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11:30 AM ET, October 19, 2008

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Gordon Smart / The Sun:
Guy and Madge in $60m deal  —  GUY RITCHIE will get at least £20million in cash and properties worth many more millions in his surprise settlement with MADONNA, it emerged last night.  —  The 40-year-old film director gets the couple's 1,200-acre country estate and a swanky London pub.
Daily Mail:
‘It was never about the money’: Guy Ritchie will get just £10million from Madonna in divorce settlement … Madonna will give Guy Ritchie just £10million in a divorce settlement.  —  As part of the deal Guy, 40, has agreed to a gagging clause that will prevent him from ever talking …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Evil Beet Gossip
Barbara Jones / Daily Mail:
'Madonna's adopted son would be better off in Malawi' says his biological father … The real father of Madonna's adopted son David feels bitterly disappointed that she is getting a divorce - and yesterday he declared: ‘I am still a poor farmer with nothing to offer, but maybe he would be better off back with us.’
Discussion: Celebrity Baby Scoop
PopEater:
Madonna and Guy Take the Gloves Off
Discussion: Daily Mail
Hannah Fletcher / Times of London:   Madonna ‘to pay Guy Ritchie £60m in divorce package’
Anita Singh / Telegraph:
Madonna is being ‘beastly’, says Guy Ritchie's father
Discussion: New York Post
Glen Johnson / PopEater:
It's Real vs. Fake Sarah Palin on ‘SNL’  —  After watching “Saturday Night Live” make fun of her from afar, Sarah Palin witnessed it first hand this week as Tina Fey engaged in fiction by depicting her at the news conference the Republican vice presidential nominee has yet to hold.
Discussion: Reuters and Associated Press
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Extra:   ‘SNL’ Hiding the Script from Palin?!
TMZ.com:
Actress' Companion Shot In Hollywood  —  A good friend of Bonnie Somerville was shot in the back at a Hollywood party last night.  —  Somerville (the girl who played Ross' GF Mona on “Friends") was leaving a T-Mobile party on Sunset Blvd. just after 2 AM with her friend when …
POPSUGAR:
Renee, Emmanuelle, Ginnifer and Kerry Have Girls' Night Out  —  It was all about the ladies on Thursday night at the Courage in Journalism Awards in LA. Renee Zellweger and Ginnifer Goodwin showed off their legs while Emmanuelle Chriqui looked stylish in black and white.
Discussion: OH NO!!
Hellomagazine.com:
Katie opens on Broadway with ‘very provocative’ performance  —  The curtain officially rose on Katie Holmes' Broadway career this week as the Mad Money actress stepped onto the stage for the first public performance of post-WWII drama All My Sons.  —  Tom Cruise's wife, who was presented …
TMZ.com:
“Soul Train” Host Popped - Boogie Beatdown  —  TMZ has learned Don Cornelius of “Soul Train” fame was arrested last night on felony domestic violence.  —  It went down on Mulholland Drive in L.A. in the early evening.  Someone called from Cornelius' home and LAPD responded to a “domestic dispute.”
Ros Reines / NEWS.com.au:
Miranda Kerr rejects rumours of split with Orlando Bloom  —  BABELICIOUS David Jones fashion plate Miranda Kerr has hit back at rumours that her relationship with actor Orlando Bloom is in trouble.  —  The Victoria's Secret supermodel, who flew into Melbourne on Thursday night for yesterday's Caulfield Cup …
Discussion: Faded Youth Blog
New York Times:
Behind McCain, Outsider in Capital Wanting Back In  —  Cindy McCain was new to Washington and not yet 30 when she arrived at a luncheon for Congressional spouses to discover a problem with her name tag.  —  It read “Carol McCain.”  That was the well-liked wife John McCain had left to marry Cindy …
Discussion: Jezebel, Fox News and TIME.com
G is for Gossip / Bauer-Griffin:
Miley's Boyfriend: Justin Gaston Gone Wild!  —  You know what they say about birds of a feather...  They sh*t in their own kitchen.  Again... and again...  ...and again.  At least, that seems to be the case when the Cyrus circle is involved.  —  IOHO, these pictures are simply proof …
Discussion: Pink is the New Blog and OH NO!!
 
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