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5:40 PM ET, January 12, 2016

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Bruna Nessif / E! Online:
Kris Jenner Reveals Which Daughter She'd Talk into Being on The Bachelor  —  Could we possibly see a Kardashian or Jenner on The Bachelor one day?  —  Kris Jenner was a special guest tonight on Bachelor Live, hosted by Chris Harrison, along with former Bachelor Chris Soules and current Bachelor Ben Higgins …
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Esther Lee / Us Weekly:   Kris Jenner Reveals Which Daughter Is Most Likely to Compete on ‘The Bachelor’
TMZ.com:
Steven Avery — Files Appeal ... A Key Juror Had it In for Me  —  Files Appeal ...  A KEY JUROR HAD IT IN FOR ME … Steven Avery has just filed an appeal, asking a judge to throw out his conviction for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach.  —  Avery says the jurors were tainted …
TMZ.com:
Disney Star Michael Galeota Dead at 31  —  DISNEY STAR MICHAEL GALEOTA  —  DEAD AT 31 … Michael Galeota, star of “The Jersey” on the Disney Channel has died ... TMZ has learned.  —  We're told the actor went to the hospital last week after complaining of abdominal pains and left last Wednesday ... against the doctors' advice.
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Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Sean Penn couldn't keep his mouth shut about El Chapo  —  MORE ON:  —  Sean Penn turned the Beverly Hills Hotel's famed Polo Lounge into a “war room” for strategizing how to handle his El Chapo controversy over Golden Globes weekend.  —  But while spies said he consulted with a team …
Laura Brown / Harper's BAZAAR:
REESE'S EVOLUTION  —  From screen sweetheart to power producer to lifestyle entrepreneur, Reese Witherspoon brings Southern charm to every role.  —  Erdem dress, erdem.com.  Tiffany & Co. earrings, $12,500, tiffany.com.  Gucci shoes, $990, gucci.com.  —  Reese Witherspoon is sitting …
Dave McNary / Variety:
Kat Graham Joins Tupac Movie, Portraying Jada Pinkett Smith (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Kat Graham will portray Jada Pinkett Smith in the Tupac Shakur movie “All Eyez on Me,” Variety has learned exclusively.  —  Smith and Shakur were high school classmates at the Baltimore School for the Arts and remained friends before his 1996 murder.
Discussion: PerezHilton and Just Jared
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
'Walking Dead's Danai Gurira Set To Play Tupac's Mom Afeni Shakur In ‘All Eyez On Me’
Discussion: Bossip
Rolling Stone:
Leonardo DiCaprio's Crusade: Inside the New Issue  —  ‘The Revenant’ star opens up about his dedication to saving the world from environmental catastrophe in our new cover story  —  Actor, activist, celebrity, concerned environmentalist and a man willing to brave subzero temperatures and …
Sierra Marquina / Us Weekly:
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Engaged: Read Their Announcement  —  Read all about it!  Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall are engaged.  The couple announced their engagement in the “Births, Marriages and Deaths” section of Murdoch's The Times on Monday, January 11.
Discussion: PerezHilton
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ELLE:
Meet ELLE's 2016 Women in TV  —  Priyanka!  Viola!  Olivia!  Julia!  Taraji!  —  ELLE's 6th annual Women in TV issue shines a light on the must-see women on TV right now, and there's no doubt that Priyanka Chopra, Viola Davis, Olivia Wilde, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Golden Globe Winner Taraji P. Henson …
Discussion: POPSUGAR Celebrity and Bossip
Lindsay Silberman / DuJour:
Nick Cannon Is All Alone  —  “Would you mind if we did the interview in the car instead?” asks a chiseled, shirtless Nick Cannon, tossing aside his suit jacket and slipping into a faded vintage tee.  He's just finished a photo shoot at a studio in Brooklyn, and since we're both going back to Manhattan …
Emily Strohm / People.com:
Sister Wives Star Robyn Brown Welcomes a Baby Girl!  —  There's a brand new baby Brown!  —  Sister Wives stars Robyn Brown and husband Kody welcomed their daughter at 10:10 p.m. on Sunday.  —  “Right now we haven't decided on a name,” Robyn tells PEOPLE exclusively.
TMZ.com:
Mama June — Pumpkin Is Engaged!!!  (PHOTO)  —  PUMPKIN IS ENGAGED!!!  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Mama June's adding a son-in-law to her brood.  —  June tells us her 16-year-old daughter Pumpkin is engaged to her boyfriend of 9 months, Joshua Efird.  He popped the question 2 days before Christmas …
Discussion: Page Six and PerezHilton
Lindsay Kimble / People.com:
David Margulies, Veteran Character Actor Who Played the Mayor in Ghostbusters, Dead at 78  —  David Margulies, a veteran stage and screen actor who memorably played the Mayor of New York in the Ghostbusters movies, has died, his longtime agent, Mary Harden, confirmed to Deadline.  He was 78.
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip and Deadline
Melody Chiu / People.com:
David Bowie's Ex-Wife Angie Breaks Down After Being Informed of His Death on Celebrity Big Brother  —  Angie Bowie hasn't had many kind words recently for David Bowie since joining the cast of Celebrity Big Brother, but she is still mourning the death of her ex-husband.
Discussion: Starpulse, E! Online and Style News
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Aaron Couch / People.com:
Jonathan Cheban Leaves U.K. Celebrity Big Brother, Citing Concerns for His ‘Mental Stability’
Discussion: PerezHilton
Naja Rayne / People.com:
Brandi Glanville Is ‘Officially Done’ with Hoverboarding After Grisly Injury  —  An injury like that is definitely reason to quit - and that's exactly what Brandi Glanville is doing.  —  The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star took to Twitter over the weekend …
Vogue.it:
Big in 2016: Zayn Malik  —  The ex One Direction talks his future projects on the cover-story of L'Uomo Vogue January 2016 issue  —  Imagine being one fifth of monumental boyband One Direction.  Also known as one of the biggest, most successful boy bands of all time.
Discussion: PerezHilton
Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Kristen Bell & Ted Danson Cast in New NBC Comedy; Danson Will Not Return to ‘CSI: Cyber’  —  Kristen Bell and Ted Danson have been cast in NBC's new comedy “Good Place” from “Parks and Recreation” showrunner Mike Schur.  NBC announced the casting on Tuesday.
Discussion: Just Jared
Cindy Adams / Page Six:
George Miller will never make another ‘Mad Max’ movie  —  MORE FROM:  —  Ricky Gervais: “I never want to emcee the Oscars.  So stiff and uptight.  Boring as s - - t.  Not my gig.  But hosting the Golden Globes is a fun night.  You have a drink.  Everyone's loose.
Discussion: IGN, The Wrap and I Watch Stuff
RADAR:
Recovering Lamar Odom ‘Fighting’ To Win Khloe Kardashian Back  —  'He's still very much in love.'  —  Lamar Odom's strength is slowly returning — along with his ongoing dream of reuniting romantically with his wife, Khloe Kardashian!  —  “Lamar asks for her all the time …
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
E! Online:
AnnaLynne McCord and Legends of Tomorrow Star Dominic Purcell Are Back Together  —  Dominic Purcell and AnnaLynne McCord are giving their romance a second chance.  —  More than a year after ending their relationship on an “amicable” note, the couple appeared to be more than happy together …
Discussion: PerezHilton
 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
The music industry is entering a cycle of consolidation, driven by a slowdown at the major labels, the growing market for independents, and the rapacity of PE

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