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12:40 PM ET, October 13, 2009

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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!
Discussion: Celebritology
TMZ.com:
Jon & Kate Plus a Court Date  —  UPDATE: The brief hearing is over — Jon and Kate are due back in court on October 26.  —  Jon & Kate Gosselin walked into Montgomery Courthouse in Pennsylvania just moments ago — separately — ready to battle over the $230,000 Jon allegedly withdrew from the bank account he shares with Kate.
Discussion: omg!, Us Weekly and Buzz
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TMZ.com:
Judge to Jon & Kate — Settle this Mess!  —  The judge in the Jon and Kate Gosselin divorce clearly has had it up to here ... he didn't rule on any of the epic conflicts but ordered Jon and Kate to settle up and work it out with the arbitrator.  The judge said he'll be down with anything …
Discussion: OK! Magazine
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Dominique Hines / Daily Mail:
‘I feel great with no clothes on,’ says supermodel Tyra Banks after dropping four dress sizes  —  Being a model can be something of a poisoned chalice.  If the model figure alters, everybody takes notice.  —  Which may explain why Tyra Banks, 35, hit the headlines two years ago after gaining 30lb, ballooning to a size 14-16.
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.
BBC:
Gately ‘died of natural causes’  —  The Boyzone singer Stephen Gately died of natural causes, a post-mortem examination in Spain has established.  —  An official said he suffered pulmonary oedema, which is an accumulation of fluid on the lungs.  —  The 33-year-old star was found dead at his holiday home in Majorca on Saturday.
Discussion: ArtsBeat and PopSugar UK
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Daniel Kilkelly / Digital Spy:
Stephen Gately ‘died of natural causes’
Discussion: Reuters
Jennifer Armstrong / EW.com:
‘Glee’ creator Ryan Murphy responds to cast being pulled from Macy's parade  —  Glee creator Ryan Murphy says he gets why NBC asked Macy's to pull the cast of his Fox show out of its Thanksgiving Day parade: “I completely understand NBC's position, and look forward to seeing a Jay Leno float,” he told EW.com.
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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
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 …
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Nellie Andreeva / Hollywood Reporter:   Carrie Underwood headlines Fox variety show
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.”
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy:
Crackheads are clever: Lindsay Lohan's ingenious Parisian jewel heist  —  Yesterday, I noted several things about Lindsay Lohan's three-week Paris jaunt.  First, I think she would only be able to stay in Paris for three solid weeks if she found a really good dealer.
Discussion: RADAR, Hint Magazine and CelebNewsWire
TMZ.com:
College to Letterman: Don't Touch Our Interns!  —  A Connecticut college has initiated a new program to keep David Letterman interns at arms length from the host.  —  A rep from Quinnipiac University tells TMZ: … David might be happy to know the college has no plans to end the program.
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.
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: Videogum and Collider
Marc Graser / Variety:
O'Keefe, Staples to adapt ‘Apaches’  —  Project has been in development since 1997  —  Jerry Bruckheimer Films isn't giving up on “Apaches.”  The company has tapped Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples to take a stab at adapting Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel about a group of renegade cops.
Discussion: Cinematical and I Watch Stuff
Kristin Dos Santos / E! Online:
Spoiler Chat: OMG, Look Who's Hooking Up Next!  —  Hooray for the sexual Petri dish of prime time!  Not only is Gossip Girl's much-buzzed-about threesome on the way (and yes, we have scoop on that, too), but sources are buzzing about a new core coupling on the way that many of you fans have been speculating about...
Discussion: Gossip Girl Insider
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.
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.”
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.
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 …
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Paramount swings at pricey pitch  —  J.J. Abrams to produce untitled project  —  In a deal valued close to $2 million, Paramount has acquired an untitled feature pitch from scribes Aline Brosh McKenna and Simon Kinberg.  —  J.J. Abrams will produce with Bryan Burk through their Bad Robot banner.
Discussion: Collider and EW.com
PEOPLE Pets Top 5 Treats:
Brooke Burns Is Reunited with Her Missing Maltipoo  —  Melrose Place actress Brooke Burns and her 9-year-old daughter Madison are overjoyed at the return of their missing maltipoo, Max, who disappeared last week when painters left a door open at their Toluca Lake, Calif., home.
Discussion: Lifeline Live and TMZ.com
 
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