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12:25 PM ET, November 17, 2008

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Daily Mail:
Kelly Osbourne ‘to marry her 18-year-old boyfriend’ … Wildchild Kelly Osbourne has become engaged to her 18-year-old boyfriend just six months after they first got together, it has been reported.  —  Kelly - daughter of rocker Ozzy and former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne - has been dating model Luke Worrall since May.
Ivory Jeff Clinton / People.com:
Samantha Ronson Growls Over Lohan's Flour Fiasco  —  After being pelted with a flour bomb for wearing what appeared to be fur, Lindsay Lohan got public support from an angry Samantha Ronson.  —  “The girl who threw [the flour] acted like an animal herself,” Ronson, 30, says on her MySpace blog.
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Claire Hoffman / New Yorker:
SOUP WITH PRINCE  —  The thirty-thousand-square-foot Italianate villa, built this century by Vanna White's ex-husband, looks like many of the other houses in Beverly Park, a gated community in L.A., except for the bright-purple carpet that spills down the front steps to announce its new tenant: Prince.
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Brooke Shields: Lipstick Jungle Isn't Canceled  —  Despite reports, Brooke Shields says her NBC drama Lipstick Jungle hasn't been scrapped.  —  “They thought that because My Own Worst Enemy has been shut down that the same thing had happened to us, and it's not true,” she told reporters at Sunday's Kidsfest in NYC.
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Maysa Rawi / Daily Mail:
She's lovin' it: Katherine Heigl channels old-school glamour to celebrate turning 30...then tucks into a Big Mac … A-list celebrities are renowned for punishing diets and gruelling exercise regimes.  —  But it appears Katherine Heigl is keen to debunk the myth that Hollywood stars never indulge.
Discussion: Lifeline Live and L.A. Rag Mag
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Aaron Eckhart suits up for ‘Battle’  —  Jonathan Liebesman will direct the sci-fi film  —  Aaron Eckhart is attached to star in “Battle: Los Angeles,” a sci-fi actioner that Jonathan Liebesman is directing for Columbia.  Neal Moritz and his Original Film are producing.
Andrei Harmsworth / Metro.co.uk:
'Hudson targets Madge's A-Rod'  —  Batten down the hatches - bitch fight on the way.  —  It looks like Madonna has younger, blonder competition for her New York Yankee pal Alex Rodriguez.  —  Yes, man eater Kate Hudson - who changes boyfriends as fast as her fashion frocks …
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Cristina Gibson / E! Online:
Gwyneth Paltrow and A-Rod Party Minus Madonna
Discussion: POPSUGAR and CelebWarship
Us Weekly:
Stars Say Farewell to MTV's TRL  —  MTV's Total Request Live ended its 10-year run Sunday with a live, two-hour finale from NYC's Times Square.  —  Christina Aguilera, Hilary Duff, Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock and Diddy — who made a record 37 appearances on the show — were among the stars who popped by.
Discussion: X17 Online and CONCRETELOOP.COM
Mirror.co.uk:
X Factor youngster Eoghan Quigg invited out on the town by Amy Winehouse - exclusive  —  Amy Winehouse has been secretly phoning and texting 16-year-old X Factor star Eoghan Quigg.  —  The troubled singer even invited the innocent Northern Irish lad - her junior by nine years - to join her for a wild night on the tiles.
Discussion: Dlisted and Perez Hilton
Times of London:
Helen Mirren: perennial pin-up  —  Helen Mirren says being naked on the screen gets easier with age, and next year she's about to start work in a brothel.  Chrissy Iley finds the perennial pin-up bent on mischief  —  There is no doubt about it.  Helen Mirren has a simmering sexual presence.
Discussion: Dlisted, Cele|bitchy, Daily Mail and Jezebel
NY Daily News:
Side Dish: Day-Lewis can't shake his character  —  It's happened again: Daniel Day-Lewis is locked in a character and can't get out.  This time, we hear, the Oscar-winner is imprisoned in Guido Contini, the skirt-chasing director in the movie musical “Nine.”
Discussion: Jezebel and Stereohyped
Michael K / Dlisted:
Russell Gets A Peek  —  The most flexible turtle on the planet Russell Simmons played a little game of peek-a-booby with some busted Tatum O'Neal look-alike in Miami yesterday.  Actually, I think he was just trying to find her titty.  It doesn't look like he had any luck.
Discussion: Gone Hollywood
Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Old Christine's Wanda Sykes: “I'm Proud to be Gay”  —  Bravo, Wanda Sykes!  —  The funnywoman and co-star of The New Adventures of Old Christine officially came out of the closet yesterday.  —  Sykes also announced she married her girlfriend on Oct. 25, just days before the passage of Proposition 8 …
Discussion: iVillage and Yeeeah!
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
Shares of South Korean entertainment companies related to Squid Game drop 20%+ following a less-than-perfect debut for the new season of the series on Netflix

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

 
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