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Selim Algar / New York Post:
BRINKLEY DIVORCE CASE SETTLED — MODEL APPEARS TO SCORE VICTORY — After days of acrimony in court and a night of intense negotiation going into the wee hours of the morning, Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook settled their contentious divorce case. — “It is my pleasure to report …
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Kathy Ehrich Dowd / People.com:
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook Reach Surprise Settlement — Brinkley and Cook — A little more than one week after it began, the explosively nasty divorce trial of Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook has come to a sudden end. — After a night of intense negotiations …
New York Post:
EX-FILE — JOHN Mayer can't keep those pesky ex-es away. His girlfriend Jennifer Aniston found “a batch” of love letters from his ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson in his guitar case. “Jennifer was more hurt than angry at the discovery,” said a source. “The letters surprisingly were very touching and well written.”
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People.com:
Jessica Alba on Pregnancy: ‘I Never Felt Less Sexy’ — Angelina Jolie may love being pregnant, but not everyone in Hollywood is similarly gushing. — “I never felt less sexy,” Jessica Alba says of her own pregnancy. “I mean, I wouldn't have changed it for the world ... but I wanted to get rid of all the weight.”
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Jessica Biel: I Don't “Have to Have” Marriage — Jessica Biel says her life will be fine even if she doesn't walk down the aisle one day. — “The actual idea of signing those papers and doing all this stuff ... I've never been someone who's like, ‘I have to, have to, have to have it,’” …
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Molly / POPSUGAR:
First Look — Inside Jessica Simpson's 28th Birthday Party! — Happy 28th birthday, Jessica Simpson! While the singer's real big day is today, she partied the night away with her favorite people at Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas on Monday. Jessica showed off that big Texas smile as Tony serenaded her with “Sweet Child o' Mine”.
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Spidey Man Is Kind Of Turning Me On — Tobey Maguire and his wifey were trying to get out of a parking lot last night, but a group of paps would not let his ass through. Instead of pulling a Brit Brit and running their asses over, the boring piece of boiled broccoli got all angry and screamed, “Get the f**k out of the way!
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Jose Canseco: Madonna Begged Me to Impregnate Her — Alex Rodriguez isn't the first athlete Madonna has pursued. — In the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now), former Oakland A and onetime Yankee Jose Canseco details how the singer, 49, tried to romance him in 1991 even though …
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Elizabeth Leonard / People.com:
Nicole and Keith: ‘We Feel Immensely Blessed’ — She may be little, but four-day-old Sunday Rose Kidman Urban has her parents gushing in a big way. — “We feel immensely blessed and grateful to be given this beautiful baby girl,” Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban said in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE in this week's cover story.
community.tvguide.com:
Dancing with the Stars to Tango with Gay Twist? — The celeb-and-pro lineup for Dancing with the Stars' Season 7 won't be officially revealed until mid-August, but already rumors are surfacing about who might prance across the parquet. — The latest buzz has Lance Bass signed on to samba …
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Nikki Finke / Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily:
So What Was All The Fuss About? Marvel Locks In Jon Favreau For ‘Iron Man 2’ — EXCLUSIVE: It's not officially announced yet, but I'm told that Marvel Studios and Iron Man director Jon Favreau have reached a deal for him to helm the sequel, due out in 2010. (Robert Downey Jr had a sequel clause in his contract so he's on board.)
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Michael Fleming / Variety:
Downey Jr. set for ‘Sherlock Holmes’
Downey Jr. set for ‘Sherlock Holmes’
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Richard Simpson / Daily Mail:
Wacko Jacko hits a toy shop in pyjamas, a surgeon's mask, a rasta wig and a wheelchair — Any popstar worth their salt knows that to survive in the business, you have to reinvent yourself every so often - and the King of Pop must know that better than any. — But quite what Michael Jackson thinks …
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New York Post:
PAINED C-ROD: I STILL LOVE HIM — BARES HER ANGUISH OVER SPLIT FROM WAYWARD ALEX — CONTINUED — OK, but having been bruised this badly, why will she be there to pick up those pieces should and if this happens? Because she has a graduate degree in psychology for abused and abandoned children.
Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Heidi Montag Hits Gun Range “in Honor” of Her Late Step-Bro — Why were Hills stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt at a firing range in L.A. Tuesday? — “All the super soaker ranges were closed,” Pratt joked to Usmagazine.com. — “Seriously, we're learning in honor of Heidi's step-brother,” he explained.
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Rennie Dyball / People.com:
Isaac Hanson and Wife Nikki Have a Boy! — The Hanson brothers' brood has gotten even bigger. — On July 1, Isaac Hanson and his wife Nikki celebrated the arrival of their second son, James Monroe Hanson, in the family's hometown of Tulsa. — Baby Monroe weighed in at 8 lbs., 11 oz. …
Hollywoodtuna:
Stacy Keibler Because She Used To Be Hot — It's been ages since I last did a post on Stacy Keibler. If you guys can recall, Stacy was the first semi-celebrity I obsessed over after starting the site, but once she quit the WWE, her wardrobe became as sexy as old lady in a church choir.
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Brian Austin Green on Megan Fox: “We're Solid” — Brian Austin Green says everything's going great with fiancée Megan Fox. — (London's Daily Star reported that Fox, 22, called off her engagement to the former 90210 star after realizing “she's too young to marry him.")
NY Daily News:
Rush & Molloy: It's grad school for Franco — Being a movie star isn't enough for James Franco. — The gorgeous actor graduated from UCLA last month at the age of 30, after quietly taking English literature courses for years. — And he's not stopping there.