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ShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust — TV pitchman battered hooker in South Beach hotel room brawl — Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers.
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Clearing a few things up — Just checking in to say hello and clear a few things up. I've been getting a lot of calls and emails regarding these subjects I'm about to discuss. First of all, last night at a club my boyfriend and I were assaulted for no reason at all.
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Jamie Spears Sues Britney Fansite! — We all know Britney's dad Jamie seems hungry to have everyone under his control, but we think his latest power stuggle is totally out of control. One of the most popular, pro-Britney fansites around, BreatheHeavy.com is now being forced to shut down …
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Kate Schweitzer / Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Top Model Contestant Opens Up About Sex Change Surgery — Isis King, the first transgender contestant on the CW's America's Next Top Model, opens up to Tyra Banks about her sex change operation, her new life as a woman and her boyfriend, Desmond.
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Charles in Charge's Willie Aames Holds Garage Sale — Willie Aames displays a vintage poster of himself — Eight apparently wasn't enough for Willie Aames. — The star of Charles in Charge and Eight Is Enough, after filing for bankruptcy last year and whose house is in foreclosure …
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Are Justin & Jessica on the Rocks? — Are Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel heading into make-or-break territory? Insiders suggest that at the very least, the couple, who've been dating for two years, are out of sync. — “They aren't split yet, but they are having problems,” a pal of Justin, 28, and Jessica, 27, tells OK!.
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Downsizing to 17,000 Square Feet: Spelling to Sell Mansion — Candy Spelling Says She's Never Met Her Granddaughter, Talks About Relationship With Daughter Tori Spelling — When Candy Spelling and her late husband Aaron Spelling were building their Bel Air, Calif., mansion, she says she didn't understand just how big it would be.
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Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Big: Producers “Probably Thinking” Kids With Carrie in SATC Sequel — Will Big and Carrie have a baby in the Sex and the City sequel? — “[Producers] are probably thinking about that, but I don't know,” Chris Noth teased Usmagazine.com at Exit the King's opening night in New York City Thursday.
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Officials Confirm Madonna Is Adopting 3-Year-Old Girl, Mercy — Officials have confirmed Madonna is adopting a 3-year-old girl, Mercy James, from Malawi. — “The adoption is going ahead,” Malawi's Director of Child Welfare Services, Penstone Kilembe, tells Usmagazine.com.
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What Trouble? Pete and Ashlee Make Out on Stage — Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz dashed rumors of marital woes, proving the passion is still alive as they locked lips on stage during the MTV Australia Awards in Sydney on Friday night. — Simpson-Wentz, 24, who gave birth to her first child …
Simon Perry / People.com:
Grieving Joely Richardson Returns to Work — Nastasha (left) and Joely Richardson — Joely Richardson is immersing herself in her craft after the sudden death of her older sister, Natasha. — The actress, 44, said her final goodbyes to her sister Sunday.
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Cristina Gibson / E! Online:
Lipstick Jungle Is Really, Truly Canceled — Ding, dong, Lipstick Jungle's dead. For real this time. Brooke Shields says so herself. — Although rumors of the NBC show's demise started swirling in December, Brooke told E!'s Kristin Dos Santos that there was still hope at the time.
Jesus Martinez / DrunkenStepfather:
Amy Winehouse in a Scary Panty Upskirt Picture of the Day — I wrote this about Amy Winehouse's panties last week.... I still feel the same. I would love to wear that s**t like a Halloween mask, just to see if it smells like death, or chemicals, or old period, or dried up cum …
Gina Serpe / E! Online:
T.I. Sentenced to a Year and a Day — The self-proclaimed King of the South will rise again. In about 366 days' time. — As expected, T.I. was sentenced today to one year and one day in Georgia prison as part of his plea deal with prosecutors over a 2007 felony weapons charge.
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Angie Argabrite / Inside Movies Blog:
Robert Pattinson Talks Gossip — “I was like, ‘God, I sound like such a loser!’” — These days, you can't look at a gossip rag or website without finding some new — often outrageous — story about Robert Pattinson, the red-hot star of ‘Twilight.’ — When we talked to Pattinson …
Michael K / Dlisted:
The Photoshop Awards: Kelly Clarkson...AGAIN — Kelly Clarkson is wasting her precious time posing in these photo shoos for her music s**t. They are just going to make her look like a character in the new Pixar movie anyway. She might as well be doing other s**t like, I don't know, kicking the whore who made her wear that f**kery.
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The Cheese / Hollywoodtuna:
Megan Fox Wears Short Shorts — Over the last few years I've posted a lot of hot chicks in jean shorts, sometimes they're hot ones like Jessica Simpson, Hayden Panettiere and Hilary Duff and sometimes they're pretty rotten like Rachel Bilson's. But these pictures of Megan Fox …
Linda Marx / People.com:
Ivana Trump and Husband Put Aside Differences — Ivana Trump and Rossano Rubicondi — There's a happy ending. After several months of bickering about geographical wants and obligations, Ivana Trump and her Italian actor-model husband, Rossano Rubicondi, have resolved their marital differences.
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Kate Schweitzer / Us Weekly:
Bruce Willis, Emma Heming Legalize Their Marriage — It's official! — Bruce Willis and Emma Heming legalized their marriage on Friday. — “Bruce and Emma were officially married in a private civil ceremony today at a friend's home in Beverly Hills,” his rep tells Usmagazine.com.
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Marc Malkin / E! Online:
John Mayer: “Twitter Is Silly and Dumb!” — The way John Mayer uses Twitter, you'd think he would have nothing but high praise for the social networking phenomenon. — But no, the singer actually has some harsh words for the latest in social messaging. — “It's inherently silly …
Sasha Perl-Raver / Gossip Sauce:
Exclusive: Perez Hilton Pulls a Milli Vanilli — We had lunch yesterday with someone closely connected to Perez Hilton who confirmed what we've suspected for a while now: — Perez no longer writes any of the content on the site. — The only things Perez Hilton actually contributes …