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12:20 PM ET, April 30, 2010

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RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Halle Berry Splits With Her Baby Daddy Gabriel Aubry  —  Beautiful Halle Berry is a three time loser in love, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.  —  With two failed marriages behind her, it seemed Halle had finally found her soul mate in Canadian model Gabriel Aubry.
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TMZ.com:
Halle Berry, Gabriel Split — Custody in Limbo  —  Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry have split, TMZ has confirmed, and she went to a divorce lawyer three weeks ago to find out about a custody arrangement ... but nothing long-term was agreed upon and no financial settlement has been struck.
TMZ.com:
Lindsay Lohan — Bound for Jail  —  Lindsay Lohan has violated the terms of her probation and is headed for a showdown in court next month that will almost certainly land her in jail.  —  Lohan — who is on probation for DUI — has not fulfilled the alcohol education requirement laid down by the judge ... TMZ has learned.
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Simon Rothstein / The Sun:
Bloody hell!  —  Lady in red ... Lindsay lies covered in fake blood for snapper Tyler Shields  —  LINDSAY LOHAN lies covered in blood and with a gun to her mouth, as part of her most controversial ever photoshoot.  —  In one shot the troubled actress - wearing a short skirt, lingerie …
RADAR:
Cocaine?  Samantha Ronson Slams Lindsay Lohan As Friends Beg Actress To Hit Rehab
Discussion: Hollywood Life
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Insider: I Saw Kristin Cavallari “Do a Line of Cocaine”  —  On the Apr. 27 Hills premiere, Kristin Cavallari strongly dismissed her costars' insinuations that she has been doing drugs, but sources tell the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now) that the MTV reality star, 23, is spiraling out of control.
Hollywoodreporter / Heat Vision:
‘Dark Tower’ by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman (exclusive)  —  J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot shingle, which has long sought to crack Stephen King's “The Dark Tower” book series as a television series, no longer has the rights to one of the author's biggest properties.
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Michelle Ruiz / PopEater:
Is Christina Aguilera's ‘Not Myself Tonight’ Video a Step Backwards?  —  Christina Aguilera is bringing dirty back with the video for her new single, ‘Not Myself Tonight,’ ditching the motherly, good-girl image she cultivated following her raunchy buttless chaps days.
Discussion: X17 Online
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Access Hollywood:
Christina Aguilera: ‘I Never Claimed To Be A Cookie-Cutter Soccer Mom’
Discussion: The Dish Rag
Marisa Laudadio / People.com:
Mark McGrath and Fiancée Welcome Twins  —  Thursday morning was twice as nice for rocker Mark McGrath and his fiancée, Carin Kingsland, who gave birth to twins - a boy and a girl - in Los Angeles  —  Son Lydon Edward weighed in at 5 lbs., 7 oz. upon his arrival at 9:54 a.m. …
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PopEater:
Mark McGrath, Fiancee Welcome Twins
Discussion: Amy Grindhouse and People.com
Us Weekly:
Kate Gosselin's New Book Bombs  —  Kate Gosselin's latest book isn't exactly flying off the shelves.  —  Since its April 13 release, I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith, and Family has sold just 10,084 copies, according to national book sales tracker Bookscan.
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy:
Robert Downey Jr. & his wife Susan are “ready” for a baby  —  Last December, Robert Downey Jr. was the cover boy for Esquire.  While many of us gawked at his prominent cover moose-knuckle (seriously, go look), Robert did say something during the interview that took me by surprise.
Discussion: Famecrawler
Eunice Oh / People.com:
Conan O'Brien: I Would Never Do What Jay Leno Did to Me  —  If the tables had been turned during their late-night dispute, Conan O'Brien says he knows what he would - and wouldn't - have done to Jay Leno.  —  “He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation …
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Perez Hilton:
Conan Opens Up About The Tonight Show
Discussion: omg! and Reuters
Sandra Bullock / People.com:
David Hasselhoff's Ex-Wife Begins Jail Sentence  —  Pamela Bach, ex-wife of David Hasselhoff, was taken into custody at a downtown Los Angeles jail Thursday to begin a three-month sentence in a driving-under-the-influence case.  —  Bach, 47, was convicted last week of her second DUI and was found in violation of probation.
Discussion: PopEater, Perez Hilton and TMZ.com
Bryan Alexander / PopEater:
Kim Kardashian Didn't Cause Burrito Stink On a Plane  —  As the old burrito saying goes — whomever smelt it, imagined it.  —  Okay, maybe that's not really a saying.  But it's what Kim Kardashian is insisting after media reports that her “giant burrito” made a recent First Class flight “odoriferous.”
Discussion: TheFABlife
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Kim Kardashian / Kim Kardashian official web site:
The Funniest Story I've Ever Read
Discussion: People.com and Gossip Cop
Us Weekly:
Kate Hudson Flaunts New Boobs, Goes Bra-less  —  Well, hello there, Kate Hudson!  —  The actress hit another red carpet in NYC on Thursday — and this time, she left her bra at home.  —  After weeks of covering up the results of a recent boob job, Hudson made the evidence abundantly clear in a silky …
Discussion: PopSugar and Bumpshack.com
Us Weekly:
PIC: Jessica Simpson Gets a Haircut — for Real!  —  No joke this time: Jessica Simpson got a haircut.  —  Her stylist buddy Ken Paves did the honors, chopping off several inches of her blonde locks to a bouncy cut that hits her shoulders.  —  Simpson, 29, naturally shared the results on Twitter.
Michael K / Dlisted:
XXXtina's Ho S**t Extravaganza  —  If Vadge's “Express Yourself” video and a remake of her “Human Nature” video done by round-the-way trannies borrowed Lady Caca's prosthetic penis to f**k each other in the Showgirls costume closet, it would look just like Xtina's “Not Myself Tonight” video.
Extra:
King of Pop's Secret Lover?  'I Was Michael Jackson's Boyfriend'  —  Jason Pfeiffer, a former dermatologist's assistant and current CEO of a medical company, is going public in an explosive new interview, claiming he was Michael Jackson's boyfriend right up until the King of Pop died.
Discussion: TheFABlife, Perez Hilton and Queerty
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Fox Goes ‘Incognito’ For New Twist On Superhero Genre  —  EXCLUSIVE: Just when it seems we've seen every possible manifestation of superhero movie, 20th Century Fox has found an innovation.  How about a supervillain who tries to survive in the witness protection program after he rats out his boss?
Starpulse:
Courtney Love Auditioned For ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’  —  Courtney Love auditioned for a role on kids show The Mickey Mouse Club under the name Coco Rodriguez when she was a child.  —  The rocker picked the moniker because Rodriguez was her stepfather's name and she hated Courtney.
Discussion: RADAR and Amy Grindhouse
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
Michael Patrick King Back In Television With Warner Bros TV Mega-Deal  —  EXCLUSIVE: Michael Patrick King is returning to television.  I hear Warner Bros Television is finalizing a mega deal with the Sex And The City writer /producer /director.  Under the multi-year pact, King will launch his own TV production company based at WBTV.
INF Daily:
MADDOX JOLIE-PITT TAKES THE HELM IN VENICE  —  Top Images:  —  Body:  —  How freaking adorable are these pictures of the Jolie-Pitt kids?  The family has been in Venice while Angelina shoots The Tourist with Johnny Depp.  Brad's been taking care of the kids - with the help of his parents, who visited for a few weeks.
Discussion: omg! and TMZ.com
 
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James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC Family pulls plug on ‘10 Things’
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Us Weekly:
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Stereogum:
Kristen Wiig - “Champion”
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TMZ.com:
‘Pretty Wild’ Star: Take Down My Nude Pics!
Maria Puente / USA Today:
How did Sandra Bullock's secret baby stay that way?
Discussion: People.com and MomLogic
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