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TMZ.com:
Kristen Stewart PISSED That She's Become the Fall Guy Instead of Cheating Director  —  PISSED  —  She's the Fall Guy  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Kristen Stewart has publicly shown remorse over her affair with her “Snow White and the Huntsman” director, but privately she is FURIOUS she's taking all the heat …
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Charlie Wells / NY Daily News:
Robert Pattinson goes clammy when NYT journalist compares his Kristen Stewart woes to those of the British royal family  —  Interviewer's question comparing ‘Twilight’ couple to Prince Charles and Diana draws hisses from audience  —  David Carr brings up the topic of Kristen Stewart during …
Paul Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Jodie Foster Blasts Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson Break-Up Spectacle  —  Hurtful headlines.  Prurient paparazzi.  Fickle fans.  Enough already!  Jodie Foster defends a kid actor's right to be a kid.  —  We've all seen the headlines at the check-out counter.  “Kristen Stewart Caught.”
TMZ.com:
Mayim Bialik Hospitalized in Car Accident — ‘Blossom’ Actress May Lose Finger  —  May Lose Finger  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  4:35 PM PT — MAYIM'S FINGERS ARE SAFE ... but they're not entirely functional yet — the actress just tweeted that she “will keep all my fingers,” but admitted her husband had to type the message.
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Howard Breuer / People.com:
Mayim Bialik Injured in Car Accident
TMZ.com:
Kim Kardashian — I'm NOT Asking for a Divorce So I Can Marry Kanye West  —  The Divorce is NOT  —  So I Can Marry Kanye  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Kim Kardashian is telling close friends she is not pushing for a divorce so she can marry Kanye West — she's saying Kris Humphries has simply become …
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Joyce Chen / NY Daily News:   Kim Kardashian imagines life with boyfriend Kanye West at age 80, talks about life in front of the camera
Claudia Rosenbaum / E! Online:
NEWS/Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries Divorce Hearing: What's Kanye West Have to Do With It?
Justin Ravitz / Us Weekly:
Kim Zolciak Gives Birth to Fourth Child, Son Kash Kade!  —  A cascade of congrats for Kash Kade!  —  Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kim Zolciak gave birth to her fourth child, a little boy named Kash Kade Bierman, on Wednesday.  —  “@biermann71 and I are sooo excited to tell you baby Kash Kade arrived today!!!
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Marco / X17 Online:
KIM ZOLCIAK GIVES BIRTH TO SON KASH KADE
Discussion: omg!
TMZ.com:
Bobbi Kristina — My Dad is LOSING His Battle with Alcohol  —  My Dad is LOSING  —  His Battle with Alcohol  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Bobby Brown is NOT conquering his demons ... the demons are conquering him ... this according to his daughter Bobbi Kristina.  —  Whitney Houston's daughter …
Discussion: OK! Magazine and Hollyscoop
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People.com:
Bobby Brown Enters Rehab
omg!:
Taylor Swift released her latest single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” on Tuesday, instantly setting off a storm of online buzz speculating about which of Tay's exes could've inspired the song.  —  Joe Jonas, who dated the country cutie in 2008, ruled himself out of the possible-anthem-inspiration pool on Wednesday.
Discussion: PerezHilton
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Kelly Collis / 94.7 Fresh FM:
Joe Jonas Says “Not It!”  About Being The Inspiration For Taylor Swift's New Song And For Good Reason!
Discussion: Crushable
Daily Mail:
Vanessa Bryant denies having surgery to stop husband Kobe from straying... saying rumours are ‘100 per cent not true’  —  Vanessa Bryant has been forced to deny that she has been under the surgeon's knife after reports suggested she had sought cosmetic help to stop philandering husband Kobe from straying.
Discussion: Bossip
Lpons / Life and Style:
Exclusive Photo Shoot: Trista Sutter Plastic Surgery Reveal  —  Former Bachelorette Trista Sutter reveals exclusively to Life & Style her post-plastic surgery body — after going under the knife just three months before turning 40 to ‘feel pretty again’  —  “After nursing both my kids for a year each …
Iona Kirby / Daily Mail:
‘I have nothing to prove... no one is perfect’: LeAnn Rimes bites back at ‘fan’ who slams her over Twitter for having an affair  —  They say the best offense is a good defence.  —  And that certainly seemed to be the case for LeAnn Rimes today as she hit back at a Twitter follower who slammed her for breaking up a marriage.
TMZ.com:
Halle Berry Puts Paparazzi On Trial ... Today  —  Puts Paparazzi On Trial ...  EXCLUSIVE  —  Halle Berry is going to court today to convince a judge to let her move to Paris with 4-year-old Nahla — over the vigorous objections of baby daddy Gabriel Aubry — and Halle's secret weapon is the paparazzi.
Shirley Halperin / Hollywood Reporter:
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Hang at Phish Show, Meet Band (Exclusive)  —  The pop power couple, armed with a personal stash of glowsticks, got their (Weekapaug) groove on at Long Beach Arena and THR has the photographic proof.  —  Talk about a strange collision of worlds.
TMZ.com:
Megadeth Singer Dave Mustaine — Barack Obama ‘Staged’ Aurora Shooting Massacre  —  Obama ‘Staged’ Aurora  —  Shooting Massacre  —  Dave Mustaine — the lead singer of Megadeth — believes Barack Obama “staged” the massacre in Aurora, CO in a sick, twisted plot to pass a gun ban.
TMZ.com:
Patches Up Bloody Homeless Man  —  “Dexter” star James Remar is a real life good Samaritan ... rushing to the aid of a homeless man who had a massive, bloody head wound ... and TMZ has the photo evidence.  —  We spoke with an eye-witness who saw Remar approach the man outside of an L …
Discussion: PerezHilton
Stephen Rebello / Hot Girls, Sexy Girls …:
20Q: JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT  —  Q1  —  PLAYBOY: We're about to see you play a bike messenger chased by a twisted cop in the big-screen action thriller Premium Rush.  Meanwhile, audiences are still arguing about whether The Dark Knight Rises is the best-ever Batman flick …
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Stephen Rebello / Hot Girls, Sexy Girls …:
20Q: JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
Discussion: PerezHilton
Michael Ausiello / TVLine:
Arrested Development Exclusive: Mad Men's John Slattery Joins Season 4 Cast in Top-Secret Role  —  Even on LSD, Roger Sterling probably couldn't have envisioned this: John Slattery is joining the cast of Arrested Development.  —  TVLine has learned exclusively that the Mad Men actor will appear …
The Superficial:
Amanda Bynes Looks.. Wow  —  When Amanda Bynes had her last hit and run, the woman she hit described her as “a hot mess” which seemed unusual at the time, except here's Amanda walking out of CVS yesterday and Jesus Christ.  One, how the hell did the paparazzi even recognize her?
Discussion: DrunkenStepfather
TMZ.com:
Rihanna Cries Over Chris Brown — ‘He Needed Help’  —  Cries Over Chris Brown  —  ‘He Needed Help’  —  BREAKING NEWS  —  With tears pouring down her face, an emotional Rihanna opened up to Oprah about Chris Brown ... describing how she “lost her best friend” after he attacked her back in 2009.
The Superficial:
Mila Kunis Begged Macaulay Culkin To Go To Rehab While On A Boat With Ashton Kutcher  —  Considering Macaulay Culkin looks like this and Mila Kunis dumped him immediately after regaining her sight, it's really not that big of a leap to assume he's spending every waking hour eating pounds of heroin.
 
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