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4:30 PM ET, June 9, 2008

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 Top News: 
Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Sean “Diddy” Combs: “Call Me Puff Daddy”  —  So long P. Diddy, Diddy, Sean John, and Puffy.  —  Sean Combs has started using his Puff Daddy namesake again - over a decade after he achieved stardom with the moniker.  —  “They call me Puff Daddy... he's back,” the mogul raps on the remix of O'Neal McKnight's single “Check Your Coat.”
People.com:
Jessica Alba Welcomes a Baby Girl  —  Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren have welcomed a baby girl.  —  Honor Marie Warren was born June 7 in Los Angeles, her rep, Brad Cafarelli, confirms.  This is the couple's first child.  —  Alba, 27, and Warren, 31, quietly wed on May 19 at the Beverly Hills courthouse.
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Jessica Alba and Husband Cash Warren Welcome Baby Girl
community.tvguide.com:
Dirt Nap: Courteney Cox's Series Is Canceled  —  Courteney Cox Arquette, akin to her Dirt alter ego, offered up some scoop at Sunday's “A Time for Heroes” Celebrity Carnival, benefiting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: Her FX series is folding.
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Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Courteney Cox: Jennifer Aniston Is Happy Now  —  Days after Jennifer Aniston introduced beau John Mayer to BFF Courteney Cox, Cox tells Usmagazine.com that her former Friends co-star is in a good place.  —  “Yeah, she is,” Cox told Us at the Time For Heroes Celebrity Carnival in L.A. on Sunday when asked if Aniston is happy.
Discussion: Just Jared and Lifeline Live
Michael K / Dlisted:
Blaaake Is Guilty  —  Blaaaake pleaded guilty to beating down a bitch and then attempting to cover it up. 26-year-old Blake Fielder-Civil admitted to attacking 36-year-old James King and perverting the course of justice by conspiring to have a witness withdraw from the trial.  No, not James King from “White Chicks.”
Discussion: Vh1 Blog
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Jennifer Fermino / New York Post:
AMY CRACKHOUSE  —  SHOCKING NEW PIX AND VIDS OF RACIST SONG IN DRUG DEN
Discussion: Extra and Jezebel
Courtney Rubin / People.com:
Amy Winehouse's Husband Admits Assault
Discussion: Fancast
New York Post:
JUST ASKING  —  WHICH star of a new TV hit has Hollywood scrambling to the pharmacy?  He's spreading herpes around town like wildfire . . . WHICH gorgeous socialite has a secret side to her sex life?  While she's often on the arm of a guy at social functions, we hear...
Dan Mangan / New York Post:
HATHAWAY BEAU'S ‘CAUSE’ FOR ALARM  —  HIS CHARITY PROBED  —  State Attorney General Andrew Andrew Cuomo is investigating a children's charity operated by the controversial boyfriend of sexy “Devil Wears Prada” star Anne Hathaway, who until recently sat on the group's board of directors, The Post has learned.
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TMZ.com:   Anne H's Italian BF in Amore Trouble
NY Daily News:
Ashley Dupre appears on NJ beach  —  Showing off the curves that wiped out former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's career, happy hooker Ashley Alexandra Dupre beat the heat Sunday by hitting the beach in New Jersey.  —  The 23-year-old brunette and her youthful-looking mother turned heads as they relaxed …
Discussion: Extra, Fatback Media and Lifeline Live
Wenn / Showbiz Spy:
Downey Jr. Finds Salvation With Fast Food  —  IRON MAN star ROBERT DOWNEY JR. has publicly thanked fast food chain Burger King for helping him overcome his personal problems and resurrect his film career.  —  In 2003, the actor - who, at the time, was battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol …
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
‘Cure’ lures Ford to CBS  —  Actor to play maverick scientist in next film  —  Harrison Ford is moving from battling communists as Indiana Jones to fighting diseases as a maverick scientist for his next bigscreen project.  —  Ford will star in CBS Films' drama “Crowley,” which Tom Vaughan …
People.com:
Alanis Is ‘Really Happy’ for Ryan Reynolds  —  Alanis Morissette and Ryan Reynolds  —  Here's one more thing you oughta know: Alanis Morissette has nothing but nice things to say about her ex-fiancé Ryan Reynolds.  Even now that he's engaged to Scarlett Johansson.
Discussion: Gabby Babble
Cele|bitchy:
Queen Latifah to marry longterm partner  —  This week's National Enquirer states that Queen Latifah plans to marry her partner of five years, personal trainer Jeannette Jenkins, after the groundbreaking ruling in California that legalized same-sex marriages.
Discussion: Bossip and Allie Is Wired
Andrea / Off the Rack:
Jessica Simpson Turns Lingerie Designer!  —  Look out Victoria's Secret, Jessica Simpson is adding lingerie designer to her lengthy resume.  The singer already has successful handbag, shoe, sunglass and swimsuit lines, and now Jessica Simpson's Intimates will be joining her namesake empire.
Discussion: iVillage and The Hollywood Gossip
Starpulse:
Naomi Campbell Has Surgery To Become A Mom  —  British supermodel Naomi Campbell has undergone surgery to enable her to have children.  —  The catwalk queen, 38, is desperate to become a mother and recently had an operation to help her fulfill her dream.  Although Campbell doesn't specify …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy, Bossip and Fametastic
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Heath Ledger's Brokeback Mountain To Be Turned Into an Opera  —  Brokeback Mountain is coming to an opera house near you.  —  The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose a show based on the 1997 short story — which was turned into the 2005 Oscar-winning movie starring Heath Ledger …
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Bill Egbert / NY Daily News:
‘Brokeback’ - the opera?
Discussion: L.A. Rag Mag
 
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Mischa Barton Is Not A Pretty Little Fairy
TMZ.com:
Weathergirl Gone Wild
Todd Venezia / New York Post:
COPS CALL ON ‘BOOZY’ WIFE OF BILL MURRAY
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Deceiver.com
Justin Van De Kamp / Televisionista:
ABC's “Brothers & Sisters” Hot Season 3 Spoilers
Discussion: AfterElton.com
Carl Wilkinson / Guardian:
Me and my travels  —  I never travel without ...  A kimono.
OK! Magazine:
J.Lo To Design New Line
Discussion: Just Jared and dailystab.com
Rachel Paula Abrahamson / Us Weekly:
Kate Hudson on Lance Armstrong Rumors: “Let People Speculate”
Bauer-Griffin:
Chris Brown Bonafide Rock-a-feller
 Earlier Picks: 
William Keck / USA Today:
TV Land Awards: Golden moments
People.com:
Couples Watch: Audrina Patridge Steps Out with Her New Guy
Cele|bitchy:
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ross McCall to marry this summer
Julian Gavaghan / Daily Mail:
Actor Rupert Everett brands British soldiers ‘pathetic, whining wimps’
Phil / Egotastic!:
Abigail Clancy Topless Bikini Pictures
Discussion: Hollywoodtuna
Variety:
Stiller, Witherspoon fly with Crowe
New York Post:
TOILET TRAIN  —  ALWAYS the rebel, supermodel Kate Moss …
NY Daily News:
Side Dish: Big bedroom for Brangelina babies
Discussion: CelebWarship and iVillage
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Tim Marchman / Wired:
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Nielsen: the Biden-Trump debate drew an average audience of 51.3M viewers across 17 networks in the US, down from 2020's first debate, with nearly 73.1M

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Spain's El País launched a digital edition to cover the US in Spanish in May with 11 bilingual correspondents; as of April, the outlet had ~366K subscribers

 
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