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4:00 PM ET, August 4, 2009

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Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Britney Gets Nailed With Seven MTV Nominations  —  Britney Spears has done it again.  —  I can exclusively reveal that our favorite comeback kid has been nominated for not one, not two, not three...well, seven MTV Video Music Awards.  —  Last year, the pop princess made a brilliant return …
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Aaron Parsley / People.com:
VMA Nominations: Beyoncé, Lady Gaga Lead with Nine Each!  —  Beyoncé and Lady Gaga  —  Congratulations to Beyoncé and Lady Gaga!  —  The powerhouse singers scored a whopping nine MTV Video Music Award nominations each, PEOPLE confirms exclusively.
Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Britney Gets Nailed With Seven MTV VMA Nominations
New York Post:
CAMERON ARRESTED AS 'METH'OD ACTOR  —  And the Oscar for biggest ne'er-do-well brat child of a legendary acting family goes to — Cameron Douglas.  —  The son of Academy Award winner Michael Douglas has been arrested once again — this time in the Big Apple for getting in the middle of a deal …
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Jen Aniston: I Don't Mind Being Called “the Lonely Girl”  —  Poor, lonely Jen.  —  Jennifer Aniston — who has yet to find love since her 2005 split from Brad Pitt — says she is aware of what's been whispered behind her back.  —  “I'm not going to ignore the pink elephant in the living room …
Discussion: X17 Online and I'm Not Obsessed
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Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
‘LONELY GIRL’ JEN BARES LOVE WOES
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Lifeline Live
Michael K / Dlisted:
Jennifer Aniston Is Fine With Being The Poster Child For Lonely Spinsters
Discussion: CelebNewsWire
TMZ.com:
‘Twilight’ Author Accused of Biting Vampire Story  —  Spoiler Alert!  If you haven't read the fourth “Twilight” book — and plan to — this story is going to ruin your life forever.  You sure wanna go on?  Here we go...  Turns out Stephenie Meyer, the woman behind the Twilight series …
New York Post:
MISCHA BARTON OUT ON THE TOWN  —  MISCHA Barton, who had a breakdown last month and missed the premiere of her new flick, “Homecoming,” was back to her weird ways over the weekend.  Saturday night, Barton was spotted “having a disastrous dinner” with a group of girls at Sant Ambroeus in the West Village.
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Arienne Thompson / USA Today:
Candy Spelling sweetens her words to spell it out for Tori  —  Candy Spelling won't be making an appearance on Tuesday night's season finale of daughter Tori's reality show, Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, but on Thursday she said she has just one thing to say to Tori: “I love you, and I always will.”
Discussion: Popeater, Us Weekly and Lifeline Live
TMZ.com:
‘Gossip Girl’ Mom Settles Custody Dispute  —  Kelly Rutherford just settled her custody dispute with ex Daniel Giersch.  —  The “Gossip Girl” matriarch filed for divorce in December 2008.  The couple has two children together — one of whom was born less than two months ago.
Discussion: Us Weekly
New York Post:
‘GAY’ SHERLOCK HOLMES COULD BACKFIRE FOR GUY RITCHIE  —  GUY Ritchie's plan to put a gay spin on the relationship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in his new movie about the detective and his sidekick could backfire.  —  Robert Downey Jr., who plays Holmes, has revealed the crimebuster …
Eric Wilson / New York Times:
Naomi Sims, 61, Pioneering Cover Girl, Is Dead  —  Naomi Sims, whose appearance as the first black model on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal in November 1968 was a consummate moment of the Black is Beautiful movement, and who went on to design successful collections of wigs and cosmetics …
Brian Orloff / People.com:
Tom Colicchio and His Wife Welcome a Boy  —  It's a boy for Tom Colicchio and wife Lori Silverbush!  —  The couple welcomed son Luka Bodhi Colicchio at 7:55 p.m. on Aug. 1, a Bravo rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.  The baby weighed 6 lbs., 9 oz., and was 19 in. long.  —  “They're doing great!” says the Bravo rep.
Miu von Furstenberg / Socialite Life:
Brooke Hogan Releases A Bomb  —  Brooke Hogan's latest album, The Redemption, debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at #144, with 3,381 copies sold.  Ouch.  —  She held an album release party at Mansion in Miami this past Friday night.  A full ten days after the album debuted.  —  Note to Brooke.
Discussion: Allie Is Wired! and Best Week Ever
Just Jared:
Adam Brody & Jessica Szohr: Dinner Date!  —  Former O.C. star Adam Brody and Gossip Girl actress Jessica Szohr go on a dinner date together at Cafeteria in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City on Monday night (August 3).  —  Jessica, 24, and Adam, 29, were at dinner with two other people.
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Mary Beth / INF Daily:
SPOTTED: HILARY DUFF ON GOSSIP GIRL SET
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Hugh Jackman to star in ‘Showman’  —  Actor to play P.T. Barnum in Fox musical  —  Twentieth Century Fox has attached Hugh Jackman to play American showman P.T. Barnum in “The Greatest Showman on Earth,” an original contemporary musical to be scripted by Jenny Bicks ("Sex and the City").
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Ashton Kutcher: Demi Moore “Becomes More Beautiful to Me by the Minute”  —  Demi Kutcher?  —  Not so fast.  —  Ashton Kutcher says he can't confirm a new round of Internet reports that claim his wife Demi Moore is taking his name to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary in September.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Laura Kalnicky / Life and Style:
Britney and Lindsay party together  —  Britney Spears may have a new hairstyle, but she's back to partying with old friends.  On Aug. 2, Britney showed up after 2 a.m. at Full Frontal at The Grand Star Jazz Club in LA, where she danced and chatted with Lindsay Lohan.
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Daily Mail:
Britney Spears unveils her newly blonde mane... but doesn't look …
Discussion: Socialite Life and The Dish Rag
Brian Orloff / People.com:
Joan Rivers Responds to Roastmaster Kathy Griffin: Drop Dead!  —  Joan Rivers may have built her career around her sense of humor, but the comedian has some choice words for good pal Kathy Griffin, who emceed her upcoming Comedy Central roast.  —  “She can [expletive] drop dead now, I'm so angry,” Rivers tells PEOPLE, laughing.
Discussion: Gabby Babble
Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna / E! Online:
Adam Lambert's Fans Throwing Sex Toys Onstage!  —  Fans have taken it up a notch from throwing bras and panties at Adam Lambert during the American Idol summer tour.  Now they're tossing up sex toys.  —  “It's going further, and somebody threw onstage a red-leather tasseled whip,” he tells us.
 
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