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5:15 AM ET, January 18, 2013

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TMZ.com:
Manti Te'o Hoax — All Scams Lead to Ronaiah Tuiasosopo  —  RONAIAH TUIASOSOPO  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  The Manti Te'o not-really-dead-girlfriend hoax was perpetuated by a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo — who served as a representative for the family of the fake “Lennay Kekua” ... and TMZ has the photo proof.
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
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Hector M / NYLON MAGAZINE:
nylon + selena gomez  —  Meet our February cover star!  —  Selena Gomez: Disney star, pop singer, good girl, right?  —  Well, kind of; though she's not ditching her squeaky clean image just yet—"I think [the paparazzi] are over me because I'm so boring[...] I get to Topanga Mall …
Discussion: Celebrity Scandals
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X17 Online:
SELENA GOMEZ ON JUSTIN BIEBER PRE-SPLIT: “I'M HAVING FUN”
Discussion: omg!
The Superficial:   ‘Spring Breakers’ Has A Trailer
Pauline Phillips / TMZ.com:
DEAD AT 94  —  Pauline Phillips —the woman who founded the “Dear Abby” advice column — died yesterday at the age of 94.  —  A rep for Phillips tells TMZ ... Pauline had been battling Alzheimer's disease.  —  Pauline's daughter, Jeanne — who took over the “Dear Abby” column — says …
Melissa Cronin / New York Post:
Zac Efron freaks out after being photographed near an array of dildos  —  Zac Efron was mortified to be caught hanging out at “Fantasy World” sex shop in NYC yesterday - even though he was just filming scenes for his new movie, “Are We Officially Dating.”  When he realized a photographer …
Annie Barrett / TV Recaps:
‘American Idol’ season premiere recap: Mean Girls  —  Nicki Minaj somehow manages to render Mariah Carey the beta diva.  Plus, contestants!  —  Welcome back to Mr. Dawg's Wild Ride, one of the longest-running attractions in this fantasyscape we call Reality!
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Michele Amabile Angermiller / Hollywood Reporter:
‘American Idol’ Season 12 Premiere Recap: All Hail The Turbanator
Discussion: PerezHilton and Gawker
Tom Cruise / TMZ.com:
LATEST SWATTING VICTIM  —  Police just swarmed Tom Cruise's Beverly Hills estate after someone placed a 911 call saying there was an armed intruder on the property.  —  Beverly Hills cops were all over the property and found nothing.  —  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... it appears to be the latest incident of celebrity swatting.
Discussion: L.A. NOW, Gossip Cop and PerezHilton
Vlada Gelman / TVLine:
American Horror Story Scoop: Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson to Return for Season 3  —  Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson will check back into American Horror Story for Season 3.  —  Peters and Paulson, who both appeared in the original run and the current Asylum incarnation …
Discussion: Oh No They Didn't! and Just Jared
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Porn Star James Deen on His ‘Canyons’ Experience With Lindsay Lohan  —  Following a scandalous exposé of Lohan's outrageous behavior during the making of Paul Schrader's film The Canyons, her costar, porn legend James Deen, tells Marlow Stern what it's really like working with LiLo—four-way sex scenes and all.
Mark Gray / People.com:
Pawn Stars's Rick Harrison Sets Wedding Date  —  Rick Harrison has gone from pawning to planning.  —  After months of going back and forth, the Pawn Stars ringleader and his fiancée, Deanna Burditt, have finally set a date for their wedding: July 21.
TMZ.com:
Oksana Grigorieva Sues — My Lawyers Screwed Me in Mel Gibson Settlement  —  OKSANA GRIGORIEVA SUES  —  My Lawyers Screwed Me  —  in Mel Gibson Settlement  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Oksana Grigorieva says she was sabotaged by her own lawyers in her settlement with Mel Gibson …
The Superficial:
Lindsay Lohan The Prostitute Tried To Talk S**t On Jennifer Lawrence The Oscar Nominee  —  When Jennifer Lawrence won her Golden Globe for Silver Linings Playbook she joked at the podium, “I beat Meryl!” a line from The First Wives Club which everyone made a big deal about because Meryl Streep's name …
TMZ.com:
Sharon Osbourne — Candle Sets Beverly Hills Home on Fire  —  Candle Sets Bev Hills  —  Home on Fire  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  First Heather Graham ... then Skrillex ... now Sharon Osbourne has fallen victim to the terrifying fire power of CANDLES — after falling asleep last night before extinguishing a candle in her home.
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy:
LeAnn Rimes says “her body wouldn't let her stop” having an affair with Eddie  —  By now you know that I'm a big fan of celebrities simply coming clean with their fans and with media.  I think when celebrities attempt ham-fisted “damage control” when they've misbehaved or done something wrong or criminal …
Marisa Meltzer / New York Times:
The ‘Karlie’ Is Turning Heads  —  THE haircut of the year has arrived.  Yes, already.  Vogue is calling it the Chop, others have named it the Karlie, after the model Karlie Kloss.  —  Ms. Kloss, already a fashion world veteran at age 20, cut off about seven inches of her dark hair late last year.
Discussion: Fashionista and Us Weekly
Daniel Riley / GQ:
Drama King  —  Meet Bravo's Andy Cohen, the mogul behind Real Housewives and other TV cheese you love to eat—and host of his own wild show, Watch What Happens Live  —  You know Andy Cohen from your television.  Not his face, necessarily, but his body of work: the runny-mascara reality empire …
Discussion: Celeb Gossip …
Justin Ravitz / Us Weekly:
Jenelle Evans Confirms Second Pregnancy, Debuts Baby Bump in Bra  —  Bump alert!  Early Thursday, Jan. 17, Jenelle Evans confirmed the news that she's pregnant with her second child with photographic proof on Instagram.  Clad in a bra and sweatpants, the 21-year-old Teen Mom 2 star posed …
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Danica Davidson / MTV Act Blog:
‘Teen Mom 2’ Jenelle Evans Confirms Second Pregnancy
Discussion: Starpulse and RADAR
 
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RADAR:
Rosie Huntington-Whitely Tells Jason Statham To Lay Off The Partying Or Face Losing Her!
Discussion: PerezHilton and Cele|bitchy
Steve Helling / People.com:
Lisa Whelchel Returns to Acting in a Tyler Perry Movie
Discussion: OK! Magazine
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Despite heartache for Britney, Jamie Lynn Spears could soon be headed up the aisle
Discussion: PerezHilton
Kevin Blair / Starpulse:
Carrie Underwood Talks Gay Marriage & Celebrity Cheaters In The February Allure
Hollywoodtuna:
Elizabeth Banks In A Super Tight Yellow Dress
Claude Brodesser-Akner / Vulture:
Exclusive: Warner Looking to Breed Gremlins Again
Discussion: VH1 Celebrity and I Watch Stuff
Fehintola Betiku / Daily Mail:
‘I permed my hair today’: Bradley Cooper makes a not so sexiest man in the world revelation about his locks
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Joyce Chen / Us Weekly:
Channing Tatum Shaves His Head Bald, Steps Out With Pregnant Wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum
Discussion: OK! Magazine and PopSugar
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Cele|bitchy:
Melania Trump hawks QVC jewelry line, has a “different romance” with The Donald
Discussion: ETonline.com
TMZ.com:
Barney the Dinosaur — Creator's Son ARRESTED for Attempted Murder
Discussion: The Acorn, Bossip and Gawker
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy:
Emmy Rossum works out constantly: ‘I think you should just do something every day’
Justin Ravitz / Us Weekly:
Kim Kardashian to David Letterman: Stop Joking About My Kris Humphries Marriage!
Jon Boon / RADAR:
Family Feud! Jessica Simpson Refuses To Work With Dad Joe On Her New Sitcom
TMZ.com:
Skrillex Sets Hair on Fire In Birthday Candle Disaster [VIDEO]
Discussion: PerezHilton and Gawker
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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