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9:35 AM ET, November 7, 2008

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X17 Online:
Kendra and Hef to Walk Down the Aisle... Sorta  —  Yes, Kendra Wilkinson's dream of walking down the aisle with Hugh Hefner is coming true - just probably not the way she imagined.  While she won't be tying the knot with the 82-year-old Playboy founder, he will be giving her away …
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Rachel Paula Abrahamson / Us Weekly:
Girls Next Door Star Kendra Wilkinson Is Engaged!  —  Girls Next Door Kendra Wilkinson, 23, is engaged to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett, her ex Hugh Hefner tells Usmagazine.com in a statement.  —  “Kendra Wilkinson has met someone who she would like to spend the rest of her life with,” Hefner tells Us.
Eunice Oh / People.com:
The Girls Next Door's Kendra Wilkinson Engaged to NFL Star  —  Kendra Wilkinson of The Girls Next Door is engaged to football star Hank Baskett, according to her ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner, who plans to give her away at a ceremony at the Playboy Mansion.  —  “[She] has met someone …
Discussion: E! Online, iVillage and OH NO!!
Associated Press:
‘Girls Next Door’ co-star engaged to an Eagle  —  LOS ANGELES - One of Hugh Hefner's live-in girlfriends is trading the grotto for the gridiron.  —  The Playboy mogul said in a statement Thursday that “The Girls Next Door” co-star Kendra Wilkinson is engaged to Philadelphia Eagles receiver Hank Baskett.
Access Hollywood:
‘Girl Next Door’ Kendra Wilkinson Engaged To NFL Star
Melissa Etheridge / The Daily Beast:
You Can Forget My Taxes  —  Obama's JFK Playbook by Thurston Clarke  —  Singer Melissa Etheridge rails against the passage of the gay-marriage ban in California—and she won't be paying the state a dime.  —  Okay.  So Prop 8 passed.  Alright, I get it.  51% of you think that I am a second class citizen.
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Melody S. Wells / People.com:
Melissa Etheridge to California: ‘You Can Forget My Taxes’  —  No same-sex marriage, no more tax dollars from Melissa Etheridge.  —  That's the defiant stand taken by the 44-year-old singer in a new blog post on The Daily Beast following the passage of California's Proposition 8.
Discussion: OH NO!!
Natalie Finn / E! Online:
It's Human Nature: Britney, Justin Keep Their Distance at Madonna Show  —  Madonna had her bases covered at Dodger Stadium tonight, although she was careful not to double up.  —  The pop über-star's Sticky & Sweet tour was made all the more saucy Thursday when long-ago couple Britney Spears …
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Jill Serjeant / Fan Fare:
Britney, Justin to perform with Madonna?
Discussion: X17 Online
Nicole Sperling / EW.com:
‘Twilight’: Will the Movie Be a Hit?  —  Will fans find the film true to the novel?  Will even one male go see it?  Will the filmmakers get the go-ahead to make “New Moon”?  What does Stephenie Meyer think about all this?  Some answers to these burning questions
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Christina Applegate Undergoing Reconstructive Surgery Around 37th Birthday  —  Christina Applegate says fighting breast cancer “sucks,” but you shouldn't feel sorry for her.  —  “I still have quite a process until this is done,” the actress says in the new issue of TV Guide.  “Yes, it's hard.
Jesus Martinez / DrunkenStepfather:
Willis Sister Exclusive of the Day  —  I think the Willis family are pretty f**king rancid girls.  I am talking wrongfully labeled People's Most Beautiful because their mom paid off the magazine to put them on the list and was trying to cover-up the lies that she's been feeding them their entire life …
Discussion: Hollywire.com
X17 Online:
Brit Wins Two MTV Europe Music Awards!!!!  —  This is Britney's night!  While she's busy her preparing to go on stage with Madonna, she was awarded two MTV Europe Music Awards — one for Album of the Year for “Blackout” and the other for Act of 2008!!!  —  Other winners were:  —  New Act - Katy Perry
Discussion: CONCRETELOOP.COM
PopEater:
Clooney on ‘ER’?  It's ‘Absolutely’ Possible  —  George Clooney will likely reprise his role as hunky doctor Doug Ross by the end of 'ER's' final season, one of his former castmates has revealed.  —  In an interview soon to run in TV Guide, Noah Wyle spills a few casting beans …
Discussion: TV Squad
Access Hollywood:
Jury Recommends Death Penalty For Former ‘Power Rangers’ Child Actor  —  A jury has recommended the death penalty for Skylar Deleon, a former child actor who appeared on the popular kids' TV series “Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers,” Access Hollywood has confirmed.
Neil Sean / Fox News:
Leonardo DiCaprio: I'm Glad to Have Shed My ‘Sex Symbol’ Status  —  In town to promote his new film “Body of Lies,” Leonardo DiCaprio talked with FOXNews.com's Neil Sean about films, marriage and life as a sex symbol.  —  Leonardo DiCaprio has grown up since his “Titanic” Days …
Discussion: POPSUGAR
Michael K / Dlisted:
What Is That Thing On Her Body?  —  Basement Baby's older sister performed at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool today looking like a rejected extra from “Tron.”  I'm beginning to think that Sasha Fierce stole Solange's fashion sketchbook from the basement and is using all her ideas!
BroadwayWorld.com:
‘Betty Boop’ Broadway Bound for 2010-2011  —  Enter Your E-Mail Address:  —  Betty Boop, a new musical, will feature music by 15-time Grammy Award winner David Foster, with book by Sally Robinson and Oscar Williams.  The show is planning to debut on Broadway in the 2010-2011 season at a Nederlander theatre to be announced.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
John Kay / The Sun:
I'm gonna see my wife Amy and take her knickers down  —  AMY WINEHOUSE's husband tasted freedom for the first time in a year yesterday and declared: “I'm gonna see my wife and take her knickers down.”  —  Junkie BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL made his boast in an exclusive interview at a service station near the prison.
James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:
The Twilight Zone  —  For all Buffy's efforts, vampires have been sinking their teeth ever deeper into Generation W's pop culture.  To a spate of hugely profitable books and HBO's True Blood, add this month's Twilight, a movie based on Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster saga, which has sold millions of copies in the U.S. alone.
Discussion: E! Online and Just Jared
People.com:
Diddy and Beyoncé Moved to Tears by Obama's Victory  —  Pete Wentz; Diddy and Beyoncé  —  Mr. Bad Boy himself, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, could not keep it together when Barack Obama was announced President-elect Tuesday night.  —  “I was straight up crying,” he confesses.  “I was with my kids.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and poponthepop.com
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Michael K / Dlisted:
CoCo Keeps It Classy For Diddy
Discussion: OH NO!!
 
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