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7:45 PM ET, April 23, 2009

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KTLA.COM:
Jay Leno Hospitalized, Tonight's Show Canceled … BURBANK — “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno has been hospitalized.  —  According to Tracy St. Pierre of NBC, Leno checked himself in to the hospital because he wasn't feeling well.  —  St. Pierre confirmed, tonight's show taping has been canceled.
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TMZ.com:
Jay Leno Hospitalized  —  Jay Leno went to the hospital today after complaining he wasn't feeling well.  —  Leno was not taken to the hospital by ambulance — he either drove himself or was driven by a staffer.  NBC officials have confirmed tonight's show taping has been canceled — a repeat will air instead.
Discussion: iVillage and Bumpshack.com
Access Hollywood:
Jay Leno Cancels ‘Tonight Show’ Taping Over Illness  —  Jay Leno,Late Night,Celebrities,Comedians  —  Jay Leno had to cancel today's taping of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” because of illness, Access Hollywood has learned.  —  “A repeat of ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ will air tonight …
Kate Schweitzer / Us Weekly:
Jay Leno Hospitalized
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Mike Fleeman / People.com:
Lindsay: Split with Samantha Caught Me By Surprise  —  What's more difficult than enduring a painful breakup in the public eye?  —  “When you don't know you're breaking up,” says Lindsay Lohan.  “Really weird.”  —  The 22-year-old actress shared her ordeal with somebody who knows …
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Cristina Gibson / E! Online:
Lindsay, Fergie, Paris Party at Us Weekly Bash
Discussion: Socialite Life and CoverAwards
Natalie Finn / E! Online:
Lindsay Thought Breakup With Sam “Would Be So Much Harder”
The Superficial:
Lindsay Lohan talks to Ellen about break up
Discussion: Dlisted
Extra:
Michael Lohan: I'm Not a Cheater!
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Michael Phelps on Miss Calif. Rumors: “I'm Single”  —  Michael Phelps is denying rumors that he is romancing controversial Miss California contestant Carrie Prejean.  —  “I'm not dating anybody,” he told Usmagazine.com Wednesday at the opening of the Omega flagship boutique in NYC.  “I'm single.
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Fox News:
Exclusive: Donald Trump Breaks Silence on Miss California's Gay Marriage Comments  —  Donald Trump has broken his silence.  —  The owner of the Miss Universe franchise finally addressed the scandal surrounding his Miss USA pageant to FOX News Thursday, saying that he has received thousands …
David Caplan / People.com:
Kim Kardashian: Miss California Is ‘Narrow-Minded’  —  Kim Kardashian (left) and Carrie Prejean  —  Kim Kardashian is the latest celebrity to slam Miss California Carrie Prejean's anti-gay marriage stance, which she verbalized at the Miss USA pageant last weekend.
Jeanne Wolf / PARADE Magazine:
Terrence Howard: ‘Iron Man 2’ Decision a ‘Very, Very Bad Choice’  —  Don't look for Terrence Howard to reprise his role in Iron Man 2.  He was replaced in the sequel by Don Cheadle after a rumored dispute with producers over salary issues.  But Howard insists that karma is on his side.
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NBC Los Angeles:
Jacko Flees in SUV After Crash With Ambulance: EMT  —  Man snaps photos allegedly showing King of Pop entering vehicle  —  King of pop Michael Jackson may have been involved in a bizarre hit-and-run collision with an ambulance in Beverly Hills on Wednesday afternoon, a medic said Wednesday.
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TMZ.com:   EMT: Jacko's Hit-n-Run Driver Caused Injuries
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Access Hollywood:
Hayden Panettiere's Home Burglarized
Discussion: iVillage
OK! Magazine:
JT Explains Extreme PDA Session  —  Competition is a good enough reason to lay one on your girlfriend in front of 18,000 people, especially if you happen to be Justin Timberlake smooching Jessica Biel to show up Dustin Hoffman.  —  On last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, JT admits his reasoning behind …
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Breanne L. Heldman / E! Online:
Rise ‘n’ Shine: Justin Timberlake Makes Excuses for Stuff
Discussion: CoverAwards and New York Magazine
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Pregnant Heidi Klum: I'm Hoping For a Girl!  —  The Project Runway host — who is raising Leni, 5, Henry, 3, and Johan, 2, with husband Seal — also reveals her family is hoping for a girl.  —  “We'd be happy with either,” she tells Us Weekly in her only interview about her fourth pregnancy.
Ccane / What The Flick:
Is Idris Elba bailing out of Obsessed?  —  “Obsessed” is in theatres tomorrow and rumor has it Idris Elba has bailed out of all press.  This week, Elba did not attend the New York City press junket, canceled on BET's 106 & Park and supposedly he will not be at the red carpet premiere tonight in New York City.
Lainey's Entertainment Update:
Exclusive!  Taylor Lautner and Selena Gomez!  —  Couple made in Tween Heaven!  —  Both 16 and both in Vancouver - Selena Gomez arrived in town last week to begin work on a new movie called Ramona and Beezus.  —  My sources tell me exclusively that she and Taylor Lautner, of Twilight of course …
Discussion: Allie Is Wired!
Kate Schweitzer / Us Weekly:
Hugh Jackman: I'm Not Gay  —  “I'd be happy to go and deny it, because I'm not,” he says in this Sunday's Parade magazine.  “But by denying it, I'm saying there is something shameful about it, and there isn't anything shameful.”  —  Questions about the star's sexuality surfaced …
Michael K / Dlisted:
John Mayer's New Piece  —  John Mayer might have a new piece to keep his twitter warm after Jennifer Aniston Riverdanced all over his heart like the man-eating tramp she is (served with a heaping dollop of sarcasm.)  Star Magazine says John has moved on from 40-year-old Jen to 23-year-old ex-buffalo wing server Scheana Marie Jancan.
Sharon Reich / Reuters:
Beyonce says “definitely” wants Broadway role  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grammy Award winning singer and actress Beyonce Knowles has a plan to settle down in a couple of years and have some children with her husband, hip hop mogul Jay-Z, do less touring and — debut on Broadway.
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press:
Japanese pop star arrested for alleged indecency  —  TOKYO - A Japanese pop star was arrested Thursday for public indecency after being found drunk and naked at a Tokyo park, police said.  —  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, a member of hugely popular group SMAP, was arrested on the spot after neighbors complained …
Discussion: Perez Hilton
The Huffington Post:
Susan Boyle: Just Kidding About Not Being Kissed  —  Britian's YouTube singing star Susan Boyle is backtracking on her claims that she has never been kissed.  Boyle, appearing on Simon Cowell's “Britain's Got Talent” 10 days ago, told cameras she lives alone with her cat Pebbles and has “never been married, never been kissed.
Howard Breuer / People.com:
John Travolta Seeks Solitude in Tahiti  —  John Travolta with tourist bureau greeters in Tahiti  —  John Travolta, mourning the death of his son Jett earlier this year, took a solo trip to Tahiti over the weekend.  —  Travolta, 55, flew in from Australia on Saturday morning on his private 707 …
 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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