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3:30 PM ET, February 8, 2009

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Access Hollywood:
Usher Cancels Performance Over Wife's Plastic Surgery Emergency In South America  —  Usher,Music,TV One,Celebrities,Couples  —  Usher has canceled his performance at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party due to a family emergency, Access Hollywood has learned.  —  His wife, Tameka …
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Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Usher Cancels Pre-Grammy Gig Due to “Serious” Family Emergency  —  Usher is dealing with a family crisis.  —  Record mogul Clive Davis shocked guests at his annual star-studded pre-Grammys party Saturday night when he announced that the R&B superstar would not be performing as planned.
Edna Gundersen / USA Today:
Whitney Houston salutes Clive Davis  —  BEVERLY HILLS — From the moment cocktails were served at 7, buzz swirled around Whitney Houston.  Would the long-absent diva really brave the stage at Saturday night's celebrity-packed Pre-Grammy Gala?  —  Host Clive Davis, Sony Music's chief creative officer …
Sports Illustrated:
Sources tell SI Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003 … In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.
Dan Wootton / News of the World:
Amy's secret divorce file  —  WINO is on her way home (you may proceed with annoyed groans).  —  The singer returns to the UK from St Lucia to kick off her divorce battle with estranged hubby BLAKE FIELDER-(I'm not-so)-CIVIL.  —  Amy will get her legal team together to come up with a game plan …
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Peter G / Us Weekly:
Rep: Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy Engaged!  —  Claire Danes and her British boyfriend, Hugh Dancy, are engaged, her rep confirms to Usmagazine.com.  —  The couple have been inseparable since meeting on the 2007 film Evening.  —  Check out other couples who hooked up while working together.
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Lorenzo Benet / People.com:
Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler Get Married!  —  Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler's first wedding photo!  —  Skating with Celebrities winners Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler were married on Saturday, the couple confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.  —  “It was awesome and I feel amazing,” Swanson tells PEOPLE.
Georgina Dickinson / News of the World:
Birthday girl Jen reveals all about love, life, babies & being fab at 40  —  HOLLYWOOD stunner Jennifer Aniston hits 40 this week and today she kicks off the celebrations with a string of revelations on all the men in her life.  —  In a sensational interview the Friends legend shares …
Jordan Miller / BreatheHeavy.com:
NEW NATIONAL ENQUIRER  —  This update literally took me all day to do.  No really, all day.  —  The last thing I wanted to do after ditching classes today was to get out of bed, stand in line behind 500 old people at the supermarket and buy this week's f**king tabloids, but I love you bitches, so I did anyway.
New York Post:
'GWYNNIE'S GOOP COPIED ME'  —  WHO in the world would want to take credit for Gwyneth Paltrow's self-indulgent Web site about her fitness regimen, her detoxes and her bowel movements?  —  Believe it or not, “holistic” journalist and Dragonfly Wellness founder Mary Kate Hearon claims …
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Mickey O'Connor / TVGuide.com:
Exclusive: Two New Gossip Girl Castings  —  Remember when Nate was poor and huddling under a tartan sleeping bag trying to keep warm in the basement of his family's seized Upper East Side townhouse on Gossip Girl?  Well, don't worry, he isn't poor anymore because... well, something happened, I'm a little unclear actually.
K.C. Baker / People.com:
Rihanna Helps 5-Year-Old Fan Look for Bone Marrow Donor  —  Rihanna is stepping forward to help a 5-year-old New York City girl find a bone marrow donor - the second time in a year that the Grammy Award winner has helped a leukemia victim seek a match.  —  “When I saw the video of Jasmina it broke my heart.
ABCNEWS:
Kate Winslet: 'I Don't Want to Be the Most-Nominated Loser'  —  Oscar Nominee on Awards, Acceptance Speeches, Acting While ‘Extremely Naked’  —  Juggling Movies and Motherhood  —  Winslet has talked openly over the years about being, in her words, “a fat girl” when she was young …
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Associated Press:
Christian Bale says rant ‘inexcusable’  —  LOS ANGELES - Christian Bale says he acted like a “punk” and that his profane tongue-lashing on the set of “Terminator Salvation” was inexcusable.  —  In Friday remarks on a Los Angeles morning radio show, Bale said he never intended to get physical with cinematographer Shane Hurlbut.
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