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10:35 AM ET, February 13, 2008

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Daily Mail:
Britney cleans up her act for shopping trip with her mother  —  Britney Spears looked decidedly upbeat as she stepped out yesterday for a shopping trip with her mother.  —  Lynne Spears accompanied her wayward daughter to indulge in some retail therapy at Miss Sixty clothing store in West Hollywood.
Discussion: Bitten and Bound
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Britney Spears “Welled Up With Tears” Teaching Dance Class to Kids  —  Britney Spears returned to her role as teacher yesterday afternoon, leading a dance lesson at North Hollywood's Millennium Dance Complex.  —  Usmagazine.com caught up with local resident Grace Mitjans and her daughter Gigi, who attended both classes.
Discussion: Dlisted, That Other Blog and POPSUGAR
Pernilla Cedenheim / People.com:
Britney Gets in Retail Therapy with Mom  —  Britney Spears appears to be bonding with her mother - by shopping.  —  Spears and mom Lynne spent a half-hour at the Miss Sixty store in Los Angeles, where the pop star spent $650 on J Rocker Jeans, a white Carmen T-shirt, a Tirsa blue dress and a Maybelle stretch tee.
Tiffany McGee / People.com:
Aretha Not Feeling the R-E-S-P-E-C-T at Grammys  —  When Beyoncé and Tina Turner hit the Grammy stage for their high-octane duet, most folks were left in awe.  But the woman known as the “Queen of Soul” was left a bit dismayed after Beyoncé introduced Turner as “the queen.”
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Gary Coleman Says He's Secretly Married  —  Former child star Gary Coleman - who's now 40 - married Shannon Price, whom he'd met on a movie set, last Aug. 28, her 22nd birthday, Coleman reveals to Inside Edition.  —  The onetime Diff'rent Strokes star also admits that this is his first-time-ever romantic relationship.
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Sgeneroso / PageSix.com:
‘Strokes’ star secretly wed
Discussion: Gawker and Bossip
TMZ.com:
Like His Big Sister, Paris' Bro Gets a DUI!  —  TMZ has learned 18-year-old Barron Hilton, Paris' little brother, was arrested for DUI in Malibu at 8:30 AM this morning!  —  Cops tell TMZ he was driving a black Mercedes on Pacific Coast Highway with a passenger — not one of his sisters— when he was pulled over at a 76 gas station.
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TMZ.com:
Paris Bails on Baby Bro
Daily Mail:
Amy Winehouse has a new man - and he's ALSO called Blake  —  After storming the Grammys, superstar singer Amy Winehouse was determined to celebrate with her beloved Blake.  —  However, with her husband Blake Fielder-Civil - or Blake Incarcerated as she dubbed him during her awards acceptance speech locked …
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NY Daily News:
Britney Spears' stealth wedding  —  Really, the only logical explanation for Britney Spears' wild jaunt to Mexico last month was that she was going to get married, but it took Star magazine to connect the dots.  —  The glossy says she “secretly wed” lens-lizard Adnan Ghalib during the visit …
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Access Hollywood:
Britney's Paparazzi Attention Inspires New Law Proposal
cityrag:
Britney Spears' Kids
Discussion: I'm Not Obsessed
Kate Stroup / People.com:
Inside Jennifer Aniston's Birthday Bash  —  All work and no play?  Not exactly.  But Jennifer Aniston spent her 39th birthday toiling away on the Vancouver set of her upcoming romantic drama, Traveling.  —  Still, the actress did receive a special treat from her cast and crew on Monday.
Hellomagazine.com:
‘Hermione’ rebels as actress falls under bad boy rocker's spell  —  In her role as Hermione Granger Emma Watson is the perfect goody-two-shoes with a squeaky clean image and A grades to boot.  But the 17-year-old Harry Potter actress seems to be more than a little keen to distance herself from her swotty on-screen persona these days.
Discussion: PageSix.com
Sara Hammel / People.com:
Janet Jackson: ‘I Might Be Allergic to Marriage’  —  Friends and family are urging Janet Jackson to get hitched and have kids.  But don't expect the pop star - who has been dating record producer Jermaine Dupri since 2002 - to settle down any time soon.  —  “So many people were putting pressure on …
Discussion: Dlisted
Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Miley Cyrus: Jamie Lynn Spears Is “Really Excited” for Baby  —  Miley Cyrus is proud of how Jamie Lynn Spears is handling her controversial teen pregnancy.  —  “We've actually been talking,” the Hannah Montana star, 15, told Usmagazine.com at the Official Grammy Talent Gift Lounge in L.A. over the weekend.
Daily Mail:
Mini-muscleman: Meet the world's smallest bodybuilder  —  At just 2ft 9in, Indian muscleman Aditya ‘Romeo’ Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.  —  Pint-sized Romeo is well-known in his hometown of Phagwara, India - for his ability to lift 1.5kg dumbbells - despite his overall 9kg body weight.
Discussion: Dlisted, WOW Report and Best Week Ever
Shawn Adler / MTV Movies Blog:
BREAKING: Nicole Kidman Outed as Valerie Plame  —  Nearly a year after Warner Brothers announced their intention to make a biopic of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, the identity of the actress who will play her has finally been leaked to the media - and you can only find it on MTV News.
Discussion: Cinematical
Variety:
It's official: WGA strike is over  —  92.5% of guild vote in favor of strike's end  —  “The strike is over,” Patric Verrone said, dispassionately but with the hint of a smile.  “Our membership has voted.  Writers can go back to work.”  —  The WGA West prexy announced the news …
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Sherry Goldman / wga.org:
Writers Guild Members Vote to End Strike
Discussion: Seriously? OMG! and BuzzSugar
Phil / Egotastic!:
Marisa Miller Topless on the Cover of the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue  —  As if you needed another reason to run out and buy the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, the coveted cover features Marisa Miller topless.  Yeah, that's right, the hottest swimsuit model around …
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OK! Magazine:
Cover Story: Angelina's Joy Is Jen's Pain  —  “It's been three years since they split,” one pal of Jen Aniston reveals to OK! about the actress' divorce from Brad Pitt.  “But she's still so far from getting over him, it's tragic.”  —  And on Feb. 23, when Jen, Brad and the woman he left her for …
Discussion: Just Jared and Gabby Babble
Elizabeth Wolff / PageSix.com:
Larry Birkhead ‘Only a Sperm Donor’  —  On the one-year anniversary of Anna Nicole Smith's death, her longtime bodyguard — and the man who found her dead in her Florida hotel room that day — is coming forward to say that his former boss only ever considered Larry Birkhead a sperm donor.
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Cablevision founder Charles Dolan, a cable TV industry pioneer who launched HBO and AMC Networks and whose family controls Madison Square Garden, dies at 98

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
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The Guardian:
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