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11:55 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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Ken Lee / People.com:
Britney Spears Allowed Phone Contact with Kids  —  Britney Spears is allowed to speak with her children on the telephone but still may not see them, according to court documents released Monday.  —  “(Spears) is to have telephonic contact with the minor children,” Commissioner Scott Gordon ruled at last week's hearing.
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.
Us Weekly:
Shar Jackson: Britney Spears' Kids “Don't Know Where She Is”
Discussion: Celebrity Smack! and Jezebel
Mlynn / PageSix.com:
Britney Called Barbara Walters Herself
Discussion: Hot Momma Gossip
Daily Mail:
Britney in a boa... browsing in an LA sex shop
Discussion: Right Celebrity
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:
EXCLUSIVE: Rep: Jennifer Lopez Not In Labor  —  Online reports that Jennifer Lopez is in labor are “not true,” Marc Anthony's rep tells Usmagazine.com.  —  “It's not true,” the rep tells Us.  “We have been getting the same phone calls since last week.  Everybody figures it is happening around …
Discussion: X17 Online
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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.
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?
TMZ.com:
Miss Ross Booed in Jamaica, Mon  —  Oh, the diva has gone and done it this time!  —  Diana Ross pissed off a crowd of 40,000 at the 2008 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday, where Miss Thing, 63, was booed and heckled by Jamaicans attending the festival in Montego Bay …
Discussion: Dlisted
Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Lauren Conrad on Stephen Colletti: “We're 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 grand opening …
Just Jared:
Adrian Grenier's Perky Package  —  Adrian Grenier delivers quite the package while exercising and grooving to the beat of his iPod on Sunday in Los Angeles.  —  The Entourage cutie was seen jogging through his Los Feliz neighborhood in thin-fabric sweats.  —  Adrian's assets were accentuated almost …
TMZ.com:
Britney and Sam's Fight Night!  —  TMZ was there as Britney and constant companion Sam Lutfi got into what we're told was a huge, “really ugly” blowout.  —  Britney and Sam drove up to the gate of her house when she suddenly jumped out of the car crying — why we're not sure.
Discussion: OH NO!!
Jarett Wieselman / PageSix.com:
Brangelina Twins: She's Drinking Water  —  Oh, Angelina Jolie, why do you tease us so?  First you wear the world's most billowy dress to the Screen Actors Guild awards but refuse to comment on the rumors that you're pregnant with twins and then you spend all night bypassing booze, instead satiating your thirst with lime-infused water.
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 …
Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Angelina Jolie's Dad Speaks Out on Pregnancy Rumors  —  Jon Voight, Angelina Jolie's longtime-estranged father, is excited by the prospects she might be pregnant.  —  “It's wonderful news that she's having another child, if that's true,” the actor told The New York Observer Monday.
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: gigglesugar and Guardian
Jen Heger / PageSix.com:
Dr. Drew: Nothing Natural About Heath's Death  —  Amid rampant speculation over what exactly caused Heath Ledger's tragic death, Dr. Drew Pinsky tells PageSix.com that claims that it could have been from natural causes  —  are “very unlikely."  —  “That rarely happens to young people, even if they have pneumonia.
Discussion: That Other Blog
 
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
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X17 Online:
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New Kids on the Block Singer Slams Reunion Report
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Daily Mail:
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