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8:20 PM ET, September 1, 2010

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Star:
Exclusive: Ashton Kutcher Caught Cheating on Demi Moore!  —  Their 15-year age gap always made Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore seem like an unlikely match.  And now, just five years after getting married, the couple's relationship is in danger of falling apart as Star breaks the bombshell news …
Doug / RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Lohan Sends Cease & Desist Letter To Dad: Stop Selling My Stuff!  —  Lindsay Lohan's war of words with her estranged father Michael is moving into the legal arena.  —  The troubled starlet has fired off a scathing and threatening cease and desist letter to her dad …
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Laura Kalnicky / Life and Style:
Ashley Horn: I am Lindsay Lohan's sister
Us Weekly:
Lindsay Lohan Disinvited From Machete Premiere
TMZ.com:
Michael Lohan Blows Into L.A. For Lindsay
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Us Weekly:
Kim Kardashian: Why I Won't End Up Like Paris Hilton  —  Kim Kardashian's frenemy Paris Hilton was arrested over the weekend for felony cocaine possession — her third link to drugs this summer.  —  How has Kardashian, 30, managed to stay out of trouble?  —  “I've never been a drinker …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy, omg! and Perez Hilton
Eunice Oh / People.com:
Paris Hilton: I'm Ignoring ‘Ridiculous, Cruel’ Rumors
The Superficial:
Paris Hilton Banned From Vegas Clubs
Discussion: People.com
TMZ.com:
‘New Jersey Housewife’ — Double My Pay or I'll Quit!  —  TMZ has learned “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice is “ready to walk away” from the show unless producers cough up “Jersey Shore money” ... and fast!!!  —  Sources connected to the show tell us “several of the women …
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TMZ.com:
Heidi Pulls ‘Kill Switch’ on Sex Tape Negotiations  —  So much for Heidi and Spencer in XXX ... TMZ has learned the estranged couple has officially cut off negotiations with Vivid Entertainment honcho Steven Hirsch ... telling him they're no longer interested.
Knordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
Who turned down ‘Dancing With the Stars’  —  Exclu: We've seen who will cut a rug on the next “Dancing With the Stars.”  But do you know who turned ABC down?  —  According to a source involved with casting, the network approached Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg to join the dance card …
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Marco / X17 Online:
Dancing With The Stars Announces Their Sexy Couples
Discussion: omg!
PopEater:
Which Major Celebs Turned Down ‘Dancing With the Stars’?
Discussion: E! Online (UK)
RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Gosselin Threatened To Report Kate To Child Protective Services Unless She Gave Him Money, Says Ex  —  Jon Gosselin threatened to report his then-wife Kate to Child Protective Services unless she gave him a large sum of money, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
RELATED:
RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Gosselin Fires Back Over Extortion Claim But Ex Says 'The Documents Don't Lie'  —  Jon Gosselin fired back at Hailey Glassman's claims that he threatened to report Kate to Child Protective Services unless she gave him money - but his ex girlfriend isn't backing down and points to his own hand-written notes as proof.
Rennie Dyball / People.com:
Jodie Sweetin Has a Baby Girl  —  Jodie Sweetin has a full house of her own.  —  The actress, 28, welcomed her second child, a baby girl named Beatrix, on Tuesday with her boyfriend Morty Coyle.  —  “Jodie was amazing and is doing great,” Coyle tells PEOPLE.
RELATED:
omg!:
It's Girl No. 2 For Former ‘Full House’ Star Jodie Sweetin
Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:
Conan O'Brien Announces the Name of His New TV Show on Vulture!  —  Ladies and gentleman, summer 2010's greatest pop-culture mystery is about to be solved: No, not the identity of the new American Idol judges, the other greatest mystery.  Today, Conan O'Brien officially announces the exact name …
Michael Douglas / People.com:
Radiation, Chemo ‘Really Knocks You Out’  —  Michael Douglas knows he has a tough road ahead - but he's ready to face it.  —  “It's a fight,” says the 65-year-old Oscar winner, who is undergoing a grueling course of radiation and chemotherapy to treat a tumor at the base of his tongue …
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The Huffington Post:
Michael Douglas Talks Cancer With Letterman: Stage 4, 80% Odds (VIDEO)
Discussion: Socialite Life
Jim Farber / NY Daily News:
Gunn's blazing: TV's favorite fashion guru Tim unleashes some serious dish  —  Tim Gunn built his reputation on being sweet, supportive and scrupulously polite.  So why, in his latest book, does he spend key pages flinging mud and gorging on gossip?  —  In the deceptively titled …
Todd McCarthy's Deep Focus:
Review: “Black Swan”  —  Resembling a “Red Shoes” on acid, “Black Swan” takes the idea of giving one's all for art to a morbid extreme.  Applying the gritty handheld technique he successfully employed in the working class environs of “The Wrestler” to the rarefied domain of classical ballet …
RELATED:
Kirk Honeycutt / Hollywood Reporter:
Black Swan — Film Review
Discussion: New York Magazine and Cinematical
Natalie Finn / E! Online:
Miley Cyrus Goes “Overboard” With Justin Bieber for Bieber Bio  —  And Katy Perry thought she was the one with the teenage dream.  —  A bunch of major pop-R&B stars—ranging from his mentors, Usher and Ludacris, to Motown Philly's finest, Boyz II Men—joined an all-better Justin Bieber …
RELATED:
X17 Online:
Miley Cyrus And Justin Bieber Get Up Close And Personal On Stage
Discussion: DailyFill.com
Ann Oldenburg / USA Today:
Jessica Alba: Why 'I've shied away from Latin characters'  —  Jessica Alba and director Robert Rodriguez are in Venice today to promote gritty new movie Machete.  —  It's the first Latina role for half-Mexican Alba.  And Alba tells USA TODAY's Arienne Thompson that her immigration …
TMZ.com:
Hostage 911 at Discovery Channel — Man with Gun  —  A man wielding a gun and possibly carrying an explosive device is holed up at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, MD — and now he's been identified by the network as radical environmentalist — James Jay Lee — who has had a grudge against Discovery for years.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
Hot Property: JJ Abrams, Elizabeth Sarnoff To Shop ‘Alcatraz’ Drama  —  EXCLUSIVE: JJ Abrams and Lost executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff are heading to another island.  I hear Abrams and his Warner Bros. TV-based Bad Robot are about to take out to the networks Alcatraz, a drama spec script written by Sarnoff.
Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:
Your First Look at Glee's Second Season, Set to the Tune of ‘Empire State of Mind’  —  Let's hear it for New York: Vulture can confirm that the first big musical number of Glee's season-two premiere (airing September 21) will be built around the Jay-Z/Alicia Keys duet “Empire State of Mind.”
Tim Nudd / People.com:
Stabbing Details Emerge at Trial of 40-Year-Old Virgin Actor  —  Shelley Malil in The 40-Year-Old Virgin  —  Shelley Malil, an actor best known for playing an electronics-store clerk in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, calmly walked up to his ex-girlfriend Kendra Beebe in her backyard two years ago …
Us Weekly:
Kelly Bensimon to Departing Housewife Bethenny Frankel: Good Luck!  —  On Tuesday afternoon, UsMagazine.com broke the news that Bethenny Frankel is leaving Real Housewives of New York after three seasons.  ("Last season was scary and painful," Frankel told Us exclusively.)
Megan Masters / E! Online:
Steve Carell's Replacement on The Office to Be...Harvey Keitel?!  —  You'll never guess what Office executive producer Paul Lieberstein just told us about who he now wants to replace Steve Carell:  —  “He's probably the only guy who can do it, and he's doing TV now,” Paul tells us of the Oscar nominee …
Discussion: Movieline and New York Magazine
 
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Marisa Laudadio / People.com:
Celine Dion Is ‘Healthy’ in Pregnancy Homestretch
Discussion: Celebrity Baby Scoop
TMZ.com:
Ex-Bad Boy Exec: Diddy Fired Me Because I'm Old!
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Celebslam:
Kim Kardashian and Sephora are fighting
RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Danielle Staub's Ex Husband Testifies …
Discussion: Socialite Life and Perez Hilton
PopEater:
Jesse James & Kat Von D Pucker Up in Texas
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Style News:
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey's Sexy New Campaign for Dolce & Gabbana Fragrance
Discussion: Dlisted, PopSugar and Celebrity Smack
Daily Mail:
Diana lingerie outrage: Princess of Wales depicted in bra …
Discussion: Jezebel, AceShowBiz.com and Gawker
CNN:
French police raid home of L'Oreal heiress
Discussion: CocoPerez and Oh No They Didn't!
 Earlier Picks: 
Michael Schneider / On The Air:
The Emmy Awards' Jimmy Fallon videos that NBC and the TV Academy won't upload
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Movieline
Rob Lowe / New York Post:
Chace Crawford can't catch waitress's eye
Discussion: Allie Is Wired and I Need My Fix
TMZ.com:
Nic Cage Settles Financial Ruin Lawsuit
Discussion: Starpulse and Perez Hilton
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Kim Kardashian: “Kourtney and Scott Are Not Separated”
INF Daily:
Mischa Barton Runs Errands in Schizophrenic Ensemble
Discussion: DailyFill.com
In Touch Weekly Magazine:
In Touch Exclusive:Teresa Giudice: “I learned from my mistakes”
Discussion: Celebrity Baby Scoop
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy:
Charlize Theron & Sean Penn go on a date: are they boning?
Discussion: Celebrity Gossip …
Hollywoodreporter / Heat Vision:
Dwayne Johnson to star in ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ sequel (exclusive)
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC's new deal with Macy's to keep the Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC and Peacock has an average annual fee of $60M+, up from ~$20M in the current deal

Brian Stelter / CNN:
As Elon Musk posts memes about buying MSNBC, sources say one liberal billionaire expressed interest in buying the channel; Comcast is not looking to sell MSNBC

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

 
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