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8:35 AM ET, January 3, 2008

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TMZ.com:
Brit's Lawyers Will Quit — She's Impossible!  —  TMZ has learned Britney's latest set of lawyers has bitten the dust.  —  The high-powered firm of Trope and Trope filed legal papers today asking to withdraw as Brit's hired guns in her custody dispute with K-Daddy.
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Us Weekly:
Britney Spears Checks Into Hotel With Photog - for Just a Few Hours  —  New year, new hotel for Britney Spears!  —  Usmagazine.com has learned the pop star, wearing a black wig and dark sunglasses, and photographer Adnan Ghalib, 35, checked into the Parker Hotel in Palm Springs around 2 a.m. on Jan. 2 …
TMZ.com:
Brit Was a No Show at Her Depo  —  TMZ has learned Britney Spears' deposition was scheduled today and she didn't show — again!  —  If we're counting correctly, this is the fifth time her scheduled deposition in the custody case didn't happen.  Last month, Britney claimed she was too ill …
Ken Lee / People.com:
Britney Spears's Attorney Wants to Quit  —  Britney Spears's latest lawyer, Sorrell Trope, filed a request Wednesday to withdraw from the singer's custody case, court documents show.  —  “There has been a breakdown in communications between (Spears) and Trope & Trope (law firm) …
Discussion: Jossip, Daily Blabber and X17 Online
POPSUGAR:   Is Britney's NYE a Sign of a Better '08?
Michael K / Dlisted:
She Should Call Jacoby & Meyers
Discussion: Bitten and Bound and Perez Hilton
Michael K / Dlisted:
Britney Sure Can Pick 'Em
Discussion: E! Online and Vh1 Blog
Sandra Rose:
It's Vivica!  —  It was a tough decision for her to make, but V-103's Porsche Foxx confirmed that Vivica Fox appears in a controversial sex tape that is currently making the rounds.  —  In the tape, an apparently inebriated Vivica can be seen on her knees servicing a male friend …
Daily Mail:
Jamie Lynn Spears' TV show ‘cancelled’ after teen pregnancy  —  Britney Spears's pregnant sister Jamie Lynn Spears' hit TV show Zoey 101 has reportedly been cancelled.  —  The Nickelodeon show is set to broadcast its final episode of the third season in the U.S. on Friday and has already completed filming on the fourth.
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Pop Crunch:   Jamie Lynn Spears Miscarriage Scare
Michael K / Dlisted:
True Glamour  —  Here's the mug shot of the beauty queen I wrote about earlier.  Kumari Fulbright from Arizona was arrested after she allegedly kidnapped and tortured her boyfriend.  Her boyfriend escaped, but now she's facing hard time.  —  Thank you to Kumari's boyfriend …
Gerri Miller / People.com:
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Returning to The View  —  Maternity leave is nearly over for The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who returns to the show on Monday, ABC announced.  —  Hasselbeck, 30, has been away since Oct. 23.  She gave birth to son Taylor Thomas on Nov. 9, her second child with Arizona Cardinals quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.
Michelle Tan / People.com:
Gabrielle Reece, Laird Hamilton Have a Son  —  Volleyball star Gabrielle Reece and her husband, surfer Laird Hamilton, welcomed son Brody Jo Hamilton on New Year's Day in Hawaii, their rep tells PEOPLE.  —  Brody, who was 8 lb., 2 oz., joins the couple's first child, 4-year-old sister Reece Viola.
Fiona Macrae / Daily Mail:
Stars who spout ‘pseudo-science should check their facts first’  —  When your name's Nicole Kidman or Gwyneth Paltrow, everyone wants to hear what you have to say.  —  But before holding forth on their favourite remedy, celebrities should get their facts straight, experts say.
Discussion: Blowing Smoke
Gerri Miller / People.com:
DJ AM Opens Up About Suicide Attempt  —  Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein reveals a tortured past - including a suicide attempt - in a new interview.  —  Addicted to crack cocaine, overweight, and miserable, “at 24 I felt like my life was over,” the hot Hollywood deejay, who has dated Nicole Richie and Mandy Moore, tells Glamour magazine.
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Kim Kardashian: “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.
New York Post:
TOO MANY GUESTS  —  WYCLEF Jean may have gone too far when, live on MTV, he invited “everybody” to his Saddle River, NJ, home for a New Year's bash.  After the singer performed on the telecast, he arrived home around 1 a.m. to find more than 500 people partying at his mansion.
Dboyle / PageSix.com:
Leno and Letterman Cross Picket Lines  —  David Letterman opened his first show since the writers strike began with a full beard, fishnet-clad WGA picketers, Robin Williams and an intro by Hillary Clinton.  —  “Dave has been off the air for eight long weeks because of the writers strike,” Hillary said, appearing on tape from Iowa.
Discussion: omg!
Us Weekly:
Lauren Conrad and Stephen Colletti Make Out: Round Two!  —  One night of kissing in public wasn't enough for Lauren Conrad and Stephen Colletti.  —  The pair made out at Las Vegas' LAX club on Sunday, Dec. 30, the night after flirting and kissing at Central in LA.
Discussion: X17 Online and Jezebel
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POPSUGAR:   LC and Audrina Head Out of The Hills For NYE
Arotondo / PageSix.com:
A Bump That Speaks Louder Than Words?  —  The saying, “Denial ain't just a river in Egypt” may finally be catching up with Nicole Kidman and hubby Keith Urban as they continue to refute rumors that they're expecting.  Just check out this picture of the couple and the tell-tale bump Nicole's sporting.
omg!:
Russell Crowe rallies against gambling  —  CANBERRA (Reuters) - Oscar-winning Australian actor Russell Crowe is fighting a new gladiatorial combat to wean his countrymen off their addiction to gambling machines.  —  Crowe has become the public rally point for opposition to the ringing …
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: Seriously? OMG!, Yeeeah! and POPSUGAR
 
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TMZ.com:
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Donna McConnell / Daily Mail:
Teenage actress Hayden Panettiere IS dating her 30-year-old Heroes co-star
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Molly / POPSUGAR:
Pam Anderson Refuses to Class Up Solo NYE
Laura Roberts / Daily Mail:
Pop princess Lily Allen has ditched her chav look to become a style queen
TMZ.com:
Kimberley Locked and Loaded with Married Guy?
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Us Weekly:
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