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12:30 PM ET, May 3, 2010

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Robert Pitts / People.com:
Country Music Artist Chely Wright Comes Out  —  Country singer Chely Wright's reasoning was sound.  “There had never, ever been a country music artist who had acknowledged his or her homosexuality,” she tells PEOPLE.  “I wasn't going to be the first.”  —  But now Wright is changing her tune.
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TMZ.com:
Chely Wright — She's Coming Out  —  TMZ has learned the big “coming out” announcement planned for this week will be ... country star Chely Wright.  —  There's been a big buzz over the last week as to which celeb was announcing he/she was gay ... we knew it was going to be unveiled in PEOPLE mag next week.
Michael K / Dlisted:
People's Big Lesbian Cover Girl Is Chely Wright  —  AFTER ALL THAT, People has confirmed that the answer to the “Who is coming out?” blind item is country singer Chely Wright (aka WHO?!).  Chely's lesbian non-bomb was supposed to drop this Wednesday, but People came clean this morning …
Discussion: coverawards.com and Queerty
People.com:
Source: Halle Berry ‘Kicked Gabriel Out’ Months Ago  —  Make no bones about it.  Halle Berry didn't get dumped by Gabriel Aubry.  Their split happened several months ago - and it was the actress who initiated it, according to a source.  —  “She kicked him out months ago because he wasn't able …
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Shruti Dhalwala / People.com:
Newly Single Halle Berry Radiant at Charity Event
Cynthia Wang / People.com:
Seth Green Gets Married!  —  Seth Green is officially off the market: The actor married model/actress Clare Grant on Saturday, his rep confirms to PEOPLE.  —  Green and Grant tied the knot at a private vineyard in Northern California, according to a source.
Rob Shuter / PopEater:
Angelina Jolie Skips Out on Presidential Invite  —  Everyone knows Angelina Jolie is an incredibly busy woman, but too busy to meet President Obama?  Yep, rather than celebrate at the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend, Angie's pal tells me she'd rather be doing something …
Discussion: X17 Online
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Us Weekly:
Justin Bieber Calls Kim Kardashian His “Girlfriend”
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Glen Runciter / Gawker:
Is This Britney Spears' Demo of Lady Gaga's ‘Telephone’?  An Analysis  —  The purported Britney Spears demo of “Telephone”—originally written for Spears by Lady Gaga before Gaga hit it big—has leaked.  That sound you just heard was “BritBrit” overtaking “Bieber” on Twitter.  We have the track, and some theories.
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Perez Hilton:
Britney Does GaGa!!!!
LoriC / RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Guns, Lies & Missing Money - The Official Report Into Olivia Newton John's Missing Ex-Lover  —  The US Coast Guard's explosive, top secret dossier on Patrick McDermott, Olivia Newton John's vanished ex-lover, has been obtained by RadarOnline.com, five years after his mysterious disappearance …
PopEater:
Roman Polanski Breaks Silence, Says U.S. Wants to ‘Serve Me on a Platter’  —  Roman Polanski has broken his silence after months of being under house arrest, saying prosecutors in the United States only want him extradited on a 33-year-old sex case to humiliate him and cause a media circus.
Discussion: Digital Spy
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RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Sheen & Wife Reach Secret Financial Divorce Deal  —  The marriage is over, they no longer live together, and now Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller have reached a secret financial deal for their impending divorce, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
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Actress Lynn Redgrave has died at age 67  —  NEW YORK - Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the freethinking title character of “Georgy Girl” and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances …
Discussion: Perez Hilton, PopEater and TMZ.com
TMZ.com:
Jenna Jameson, Tito Ortiz Reconcile  —  TMZ has learned Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz have agreed to reconcile, and the plan is for Tito to move back in the family home midweek.  —  Sources involved in the situation say the only reason for the delay ... the automatic restraining order …
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Bitten and Bound
TMZ.com:
Spencer Pratt — In the Business of Guidos  —  Spencer Pratt is dead set on capitalizing on the “Jersey Shore” craze — TMZ has learned he's teamed up with Snooki's ex-boyfriend to lockdown a trademark on a Guido-themed energy drink ... seriously.  —  Pratt and Emilio Masella …
PopEater:
Conan O'Brien to NBC: You Broke My Heart  —  It was his dream job, but after six months at the helm of ‘The Tonight Show,’ NBC squeezed Conan O'Brien out, and the talk host says in his first interview that the turmoil was much like an unexpected divorce.  “I went through some stuff,” O'Brien told ‘60 Minutes’ on Sunday.
Discussion: OK! Magazine
 
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Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

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