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1:40 PM ET, January 26, 2010

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RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Tiger's Wife: The Divorce Is Off  —  Tiger Woods' wife Elin has called off her divorce from the golf superstar, sources tell RadarOnline.com exclusively.  —  Elin spent last week visiting Tiger, and participating in his sex addiction rehab treatment, RadarOnline.com reported exclusively.
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X17 Online:
X17 XCLUSIVE - Elin Nordegren “Sick Of Reporters” Following Her Every Move
Discussion: omg! and Perez Hilton
Art Beast / The Daily Beast:
Tiger's Thanksgiving Mystery — Solved
People.com:
Katie Holmes Slips into Sundance's Low-Key Vibe  —  The much-anticipated arrival of Katie Holmes at the Sundance Film Festival took place Monday night amid a flurry of flashbulbs and friends.  —  The actress - who's at the Utah fest with two movies, The Extra Man and The Romantics …
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E! Online:
Kristen Stewart's Haiti Donation  —  While George Clooney, Robert Pattinson, and practically every other celeb in the world helped raise more than $57 Million for Haiti relief, one star was upset she couldn't partake in the telethon last Friday: Kristen Stewart.
Sara Nathan / Daily Mail:
Brad buys £700,000 bachelor pad (complete with its own cave) to ‘get over split from Angelina’  —  Brad Pitt has secretly purchased a bachelor pad to help him sort out his split from Angelina Jolie, it was reported yesterday.  —  The 46-year-old Ocean's Eleven actor has spent £700,000 …
Discussion: Hecklerspray, Celebritology and Yeeeah!
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BBC:
McAvoy and Duff expecting a baby  —  Actors James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff are expecting their first child, they have announced.  —  The couple's spokesman, Rupert Fowler, said they had no further comment or information at this time.  —  Duff, 39, who starred in the BBC4 film Margot …
Discussion: PopEater, omg! and Celebrity Baby Scoop
TMZ.com:
Tila Tequila — Baby For Sale  —  Tila Tequila says she's pregnant and she's willing to confirm it — for a price.  —  We've learned Tila is shopping an ultrasound around she says proves she's having a baby.  —  As for who the father is ... God only knows.  —  See Also
Deadline.com:
TV TUG OF WAR: It's Ellen vs Simon, And ‘American Idol’ vs ‘X Factor’, As Tommy Mottola Is First Choice To Judge Both Shows (And Paula Is Involved, Too)  —  EXCLUSIVE: It was American Idol's newest judge Ellen DeGeneres' first day of taping the Hollywood segment, and she was excited and nervous, sources tell us.
Tim Nudd / People.com:
Justin Timberlake Is Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year  —  He's won six Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a host of other accolades.  Now, Justin Timberlake can add another sweet trophy to the pile: the Hasty Pudding award from Harvard University.  —  Timberlake, 28 …
Paula Abdul / TMZ.com:
Paula Abdul — ‘Dancing’ Is Lucrative  —  Paula Abdul has a million reasons to appear on “Dancing with the Stars.”  —  ABC has offered Abdul a $1,000,000 development deal, with one catch — she has to appear on “DWTS,” sources tell TMZ.  —  ABC has been going after Paula for a few years now, trying to get her on “DWTS.”
Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Jennifer Aniston Makes Major Haiti Donation  —  Add Jennifer Aniston to the list of celebs donating major bucks to help Haiti.  —  I just got word that the actress has given $500,000 to Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health and AmeriCares for their recovery efforts in the disaster-stricken Caribbean nation.
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Catherine Donaldson-Evans / People.com:
Report: Jennifer Aniston Gives $500,000 to Haiti
Kellvin Chavez / Latino Review:
Exclusive: Sam Worthington To Topline Universal's Dracula: Year Zero?  —  Breaking:  —  It's mad late here in NYC so I'll make this brief.  —  Got a hot tip from a trusted source “Pinche Taco,” the story speaks for itself.  —  Today, Tuesday is literally D Day- Dracula Day.
Richard Johnson / New York Post:
Natalie Portman keeps love quiet  —  Natalie Portmana home wrecker?  The notoriously private actress has reportedly been dating  —  Benjamin Millepied, 32, the New York City Ballet dancer who's choreographing her new movie, “The Black Swan.”  “They've been dating since the fall …
Discussion: Dlisted, Yeeeah! and New York Magazine
omg!:
Jessica Simpson Wants to Send 50,000 Pairs of Shoes to Haiti  —  Jessica Simpson is trying to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake by organizing a shoe drive.  —  The singer, 29, has announced plans to team up with Nashville-based shoe charity Soles4Souls to collect at least 50,000 pairs …
Soraya Roberts / NY Daily News:
Octomom Nadya Suleman celebrates octuplets' first birthday and her own slimmed down figure  —  Octomom Nadya Suleman may be celebrating her new slim figure, but it's her kids who are having the party.  —  To publicize their first birthday, the six boys and two girls from La Habra …
Us Weekly:
Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher Make First Red Carpet Appearance!  —  Carrie Underwood and fiance, hockey player Mike Fisher, made their first official red carpet appearance Monday night at the annual Sens' Soiree fundraiser at the Hilton Lac Leamy in Gatineau, Quebec.
Discussion: canada.com and Just Jared
Hilary Shenfeld / People.com:
Denise Richards Feels ‘Sad’ for Charlie Sheen  —  When Charlie Sheen was arrested for allegedly threatening wife Brooke Mueller, his ex-wife Denise Richards decided not to tell their daughters that the only way Dad could wish them a Merry Christmas was by calling collect from jail.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Us Weekly:
Kim Kardashian: “Hard to Watch” Myself Getting Punched in Face  —  The daughter of one of O.J. Simpson's head trial lawyers, Robert Kardashian, step-daughter to Olympian Bruce Jenner and step-sister to Hills star Brody Jenner, Kardashian first hit the scene as one of Paris Hilton's party pals.
Discussion: DailyFill.com
Evan Buxbaum / CNN:
Nancy Kerrigan's brother jailed in father's death  —  (CNN) — The father of American figure skating icon Nancy Kerrigan is dead and her brother is behind bars, accused of assault and battery against 70-year old Daniel Kerrigan, according to Massachusetts authorities.
Discussion: Bossip
Kyle Buchanan / Movieline:
Tilda Swinton on Playing Conan O'Brien: ‘Yes, Yes, Yes, Absolutely’  —  On Conan O'Brien's final Tonight Show, he earned one of his biggest laughs when he said that if HBO decided to make a movie about the recent late-night fiasco, he'd “like to be played by Academy Award-winner Tilda Swinton.”
Alyankovic / AL'S BLOG:
This Thing I'm Doing  —  I've just signed a production deal with Cartoon Network.  —  When I say that I've “just” signed, that means that I actually signed several months ago, but this is the first time I've been allowed to openly talk about it.  —  Without going into too much detail …
Lindsay Robertson / omg! on Yahoo!:
Diddy's Son Gets A $360,000 Car for His Sixteenth Birthday  —  Money might not buy love, but it will buy a six-figure Maybach for the teenaged son of a hip-hop superstar.  —  Thanks to his dad, hip-hop mogul and businessman Sean “Diddy” Combs, now Justin Dior Combs is the proud owner of a $360,000 luxury sedan.
Discussion: Anything Hollywood
RADAR:
WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Happy First Birthday Octuplets!  See The Birth Home Video  —  Happy birthday Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Makai, Josiah, Jeremiah, and Jonah!  —  One year ago today, on January 26, 2009, Nadya Suleman, an eccentric single mom in Southern California …
Discussion: Gabby Babble
PopEater:
Jane Lynch of ‘Glee’ to Marry Girlfriend in May  —  Jane Lynch let slip following the Golden Globes last week that she and her partner, Dr. Lara Embry, are tying the knot.  The ‘Glee’ star, who won a Screen Actors Guild award over the weekend, told the New York Times that she and her girlfriend are planning a May wedding.
Discussion: omg!, Fancast News and Queerty
RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Gary Coleman Leaves Jail In Wheelchair, “It Was Absolutely Miserable!”  —  RadarOnline.com caught up with actor Gary Coleman as he made his way out of Utah County Jail on Monday afternoon.  Looking frail and in a wheelchair, Coleman talked about his jail experience …
Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:
Actor Ben Whishaw is Straight in One Magazine, Gay in Another  —  ​Don't you hate when a magazine's angle is that a hetero actor is playing gay, and how very wild that is?  —  Don't you also find it distasteful when the magazine assumes the actor playing gay IS hetero?
Discussion: Gawker and Queerty
Access Hollywood:
Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino Opens Up To Billy Bush About ‘Jersey Shore’ Season 2 Contract Negotiations  —  ‘Jersey Shore’,Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino,Young Hollywood,Reality TV,The Billy Bush Show,MTV,Billy Bush,Access Hollywood,TV  —  Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is confident …
Dustin Rowles / Pajiba:
Will Ferrell to Remake “I Do”  —  Y'all remember Will Ferrell, right?  A “Saturday Night Live” alum, who made a lot of comedies back in the Aughts — some good, some really not so good — and then crashed and burned at the end of the decade with movies like Semi-Pro and Land of the Lost?
 
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