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11:30 AM ET, December 22, 2008

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Maysa Rawi / Daily Mail:
Free and easy Amy Winehouse looks the picture of health as she piles on the pounds … Amy Winehouse appears to be winning her battle against drugs as she looked the picture of health during a winter break in the sun.  —  And the singer also seems to have gained a considerable amount of weight over the last month.
Discussion: OH NO!!
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Dan Wootton / News of the World:
Naked Amy-bition  —  IT is my pleasant duty to report that the normally skeleton-thin Amy Winehouse has finally found her figure.  —  The troubled singer revealed her curves when she slipped off her bikini top for a dip in Caribbean paradise St Lucia.  —  And unless I'm very much mistaken …
NY Daily News:
Sam more dynamic as a duo with Linds  —  Samantha Ronson may want her relationship with Lindsay Lohan to work for more reasons than just love: Since dating the actress, the deejay's fee per gig has jumped from around $1,500 to as much as $25,000, netting Ronson close to $3 million over the last year.
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Suzanne Rozdeba / Life and Style:
LIFE & STYLE EXCLUSIVE: SAMANTHA RONSON'S BIG SCARE  —  Friends of celebrity DJ Sam Ronson tell Life & Style they received frantic phone calls last night that the DJ was suffering from exhaustion and stress.  “She was calling around.  She knew she had done something wrong,” the friend tells Life & Style.
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HisHighness / ianundercover.com:
IUC Exclusive: Michael's Brother Confirms IUC exclusive about Jackson's health  —  Just days after ianundercover broke the world exclusive about Michael Jackson's life-threatening illness, which also appreared in a breaking new feature story I gave to In Touch Weekly, his brother Jermaine Jackson appears to have confirmed the report.
Alessandro Poggi / Bloomberg:
Beckham Gets Muted Response From AC Milan Fans, Pledges to Help  —  A A A  —  Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — David Beckham, the world's highest- paid soccer player, got a muted response from the fans of Italian soccer club AC Milan when he was introduced to the crowd at the San Siro yesterday.
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Colleen Barry / Associated Press:
Beckham, wife enjoy a posh introduction in Milan
Discussion: POPSUGAR, Lifeline Live and popsugar
FemaleFirst:
Victoria Beckham's Milan Frockathon
Discussion: Ayyyy!
Michael K / Dlisted:
Mary-Kate Olsen Loves A Good Recession!  —  While some of you are considering sucking dick in a back alley way to pay your rent this month, Mary-Kate Olsen is skipping through department stores and having the greatest time ever!  —  Page Six claims the evil troll was in an elevator at Barney's …
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New York Post:   RECESSION FAN  —  MARY-Kate Olsen (above) has found the silver lining in the recession.
New York Post:
DIRECTOR STRESSES OUT CROWE  —  THE long professional relationship between Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott could come to a cataclysmic end if Crowe gets Scott fired from “Nottingham.”  —  Scott turned Crowe into a major star by casting him in “Gladiator” (2000), a role that won him the Best Actor Oscar.
Discussion: Jossip and Hot Momma Celebrity …
Perez Hilton:
Paris Speaks, Responds To Burglary  —  As we mentioned last week, Paris Hilton's Hollywood Hills home got robbed.  —  The thief got away with an estimated $2 million worth of jewelry and other belongings!  And, now, the hotel heiress is speaking out for the first time about the incident.
Discussion: INF Daily
Michael Ausiello / EW.com:
Exclusive ‘Dollhouse’ video: Watch Eliza Dushku's memories vanish!  —  I know we said we weren't exchanging this year, but I saw this exclusive Dollhouse clip while out shopping this weekend and, well, I just had to get it for you guys.  —  The set-up: The following scene from the Feb. 13 premiere …
Discussion: Just Jared, /Film and OH NO!!
Access Hollywood:
Rihanna To Headline Charity Inaugural Ball  —  Rihanna will perform in Washington, D.C. on inauguration day, Access Hollywood has learned.  —  The “Umbrella” singer is set to headline a charity ball for Feeding America and the Recording Industry Association of America on January 20.
Discussion: Us Weekly and The Hollywood Gossip
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K.C. Baker / People.com:
Rihanna Ready to Rock Obama Inaugural Ball
Discussion: Extra and no one on the corner …
 
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Daily Mail:
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Discussion: Bitten and Bound and OH NO!!
Lynn Hirschberg / New York Times:
A Higher Calling  —  WHEN HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD, PHILIP SEYMOUR …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
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From Mediagazer:

Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN confirms Kaitlan Collins as its chief White House correspondent; she will become CNN's first prime-time anchor to also serve as its top White House reporter

Mark Mwachiro / Adweek:
Norah O'Donnell plans her last CBS Evening News broadcast as anchor for January 24, 2025

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