Christmas party  —  Janet Charlton reported that Tyra Banks didn't give her talk show staff any kind of Christmas bonus and that she had the holiday office party at a dive bar.  Instead of serving food, she showed up with a guy dressed …
Josef Adalian / Variety:
MTV gives Tila Tequila another shot  —  Network inks deal with 'Love's' exec producer  —  MTV is bellying up to the bar for another “Shot at Love,” the bisexual dating show starring MySpace phenom Tila Tequila that turned into the cabler's biggest hit in over two years.
Jen Heger / PageSix.com:
Brit's Courtroom Showdown  —  Expect the sparks to fly in a Van Nuys courtoom today where Britney Spears faces the possibility of being placed on probation for one year as a result of her hit and run accident last summer.  While the hit-and-run charges have been summarily dismissed …
 
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The Superficial:
Elisha Cuthbert starts the New Year in a bikini
TMZ.com:
“Idol” Boob & the Joy of Motorboating
Discussion: Vh1 Blog
Donna McConnell / Daily Mail:
Teenage actress Hayden Panettiere IS dating her 30-year-old Heroes co-star
Discussion: Bitten and Bound
Molly / POPSUGAR:
Pam Anderson Refuses to Class Up Solo NYE
Discussion: People.com
POPSUGAR:
LC and Audrina Head Out of The Hills For NYE
Laura Roberts / Daily Mail:
Pop princess Lily Allen has ditched her chav look to become a style queen
Discussion: Just Jared
TMZ.com:
Kimberley Locked and Loaded with Married Guy?
Discussion: JUICY-NEWS and Bossip
 Earlier Picks: 
Us Weekly:
Leonardo DiCaprio and Bar Refaeli Share “Long, Passionate” Kiss on New Year's
Discussion: X17 Online
NME:
Amy Winehouse to renew wedding vows in jail - Tabloid Hell
Discussion: Celebrity Smack!
POPSUGAR:
Mariah's Little White New Year's Eve
Discussion: Hot Momma Gossip and Extra
Phil / Egotastic!:
Courteney Cox Bikini Ass Crack
Discussion: WOW Report
New York Post:
Sordid Tales Of Clinton-hater
Discussion: OH NO!! and Evil Beet Gossip
David Schoetz / ABCNEWS:
Pinup Girl Law Student Indicted in Kidnap
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

William Earl / Variety:
Heretic's directors say they put a message in the credits that “no generative AI was used in the making of this film” to warn Hollywood about the danger of AI

 
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