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4:30 PM ET, December 18, 2012

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hollyscoop.com:
Britney Spears and Jason Trawick To Split: Britney Last To Know  —  HOLLYSCOOP EXCLUSIVE  —  We've heard rumblings of a Britney Spears and Jason Trawick break-up for months, but now it looks like it's actually happening.  —  Hollyscoop has learned exclusively that Britney and Jason …
Discussion: PerezHilton and The Blemish
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The Superficial:
Britney Spears Is Getting Dumped After Jason Trawick Gets His Cut of Her ‘X Factor’ Money  —  “ERPLEBEES!”  —  Provided you even consider their relationship a relationship and not a strictly business arrangement where he bought her from her parents which he did, Britney Spears …
Zach Johnson / Us Weekly:
Megan Fox: Why I Thought My Son Noah Might Be a “Vampire Baby”  —  The last time Megan Fox appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in February, the 26-year-old actress was hiding a small baby bump.  —  “I was about two months pregnant.  I was really sick,” the star of This Is 40 …
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Perez Hilton:
Gossip Girl: Identity REVEALED In Series Finale!  Find Out Who She Is & How It All Ended HERE!  —  MORNING, UPPER EAST SIDERS...  Sigh.  To think... we'll never hear those words freshly said again!  The sorrow!  The horror!  The devastation!  —  Unless of course this movie thing actually happens!
Discussion: X17 Online and omg!
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Michael Ausiello / TVLine:
Gossip Girl Series Finale: EP Stephanie Savage Answers All Your Burning Questions!  —  Got questions about Monday's twisty, super-fun, cameo-packed Gossip Girl series finale?  Well, we've got answers — straight from exec producer Stephanie Savage herself.  —  RELATED |
Discussion: TV Fanatic and Oh No They Didn't!
TMZ.com:
Ke$ha's ‘Die Young’ — PLUMMETS from Radio Charts After Newtown Massacre  —  KE$HA'S ‘DIE YOUNG’  —  PLUMMETS from Charts  —  After Newtown Massacre  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Ke$ha's new hit “Die Young” has fallen on deaf ears ... after radio stations around the country yanked the song …
TMZ.com:
Kate Upton Strips for Antarctic Photo Shoot — 35 Degrees BELOW ZERO  —  STRIPS FOR ANTARCTIC PHOTO SHOOT  —  35 Degrees BELOW ZERO  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Kate Upton and Lindsay Lohan have something in common ... because Kate's assets were FROZEN recently — when the curvaceous 20-year-old model stripped …
Celebslam:
Miranda Kerr is not single  —  Miranda Kerr at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show in New York (11/7)  —  Orlando Bloom's mom Sonia is denying rumors that her son has split with wife Miranda Kerr.  It's true.  The spy cameras she installed in their bedroom told her so.  From the Daily Mail:
TMZ.com:
Pauly D — I'm Getting a NEW Reality Show ... Not on MTV  —  ... Not on MTV  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  SAYONARA MTV ... Pauly D hasn't accepted the network's offer to renew “The Pauly D Project” ... and sources tell us, it's all because he's getting poached by another network, for a lot more cash.
Discussion: TVgasm and PerezHilton
E! Online:
NEWS/New Kardashian Family Christmas Card Is in the Mail—See It Here!  —  Ready for a little Kristmas cheer?  —  More elegant season's greetings are in the mail, courtesy of Kim Kardashian and just about everyone you might expect to see in the always hotly anticipated production that is the Kardashian and Jenner family holiday card.
Discussion: Gawker, PopWatch and PerezHilton
The Superficial:
Lindsay Lohan's Mad Because People Have An Entirely Accurate Opinion of Her Career  —  So yesterday, a report went around claiming Lindsay Lohan is available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs because the IRS took all her money and, outside of stunt casting for TV movies, is pretty much completely unhireable.
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Lindsay Lohan / TMZ.com:
I Don't Do Bar Mitzvahs!  —  13-year-old Jewish boys …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and PerezHilton
RADAR:
Kris Jenner ‘Determined’ To Keep Up Facade Of Happy Marriage To Bruce, Showbiz Comes Before Divorce, Says Source  —  The marriage of Bruce and Kris Jenner is reportedly “all but over” and “business” is the only thing still keeping the celebrity couple together, but don't expect Kris to 'fess …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy, Bossip and PerezHilton
Bedhead / Cele|bitchy:
Quentin Tarantino: Violence in film didn't cause the Sandy Hook tragedy  —  Oh, where to begin on this topic.  Nothing I could ever say would be adequate or add in any meaningful way to the discussion of the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday.
Discussion: BBC
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Us Weekly:
Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio's Django Unchained Film Premiere Postponed Due to Sandy Hook Shooting
Discussion: Oh No They Didn't! and PerezHilton
Zach Johnson / Us Weekly:
PICS: Katie Holmes Celebrates 34th Birthday Over Breakfast With Suri Cruise  —  Katie Holmes spent the morning of her 34th birthday with her favorite person in the world: Suri Cruise!  —  On Tuesday, Dec. 18, the two enjoyed breakfast at the Upper West Side bistro, bakery and chocolatier Sugar and Plumm, a source tells Us Weekly.
Discussion: PopSugar
Caroline Fontein / Las Vegas Blogs:
Coco Austin shines as the new star of Peepshow in Vegas  —  Before being know as rapper Ice-T's wife and star of the reality TV show “Ice Loves Coco,” Coco Austin was a dancer.  That's one side of her Vegas audiences get to see when she steps on stage as the new star of “Peepshow” at Planet Hollywood.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
NBC Orders Game Show Series ‘Hollywood Game Night’ Produced By Sean Hayes  —  EXCLUSIVE: NBC has given the green light to Hollywood Game Night, a new hourlong game show series executive produced by Sean Hayes.  The series, which has received an eight-episode order, is based on the actor-producer's real-life …
TMZ.com:
Zooey Deschanel — Officially Divorced  —  Officially Divorced  —  BREAKING NEWS  —  It's official — Zooey Deschanel and her Death Cab for Cutie singer husband Ben Gibbard are finally divorced.  —  TMZ broke the story ... Zooey filed for divorce in January, blaming the split on “irreconcilable differences.”
Discussion: Egotastic!, Stereogum and PerezHilton
Zach Johnson / Us Weekly:
Exclusive Video: Taylor Armstrong: I'm Ready to Reconcile With Brandi Glanville  —  Has hell frozen over?  —  When Taylor Armstrong visited Us Weekly's New York City offices Dec. 3, the 41-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star said she's open to forging a friendship with her costar, Brandi Glanville .
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Justin Ravitz / Us Weekly:
Exclusive: Adrienne Maloof Slams Brandi Glanville Over “Hurtful” Comments
 
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Hot Slut Of The Day!  —  Frank, the drunk superhero of Wilmington …
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
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Ann Pride / Daily Mail:
Gwen Stefani glitters in gold on the cover of Vogue... as she opens up about the ‘guilt’ of being a working mother
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
The Mad One  —  Kristen Stewart goes on the road with Kerouac.
Sophie A. Schillaci / Hollywood Reporter:
‘X Factor’ Finale Duet Partners Revealed: Demi Lovato, LeAnn Rimes, Little Big Town
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People.com:
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Justin Kroll / Variety:
Eddie Redmayne jumping at ‘Jupiter’
Discussion: Hollywood.com
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Ricky Gervais in Talks to Star in ‘Muppets’ Sequel (Exclusive)
Discussion: Hollywood.com and I Watch Stuff
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
TLC Delays ‘Best Funeral Ever’ in Wake of School Shootings
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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

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Filing: Disney agrees to pay $43.25M to settle a 2019 lawsuit over pay equity for up to 14,000 female Disney employees; the trial was set to begin in May 2025

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