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4:40 PM ET, January 16, 2009

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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Kimora Lee Simmons, Djimon Hounsou Expecting a Baby!  —  Kimora Lee Simmons and actor Djimon Hounsou are expecting their first child together, a source close to the couple tells Usmagazine.com.  —  See photos of the cutest babies born in 2008.  —  Simmons, 33, has two daughters, Ming Lee …
New York Post:
NO DANCING!  —  SEN. John McCain might regret choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate, but an even worse decision will deprive his fellow Americans of what would have been the best season of “Dancing With the Stars” ever.  Our impeccably placed source says, “Just before Thanksgiving …
Ted Casablanca / E! Online:
Caught!  Jennifer Steps Out With Another Man!  —  Jennifer Aniston was surely looking as if she was doing something, or someone, naughty last night at Chateau Marmont.  An utterly radiant, glowing, just-washed-that-hanger-  —  on-stinky-pop-star-outta-my- fabulously-coiffed hair Jen was dashing down to the valet last night giggling.
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Jay Bird / Cele|bitchy:
Jennifer Aniston seen out with another guy  —  Jennifer Aniston may - may - have finally wised up and gotten rid of John Mayer.  I am not an Aniston hater or lover, so there's no secret anti/pro Brangelina agenda going on here.  But I was never a fan of Jen dating John Mayer.
Discussion: CandyKirby.com
Daily Mail:
‘Drug-crazed idiot’ Boy George jailed for 15 months for chaining male escort to wall and beating him … Boy George was sentenced to 15 months jail today for handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.  —  The 47-year-old former Culture Club singer …
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Michael Ausiello / EW.com:
Exclusive: Pete and Ashlee escape to ‘CSI: NY’  —  If there were any lingering doubts as to which of the three CSIs was the most stunt happy, this next story should erase them: Sources confirm to me exclusively that ubiquitous real-life couple Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz just closed a deal to guest star on CSI: NY.
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Breanne L. Heldman / E! Online:   Call Bronx's Babysitter, CSI: NY Books Pete & Ashlee
Daily Mail:
Superskinny Lohan goes out for pizza and a bagload of snacks... that should bring back her vanishing curves … Lindsay Lohan stepped out looking much thinner again alarming fans.  —  But judging by the actress's supermarket sweep she appears to keen to get her missing curves back.
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Nude Madonna Photo Goes on Auction Block  —  Madonna  —  A full-frontal photograph of Madonna taken in 1979 without any material on the Material Girl and then later published in Playboy is going public - for a price.  —  Christie's auction house in New York, which will hold its sale Feb. 12 …
Discussion: Perez Hilton
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Associated Press:
Nude photo of 20-year-old Madonna on auction block
Discussion: X17 Online
Hollywood Reporter:
Warners, Fox settle over ‘Watchmen’  —  Under the agreement, Fox will not be co-distributor  —  Geeks can rejoice.  —  Warner Bros. and Fox have resolved their dispute over “Watchmen,” with the studios scheduled to present a settlement to Judge Gary Feess this morning and request that the case be dismissed.
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New York Post:
LOVE'S ANTI-SEMITIC RAVINGS  —  COURTNEY Love claims she's not taking drugs anymore, but you wouldn't know it from comments she made in the Jewish magazine Heeb.  Love, whose mother is Jewish but who describes herself as Buddhist, says of ex-husband Kurt Cobain's legacy …
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Ellen Finally Gets Her Man: George Clooney  —  Baseball greats Joe Morgan, left, and Johnny Bench, with George Clooney and Ellen DeGeneres  —  All season long, since moving into new headquarters on the Warner Bros. lot, Ellen DeGeneres has had one goal in mind: get George Clooney on the show.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Socialite Life
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Casey Affleck helming Joaquin Phoenix docu  —  Film to track actor-turned-rapper's musical career  —  Casey Affleck will track the musical career of Joaquin Phoenix behind the lens of a camera.  —  Affleck is directing a documentary feature on Phoenix, his friend and fellow actor …
Johnny Knoxville / jackassworld:
news - johnny knoxville's rotten luck  —  A few days ago, I was filming some commercials for this show we are doing for MTV called Nitro Circus, so I took a bunch of silly props in my carry-on bag to the shoot.  Well, when the shoot was over, the wardrobe girl packed my luggage so I could go home and …
Discussion: Perez Hilton and TMZ.com
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Michael K / Dlisted:
In Case You Blacked It Out The First Time: Lily Allen's Third Nipple  —  I've seen Lily Allen's greatest accomplishment, her third nipple, when she flashed it on her talk show a little while ago, but she did it again in some interview.  The Dutch dude asked her about it, so she gave it up and showed him the goods.
Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Beyonce to Sing for Obamas' First Dance on Inauguration Night  —  What will she belt out?  —  The Presidential Inaugural Committee won't say.  —  “It is our hope that we can keep the song secret until the moment,” spokeswoman Linda Douglass told The AP.  —  Look back at Beyonce's style hits and misses over the years.
Discussion: Fancast and iVillage
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Fiona Byrne / NEWS.com.au:
Paris Hilton loses her camera  —  PARIS Hilton has lost a camera filled with hundreds of personal photographs taken during her controversial Australian visit.  —  And the finder may be hawking the private happy snaps to the highest bidder.  —  Hilton misplaced the camera at the Bongo Virus party …
MSat / Cele|bitchy:
Are Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler remarrying?  —  Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler in 2007, during one of their many reconciliations.  Photo credit: Bauergriffin.  —  I guess surviving a horrific plane crash and getting second and third degree burns over half his body wasn't enough torture …
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Tom Hanks Says Mormon Supporters of Proposition 8 ‘Un-American’  —  LOS ANGELES —  Tom Hanks Says Mormon Supporters of Prop-8 “Un-American”  —  Tom Hanks, Executive Producer for HBO's controversial polygamist series “Big Love,” made his feelings toward the Mormon Church's involvement …
Discussion: Scandalist and Queerty
 
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The Guardian:
How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns

Rodney Tiffen / Inside Story:
Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel

 
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