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2:00 PM ET, December 22, 2015

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Us Weekly:
Farrah Abraham Is Adopting a Child: I'm ‘Very Excited’  —  Farrah Abraham is expanding her brood.  The Teen Mom OG star confirms to Us Weekly that she's in the process of adopting a child.  —  “I'm happy to confirm I'm moving forward in my adoption process.
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Ryan Gajewski / Us Weekly:
Farrah Abraham Tells Daughter Sophia in New ‘Teen Mom OG’ Teaser: 'Sometimes You're Selfish' — Watch
Discussion: What's New
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Actor Nicolas Cage returns stolen dinosaur skull he bought  —  Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage has agreed to turn over a rare stolen dinosaur skull he bought for $276,000 to U.S. authorities so it can be returned to the Mongolian government.  —  The office of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan …
Karen Mizoguchi / People.com:
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Wish You a Merry Christmas With Most Affectionate Video Yet  —  No need for mistletoe for Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton!  —  The blonde beauty shared the couple's most affectionate clip yet on Twitter Monday.  While the couple kept their PDA to a minimum on The Voice …
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Melody Chiu / People.com:
Gwen Stefani's Kids ‘Adore’ Her New Boyfriend Blake Shelton
Discussion: Starpulse and Yahoo Celebrity
Francesca Bacardi / E! Online:
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani Are “Steaming Up,” Act Like the “the Life of the Party”
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
Lynette Rice / EW.com:
PATRICK DEMPSEY REFLECTS ON LIFE AFTER GREY'S ANATOMY: ‘I WAS READY TO MOVE ON’  —  The 49-year-old actor talks exclusively to EW about his new role in 'Bridget Jones's Baby'  —  Derek, who?  —  It's only been eight months since Patrick Dempsey's iconic character, Dr. Derek Shepherd …
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Francesca Bacardi / E! Online:
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Will Spend Christmas Together: “They Continue to Put the Kids First”  —  The holidays are great for bringing families together, including Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.  —  Affleck and Garner, who announced their split over the summer …
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Sierra Marquina / Us Weekly:
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner Spending Christmas Together — for Their Kids  —  Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have got the whole amicable divorce thing down.  The exes will be spending Christmas together for their kids' sake, sources tell Us Weekly exclusively in the new issue, on newsstands now.
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
James Franco Is Remaking Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? for Lifetime  —  Because of course he is.  —  3k  —  2.9k  —  Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, arguably the best title ever for a TV-movie, turns 20 next year — and James Franco is not about to let the anniversary go unnoticed.
Discussion: World of Wonder and I Watch Stuff
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Michael K / Dlisted:   Today In High Art: James Franco Is Producing A Remake Of “Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?”  For Lifetime
Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
James Franco Teams With Lifetime for ‘Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?’ Remake
Discussion: Crushable
Michele Corriston / People.com:
Jennifer Lawrence Confesses to Kissing Liam Hemsworth Off Screen on WWHL Debut!  —  The Hunger Games arena's got nothing on the Bravo Clubhouse.  —  When celebrities - cocktail in hand - take the hot seat opposite Watch What Happens Live's Andy Cohen, they spill secrets like never before.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Hollywood Life
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Derrick Bryson Taylor / Page Six:
J.Law smoked pot before the Oscars
Discussion: X17 Online
Elise Loehnen / Goop:
Jennifer Aniston Answers the goop Q&A  —  There's a good reason that Jennifer Aniston is known as being one of Hollywood's paragons of natural and ageless beauty—no small feat, considering that she's also one of its most industrious.  (Next year, Mother's Day with Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson comes …
Sarah / People.com:
It's a Girl for Hugh Grant  —  Hugh Grant is a dad for the fourth time.  —  The British actor, 55, welcomed his fourth child on Wednesday, Dec. 16, according to Swedish newspaper Sundsvalls Tidning.  —  Swedish television producer Anna Eberstein, 37, delivered a daughter, her second child with Grant, the Daily Mail reports.
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Daily Mail:
Hugh Grant ‘becomes a father for the fourth time’ as his Swedish girlfriend Anna Eberstein gives birth to a baby girl
Mark Kennedy / Associated Press:
TONY-WINNING ACTRESS AND TV SOAP STAR PATRICIA ELLIOTT DIES  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Patricia Elliott, who won a Tony Award on her Broadway musical debut, went on to star opposite David Bowie in “The Elephant Man” and spent 23 years aboard the TV soap opera “One Life to Live,” has died.  She was 77.
Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
David Foster Breaks His Silence After Yolanda Foster Divorce Announcement: Read His Statement  —  He speaks.  After announcing his divorce from Yolanda Foster several weeks ago, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills husband David Foster broke his silence on Tuesday, December 22, by releasing a new statement to Us Weekly.
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
ABC News:
Discussion: PerezHilton
Karen Mizoguchi / People.com:
Kourtney Kardashian Reveals All the Details of Sons Mason and Reign's Alien-Themed Birthday Party: ‘It Really Was Out of This World!’  —  Kourtney Kardashian threw the ultimate alien-themed birthday party for her sons Mason and Reign, and now the single mother of three is sharing all the details behind the bash.
Discussion: PerezHilton
The Huffington Post:
R. Kelly Walks Off HuffPost Live Set: ‘This Interview Is Over’  —  He refused to address questions about how his controversial past impacted album sales.  —  R. Kelly sat down with HuffPost Live for a bizarre 20-minute interview Monday, in which he asked host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani if she drank …
Mara Reinstein / Us Weekly:
The Top 5 Most Disastrous Movies of 2015  —  Top 5 Worst Movies of 2015 Include ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ ‘By the Sea’: Find Out What Blunder Took the No. 1 Spot!  —  We've all been there.  You're sitting in your comfy movie theater seat and watch a trailer for an upcoming film that can only be described as a slice of awful.
Carly Mallenbaum / USA Today:
Oh no!  Steve Harvey crowns wrong woman Miss Universe  —  96k Shares  —  Talk about awkward.  Miss Universe host Steve Harvey accidentally crowned the wrong winner during the Las Vegas pageant.  VPC  —  Just before the end of the year, Steve Harvey managed to have the worst television moment of 2015.
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Miss Universe / Fox News:
Miss Universe pageant host Steve Harvey makes huge gaffe, names wrong winner
Discussion: Getty Images and Cele|bitchy
 
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TMZ.com:
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People.com:
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ABC Orders Gay Rights Miniseries From ‘Milk’ Writer, Director
Adam Carlson / People.com:
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Discussion: What's New
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Discussion: Celeb Gossip … and PerezHilton
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Samantha Schnurr / E! Online:
Raven-Symoné Apologizes to NeNe Leakes After The View Drama: “I Don't Understand What Happened”
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy Reveals His Mom Put Him in ‘Time Out’ for a Month After He Dumped Peta Murgatroyd
Discussion: Celeb Gossip … and Starpulse
 

 
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN confirms Kaitlan Collins as its chief White House correspondent; she will become CNN's first prime-time anchor to also serve as its top White House reporter

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI

 
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