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8:25 PM ET, August 25, 2009

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Michael Ausiello / The Ausiello Files:
‘Gossip Girl’ exclusive: Chuck Bass goes gay?!  —  Spotted: Chuck Bass sucking face with a dude!  —  It's true!  Multiple Gossip Girl insiders confirm to me exclusively that the CW phenom is currently shooting an episode for its upcoming third season in which Ed Westwick's legendary lothario kisses another man.
TMZ.com:
Judge to Brown — I've Heard the ‘Chatter’  —  Chris Brown was just sentenced to 5 years probation and 6 months hard labor, and the judge threatened Brown by talking about the “chatter” she hears.  —  Judge Patricia Schnegg said during the sentencing, “I am not immune to the chatter on the airwaves.”
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Ken Lee / People.com:
Chris Brown Ordered Not to Contact Rihanna for 5 Years  —  Chris Brown at a court hearing in June  —  Chris Brown will spend 1,400 hours removing graffiti and washing cars for assaulting Rihanna.  —  Brown, 20, was formally sentenced in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday to six months …
Discussion: Dlisted and Evil Beet Gossip
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Jon Gosselin: “I Don't Want” to Tape Jon & Kate “Anymore”  —  Jon Gosselin wouldn't mind punching the clock instead of appearing on a hit TLC reality show.  —  “I wish I had a 9 to 5 job instead of the nightmare I'm living.  This is 24/7,” he told Usmagazine.com outside his $1.1 million Pennsylvania home Monday.
Jessica Herndon / People.com:
Eddie Cibrian's Wife Sensed Attraction Between Husband & LeAnn Rimes  —  Long before Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes took their relationship public last week, Cibrian's wife Brandi Glanville had an inkling that her husband was attracted to the singer.  —  Recalling when she and Cibrian went …
Kelly Will / BettyConfidential.com:
Gwyneth Paltrow is the Yoko Ono of Coldplay!  —  The Oscar winner is trying to convince her rocker husband to leave his band mates behind  —  Back in 2004 newlywed Gwyneth Paltrow was asked whether she would consider singing with her new husband Chris Martin's band, Coldplay.
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Bill Zwecker / Chicago Sun Times:
Blame spreads to family
People.com:
Shia LaBeouf & Carey Mulligan Costarring Off-Screen Too?  —  Carey Mulligan and Shia LaBeouf  —  They're starring together in producer-director Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel, Money Never Sleeps, now shooting in New York , but Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan are also awakening rumors of a possible budding romance.
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TMZ.com:
Lisa Marie: Don't Hire Self-Entitled Nannies!  —  Lisa Marie Presley says it takes some gall for a nanny who she treated like a celebrity to turn around and sue her.  —  Lisa Marie tells TMZ Christine White has “self-entitlement” issues.  White just sued Elvis' daughter for not getting meal breaks …
Larry Carroll / MTV:
‘New Moon’ Stars Kristin Stewart, Taylor Lautner Discuss Killer Breakups  —  A ‘Twilight’ breakup ‘literally kills you,’ Stewart says of sequel's complex love triangle.  —  SAN DIEGO — Taylor and Kristen sitting in a tree ... A-C-T-I-N-G?  —  Calling November's “New Moon” the one …
Discussion: X17 Online and Us Weekly
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DailyFill.com:
Kristen Stewart Says Shooting New Moon Almost Killed Her
Discussion: omg! and Oh No They Didn't!
Mark Gray / People.com:
TLC to Play First U.S. Concert in 7 Years  —  From left: TLC's Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, with Justin Timberlake (inset)  —  TLC, the record-breaking, four-time R&B Grammy winners who were a mainstay on the Billboard charts in the 1990s …
The Huffington Post:
Jessica Biel Named ‘Most Dangerous Celebrity’ On The Web  —  NEW YORK — Jessica Biel is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web.  —  Security technology company McAfee Inc. on Tuesday reported that searches for the 27-year-old actress are more likely to lead to online threats such as spyware …
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The Huffington Post:
Glamour's Plus-Sized, Tummy-Baring Model: ‘My Normal Is This’ (VIDEO)  —  Huffington Post via NBC  —  A single photo used for an article on self confidence in September's issue of Glamour magazine has caused a buzz in the modeling world.  Meet Lizzi Miller: a 20-year-old, 180-pound …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Evil Beet Gossip
The Sun:
TROUBLED AMY WINEHOUSE is suing her former mother-in-law for selling one of her love letters.  —  The steamy note was written for Amy's then-husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL while he was jailed for assault and perverting justice.  —  Blake's mum Georgette flogged it.
People.com:
Melanie Griffith Checks Into Rehab  —  Melanie Griffith has checked into a rehab facility, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.  —  “She is there to reinforce her commitment to stay healthy,” says her rep Robin Baum.  “This is part of a routine plan that was designed between her and her doctors years ago.”
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Britney Spears Still Pining for Ex Adnan Ghalib  —  Britney's Secret Love Revealed  —  Just when we all thought that Britney Spears was finally back, it seems instead she's slipping backwards.  —  The pop princess's long-standing conservatorship under her father Jamie's reign may come …
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Cosby Mom Drops 35 Lbs. in 8 Months  —  Check out Clair Huxtable!  —  Since signing on as the Jenny Craig spokesperson last December, Phylicia Rashad, best known as the lovable mom on the iconic sitcom The Cosby Show, has lost an impressive 35 pounds in eight months.
Discussion: I'm Not Obsessed
TMZ.com:
Rapper Allegedly Threatens to Kill Wife, Arrested  —  Juelz Santana, the rapper who's collaborated with Chris Brown, Sean Kingston and Cam'ron, was arrested at his home in New Jersey — after his wife told cops he threatened to kill her!  —  Cops tell us they showed up at Santana's Teaneck home around 10:30 …
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Bumpshack.com
Heather Linn / DailyFill.com:
Miley Cyrus Has A New Guy, Again  —  At this rate, she'll be popping out babies faster than Octomom.  —  Just last week, we saw Miley Cyrus kissing her onscreen beau, Liam Hemsworth, goodbye at the airport in Savannah, Georgia.  The two star in the upcoming movie, “The Last Song,” …
Discussion: Associated Press
Michael K / Dlisted:
A Big Glass Of Doucheade  —  Leave it to Jon Grosselin to make a delicious cup of lemonade look like something his peen hole gargled up and spit out.  Yesterday in Reading, PA, Jon and six members of the child army sold lemonade for a local firefighters charity while cameras were rolling.  Of Course.
Discussion: Best Week Ever
Amy Odell / New York Magazine:
Elle Gives Homeless Girl an Internship  —  E. Jean.  —  A homeless girl and sometime blogger named Bri just secured an internship at Elle under advice columnist E. Jean.  Her journey from the Wal-Mart parking lot she lives in to Jean's East Coast mountain office started five months ago …
Marc Snetiker / E! Online:
What's Got the Desperate Housewives in Shock?  —  The latest scoop from those prudeass suits over at Desperate Housewives comes right on the heels of our story about über-conservative smoking habits over on the Wisteria Lane.  So what's today's goss?  —  Turns out one of our favorite Housewives …
Discussion: I'm Not Obsessed and TV Fanatic
Eunice Oh / People.com:
VH1 Cancels Reality Shows Featuring Ryan Jenkins  —  Ryan Jenkins on Megan Wants a Millionaire  —  Megan Wants a Millionaire and I Love Money 3, two VH1 reality TV shows that featured accused killer Ryan Jenkins as a contestant, have been cancelled, PEOPLE confirms.
 
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Frank Connelly / Bloomberg:
Vivendi says one of its small investors seeks to delay Vivendi's spinoff of Canal+, Havas, and Louis Hachette Group; shareholders were due to vote December 9

Daniel Kaplan / Awful Announcing:
The US DOJ and 17 state attorneys general file briefs for Fubo and against Venu Sports, which is trying to get an injunction lifted that blocked Venu's launch

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