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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Kara DioGuardi Speaks Out on Paula Abdul: “I Never Was Here to Replace Her” — Kara DioGuardi is still shocked that Paula Abdul has quit American Idol after eight seasons. — “I can't get over it. I'm completely shocked,” she said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Friday.
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NY Daily News:
Devotion to Paula Abdul floors Constantine Maroulis in bar fight — Paula Abdul inspires men to fight over her, but not in the way you might think. — “American Idol” alum Constantine Maroulis, 33, got his butt kicked by an Abdul hater during Casio's G-Shock party Wednesday night at Cipriani Wall Street.
Abf / We'll Know When We Get There:
Sincerely, John Hughes — I was babysitting for my mom's friend Kathleen's daughter the night I wrote that first fan letter to John Hughes. I can literally remember the yellow grid paper, the blue ball point pen and sitting alone in the dim light in the living room, the baby having gone to bed.
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Heidi Pratt Reveals Playboy Cover at G.I. Joe Premiere — Heidi Pratt brought a new accessory to Thursday's G.I. Joe premiere in Los Angeles: Her September Playboy issue.
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Ladydrama / Bossip.com:
Chicks with D*cks... Is Lady GaGa Packing? — Lady GaGa recently came out the closet and confirmed she is a hermaphrodite. — Lady GaGa allegedly said this about the subject: … The cat or should we say pork roll came out the bag at a performance when she hopped off a motorcycle without any undies on.
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Michael K / Dlisted:
About That “Lady GaGa Is A Hermaphrodite” Thing — My inbox is really about to stick its head in an oven and commit suicides if it sees the subject “Lady GaGa has a dick” one more time. I was really trying to avoid this, because we've been traumatized enough this Friday and some of us …
Popeater:
Kate 2.0 Loses Job And Gosselin — Former tabloid reporter Kate Major opened up to E! News about her two-week whirlwind relationship with Jon Gosselin. Simply put: she regrets it. “I wake up some days and I think, ‘What was I thinking?’” she revealed. — “He's a great, great guy.
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Themoonisdown / Letters to Twilight:
Spotted: Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart! — I went to your show last night and all I got was this lousy picture... Who could that be getting into that cab? I know you don't care but I'll let everyone else's imaginations run wild. Suffice it to say you were awesome and everyone will have to check back here for the full scoop.
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Alexis Chiu / People.com:
Daniel Baldwin Welcomes a Baby Girl — Daniel Baldwin and his wife Joanne welcomed a baby girl Friday morning, the couple tell PEOPLE exclusively. — Finley Rae Martineau Baldwin was born at 9:35 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She weighed 7 lbs., 10 oz. and measured 20½".
Michelle Tan / People.com:
Sherri Shepherd Refuses to Get a Breast Reduction — After starting a new workout regimen three months ago, The View's Sherri Shepherd made a splash on the daytime talk show by revealing her new bathing suit body. But there's one part of her figure she'd never wants to change.
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New York Post:
CAST CHOICE KILLS HIT-MAN FLICK — THE author of a best seller about vicious Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski has pulled the plug on a deal with Hollywood producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who had optioned the rights, because he says he couldn't stomach the idea of Channing Tatum in the title role.
TMZ.com:
Jackson Toxicology Report — Propofol Plus ... Multiple law enforcement sources tell us the toxicology report in the Michael Jackson case shows Jackson had a lethal amount of the anesthetic Propofol in his system — but that wasn't the only drug. — We're told the toxicology findings show …
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
New ‘Barbarella’ in works — Joe Gazzam to pen script for new take on character — “Barbarella” is getting a new lease on life. — Joe Gazzam has been tapped to write the screenplay centering on the character that was immortalized by Jane Fonda in the 1968 original.
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Mark Gray / People.com:
Ashton and Demi's Plane Makes Emergency Landing — Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore — Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore had a scare Thursday when their airplane was forced to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas after the engine apparently overheated. — The two were flying to New York following …
Hollywoodreporter / The Hollywood Reporter:
A different arrow in the Robin Hood quiver — Forget bows-and-arrows — there could soon be sleek guns in Nottingham. — “Robin Hood” will be getting a futuristic makeover courtesy of the producers of “The Dark Knight” and “300” as well as Warner Bros., where a new take on the classic tale has been set up.
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Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub / Collider:
Exclusive: Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner talks MONOPOLY, CANDY LAND, BATTLESHIP, STRETCH ARMSTRONG, More — Just a few hours ago I was at Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood for a special screening of “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”. While it wasn't called a premiere, it had all the spectacle of one …
Breanne L. Heldman / E! Online:
Ashley Judd Must Be Wicked Smaht — Apparently, Harvard is where the heart is. — First, Natalie Portman earned her bachelor's degree from the Ivy League university, and now her Where the Heart Is costar, Ashley Judd, is headed to Cambridge, Mass., for a master's.
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PEOPLE TV Watch:
Dean McDermott: I'd Love to Be on Dancing with the Stars! — Dean McDermott — known to take on anything from scuba diving to racing motorcycles on his and wife Tori Spelling's Oxygen reality show Home Sweet Hollywood — is not one to turn down a challenge. But this time, his new goal might be a surprise.