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2:15 PM ET, June 27, 2006

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Star gazing may soon end for 'View'-ers  —  Is Friday D-Day for Star Jones Reynolds?  —  I hear that the longtime panelist on ABC's daytime chatfest, "The View," has signed a lucrative deal with another television outlet and plans to announce her departure live on the air at the end of this month.
Discussion: Jossip
Roger Friedman / Fox News:
Star Jones Gone: Freebies Did Her In  —  Star Jones Gone: Freebies Did Her In  —  It's official, folks.  Star Jones is leaving ABC's "The View."  Her last day is still being determined, but sources say by next Friday, July 6 or July 13, the ladies will be kissing and hugging her and wheeling out a fat-free cake.
Gawker:
Remainders: Star Jones Calls It a Day  —  • Jesus lives and saves us all: Star Jones is reportedly announcing her departure from The View, preferring instead to continue her rapid shrinking in the privacy of her own home.  If we're lucky, her on-air farewell will be the exact opposite of Katie Couric's …
Discussion: TV Envy
Access Hollywood:
Access Exclusive: Star Leaves 'The View'  —  BURBANK, Calif. (June 26, 2006) — Star Jones Reynolds will announce her departure from "The View" this week, Access Hollywood learned.  —  A source close to "The View" told Access Monday that Star Jones Reynolds will leave "The View" …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Star Jones Reynolds leaving 'The View'
Mattias Karen / Associated Press:
Rocker Axl Rose jailed in Stockholm  —  STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Axl Rose was arrested early Tuesday after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg at his hotel, police said.  —  The Guns N' Roses frontman was ordered held in jail by prosecutors on suspicion of attacking and threatening the guard …
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Stephen M. Silverman / people.aol.com:
Axl Rose Arrested for Allegedly Biting Security Guard  —  Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was arrested in Stockholm early Tuesday after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg outside his hotel, the Associated Press reports.  —  Rose was being held on suspicion of attacking and threatening the guard …
Discussion: popbytes
Gil Kaufman / MTV:
Axl Rose Arrested In Sweden After Bar Brawl; Allegedly Bit Guard's Leg  —  Singer charged with assaulting security guard.  —  Axl Rose (file)  —  Except for that scuffle with Tommy Hilfiger in New York last month, things were going so well.  But trips to jail aren't uncommon on Guns N' Roses tours …
Samuel Maull / Associated Press:
Another maid sues model Naomi Campbell  —  NEW YORK - Naomi Campbell is being accused of less-than-model behavior again, this time by another of her maids who claims the supermodel hit her.  —  In a terse single-sheet filing in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, Gaby Gibson accused Campbell of …
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Stephen M. Silverman / people.aol.com:
Naomi Campbell Accused of Assault - Again  —  PHOTO BY: MARCELLO LISO / BRAINPIX / ABACA  —  Naomi Campbell - already due in court Tuesday for allegedly throwing a cell phone at a housekeeper - is being accused of assault and battery by another maid.  —  In a filing in Manhattan's state Supreme Court …
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Associated Press:
Rowling: Two 'Potter' characters will die  —  LONDON - Author J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive either.  —  "I have never been tempted to kill him off before the final …
Discussion: Dlisted
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Rowling to kill two in final Potter book
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TMZ.com:
Nicole Kidman Wasn't Married to Tom Cruise...  at least according to the Catholic Church in Australia.  —  Many around the world were scratching their heads this past weekend, trying to figure out exactly how Kidman was able to get married as a Catholic in a Catholic ceremony …
Discussion: Dlisted and Best Week Ever
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Defamer:
Brett Ratner Directs Derivative Video For Jessica Simpson's Derivative Song  —  Amidst all the tabloid coverage of her divorce from Nick Lachey and her relationship to her svengali father, it's easy to forget that Jessica Simpson is, first and foremost, an artist: a mediocre, trend-trailing, completely forgettable recording artist.
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Phil / Egotastic!:
Petra Nemcova Gives James Blunt the Best Sex Ever  —  Okay, I really don't get it.  What does James Blunt have that I don't have?  Besides the hit single, most popular album of the year, and all that money, he's just some dude.  And a dorky one at that.  I'm dorky.
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Associated Press:
Harper Lee writes rare item for O magazine  —  MONROEVILLE, Ala. - Harper Lee, author of the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird," has written a rare published item — a letter for Oprah Winfrey's magazine on how she became a reader as a child in a rural, Depression-era Alabama town.
Discussion: Gawker
Defamer:
'FRASIER''S EDDIE STARING BLANKLY DOWN AT US FROM DOGGIE HEAVEN  —  Lest Aaron Spelling capture all of the deceased showbiz veteran attention, we take this moment to also mourn the passing of Moose, better known to millions as Eddie, Frasier's Jack Russell terrier.
Just Jared:
Baby Kingston Rossdale  —  All Hail Baby Kingston  —  Proud parents Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale shared baby holding responsibilities as the family walked through the park this past weekend.  Baby Kingston Rossdale rocked it out in a L.A.M.B. beanie!  Hot!
Phil / Egotastic!:
Keira Knightley is a Great Kisser - Orlando Bloom is Not  —  Well, it seems that Keira Knightley is getting quite the high praise from her Pirates of the Caribbean co-star Orlando Bloom on her kissing technique, but she isn't so willing to say the same.  According to Life Style Extra …
Bill Simmons / ESPN:
The YouTube Hall of Fame  —  My virgin foray onto the Internet happened at 2:30 in the morning.  This was back in the spring of '96 — I was returning home from a night out drinking during which a college friend had casually mentioned exchanging e-mails with another of our friends at work.
Discussion: TV Squad and Best Week Ever
 
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