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4:40 PM ET, February 28, 2008

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TMZ.com:
“Idol” Nurse Busted for DUI  —  “A.I.” finalist Amanda Overmyer plead guilty to DUI back in October 2006 near her hometown of Crawfordsville, In.  —  She received a suspended sentence of 60 days and was placed on 180 days probation, which ended in August 2007.  —  Story developing ...
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National Enquirer:
IDOL'S AMANDA OVERMYER: DUI BUST  —  American Idol's rock ‘n’ roll nurse Amanda Overmyer has hit a pothole on the road to stardom: The ENQUIRER has learned that she has spent time behind bars for DUI and has a long list of driving offenses, including one for going more than 100 mph.
Discussion: TV Envy and Celebridiot
Michael K / Dlisted:
Amanda Overmyer Is My Next American Idol  —  Amanda Overmyer is the perfect “American Idol” and I'm going to burn the hell out of all my phone lines (ok, just one) by voting for her.  She has everything an Idol needs.  Her vocal skills are questionable, her outfits came straight …
Angelina Jolie / Washington Post:
Staying to Help in Iraq  —  The request is familiar to American ears: “Bring them home.”  —  But in Iraq, where I've just met with American and Iraqi leaders, the phrase carries a different meaning.  It does not refer to the departure of U.S. troops, but to the return of the millions …
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NY Daily News:
Store can't handle a Brit fit  —  Britney Spears keeps coming up with weird requests for her favorite L.A. boutiques.  —  She flummoxed staff at the Betsey Johnson on Melrose Ave. this month by turning up with a Dolce & Gabbana dress she wanted the store to copy - in all white - to be ready by that evening.
Rich Shapiro / NY Daily News:
2 docs probed over Ledger pain pills  —  Federal drug investigators are probing two doctors over the death of actor Heath Ledger, the Daily News has learned.  —  The doctors - one in California, one in Texas - are believed to have supplied the “Brokeback Mountain” star with the powerful painkillers Oxycontin …
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TMZ.com:
Feds Investigating Docs Who Prescribed to Heath
Discussion: omg!
People.com:
Feds Probe Doctors in Heath Ledger's Death
Perez Hilton:
When Daddy Bangs Your Friend!  —  The Hogan family is just full of dramz these days.  —  We.  Love.  It.  —  Reports are surfacing that the Hulkster had an affair while he was still living with his wife, prompting the hulking Linda Hogan to file for divorce from him.  A divorce that's recently turned u-g-l-y .
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Mike Baron / The Post Chronicle:
Photos: Christiane Plante Has Affair With Hulk Hogan?  —  Thirty-three year old Christiane Plante, who worked with nineteen year old Brooke on her 2006 Album, has confessed to her affair with fifty-four year old Hulk Hogan. … According to a National Enquirer report, Hulk Hogan …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and MollyGood
Scott Huver / People.com:
Charlie Sheen Calls for Boycott of Denise's Show  —  He lost in court.  Now Charlie Sheen is taking his fight public.  —  The Two and a Half Men star - who took ex-wife Denise Richards to court in a failed attempt to prevent her from including their two daughters in a reality show …
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Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson “Hooking Up”  —  After a suicide attempt last August, Owen Wilson has been given a second chance at life - and, it seems, love.  —  The actor was seen driving his silver Toyota Prius away from Kate Hudson's Pacific Palisades home on Feb. 23.
Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Pete Wentz Gives Ashlee Simpson a Promise Ring  —  Ashlee Simpson has been flashing bling on her ring finger for a while now.  —  On Wednesday, she confirmed it's a promise ring from her Fall Out Boy beau Pete Wentz.  —  “It just means that he hasn't asked my dad yet...” …
Ianmcshane / holymoly.co.uk:
QUEEN NEFERTI-TEASE  —  All that parading about in ‘Underworld’ in a leather catsuit seems to have awoken the filthier side of actress Kate Beckinsale, who gave an interview to Allure magazine in which she flung around more innuendoes than Julian Clary at a cock-fight.
Discussion: Dlisted, Jezebel, CelebNewsWire and ShowHype
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Phil / Egotastic!:
Kate Beckinsale's Vagina is the Best
Discussion: WOW Report
Graeme Massie / Showbiz Spy:
Hugh Hefner wants Lindsay Lohan to appear in Playboy — as Marilyn Monroe  —  Lindsay Lohan will get another chance to strip off and pose nude as Marilyn Monroe - if Hugh Hefner gets his way.  —  Hefner wants the starlet to appear in Playboy recreating Monroe's famous naked swim …
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Phil / Egotastic!:
Lindsay Lohan Naked is Worth a Lot of Money
New York Post:
BLOGGERS' SORDID ONLINE CHAT  —  MARIO Lavandeira - better known as online gossip “Perez Hilton” - encouraged a handsome young blogger to send sex tapes of himself while he was making promises of promotion for the blogger's own fledgling Web site.  —  Jonathan Jaxson - a former publicist …
New York Post:
JESSICA'S BURDEN  —  JESSICA Alba knows the trauma of developing a big chest at an early age - she says she was labeled a sixth-grade slut by her elementary school principal and a couple of “self-righteous” PTA moms.  “The accusation still ricochets . . . They think I'm...
 
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MSat / Cele|bitchy:
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Associated Press:
Police looking into whether Spears was drugged
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Daily Mail:
Airport security force Renée to show the world her beauty products
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Falling Dumbasses!  —  The Daily Mail featured these truly …
Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:
Ellen Page: Is She or Isn't She?  —  I mean, come on already, is she???
TMZ.com:
Granny Got Run Over by La Lohan
Daily Mail:
Hollywood' A-list double daters: TomKat share an evening with Will and Jada
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Hollywoodtuna:
Sophie Monk Freed But Tainted
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Rosie back on TV, with the Nanny?
Daily Mail:
Mariah Carey reveals her toned new look in beauty-and-the-geek video
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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