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5:00 PM ET, January 28, 2008

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Brian Orloff / People.com:
Pal Tells Barbara Walters Britney's in ‘Treatment’  —  Barbara Walters received a call from Britney Spears's manager and “very good friend” Sam Lutfi, the TV host told her cohorts on Monday's The View - reporting that Lutfi said the pop star was seeking help for what Walters termed “mental issues which are treatable.”
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Us Weekly:
Shar Jackson: Britney Spears' Kids “Don't Know Where She Is”  —  Sean Preston and Jayden James haven't seen their mom Britney Spears since a judge stripped her of visitation rights three weeks ago.  —  And, apparently, they haven't picked up on the fact that their mama is M.I.A.
Discussion: Celebrity Smack! and Jezebel
Daily Mail:
Britney in a boa... browsing in an LA sex shop  —  In recent times, Britney Spears' love life has attracted more attention than her singing career.  —  And judging from the these rather graphic pictures, the star has no intention of slowing things down.  —  The troubled singer …
Discussion: Right Celebrity
New York Post:
JEALOUS RAGES OF BRITNEY PAL  —  BRITNEY Spears' constant companion and “manager,” Sam Lufti, had three restraining orders taken out against him in California before hopping on the pop tart's crazy-train.  Danny Haines, one of the people who obtained a court order, says Lufti told him he should …
Nicholas White / People.com:
Alli Sims: Britney Spears ‘Will Be Fine’  —  As Britney Spears's confidants are being deposed in her child custody case, Alli Sims says Spears is maintaining a positive outlook.  —  “She does seem happy,” Sims told PEOPLE at Saturday's Hugo Boss/Glamour Studio Glam suite, of Spears, 26.
Us Weekly:
Sam Lutfi: Britney Spears Suffers from “Mental Issues,” Is Seeking Treatment  —  In a phone call to Barbara Walters, Britney Spears' pal Sam Lutfi revealed that the pop singer “is starting some kind of treatment” for “mental issues,” the talk show host announced on The View Monday.
The Huffington Post:
Britney Spears Has Treatable Mental Issues, Barbara Walters Told
Discussion: Dlisted
Bjordan / SAG Awards Official Web Site:
Final 14th Annual SAG Awards Recipient Press Release  —  SCREEN ACTORS GUILD HONORS OUTSTANDING FILM AND TELEVISION PERFORMANCES AT THE 14th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS®  —  Los Angeles, California - Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor® statuette …
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Alexis Chiu / People.com:
Brad & Angelina Get Romantic at the Screen Actors Guild Awards
Natalie Trombetta / Daily Mail:
Radiant Angelina Jolie fuels pregnancy rumours with a billowing red carpet gown
Discussion: The Superficial
New York Magazine:
The Happy Hickster  —  “Let's not fool ourselves,” he says with his eyebrows up in his arch, queeny way.  “The truth is?  There are people like Justin Timberlake, males who are cool on radio right now, and then there's me.  If I heard myself in a dance club?
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Ariel Levy / New York Magazine:
The Happy Hickster  —  Clay Aiken sounds like Tootsie, looks like Opie, and hates to go out after dark.  How will he ever survive New York?  —  Clay Aiken is communicating with a groomer about his plans for his famous red hair.  “We're just kind of experimenting—if we can get it where we don't have to cut it, wonderful.
MSNBC:
Jamie Lynn Spears endangers unborn baby  —  Plus: Kirsten's GyllenSpoon heartbreak; Justin's Britney excuse  —  A recent report that Jamie Lynn Spears lost her baby turned out to be untrue.  Britney's little sister “was not rushed to the hospital, nor did she suffer a miscarriage,” her rep told Life & Style.
Christopher Nolan / Newsweek:
Charisma as Natural as Gravity  —  Heath Ledger, 28, Actor … One night, as I'm standing on LaSalle Street in Chicago, trying to line up a shot for “The Dark Knight,” a production assistant skateboards into my line of sight.  Silently, I curse the moment that Heath first skated onto our set in full character makeup.
Michael K / Dlisted:
The Boyzillian  —  David Beckham's Emporio Armani panty ads have reportedly been sending straight and gay dudes to salons asking for the “boyzillian."  That's when they wax everything and I mean EVERYTHING.  Including your f**king dignity.  —  One 44-year-old father recently had his back, crack and nutsack waxed because of the ads.
Discussion: Glitterati Gossip
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Helen Pidd / Guardian:   Men seeking Beckham effect go wild for Boyzilians
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Leah Remini's Crazy Scientology Email?  —  An email tipster forwards the following Scientology indoctrination message, purportedly from TV star Leah Remini.  It reads, “You may know me from ‘King of Queens,’ but what is more important is that I am now OT V and at one point I was a very stalled Clear,” and goes from there.
Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Lauren Conrad on Stephen Colletti: “Just Friends”  —  Though they've been spotted making out and clubbing, Laguna Beach alumni Lauren Conrad insists she and her ex Stephen Colletti are not back on.  —  “We're just friends,” Conrad told Usmagazine.com at the Bank Nightclub …
Discussion: OH NO!!, Perez Hilton and iVillage
Natasha Stoynoff / People.com:
Show Will Go On for Heath's Last Movie, Says Costar  —  Heath Ledger (left) and Christopher Plummer  —  Photo by: Bryan Bedder / Getty Images; Gretchen Walker / Everett Collection  —  Director Terry Gilliam is feverishly working to figure out how to keep Heath Ledger alive on film …
Daily Mail:
Nicole Richie sheds baby weight just two weeks after giving birth  —  Nicole Richie has shed all her extra weight - just two weeks after giving birth.  —  Dressed in a figure-hugging black dress, the star looked tired and washed-out as she joined new grandfather Lionel Richie at a birthday bash on Friday for his manager in L.A.
Washington Post:
Making a Splash With Some Serious Activism  —  We're going out on a limb with this one: Generation Y finally has its own Jane Fonda, and it is Hayden Panettiere.  —  Oh, without that messy Viet Cong baggage, of course.  But while other celeb-activists have gone uptown polite …
 
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Best and Worst Dressed at the SAG Awards
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Discussion: I'm Not Obsessed
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Reese Witherspoon & Jake Gyllenhaal's relationship annoys his ex & his mum
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Discussion: Hollywood Headache
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Variety:
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Phil Taylor / News of the World:
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