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8:25 PM ET, September 8, 2009

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Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Dancing With the Stars Duo Karina & Maks Split!  —  Welcome to today's episode of Splitting With the Stars.  —  I just learned that the dance-happy duo of Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have uncoupled and called off their long-pending nuptials.  —  “I am confirming that they did indeed break up,” Karina's rep tells me.
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People.com:
Maksim & Karina Split!  —  Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff  —  It looks like Dancing With the Stars' Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy will be performing their next dances solo.  —  The pair, who just last month gushed about how they do everything together …
People.com:
George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis Go Public  —  George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis in Venice  —  His hand still bandaged from a motoring accident last month, George Clooney was spotted arriving in Venice Monday sporting something that's all the rage in Italian trends - TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis.
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Popeater:
Clooney Shows Off His New Brunette  —  World, meet Elizabetta Canalis.  Elizabetta Canalis, meet the world and the ever-curious paparazzi that are about to take over your life.  George Clooney brought his new gal pal in tow to the Venice Film Festival, marking the first time he's been out publicly …
Michael K / Dlisted:   You Know George Wanted To Say Yes
Derek Elley / Variety:
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Discussion: Hollywood Elsewhere
Us Weekly:
Jon Gosselin: I “Despise” Kate  —  In more of his interview with ABC News, Jon Gosselin continues to trash estranged wife Kate, claming she took his wedding ring and may have had an affair with her bodyguard.  —  Jon, 32, says their relationship has gotten so sour they have to film their hit TLC reality show separately.
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TMZ.com:
Milian and The Dream — Secret Wedding in Vegas  —  TMZ has learned Christina Milian officially tied the knot with music producer The Dream in Vegas last week ... at a place famous for its “Drive-Thru Tunnel of Vows.”  —  It all went down close to midnight at the legendary Little White Wedding Chapel …
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy:
Kathy Griffin confesses all about torrid, gross Jack Black affair  —  For fans of Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List, this news is nothing new.  Kathy talked about her brief, torrid affair with comedian-actor Jack Black a couple of times, and she was always surprisingly nice about it.
Discussion: Chicago Sun Times and Pajiba
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Lynn Elber / Associated Press:
Tyra goes back to her (hair) roots on TV talk show
Discussion: coverawards.com
NY Daily News:   Perez's pledge to Tyra on targeting minors out the window
TMZ.com:
Janet Jackson — If the Glove Fits  —  Janet Jackson has been busting her butt rehearsing for a Michael Jackson tribute at the MTV Video Awards this weekend — and it promises to be a nipple-free affair.  We think.  —  Ms. Jackson is set to put on a huge MJ-honoring performance featuring 20 backup dancers …
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Katherine to Jermaine: The Show Must Not Go On
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E! Online:
Oops, Chris Brown Won't Beat It to Jackson Tribute
Discussion: CONCRETELOOP.COM and OK! Magazine
Mark Dagostino / People.com:
Soap Star Michelle Stafford Expecting  —  Thanks to the help of a surrogate, The Young and the Restless star Michelle Stafford is expecting her first child this December.  —  Stafford, 43, who has won two Emmys for her role as scheming Phyllis Summers on the CBS daytime drama …
Daily Mail:
Lady GaGa: ‘My father saved me from a deadly cocaine addiction’  —  Lady GaGa has revealed her tough no-nonsense father save her from drug addiction.  —  GaGa admitted spending long periods snorting cocaine alone in her cramped New York apartment, playing music by The Cure.
Us Weekly:
Aubrey O'Day Defends Dyeing Her Dog  —  Doggone it, there's nothing wrong with dyeing a dog, according to Aubrey O'Day.  —  The former Danity Kane singer, 25, has been criticized on some websites for constantly dyeing her 1-year-old teacup Maltese Ginger.  —  “She likes to have looks,” O'Day tells Usmagazine.com.
Anna N. / Jezebel:
How Not To Solve A Gender Dispute: Semenya's Magazine Makeover [Beauty/contest]  —  What could make the convoluted saga of Caster Semenya's disputed gender even more public and upsetting?  How about a makeover?  —  Yes, Semenya is now on the cover of South Africa's You magazine, wearing makeup, a dress, and a new hairdo.
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BBC:
Magazine makeover for South Africa's gender-row runner
Discussion: Salon and Oh No They Didn't!
Us Weekly:
Pregnant Heidi Klum: My “Thighs, Butt” Have Exploded  —  Heidi Klum — who is due in October with her fourth child, a girl — says the last month of pregnancy is the worst.  —  “The last month is unbelievable, how rapidly your stomach goes.  It's huge,” Klum, 36, tells Page Six magazine (out Sept. 10).
Discussion: Pink is the New Blog
thefrisky.com:
Exclusive Q&A: Diablo Cody Talks Megan Fox, Therapy, And Doing “The View” With Courtney Love  —  Posted by: Jessica Wakeman Filed In: Celebs  —  We're lusty Diablo Cody fans at The Frisky.  “Juno,” the TV show “The United States Of Tara,” her my-life-as-a-stripper-memoir, Candy Girl—we love it, love it, love it.
Discussion: Perez Hilton and ImNotObsessed.com
Perez Hilton:
More True Blood Stars Hooking Up  —  But this time, we are not happy about it!  —  Sources are telling us that Evan Rachel Wood and the delectable Alexander Skarsgard are more than just co-stars.  —  That whore!  —  A Perezcious reader sent us this tip about the newly happy saddening couple:
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Michael Ausiello / The Ausiello Files:
This just in: ‘SNL’ all-star Kristin Wiig NOT moving to ‘Weekend Update’  —  I knew this was too good to be true.  —  An SNL insider is denying a fast-spreading rumor that Kristin Wiig has been named co-anchor of Weekend Update alongside Seth Meyers.  “It's not true,” says the source.
 
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