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4:15 PM ET, February 28, 2008

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TMZ.com:
“Idol” Nurse Busted for DUI  —  “A.I.” finalist Amanda Overmyer plead guilty to DUI back in October 2006 near her hometown of Crawfordsville, In.  —  She received a suspended sentence of 60 days and was placed on 180 days probation, which ended in August 2007.  —  Story developing ...
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National Enquirer:
IDOL'S AMANDA OVERMYER: DUI BUST  —  American Idol's rock ‘n’ roll nurse Amanda Overmyer has hit a pothole on the road to stardom: The ENQUIRER has learned that she has spent time behind bars for DUI and has a long list of driving offenses, including one for going more than 100 mph.
Discussion: TV Envy and Celebridiot
Michael K / Dlisted:
Amanda Overmyer Is My Next American Idol  —  Amanda Overmyer is the perfect “American Idol” and I'm going to burn the hell out of all my phone lines (ok, just one) by voting for her.  She has everything an Idol needs.  Her vocal skills are questionable, her outfits came straight …
NY Daily News:
Store can't handle a Brit fit  —  Britney Spears keeps coming up with weird requests for her favorite L.A. boutiques.  —  She flummoxed staff at the Betsey Johnson on Melrose Ave. this month by turning up with a Dolce & Gabbana dress she wanted the store to copy - in all white - to be ready by that evening.
Rich Shapiro / NY Daily News:
2 docs probed over Ledger pain pills  —  Federal drug investigators are probing two doctors over the death of actor Heath Ledger, the Daily News has learned.  —  The doctors - one in California, one in Texas - are believed to have supplied the “Brokeback Mountain” star with the powerful painkillers Oxycontin …
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TMZ.com:
Feds Investigating Docs Who Prescribed to Heath
Discussion: omg!
People.com:
Feds Probe Doctors in Heath Ledger's Death
Perez Hilton:
When Daddy Bangs Your Friend!  —  The Hogan family is just full of dramz these days.  —  We.  Love.  It.  —  Reports are surfacing that the Hulkster had an affair while he was still living with his wife, prompting the hulking Linda Hogan to file for divorce from him.  A divorce that's recently turned u-g-l-y .
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Mike Baron / The Post Chronicle:
Photos: Christiane Plante Has Affair With Hulk Hogan?  —  Thirty-three year old Christiane Plante, who worked with nineteen year old Brooke on her 2006 Album, has confessed to her affair with fifty-four year old Hulk Hogan. … According to a National Enquirer report, Hulk Hogan …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and MollyGood
Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson “Hooking Up”  —  After a suicide attempt last August, Owen Wilson has been given a second chance at life - and, it seems, love.  —  The actor was seen driving his silver Toyota Prius away from Kate Hudson's Pacific Palisades home on Feb. 23.
Scott Huver / People.com:
Charlie Sheen Calls for Boycott of Denise's Show  —  He lost in court.  Now Charlie Sheen is taking his fight public.  —  The Two and a Half Men star - who took ex-wife Denise Richards to court in a failed attempt to prevent her from including their two daughters in a reality show …
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Perez Hilton:
Boycott!  —  Charlie Sheen wants us to boycott ex-wife Denise …
Discussion: omg!
Ianmcshane / holymoly.co.uk:
QUEEN NEFERTI-TEASE  —  All that parading about in ‘Underworld’ in a leather catsuit seems to have awoken the filthier side of actress Kate Beckinsale, who gave an interview to Allure magazine in which she flung around more innuendoes than Julian Clary at a cock-fight.
Discussion: Dlisted, Jezebel, CelebNewsWire and ShowHype
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Phil / Egotastic!:
Kate Beckinsale's Vagina is the Best
Discussion: WOW Report
Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Pete Wentz Gives Ashlee Simpson a Promise Ring  —  Ashlee Simpson has been flashing bling on her ring finger for a while now.  —  On Wednesday, she confirmed it's a promise ring from her Fall Out Boy beau Pete Wentz.  —  “It just means that he hasn't asked my dad yet...” …
Graeme Massie / Showbiz Spy:
Hugh Hefner wants Lindsay Lohan to appear in Playboy — as Marilyn Monroe  —  Lindsay Lohan will get another chance to strip off and pose nude as Marilyn Monroe - if Hugh Hefner gets his way.  —  Hefner wants the starlet to appear in Playboy recreating Monroe's famous naked swim …
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Phil / Egotastic!:
Lindsay Lohan Naked is Worth a Lot of Money
New York Post:
BLOGGERS' SORDID ONLINE CHAT  —  MARIO Lavandeira - better known as online gossip “Perez Hilton” - encouraged a handsome young blogger to send sex tapes of himself while he was making promises of promotion for the blogger's own fledgling Web site.  —  Jonathan Jaxson - a former publicist …
New York Post:
JESSICA'S BURDEN  —  JESSICA Alba knows the trauma of developing a big chest at an early age - she says she was labeled a sixth-grade slut by her elementary school principal and a couple of “self-righteous” PTA moms.  “The accusation still ricochets . . . They think I'm...
Abby / Yeeeah!:
Jessica Simpson Going to Kuwait  —  Jessica Simpson is heading to Kuwait next month to entertain the troops overseas.  That's in Canada, right?  She writes on her fan site … Unless she plans oiling herself up and singing topless while hopping around on a pogo stick …
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 More News: 
Michael K / Dlisted:
Tyra Knows What It's Like To Be Homeless
Associated Press:
Police looking into whether Spears was drugged
Discussion: iVillage and Perez Hilton
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Brad Pitt confirms: 'We're having twins'
People.com:
Angelina Jolie Calls for Humanitarian Aid for Iraq
Etan Vlessing / Reuters:
Genie awards show ignores “Juno”
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Starpulse Entertainment News Blog:
Jenny McCarthy & Jim Carrey Won't Wed Or Have Kids
Daily Mail:
Airport security force Renée to show the world her beauty products
Discussion: WOW Report
Michael K / Dlisted:
Falling Dumbasses!  —  The Daily Mail featured these truly …
 Earlier Picks: 
Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:
Ellen Page: Is She or Isn't She?  —  I mean, come on already, is she???
TMZ.com:
Granny Got Run Over by La Lohan
Daily Mail:
Hollywood' A-list double daters: TomKat share an evening with Will and Jada
Discussion: A Socialite's Life
Hollywoodtuna:
Sophie Monk Freed But Tainted
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Rosie back on TV, with the Nanny?
Daily Mail:
Amy Winehouse bizarre night out as friends claim she's ‘back on drugs’
Daily Mail:
Mariah Carey reveals her toned new look in beauty-and-the-geek video
Lina Ritchie / Daily Mail:
Fading away: Jordan's a shadow of her former self at Peter Andre's birthday bash
Discussion: Seriously? OMG!
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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