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Sarah Michaud / People.com:
Heidi Klum & Seal Welcome a Daughter  —  Heidi Klum & Seal  —  Auf wiedersehen, maternity clothes!  —  Heidi Klum has given birth to a girl.  The Project Runway host delivered daughter Lou Samuel on Oct. 9 in Los Angeles, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.  —  Lou joins siblings Johan, 2 ½, Henry, 4, and Leni, 5.
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Cindy Crawford / Us Weekly:
Heidi Klum Gives Birth to Baby Girl!  —  It's a girl for Heidi Klum!  —  The Project Runway host, 36, and her musician husband, Seal, 46, welcomed Lou Sulola Samuel on Friday in L.A., Usmagazine.com has confirmed.  —  “It's difficult to imagine loving another child as much as you love …
Discussion: Celebritology
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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Carrie Underwood Is Coming to Your TV Screen  —  Christmas is coming a little early for Carrie Underwood: FOX is giving the American Idol fourth-season winner her own two-hour variety special.  —  The singer, 26, will host Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton and fellow Idol alum David Cook on her Dec. 7 show …
Discussion: ImNotObsessed.com
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Nellie Andreeva / Hollywood Reporter:
Carrie Underwood headlines Fox variety show
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip and TV Tattle
Cindy Crawford / Us Weekly:
Michael Lohan Urges Jon Gosselin to Join Celebrity Boxing Federation  —  If Jon Gosselin needs a way to blow off steam following his public fights with estranged wife Kate, Michael Lohan may have the solution.  —  Lindsay Lohan's dad stopped by the family's $1.1 million home in Wernersville …
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BBC:
Gately ‘died of natural causes’  —  The late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately died of natural causes, a post mortem examination in Spain has established.  —  An official said he suffered a pulmonary oedema, which is an accumulation of fluid on the lungs.  —  The 33-year-old star was found dead …
Discussion: ArtsBeat and PopSugar UK
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Daniel Kilkelly / Digital Spy:
Stephen Gately ‘died of natural causes’
Discussion: Reuters
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Paramount sets sights on ‘Money’ men  —  Studio in negotiations with Chris Pine, D.J. Caruso  —  Paramount Pictures is in negotiations with thesp Chris Pine and director D.J. Caruso to put fact-based drama “The Art of Making Money” on a fast track to begin production early next year.
Mike Fleeman / People.com:
Robert Pattinson: I Can't Find a Date  —  Women take note: It may not be as hard to find your way into Robert Pattinson's heart as you might think.  Just remember his name.  —  “Girls scream out for Edward, not Robert,” the Twilight star tells the Sydney Morning Herald.  “I still can't get a date.”
Dave McNary / Variety:
CBS Films fostering ‘Freaky’ follow-up  —  Hach, Rodgers co-wrote teen novel  —  CBS Films is developing the teen comedy “Freaky Monday” with producers Andrew Gunn and Mark Waters.  —  Eye's film arm has optioned the body-switching novel from “Freaky Friday” writer Heather Hach.
TMZ.com:
‘Glee’ Cast Dumped from Macy's Parade  —  The hit FOX show “Glee” is chorus non grata at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ... and we've learned NBC is behind it all.  —  The network that can't produce a hit to save its life — at least this year — has banned the cast of “Glee” from appearing at the Parade that airs on NBC.
Popeater:
Courtney Love Ditches Twitter, Too  —  Not long after pop star Miley Cyrus fell off the Twitter-verse, rock ranter Courtney Love has disappeared from the social blog, too.  Allegedly Love's site was shut down after she posted a series of inflammatory tweets calling fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir a “nasty lying hosebag thief.”
Kellvin Chavez / Latino Review:
Exclusive: Independence Day Sequel Stalled By Fox  —  The possibility of a sequel for 1996's “Independence Day” has been long talked about.  Over the years producer/writer Dean Devlin has been very coy about not saying a word regarding a film that grossed over $800 million worldwide.
Cindy Crawford / Us Weekly:
Audrina: Heidi Montag Wants to Be “Next Octomom!”  —  Forget being the next Britney Spears!  The Hills' Heidi Montag has a new celebrity aspiration.  —  “She said she wanted to be the next Octomom!”  Hills star Audrina Patridge told Usmagazine.com at the Surfrider's 25th Anniversary Gala on Friday in L.A. …
Nellie Andreeva / Hollywood Reporter:
Thomas Lennon brings comedy to NBC  —  To write, star in project with Robert Ben Garant  —  Two months after he broke the news of his Comedy Central show “Reno 911!” coming to an end, series star/co-creator Thomas Lennon is headlining a new comedy project at NBC.
Discussion: Collider
TMZ.com:
Shauna Sand to Block Sex Tape  —  Shauna Sand is in a war over a hardcore sex tape that's about to be released — but her defense is almost as revealing as the tape itself.  —  TMZ has learned Vivid Entertainment has acquired the tape — featuring Sand and her Miami boyfriend — and plans to release it on October 19.
Tim Stack / Hollywood Insider:
‘Glee’ tour in planning stages for 2010  —  Attention Gleeks: you may be able to catch all your favorite Glee songs performed live next year.  EW has learned that a Glee music tour is in the early discussion stage.  It's not surprising given that the series' music has been exploding on iTunes …
Discussion: Pop Crunch, Extra and Perez Hilton
Stephanie Barish / WPIX:
Scrubs Star Zach Braff Not Dead, Despite “Report”  —  wpix.com  —  NEW YORK (WPIX) - Actor Zach Braff seems to be the latest celebrity killed on the internet.  —  Braff, 34, is alive and well despite a rumor that popped up on Twitter, complete with a fake CNN article that stated Braff had died of an apparent suicide.
Discussion: Popeater and Oh No They Didn't!
Courtney Hazlett / msnbc.com:
Scoop: Kanye West seeks refuge in India  —  Plus: No happy Thanksgiving for ‘Glee’; ‘Sexy Fingers’ Cannon turns 29  —  Kanye West, still infamous for interrupting Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs, is reportedly taking a break — in India.  —  The Scoop  —  The BET Hip-Hop awards went …
E! Online:
Source: Angie “Couldn't Care Less” About Jen  —  AP Photo/Chris Pizzello; Eric Charbonneau/Le Studio/Getty Images  —  Is it time the public (OK, mostly media) to stop dragging out this whole Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie-Jennifer Aniston faux love triangle?  Jen got dumped for another girl …
Discussion: msnbc.com and OK! Magazine
DailyFill.com:
Vince Vaughn Is An A#*hole  —  Since bursting onto the scene with Swingers back in 1996, Vince Vaughn has become a force to be reckoned with at the box office.  Although he's had his fair share of flops, Vaughn has appeared in some of the most popular comedic films of the past decade such as Old School and Wedding Crashers.
Discussion: Pop Crunch
TMZ.com:
Anna Nicole Drug Prelim: The Birkhead Dilemma  —  The preliminary hearing for the people accused of fueling Anna Nicole Smith with drugs kicks off today... and Larry Birkhead faces an almost impossible situation.  —  We're told Birkhead will testify either Thursday or Friday.
David Letterman / New York Post:
$1M suit hits Madge trainer  —  Tracy Anderson, claims she swindled him out of $1 million and drove him into bankruptcy.  —  Anderson — who, as we revealed Saturday, has been ditched by the Queen of Pop — is being sued by creditors of  —  Glynn Barber, who was persuaded to invest in her company.
Discussion: Dlisted
 
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TMZ.com:
Jenner's Nobel Attack — Obama's ‘Done Nothing’
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Linda Marx / People.com:
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Michael K / Dlisted:
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From Mediagazer:

Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates

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