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6:00 PM ET, January 8, 2008

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TMZ.com:
Eminem — Not Slim Anymore; Big Health Scare!  —  TMZ has learned Eminem was rushed to the hospital over the holidays.  —  We're told Em was taken to a Detroit-area hospital for a serious heart condition and severe pneumonia.  Sources tell TMZ Em's weight has ballooned to over 200 lbs.
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Shaheem Reid / MTV:
Eminem Rushed To Hospital: Report
Discussion: Gone Hollywood
Jarett Wieselman / PageSix.com:
George Takes a Swipe at Jamie Lynn  —  There isn't a celebrity in Hollywood that George Clooney doesn't know (or can't at least get a hold of in 30 minutes or less) but it appears that there is one star he is not interested in spending any time with: Jamie Lynn Spears.
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Michael Starr / New York Post:
SPEARS BABY BOOM  —  BEST ‘ZOEY’ RATINGS EVER  —  NOTHING like a good, juicy scandal to goose the ratings.  —  Last Friday's season-ending episode of “Zoey 101,” starring pregnant, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears, averaged 7.3 million viewers - a huge audience for cable and more-than-double the Nickelodeon show's season average.
Arotondo / PageSix.com:   Britney's Aunt Fears She'll Kill Herself
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Us Weekly:
Report: Britney Spoke in a British Accent at Hospital  —  Entertainment Tonight is reporting that Britney Spears spoke with a British accent during her short stay at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last Friday.  —  It isn't the first time she changed her voice.
In Touch Weekly:
What really happened when Britney was hospitalized  —  In Touch can exclusively reveal what actually happened after Britney Spears checked into LA's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last week.  The troubled pop star was admitted under the assumed name Barbara Jean to the hospital's 3rd floor Psych Unit.
Discussion: X17 Online
MSNBC:
Scandal behind the Penn split  —  Plus: Mariah wants 'robot voice'; Shaquille O'Neal makes up for lost time  —  Though Sean Penn and soon-to-be ex-wife Robin Wright remain tight-lipped about the events leading to their breakup, Star Magazine reveals the sordid details of their last weekend together.
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Starpulse.com:
Sean Penn Accused Of Infidelity  —  Sean Penn was served with divorce papers by his wife Robin after the actress allegedly found him in bed with two other women.  —  Magazine Star has revealed details of the couple's last weekend together and claimed the Mystic River star was caught being unfaithful to his partner of 11 years.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Jesus Martinez / DrunkenStepfather:
Paris Hilton Drunken Vagina Exclusive of the Day  —  Some sleazy motherf**ker from LA went to LAX this past Sunday and saw that Paris Hilton was there.  He snapped off some shots of her being the drunken cokewhore that she is and sent them to me.  I thought these were just the boring standard Paris …
Discussion: WOW Report and F-Listed
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Daily Mail:
Paris attempts to go incognito with black wig but fails miserably  —  If her plan was to go clubbing incognito by wearing a black wig, then Paris Hilton failed miserably.  —  Perhaps it was the dancing on tables and cuddling other girls which attracted the attention, but as always, the spotlight was on partygirl Paris.
Us Weekly:
Posh Spice Tops Mr. Blackwell's Worst Dressed List  —  MR. BLACKWELL'S 48TH ANNUAL WORST-DRESSED WOMEN LIST  —  10.)  Alison Arngrim: “Little Nellie of the prairie, looks like a 1940's fashion editor for the Farmers Almanac."  —  9.)  Lindsay Lohan: “Lindsay the fashion frenzy strikes again!
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Jana Winter / PageSix.com:   Posh is Mr. Blackwell's Worst-Dressed!
E! Online:
Brit Slams Brakes on Weekend Romance  —  Exercising a bit of uncharacteristic caution (finally!), Britney Spears abruptly pulled the plug on her whirlwind weekend with paparazzo Adnan Ghalib and returned alone Monday to her Beverly Hills abode, a source close to Brit exclusively tells E!'s own Ryan Seacrest.
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Us Weekly:
Zahara Turns 3!  —  There's a birthday in Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's household: daughter Zahara turns 3 today!  —  Pitt and Jolie (who rocked the red carpet at last night's Critics' Choice Awards) adopted Zahara in Ethiopia in 2005 (her name means “flower” in Swahili).
Discussion: X17 Online
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Seriously? OMG! WTF?:
Katie Holmes looks good without Tom Cruise  —  I can't believe Tom Cruise let Katie Holmes go out to an event without him.  Good thing she has a movie to promote or she would be home with him trying to figure out what to say to Nicole Kidman about her pregnancy.
Discussion: Glitterati Gossip
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Cele|bitchy:
Brad Pitt caught smoking joints with Steve O  —  Star Magazine has a doozy about how former pothead Brad Pitt was caught smoking a joint with Jackass star Steve O. It's covered in an article about how 44 year-old Pitt must feel old because he's getting Restalyne injections and working hard as a father to four kids.
ESPN:
Report: Golf Channel anchor apologizes for ‘lynch’ remark  —  Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman has apologized after saying during Friday's telecast of the PGA Tour's opening event that today's young players should “lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley."  —  A spokesman for the network …
CelebTV.com:
BUSBOY DROPS CIVIL SUIT AGAINST LINDSAY LOHAN  —  According to court documents first obtained by CelebTV.com, an L.A. busboy has dropped a civil suit against Lindsay Lohan over a 2005 car crash.  —  On Monday, an attorney for Raymundo Ortega filed a “notice of entry of dismissal and proof of service” …
Discussion: Perez Hilton
TMZ.com:
Chyna's DWI?  Dancing While Intoxicated?  —  TMZ caught the always trainwrecktastic Chyna at Carrie Anne Inaba's birthday party last night — where she let it slip she may be in the next season of “Dancing with the Stars."  Oh, the humanity!  —  Chyna, with her PR piranha right by her side …
Discussion: Dlisted
Daily Mail:
Britney's flash - and a liaison with ANOTHER photographer  —  Some have cruelly called her turbulent life a car crash and now it seems Britney Spears' can add motor troubles to her list of growing woes.  —  The volatile singer, whose silky camisole top was barely covering her cleavage …
 
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Armpit Flaps Are In  —  Hollywood hos gotta show cleavage somehow.
New York Post:
DIRTY CLOTHES ‘SUIT’
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PR Newswire:
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X17 Online:
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Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart

CNBC:
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