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New York Times:
Britney Spears Live Updates: Singer's Father Suspended From Conservatorship  —  A judge granted her lawyer's request to temporarily remove James P. Spears as conservator.  The arrangement has controlled her finances and personal life for 13 years.  —  RIGHT NOW Britney Spears's father is suspended from the conservatorship.
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TMZ.com:
Britney Spears Court Hearing, Terminating Conservatorship on the Table  —  It is possible — POSSIBLE — the 13-year-long Britney Spears conservatorship could end today as everyone — with one big exception — appears in court via zoom for what promises to be an explosive showdown.
Discussion: RADAR and Page Six
Katherine Schaffstall / The Sun:
Britney Spears ‘may speak in court last minute’ and is ‘the most hopeful for this hearing’ since conservatorship started
Discussion: TMZ.com and RADAR
Kisha Forde / E! Online:
See the Khloe Kardashian Ad That Was Allegedly Too Racy for TV  —  Khloe Kardashian is turning up the heat for her latest Good American campaign so much that her latest sultry ad has allegedly been rejected by broadcast networks.  —  Watch: Khloe Kardashian Goes Back to Blonde in Stunning New Look
Discussion: Perez Hilton, Page Six and FemaleFirst
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Just Jared:
Khloe Kardashian Shares How She Changed Daughter True's Diapers With Her Super Long Nails
Discussion: FemaleFirst
Christina Dugan / People.com:
NeNe Leakes Shares a Few of Late Husband Gregg's Last Words Before Taking His Final Breath  —  “We talked a lot, and we made peace with what was happening,” NeNe Leakes says of her final days with late husband Gregg Leakes  —  NeNe Leakes is reflecting on her 25-year relationship …
Discussion: Page Six, Daily Mail, The Sun and Bossip
Alyssa Bailey / Cosmopolitan:
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher Made an Extremely Rare Red Carpet Appearance Together  —  The two almost never attend events together.  —  Over the course of nearly nine-year relationship,  —  Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher  —  have almost never posed together on a red carpet, but yesterday …
Discussion: E! Online and Just Jared
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Zach Seemayer‍ / Entertainment Tonight:
Mila Kunis on How She and Ashton Kutcher ‘Tag Team’ To Juggle Their Lives and Careers (Exclusive)
Discussion: Us Weekly
People.com:   Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher Talk Hopes of a COVID-19 Vaccine for Their Kids, 6½ and 4½
Celia Ellenberg / Vogue:
Inside Lena Dunham's Whimsical, Whirlwind London Wedding  —  “Lu, how did we get engaged?”  Lena Dunham calls to her husband of three days across the room in Somerset, England, where they are taking a brief honeymoon after getting married in London last Saturday night.
Shirley Halperin / Variety:
Between Pop-Stardom and Parenthood, Katy Perry Still Finds Time to Empower Others … In the Katy Perry canon, which, over 13 years, goes 34 singles deep — nine of them No. 1s — the theme of empowerment dates back to her earliest hit, 2008's “I Kissed a Girl,” where she proclaims unapologetically that she “liked it.”
Discussion: People.com, FemaleFirst and Just Jared
Jess Phillips / Daily Star:
Blink-182 singer Mark Hoppus beats stage four cancer as singer ‘feels blessed’  —  Blink-182 star Mark Hoppus was diagnosed with stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma earlier this year but is now ‘cancer free’ after undergoing gruelling chemotherapy treatment
TMZ.com:
Disney's ‘Old Yeller’ Star Tommy Kirk Dead at 79  —  Tommy Kirk — best known for playing the kid role of Travis Coates in the 1957 Disney classic “Old Yeller” — has died ... TMZ has learned.  —  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Tommy's neighbor found him dead in his Las Vegas home around 8 PM on Tuesday.
Meredith Nardino / Us Weekly:
Angelina Jolie ‘Lights Up’ When Talking About The Weeknd: He's ‘Pouring on the Charm’ … Can't feel her face!  Angelina Jolie “lights up” when she talks about her growing friendship with The Weeknd, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
Discussion: Mirror.co.uk and The Sun
Variety:
How Lorde Eclipsed Expectations and Made Nature Her Muse on ‘Solar Power’ … After grappling with teen angst and the shifting sands of early adulthood on her first two albums, Lorde turns to the light on “Solar Power,” released to much anticipatory fanfare on Aug. 20.
Discussion: People.com and Just Jared
TMZ.com:
Feds Investigating Brian Laundrie's Alleged Burner Phone Purchased Day He was Last Seen  —  The feds are on the hunt for a burner phone Brian Laundrie allegedly purchased the day he went missing ... TMZ has learned.  —  Sources connected to the manhunt for Laundrie tell TMZ …
Discussion: RADAR
Emily Longeretta / Us Weekly:
Vanderpump Rules' Lala Kent Deletes Photo With Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute After Ariana Madix Calls Her Out … Throwback drama.  Ariana Madix called out Vanderpump Rules costar Lala Kent on Tuesday, September 28, after she shared an old photo with Katie Maloney and their former costars, Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute.
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Page Six
People.com:
How Prince William Is Stepping Up amid an Unprecedented ‘Assault on the Monarchy’  —  Royal historian Robert Lacey exclusively writes in this week's PEOPLE about how the charismatic future king is “paving the way forward” after a challenging few years for the royals
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Dan Bates / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Katie Couric rips into former TODAY Show colleagues, admits she froze out female rivals to ‘protect her turf,’ says her toyboy ex was a ‘midlife crisis’ and takes potshots at Prince Harry who stank of alcohol in her new memoir  — DailyMail.com has seen the manuscript …
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Lindsay Weinberg / E! Online:
The Bachelorette's Clare Crawley Shares She Was Abused By a “Predator” Priest  —  In an exclusive first look at Thursday's episode of Red Table Talk: The Estefans, Clare Crawley shared that she was the “victim” of a priest while attending Catholic school as a child.  —  Watch: 7 Things to Know About Clare Crawley
Discussion: Perez Hilton, Us Weekly and POPSUGAR
Richard Eden / Daily Mail:
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Royal Family want to throw punches at Prince Harry, jokes Mike Tindall  —  Prince William was visibly angry when he was forced to deny publicly that the Royal Family was racist after Harry and Meghan's claims in their interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Daily Star
Mike Vulpo / E! Online:
Halsey's Birthday Gift to Fans Includes the Cutest Photos of Baby Ender Yet  —  While celebrating their 27th birthday, Halsey took to Instagram and shared never-before-seen photos of growing son Ender.  —  Halsey sure isn't bad at celebrating birthdays!  —  On Wednesday, Sept. 29, the “Without Me” singer turned 27 years young.
Discussion: Just Jared, Perez Hilton and People.com
 
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