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TMZ.com:
Justin Bieber Accidentally Drives Into, Injures Photographer  —  Justin Bieber — Accidentally Slams Truck Into Photog Cops, Ambulance On Scene  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS  —  Justin Bieber accidentally ran over a photographer as he left a church service in Beverly Hills ... and the loud impact was captured on camera.
Lamar Odom / The Players' Tribune:
Done in the Dark  —  When I woke up in the hospital room in Nevada, I couldn't move.  I couldn't talk.  I was trapped inside my own body.  My throat hurt like hell.  I looked down and I had all these tubes coming out of my mouth.  —  So I panicked.  —  I started trying to pull them out …
Kesha / HuffPost:
Learn To Let Go  —  “It's about embracing your past, but not letting it define you.”  —  “Learn to Let Go” is more than a song title... it's become one of my mantras over the last few years.  As much as our past creates who we are, we can't let it define us or hold us back.
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Matt Hendrickson / Billboard:
Miranda Lambert on Why She Won't ‘Take Pain for Granted’ & Refusing to Write Political Songs  —  The listening room at Sony's new Nashville headquarters has, unsurprisingly, somewhat of a corporate feel.  But despite the conference room-like surroundings, Miranda Lambert …
Discussion: People.com, Page Six and AOL
Evgenia Peretz / Vanity Fair:
Angelina Jolie Solo  —  Photographs by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.  Styled by Jessica Diehl. … Like most things involving Angelina Jolie, stepping foot into her house is an experience so heightened one wonders if it's for real or the product of careful orchestration.
Page Six:
‘Dancing with the Stars’ wants Sean Spicer  —  Sean Spicer is taking his first steps to transition from the White House briefing room to the bright lights of a TV news studio — but he's also being courted by “Dancing with the Stars,” Page Six has learned.  —  The outgoing press secretary Spicer spent …
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘True Detective’ Close To Season 3 Greenlight; Mahershala Ali Confirmed To Star  —  At HBO's summer TCA presentation, president of programming Casey Bloys gave an update on the status of True Detective, which had been awaiting a Season 3 greenlight.  —  Bloys confirmed that Oscar-winning …
Discussion: The Blemish and Page Six
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Derek Lawrence / EW.com:
True Detective update: Mahershala Ali confirmed for season 3
Discussion: Dlisted and POPSUGAR
Perez Hilton:
The KarJenner Exes Reunite!  Blac Chyna Parties With Tyga & Lamar Odom In Los Angeles!  —  What a small world!  —  Three of the most famous Kardashian exes all just so happened to be at the iGO Live launch in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night!  —  Blac Chyna, Tyga, and Lamar Odom …
Discussion: Page Six, X17 Online and TMZ.com
Emily Marcus / Us Weekly:
Taylor Swift and Rumored BF Joe Alywn Enjoy Romantic Getaway, Double Date With Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds  —  We wish we could have fifth-wheeled!  Taylor Swift and her rumored new beau, Joe Alywn, hung out with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds in Rhode Island this week amid a romantic getaway.
Discussion: PerezHilton and Yahoo Celebrity
KC Baker / People.com:
Jill Zarin's Husband Bobby Hospitalized with Cancer Complications: 'He's Not Going Down Without a Fight'  —  Jill Zarin should be busily preparing for her 5th Annual Luxury Luncheon to raise money for thyroid cancer this weekend, but her mind is elsewhere as her husband, Bobby, fights for his life against the very same disease.
Discussion: Page Six
Dana Oliver / Yahoo:
Keke Palmer on Kylie Jenner's Inauthenticity: ‘You Can Be Profitable for Not Being Who You Truly Are’  —  Keke Palmer's Instagram account is filled with  —  the gag is," she's more grounded than what you'll probably glean from only watching one of those 60-second clips.
Discussion: PerezHilton
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘American Idol’: Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan, Charlie Puth in the Mix for Judges' Panel  —  Formal negotiations have not begun as ABC and producers Fremantle and Core Media start to narrow the field.  —  ABC's American Idol judging panel is beginning to come into focus.
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TMZ.com:   ‘American Idol’ Wants Lionel Richie and Charlie Puth as Final Two Judges
Us Weekly:
Jenelle Evans: I Was ‘So Close to Dying’  —  The moment she hit rock bottom is etched in Jenelle Evans' mind.  Staying with then-boyfriend Kieffer Delp at his mom's New Jersey home in 2012, she overdosed on heroin, coming to on the bathroom floor.  “I basically blacked out,” …
Discussion: PerezHilton
Joseph Hooper / ELLE:
Born to Rule  —  In Game of Thrones's Daenerys Targaryen, Emilia Clarke has created one of the strongest, most enduring female characters in our pop-culture consciousness.  So where does all that fire come from?  —  She wasn't the first choice to play Daenerys Targaryen.
Discussion: People.com and The Wrap
 
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Julianna Ress / E! Online:
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TMZ.com:
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Chris Hemsworth Tells Us Why Weightlifting Wasn't Enough for Thor's Physique
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop “lazy linking”

Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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