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2:20 PM ET, April 12, 2011

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Kim Kardashian / Kim Kardashian videos …:
Regarding My ‘Cosmopolitan’ Turkey Cover...  I just found out today that I am on the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine in Turkey this month.  Cosmopolitan Magazine has a number of international editions all around the world that run in various territories, and when I did this shoot …
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TMZ.com:
Kim Kardashian Upset at Cosmo for Turkish Cover  —  Sources close to Kim Kardashian tell TMZ ... Kim is upset that a picture from one of her photo shoots ended up on the cover of Turkish Cosmopolitan — the country that many believe committed genocide on the Armenian people.
TMZ.com:
Kim K Lines Up NEW Photo Shoot w/ Cosmo
Us Weekly:
Kirstie Alley: There's a “Conspiracy” Against Me on DWTS  —  Is something rotten in the state of Dancing with the Stars?  —  Kirstie Alley suffered yet another mishap during Monday's routine — her shoe fell off in the middle of her waltz — and now she's wondering whether someone's trying to sabotage her.
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Rob Shuter / PopEater:
Cloris Leachman: ‘Light on Her Feet’ Kirstie Alley Will Win ‘Dancing’  —  Hollywood veteran Cloris Leachman is convinced Kirstie Alley will win this season's ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ telling me she's been pleasantly surprised at how graceful the full-figured actress has been.
The Superficial:
Scarlett Johansson Looks Pregnant  —  Over the past few weeks, many people have been left wondering just what the 26-year-old Scarlett Johansson sees in 50-year-old Sean Penn, so at this point I'd like to toss my hat in the ring by saying he put a freaking baby in her.
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Alyson Hannigan Back For ‘American Reunion’  —  Alyson Hannigan has signed to reprise her role in American Reunion, the Universal film that brings back the cast of the raunchy American Pie franchise.  Hannigan was the question mark among the original cast when stories about the sequel began popping up.
Britney Spears:
Britney Spears Announces Special Guest Nicki Minaj to Join Femme Fatale Tour  —  POP SUPERSTAR BRITNEY SPEARS ANNOUNCES SPECIAL GUEST NICKI MINAJ TO JOIN THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ALL FEMALE FEMME FATALE TOUR Jessie and the Toy Boys and Nervo to Open All Dates Tickets Go On Sale Beginning April …
Elise / INF Daily:
Kelly Preston In Town For TV Land - Shows Off New Baby Benjamin Tavolta - First Pics!  —  INF Daily caught up with 48 year old mom Kelly Preston as she emerged from her hotel in New York City.  She was carrying her 4 month old baby, Benjamin Travolta.  Kelly and hubby John Travolta are in town …
Discussion: PopEater
Life + Times:
Straight Outta Compton?  —  Oscar-winning actress and my sister Gwyneth Paltrow emailed me and said, “I love your new site.  Can I ask you five questions about it?”  I said, “I'll show you mine if you let me see yours.”  Here are mine.  Go see hers at goop.com.  It's fresh.
Sarah Crow / PopEater:
‘Real Housewife’ Jill Zarin Debuts Dramatic New Look  —  When Jill Zarin hit the red carpet at the TV Land Awards this weekend, the “Real Housewife” was looking a lot less like the sharp-tongued socialite we've come to know.  —  The feisty redhead has been a standout personality on …
Discussion: Us Weekly
The Superficial:
Lady GaGa Fell Off a Piano  —  The Internet was built for exactly two things: Porn and watching people almost die from hilarious injuries.  Somehow, this video of Lady GaGa falling onstage in Houston qualifies as both.  Here she is proving the numbing qualities of cocaine by surviving …
Taryn Ryder / Celebuzz:
Miranda Cosgrove: I Got Into Two Great Colleges!  —  Miranda Cosgrove shot to fame as a cute-as-a-button kid actress in iCarly, and now just like other kids, she's grown up before our eyes and is almost ready to go off into the collegiate world.  Now the only thing that stands before her is the huge decision of which college to go to.
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Khloe Kardashian: Lamar Wanted to Quit Reality Show “3 Days In”  —  Two days after the premiere of Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom's new reality series, Khloe & Lamar, the L.A. Lakers star is already struggling to adapt to the rigors of fame.  —  “I thought it was going to be easy.
Discussion: X17 Online and Digital Spy
E! Online:
Spoiler Chat: Get Sweeps Scoop on Your Fave Gossip Girl, Glee and Grey's Anatomy Couples  —  It's almost time for sweeps, peeps; and as every good fan knows, the TV episodes in April and May are the best of the best, which means hookups and breakups for some of our faves.
Discussion: AfterElton.com, TV Fanatic and TV Envy
New York Magazine:
Daughter Dearest  —  Together with Thirteen and The ­Conspirator—in which Wood plays the daughter of a wrongfully convicted Robin Wright, and Wood gets one great eruption of grief in a courtroom—that makes three major projects in which she has laid bare the close, tight vines of the mother-daughter relationship.
Discussion: The FABlife and Crushable
LoriC / RADAR:
PHOTOS: Lindsay Lohan Arrives In NYC; Fires Back At Betty White  —  Forget Snooki VS. Angelina — the latest celebrity feud is Lindsay Lohan VS. Betty White?!?  —  Yes, it's true!  Lohan, 24, and White, 89, have traded barbs in what has to be the oddest tiff to hit Tinsletown in a while.
Simon Perry / People.com:
Kate Middleton: Of Course I'm Nervous!  —  Prince William has admitted to pre-wedding jitters, and a chance encounter with a woman in Blackburn has prompted Kate Middleton to reveal her own bride-to-be butterflies!  —  Understandably, as there will be an estimated two billion TV viewers around …
Discussion: Perez Hilton and PopSugar
Lynn Hirschberg / Wmagazine.com:
The Devil In Miss Jones  —  JANUARY JONES, THE STAR OF X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, ON MUTANTS, MAD MEN, AND FACING THE PAPARAZZI.  —  Although she was named after January Wayne, the prototypical Seventies heroine of Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, January Jones projects the cool …
Discussion: Just Jared and The Huffington Post
GQ:
The World Sucks, But I Have Some Plans  —  Global warming?  Civil war?  Crocs?  No problem  —  Zach Galifianakis is everywhere: on the internet with Between Two Ferns; on HBO with a recurring role in Bored to Death; on network television as two-time host of SNL; even in the English lexicon …
Discussion: PopEater and Cele|bitchy
People.com:
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp Bound for Cannes  —  Cue the paparazzi: Cinema's rite of spring - the Cannes Film Festival - will feature an all-star cast, as will be officially announced on Thursday.  But, for now, PEOPLE has learned that fans can expect to find Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie …
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Cele|bitchy
omg!:
Tori Spelling Is Pregnant With Third Child!  —  Baby on board!  —  Tori Spelling and hubby Dean McDermott are expecting their third child!  The actress and reality star, 37, announced her baby news via Twitter Monday  —  “I know there's been a lot of speculation, so I wanted everyone to hear from me …
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Ulrica Wihlborg / People.com:
Tori Spelling: I'm Pregnant!
Brian Orloff / People.com:
David Arquette Not Scandalized by Courteney Cox's Vacation with Costar  —  Courteney Cox may have been vacationing in St. Barts with her Cougar Town costar Josh Hopkins and some friends recently, but David Arquette says there's nothing controversial about the trip.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Perez Hilton
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TMZ.com:
Trump Rips Bill Cosby — He's a Two-Faced Phony!  —  Donald Trump is firing back at Bill Cosby after the comedian blasted the billionaire on “The Today Show” last week — claiming Bill's nothing more than an underhanded backstabber.  —  It's all over a statement Bill made on “The Today Show …
Sara Nathan / Daily Mail:
Cowell quits X Factor: Pop mogul will put U.S. launch before UK show  —  Simon Cowell has told ITV chiefs that he will not be a judge on The X Factor in the UK this year.  —  Executives at the network were embroiled in a desperate bid to keep the 51-year-old on the show after he said that filming …
Discussion: Deadline.com, The Wrap and Inside TV
Nisha Lilia Diu / Telegraph:
‘I tormented my parents’: Taylor Swift interview  —  Taylor Swift is a record-breaking, multiple Grammy-winning country rock phenomenon.  She also writes excruciatingly honest songs about herself and, increasingly, other celebrities.  The Telegraph meets her for a game of guess-who.
 
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Greg Braxton / Show Tracker:
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CMT Cancels Sitcom ‘Working Class’
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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

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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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