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7:15 PM ET, February 7, 2009

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Blaine Zuckerman / People.com:
Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Are Engaged!  —  Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy will be getting married, a rep for the pair confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.  —  Danes, 29, and Dancy, 33, met while filming Evening in Newport, R.I., and had been dating for more than a year.
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Peter G / Us Weekly:
Rep: Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy Engaged!  —  Claire Danes and her British boyfriend, Hugh Dancy, are engaged, her rep confirms to Usmagazine.com.  —  The couple have been inseparable since meeting on the 2007 film Evening.  —  Check out other couples who hooked up while working together.
Sports Illustrated:
Sources tell SI Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003 … In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.
ABCNEWS:
Kate Winslet: 'I Don't Want to Be the Most-Nominated Loser'  —  Oscar Nominee on Awards, Acceptance Speeches, Acting While ‘Extremely Naked’  —  Juggling Movies and Motherhood  —  Winslet has talked openly over the years about being, in her words, “a fat girl” when she was young …
Discussion: Backseat Cuddler and Cele|bitchy
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Kate Winslet: “I Am Going to Start Loving My Backside”
K.C. Baker / People.com:
Rihanna Helps 5-Year-Old Fan Look for Bone Marrow Donor  —  Rihanna is stepping forward to help a 5-year-old New York City girl find a bone marrow donor - the second time in a year that the Grammy Award winner has helped a leukemia victim seek a match.  —  “When I saw the video of Jasmina it broke my heart.
Mickey O'Connor / TVGuide.com:
Exclusive: Two New Gossip Girl Castings  —  Remember when Nate was poor and huddling under a tartan sleeping bag trying to keep warm in the basement of his family's seized Upper East Side townhouse on Gossip Girl?  Well, don't worry, he isn't poor anymore because... well, something happened, I'm a little unclear actually.
Discussion: Gossip Girl Insider and Just Jared
Metro.co.uk:
Lily goes all Google-eyed on the booze  —  Lily Allen has admitted using Google to trace her own steps  —  Singer Lily Allen once ‘Googled herself’ to find out how she got home from a night out after she passed out drunk.  —  The 23-year-old, who has a reputation for wild partying …
K.C. Baker / People.com:
Julianna Margulies: Clooney and I Still Have (Onscreen) Chemistry  —  Former ER lovers George Clooney and Julianna Margulies are still crazy for each other after all these years - as pals, that is.  —  The actors - who played the dashing Dr. Doug Ross and his onscreen love, nurse Carol Hathaway …
Discussion: Backseat Cuddler and Geno's World
Just Jared:
Josh Radnor & Lindsay Price: New Couple!  —  How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor and Lipstick Jungle actress Lindsay Price cozy up to one another courtside at the basketball game at New York City's Madison Square Garden on Friday night (February 6).  —  Josh, 34, and Lindsay, 32 …
Discussion: E! Online
Ruth Harrison / FemaleFirst:
Poison Star Denies Financial Crisis … But the musician has hit back at claims he is close to financial ruin - insisting he is not selling his possessions to pay off any debts.  —  He tells Blabbermouth, “I decided to sell my 2006 Rolex because I haven't worn it even once since I got the new one.
Discussion: Gabby Babble
Gina Serpe / Yahoo! News:
Christian Bale Apologizes for “Potty Mouth,” “Unexcusable” Rant  —  Los Angeles (E! Online) - There are at least two men with whom Christian Bale is not professionally done: Los Angeles DJs Kevin and Bean.  —  After a week of unrelenting press coverage in the wake of his leaked onset rant …
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Tomoneil / Gold Derby:
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ to Oscars voters: Choose this tune for best song, not that one  —  Over the last few days Oscars voters received a campaign CD featuring two of “Slumdog Millionaire's” three music nominations: best song ("Jai Ho") and score.  Missing from the CD was “Slumdog Millionaire's” other contender for best song ("O Saya").
Angel / CONCRETELOOP.COM:
RANDOM PICS: JENNIFER HUDSON PERFORMS @ ‘MUSIC CARES’ EVENT  —  Jennifer Hudson (who is up for 4 Grammys this year) performed at the 2009 MusicCares Person of the Year Tribute to Neil Diamond at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday night in Los Angeles, California.
Discussion: Fan Fare
 
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