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10:40 AM ET, October 14, 2008

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Gina Serpe / Yahoo! News:
A Very Brady Druggie?  Maureen McCormick Spills  —  Los Angeles (E! Online) - Growing up Brady wasn't all it was cracked up to be.  —  Erstwhile Marcia Brady Maureen McCormick is telling all—and we mean all—about her formative years both on and off TV, revealing new details about her depression …
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Peter G / Us Weekly:
Maureen McCormick's Memoir Details a Drug-Fueled Downward Spiral  —  In her new memoir, Maureen McCormick reveals intimate details about her secret life of binging on cocaine, trading sex for drugs and dating her TV sibling.  —  In “Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice …
Discussion: iVillage and Right Celebrity
Emily Sheridan / Daily Mail:
WEB EXCLUSIVE - At home with the Jolie-Pitts: An intimate look inside the couple's family album … Shunning her high-glamour red carpet looks, with her unbrushed hair flowing over her shoulders, Angelina Jolie gazes into the eyes of her two-year-old daughter Shiloh.
Discussion: CelebWarship and Hollywood Rag
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Urmee Khan / Telegraph:
David and Victoria Beckham's housekeepers deny stealing  —  Two housekeepers working for David and Victoria Beckham have denied stealing items from the celebrity couple's home to sell on eBay.  —  Victoria Beckham's parents contacted police after recognising items offered for sale on Ebay, an internet auction site.
Discussion: Bitten and Bound and TMZ.com
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Anita Singh / Telegraph:
David and Victoria Beckham's housekeepers arrested for ‘theft’
Courtney Rubin / People.com:
Amy Winehouse's Mother-In-Law Opens Up About Jailed Son  —  Amy Winehouse's jailed husband Blake Fielder-Civil needs to be at home with his mother and not in a rehab center, his mother tells PEOPLE.  —  “I don't think rehab is the answer,” Georgette Civil tells PEOPLE of her son …
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Lizzie Smith / Daily Mail:
Now it's cocaine candyfloss as troubled Amy Winehouse hits a new low
Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Baby daddy Levi Johnston speaks on Bristol Palin, Barack Obama and pregnancy  —  Levi Johnston, the Alaska hockey hunk responsible for making Sarah Palin a grandmother-in-waiting, has dropped out of high school and is vehemently denying speculation that he's being forced into a shotgun wedding.
Discussion: Jossip and Mollygood
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson on the rocks after string of arguments … Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson have hit a rocky patch in their relationship -  —  just weeks after going public with their romance.  —  The Hollywood pair, who have been inseparable for months …
Discussion: POPSUGAR, Scandalist, X17 Online and MSNBC
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Jay Bird / Cele|bitchy:
Lindsay Lohan is dressing up as scary Sarah Palin for Halloween
Discussion: Pop Crunch
Angel / CONCRETELOOP.COM:
SPOTTED: SERENA & COMMON SURFING  —  Serena Williams and Common were spotted doing some surfing in Hawaii on Monday.  According to the paps, the couple were having a ball surfing and Serena was better than Common at it.  LOL
Gregory Katz / Associated Press:
Ringo Starr: No more fan mail  —  LONDON (AP) — Ringo Starr doesn't want to hear from you.  If you do write, your letter will end up in the trash.  That's the message from Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr.  After 45 years of stardom, he doesn't want to spend any more time answering mail or sending signed photos back to fans.
Discussion: OH NO!! and Gawker
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BBC:
Ringo Starr tells fans to stop bothering him with fan mail
Discussion: Perez Hilton and PopEater
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Holly Madison: Hef Having “Lots of Fun” With New Twin Girlfriends  —  Holly Madison isn't jealous that Hugh Hefner has already moved on with 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon.  —  In fact, she tells Usmagazine.com, she introduced the three after she directed their Playmate pictorial this summer.
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
Libby Keatinge / Scandalist:
EXCLUSIVE: Girl Selling Her Virginity Will Get Up To $3.8 Million  —  Natalie Dylan, the 22-year-old girl auctioning off her virginity, will potentially rake in $3.8 million for the sale of her innocence.  Scandalist spoke with Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada, who is facilitating the auction.
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wait ... thats not sarah palin  —  These are the first pictures form the Hustler produced porn movie spoof about Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.  It's getting lots of attention, and should be a big hit among people who wanted to know what it would look like if someone …
Discussion: Mollygood, Scandalist, Jossip and Defamer
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Don Cheadle joins ‘Iron Man 2’  —  He'll replace Terrence Howard in Marvel Studios' sequel  —  Don Cheadle is stepping in to replace Terrence Howard in “Iron Man 2,” Marvel Studios' sequel to its summer blockbuster.  —  In the movie, Howard played Jim Rhodes, Tony Stark/Iron Man's best friend and future armor-clad hero War Machine.
TMZ.com:
Lindsay — You Missed a Spot  —  Orange you glad you didn't leave the house forgetting to rub self-tanner on your feet and ankles?  —  Despite LiLo's fashion foot pas, she still looks pretty good.  —  See Also  —  Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Beauty, Lindsay Lohan, Nurse!
Discussion: Gone Hollywood
New York Post:
HARD-CELL CROWD FOR PRINCE  —  PRINCE rocked the Gansevoort Hotel rooftop over the weekend, but the show was nearly KO'd by audience members who refused to turn off their cellphones.  —  As the “Purple Rain” pop star prepared to take the stage, a panicked emcee announced the hundreds …
Discussion: Scandalist and Queerty
Michael Ausiello / EW.com:
Exclusive: The CW Wants More ‘Gossip Girl’  —  Gossip Girl's ratings aren't the only thing growing this season.  —  Sources confirm to me exclusively that the network has ordered two additional episodes of the show, bringing its season 2 total to 24.  —  The move comes as the gap between …
Starpulse:
Gerard Depardieu's Son Dies Of Pneumonia  —  French actor Gerard Depardieu's son Guillaume died on Monday at the Garches hospital near Paris.  The 37 year old passed away after a severe bout of pneumonia.  —  He was filming new movie “L'Enfance d'Icare” in Romania when he suddenly fell ill …
Discussion: Backseat Cuddler
Matthew Solarski / Pitchfork:
M.I.A.: “I'm Creating a Baby”  —  In case the big lovely bump in her belly up there didn't clue you in, M.I.A. has some news for us.  “I'm creating a baby,” she revealed to Pitchfork's Jessica Suarez in an interview just prior to her performance at Diesel's ridonculous xXx party in NYC Saturday night.
Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Britney Spears Ready to Hit the Road  —  Britney Spears is one step closer to going on tour.  —  While the comeback pop princess revealed last month that she was planning on hitting the road next year, a source now tells me that things are getting serious.
Guardian:
The House Bunny, or how Hef suckered Hollywood  —  The House Bunny shows Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner to be a leading light of feminist rights.  New research reveals that the studio actually paid him.  Shurely shome mishtake?  —  Blonde ambition ... Anna Faris in The House Bunny
Discussion: Thompson On Hollywood and Defamer
 
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