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5:30 PM ET, December 30, 2008

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Mirror.co.uk:
Britney Spears exclusive: Womanizer star dating Bollywood dance instructor  —  Britney Spears has dated some fast movers and now she's been swept off her feet by another - a Bollywood dance instructor.  —  The Toxic star has been seeing Sandip Soparrkar, who choreographed her raunchy Womanizer video.
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Michael K / Dlisted:
You Think You Know Someone  —  Somehow Brit Brit managed to fly all the way to India over Christmas break and then fly back again without one pap following her ass.  That's what the Mirror claims anyway.  According to them, Our Lady of Cheetos has fallen in love with Bollywood choreographer Sandip Soparrkar …
Discussion: popbytes
Times of India:
Was Britney in India?
Ken Baker / E! Online:
Britney's Bollywood Romance a Bust Before It Begins
Discussion: Splash News Online
Elizabeth Kelly / Associated Content:
Sandip Soparrkar: India Papers Say He's Britney Spears' New Man
Discussion: The Superficial
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Woody Harrelson Gets Married in Hawaii  —  Woody Harrelson and his girlfriend Laura Louie were officially married on Sunday on the island of Maui, his rep confirms to Usmagazine.com.  —  The couple, who have been together for 20 years, tied the knot in front of a small group of family and friends …
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TMZ.com:
Blue Man Suspect May Not Be Blue at All  —  Chicago cops now tell TMZ they're not sure if the man arrested for allegedly having oral sex in a public park is a member of the Blue Man Group ... but a rep for the Group says the dude has never been part of the outfit.
Discussion: Dlisted and Daily Herald
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TMZ.com:
Alleged Blue Man Tried to Do Man in Public
Discussion: Best Week Ever and OH NO!!
NY Daily News:
Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Lark dies  —  Actress Mia Farrow has lost the first of her brood.  —  Lark Previn, the Vietnamese-born adopted daughter of Farrow and musician Andre Previn, died on Christmas Day, the medical examiner said Monday.  —  Lark Previn, 35, a mother of two girls, had been ailing for a decade.
Discussion: Just Jared
NY Daily News:
P. Diddy offers $15 cab fare for revelers  —  Rap impresario and vodka pitchman Sean (Diddy) Combs wants New Yorkers to party on New Year's Eve, so he's offering to pay for the cab-fare to help tipsy revelers get home safe.  —  The hip-hop honcho and Ciroc premium vodka will announce Tuesday …
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Just Jared:
Diddy: Free Taxi Rides on New Year's Eve!
Discussion: Jossip
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Tom Cruise: “I Want 10 Children” With Katie  —  If Tom Cruise has his way, Suri could have a lot of little brothers and sisters.  —  “I want 10 children.  I love kids,” the Valkyrie star says in an interview with UK's The Sun.  —  Cruise, 46, is also dad to Connor, 13, and Isabella, 16, his adopted children with ex Nicole Kidman.
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Perez Hilton:
Tom Cruise Says He Wants TEN Little Xenulings!
Discussion: INF Daily, Dlisted, Yeeeah! and X17 Online
Just Jared:
Suri Cruise is a Singing Sensation
Discussion: Best Week Ever
PopEater:
Bacon Lost Cheddar in Mega Ponzi Scheme  —  Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick work notoriously hard for their money, but now the actor has confirmed he and his TV star wife have lost some of that cash to a devastating Ponzi scheme that has rattled investors from Wall Street to Rodeo Drive.
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Hollywoodtuna:
Ed Hardy's Wife's Ass In A Bikini  —  Designer Christian Audigier took some time off from his busy schedule creating hats for retarded people to relax on the beach with his wife Ira in Miami.  I haven't decided if she's hot or not, her body looks great but her face is hidden by those giant sunglasses.
Molly / POPSUGAR:
Nicole Slips Into a Teeny Bikini For Hawaii Vacation With Joel  —  Nicole Richie and Joel Madden hit the beach in Hawaii yesterday to soak up some of those pre-New Year's rays.  The new mom looked absolutely fantastic in her little red bikini.  The duo spent some time there last year …
Michael Ausiello / EW.com:
Scoop: Is ‘Brothers & Sisters’ disowning Balthazar Getty?  —  I smell fresh Emmy material for Brothers & Sisters matriarch Sally Field.  —  According to sources, Balthazar Getty, who plays the Oscar winner's eldest son, was informed last week that producers were not planning on picking …
TMZ.com:
No Bones About It, Nicole Richie Looks Great  —  It's amazing what two years, a DUI, 82 minutes in jail and a baby can do for a gal.  —  Motherhood — and eating — definitely agree with Nicole Richie.  —  See Also  — Nicole Richie: In Cold Blood  — She's In, She's Out
USA Today:
Celeb Heat Index: Britney is No. 1 for another year  —  In good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, the entertainment media's love affair with Britney Spears continued throughout 2008.  —  The pop star ranks No. 1 for the year in USA TODAY's Celebrity Heat Index …
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Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Britney Spears and Angelina Jolie Top Most Exposed Celeb List
Courtney Hazlett / MSNBC:
Scoop: Bristol could earn $300,000 for baby pics  —  Plus: Mickey Rourke trash-texts Sean Penn; Mariah Carey's no scientist  —  When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin confirmed that her teenage daughter, Bristol, and boyfriend Levi Johnston were expecting a baby, the celebrity weeklies knew …
TMZ.com:
Arrest in Ruffalo Case Imminent  —  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ cops plan to make an arrest in the death of Mark Ruffalo's brother Scott next month.  —  Our sources would not say who will be arrested but said the person or persons will be charged with murder.
Discussion: Defamer
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Robert Pattinson Defends Heath Ledger  —  No laughing matter!  —  According to a witness at the No on H8 show at The ­Improv in Hollywood on Dec. 16, Twilight star Robert Pattinson, 22, booed a comic who said, “Here's my impression of Heath Ledger,” then collapsed and began faking convulsions.
 
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NY Daily News:
Kiss and tell: Eva?s big on exposing cheaters
Discussion: The Superficial and The Blemish
Mr. Atoz / Agent Bedhead:
einstein 1, mariah carey 0
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TMZ.com:
DMX Pleads Guilty, Guilty, Guilty and Guilty
TMZ.com:
A Double Shot of ... Jack Daniels?
Mary Beth / INF Daily:
PARIS AND HER BFF PARTY DOWN UNDER
Mischa Barton:
Hii it's Mischa checkin in!
Discussion: Crabbie's Hollywood
 Earlier Picks: 
Associated Press:
‘Marley & Me’ earns $36.3M box office biscuit
Discussion: Evil Beet Gossip
OK! Magazine:
WHAT'S BRITNEY'S NY RESOLUTION?
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Alison Adey / Now Magazine:
Brad Pitt: Some of my brain cells have shut down
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Lepaparazzi
Just Jared:
Cam Gigandet Wears A Kilt
FemaleFirst:
Beyonce Knowles' party hate
 

 
From Mediagazer:

David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop “lazy linking”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake

 
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