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12:50 PM ET, March 13, 2015

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Lynette Rice / People.com:
Kathy Griffin Quits Fashion Police  —  In an unexpected turn of events, Kathy Griffin announced via Twitter on Thursday that she is quitting Fashion Police.  —  “I thought that I could bring my brand of humor to Fashion Police so beautiful people in beautiful dresses could be teased when appropriate,” she said via Twitter.
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Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
Kelly Osbourne “Could Not Be More Proud” of Kathy Griffin After Fashion Police Exit  —  Kelly and Kathy have each other's backs.  Kelly Osbourne tweeted that she was “proud” of Kathy Griffin after her former colleague announced on Thursday, Mar. 12, that she was leaving E!'s Fashion Police after just three months.
Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon / Us Weekly:
Lena Dunham Praises Kathy Griffin For Quitting Fashion Police, Says “Enough is Enough” to Intolerance  —  Lena Dunham wants the world to know that she thinks Kathy Griffin's decision to quit Fashion Police is totally awesome.  —  PHOTOS: Funniest female stars in Hollywood
Discussion: Celeb Gossip …
Natalie Finn / E! Online:
NEWS/ Kathy Griffin Leaving E!'s Fashion Police After 7 Episodes
Discussion: Dlisted and Cele|bitchy
Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon / Us Weekly:
Sean Penn Is Team Kaitlyn, Watches Bachelor With Charlize Theron!  —  If there's one thing we never thought Sean Penn would be doing on a Monday night, it was watching the Bachelor!  Turns out Charlize Theron totally has control of the remote control in their house!  —  PHOTOS: Celebs who love The Bachelor
Discussion: Gawker
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Lanford Beard / People.com:
Sean Penn Is Team Kaitlyn for the Next Bachelorette
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
MTV:
Shailene Woodley Just Wants Everyone To Drink Bone Broth  —  In addition to starring in ‘Insurgent,’ the actress also kept her co-stars focused on their health.  —  With reporting by Josh Horowitz  —  How did the cast of “The Divergent Series: Insurgent” stay healthy on the set of the dystopian drama?
Discussion: Dlisted and Cele|bitchy
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Michael Thompson / ELLE:
SHAILENE WOODLEY FALLS DEEP IN LOVE
Allison / Dlisted:   And Now For Shailene Woodley's Vaguely Stoner-Sounding Thoughts About Love
Billboard:
Britney Spears: I'm ‘Slowly But Surely’ Working On a New Album (Exclusive)  —  Britney Spears has performed nearly 100 shows at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas since the release of her eighth studio album, 2013's Britney Jean.  And though the singer has been back in the studio as far back as September …
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Rachel McGrath For / Daily Mail:
Britney Spears tipped to perform at Super Bowl half-time next year... fresh off the success of her Las Vegas shows
Discussion: PerezHilton and Oh No They Didn't!
TMZ.com:
Miley Cyrus, Patrick Schwarzenegger ... In Love and Dropping the M-Word  —  Miley Cyrus and Patrick Schwarzenegger are full-on in love, and have even casually said in front of friends they will get married some day.  —  Multiple sources connected with Miley and Patrick tell us their relationship is intense.
Marie Claire:
EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK: MARIE CLAIRE APRIL COVER STAR KERRY WASHINGTON  —  What if you could hang with Kerry Washington, the star of hit show Scandal, and ask her to hook you up with advice from killing it on the red carpet to dealing with public backlash (hint: Twitter's block button is your friend)?
Los Altos Town Crier / losaltosonline.com:
Tom Hanks surprises Girl Scouts … Girl Scouts selling cookies on State Street in downtown Los Altos received an unexpected surprise Feb. 28 when a bona fide movie star not only bought cookies, but also tried to help the girls sell more boxes to other passersby.
Discussion: Page Six, Crushable and CBS News
TBL / The Tracking Board:
{TB EXCLUSIVE} DOMINIC COOPER EMERGES AS THE FRONTRUNNER FOR AMC'S “PREACHER” SERIES FROM ROGEN/GOLDBERG  —  Cooper's the top pick to lead the series based upon the cult comic.  —  I'm hearing that Dominic Cooper is the frontrunner to lead AMC's new comic adaptation PREACHER.
Daily Mail:
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: I'll do Fifty Shades sequel- with my wife's blessing!  —  Jamie Dornan, star of Fifty Shades Of Grey, has dismissed claims he won't be doing the sequels because his wife forbade it as ‘total b*****ks’.  —  Dornan, who plays Christian Grey, the mysterious billionaire with a dark secret …
Us Weekly:
Gossip Girl Star Penn Badgley Says He's Done With TV — Find Out Why The Slap Is His TV Swan Song  —  Paging Lonely Boy!  Gossip Girl stars Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford might have signed on for new TV projects (in the ABC pilots L.A. Crime and Boom, respectively), but Penn Badgley …
Derrick Bryson Taylor / Page Six:
Ashanti: I was betrayed by Nelly and I'm dealing with a stalker  —  Ashanti famously dated rapper Nelly for 10 years—much of which the couple spent out of the limelight.  —  Although the “Concrete Rose” singer didn't share many details about their breakup on Friday's episode of …
Discussion: E! Online and PerezHilton
Confidential / NY Daily News:
‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ looks to Tiki Barber's wife, Traci Lynn Johnson, to replace Teresa Giudice  —  Teresa Giudice may be replaced as the star of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” and Tiki Barber's wife is a front-runner to take her spot, Confidenti@l has learned.
Discussion: PerezHilton and Bossip
Ashley Burns / UPROXX:
‘Final Jeopardy’ Was Very Lonely For This Contestant  —  Tonight's episode of Jeopardy! was very bad.  “How bad was it?”  It was so bad that even host Alex Trebek admitted, “This was not one of our greatest days.”  In fact, only Kristin in the banner image has anything to smile about after this episode …
Discussion: Dlisted and CNNMoney
Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:
How “Going Clear” Outs John Travolta  —  In the new documentary about Scientology, based on the book, Travolta is used as an example of how the church allegedly uses its members' secrets against them.  —  John Travolta at the Vanity Fair Oscars party last month in Beverly Hills.
Discussion: Queerty
Alex Young / Consequence of Sound:
Prince debuts surprise new single “What If?”  — listen  —  This weekend, Prince kicks off the US leg of his Hit & Run tour with four sold-out shows in Louisville, Kentucky.  To mark the occasion, today he debuted a brand new song called “What If? on Louisville radio station WFPK.
CBS News:
After “Blurred Lines” victory, Gaye family takes another listen to “Happy”  —  Shares -  —  After winning a major victory in court over the song “Blurred Lines,” Marvin Gaye's family sat down with ET's Nischelle Turner to talk about what the court decision means to them.
Discussion: Dlisted, Stereogum and PerezHilton
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Chris Richards / Washington Post:
It's okay if you hate Robin Thicke. But the ‘Blurred Lines’ verdict is bad for pop music.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and kenneth in the
 
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James Hibberd / EW.com:
HBO TALKS GAME OF THRONES FUTURE: MORE THAN 7 SEASONS WANTED — EXCLUSIVE
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TMZ.com:
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Eric Anderson / Access Hollywood:
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Rogue One Is the First Star Wars Stand-Alone Film, Rian Johnson to Write and Direct Star Wars: Episode VIII
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Daily Mail:
'As long as you know the truth that's all that matters': Giuliana Rancic addresses extreme …
Allison Takeda / Us Weekly:
Chelsea Handler Gets Naked With Nick Offerman for the Esquire Cover You Never Knew You Wanted
Discussion: Esquire
Kelly Conaboy / Gawker:
Leo DiCaprio to Adrian Grenier: “Here Is $50,000 for You to Keep”
Discussion: Page Six
Sarah Ball / GQ:
James Corden Is Cleaning Up
Discussion: Page Six, PerezHilton and Just Jared
Marc Graser / Variety:
Disney Announces 'Frozen 2′
Discussion: /Film
TMZ.com:
‘I JUST SHOT 4 PEOPLE’  —  We just got a recording of the call …
Discussion: Page Six and Gawker
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos deactivated his account on X, where he had 2.3M+ followers, over the weekend after ABC News settled Trump's lawsuit

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
DeepMind unveils Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI model that can create 2+ minute long clips in resolutions up to 4K, behind a waitlist as part of VideoFX

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube is testing the ability for some US creators to reply to comments on their videos using voice notes in its iOS app

 
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