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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Idol’ Panic: Secret Plot to Replace Mariah Carey With Jennifer Lopez Fails (Exclusive) — The plan to bring back Lopez mid-season was abandoned when Carey's team threatened legal action, sources tell THR. — With ratings in a steep slide, American Idol producers and Fox executives …
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TMZ.com:
‘American Idol’ Approaches Jennifer Lopez to Replace Mariah Carey — Jennifer Lopez has been approached by Fox execs to return to “American Idol” for the balance of the season ... to replace Mariah Carey ... sources connected with the network confirm to TMZ.
Jane / X17 Online:
REPORT: AMERICAN IDOL PLAN TO REPLACE MARIAH CAREY WITH JENNIFER LOPEZ FAILED
REPORT: AMERICAN IDOL PLAN TO REPLACE MARIAH CAREY WITH JENNIFER LOPEZ FAILED
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TMZ.com
Michael K / Dlisted:
American Idol Tried To Replace Mariah Carey With JLo Mid-Season
American Idol Tried To Replace Mariah Carey With JLo Mid-Season
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Oh No They Didn't!
Julie Jordan / People.com:
Gwyneth Paltrow: My Family Makes Me Feel Beautiful — She may be PEOPLE's 2013 Most Beautiful Woman but Gwyneth Paltrow insists her kids, Apple, 8, and Moses, 7, don't see her as anything but mom. — “Around the house, I'm in jeans and a T-shirt. I don't really wear makeup.
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Zach Braff / Kickstarter:
WISH I WAS HERE — Thomas A. Edison — Zach? What is this? — I was about to sign a typical financing deal in order to get the money to make “Wish I Was Here,” my follow up to “Garden State.” It would have involved making a lot of sacrifices I think would have ultimately hurt the film.
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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:
Fox Seals ‘Guys And Dolls’ Rights; Wants Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Fill Frank Sinatra And Marlon Brando Shoes — EXCLUSIVE: At long last, 20th Century Fox has closed movie rights to Guys And Dolls, and the studio will soon start the process of developing a remake of the stage …
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World of Wonder, Variety and thebacklot.com
In Touch Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Pregnant Kim Kardashians Bows Out of Baby-Bump Shoot — In Touch has learned that pregnant Kim Kardashian has bowed out of a baby-bump shoot. — Figure-hugging dresses, cropped lace tops and Twitpics are about as close as fans will get to seeing Kim Kardashian's baby bump.
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Celeb Gossip … and Sandra Rose
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Nicole Eggenberger / Us Weekly:
Jenelle Evans Arrested: Teen Mom 2 Star Said She Was “Sober” Day of Mugshot — Is Jenelle Evans as disappointed in herself as her fans are? The Teen Mom 2 star is back in jail after being arrested on Tuesday, Apr. 23 for heroin possession and alleged assault of her husband, Courtland Rogers.
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Bedhead / Cele|bitchy:
Rob Kardashian: ‘I see myself naked & cry, because my p-nis looks so small now’ — These are photos from a few weeks ago (that I've sort of been dying to use but needed an excuse) of Rob “Prefontaine” Kardashian prowling London with his new lady, Naza Jafarian, about a week after we covered …
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Socialite Life and In Case You Didn't Know
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Andrea Billups / People.com:
Ben Affleck to Live in Extreme Poverty - on $1.50 a Day for 5 Days — Ben Affleck plans to live on $1.50 a day - and he wants you to join him. — While the Oscar winner could certainly afford much more, Affleck is joining other celebrities to shine a light on poverty through the Global Poverty Project's Live Below the Line campaign.
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Cele|bitchy and Gawker
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Lindsay Lohan's Got A New-ish Sugar Daddy — Since Lindsay Lohan has a reputation as the rudest snatch on both coasts to uphold, she showed up 45 minutes to the Broadway play Orphans last night. Hey, LiLo has a good excuse! Negotiating a nightly rate with one of your newer johns takes time and can't be rushed.
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TMZ.com:
Lil Scrappy — RELEASED from Jail — RELEASED — From Jail — EXCLUSIVE — Lil Scrappy is a free man ... for now ... after a dubious pee test led to him being thrown in the slammer, TMZ has learned. — As we reported, Scraps turned himself in to ATL authorities yesterday in response …
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CONCRETELOOP.COM and Bossip
TMZ.com:
Rihanna Makes It RAIN on Miami Stripper — Throw It Up, Throw It Up! [VIDEO] — MAKES IT RAIN ON STRIPPER — Throw It Up, Throw It Up! — EXCLUSIVE — STRIP CLUBS AND DOLLAR BILLS!!! Rihanna sings from experience ... because last weekend in Miami, she dropped $8,000 on stripper booty — and we got video.
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Digital Spy, Gossip Cop, The Blemish and PerezHilton
RADAR:
A Starlet's Downward Spiral: Amanda Bynes Is Hearing Voices & Talks To Herself — Amanda Bynes' erratic and disturbing behavior has taken a drastic turn for the worse because the starlet has been hearing voices and talks to herself in unintelligible sentences, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
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Sara Vilkomerson / Inside Movies:
First Look: Shailene Woodley faces knives in ‘Divergent’ — EXCLUSIVE PHOTO — Divergent, the highly anticipated adaptation of the first book in Veronica Roth's best-selling YA series, only recently began filming on location in Chicago. But Shailene Woodley, who stars as heroine Beatrice …
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TIME:
TIME Talks to Lena Dunham, Jimmy Fallon, Steven Spielberg at TIME 100 Gala Cocktail Party — Stars mixed and mingled at the TIME 100 Gala cocktail party in New York City on Tuesday night. — Mia Farrow, a TIME 100 alum and Twitter activist, wore a Boston Red Sox T-shirt underneath her blazer …
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POPSUGAR Celebrity, Socialite Life, Oh No They Didn't!, Just Jared and What Would Tyler Durden Do
lifeandstylemag.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Bradley Cooper's Flirty Brunch With Rachel McAdams — Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams were recently spotted getting quite flirty at a brunch in Santa Monica, Calif. — Bradley Cooper has seemingly put his latest love interest, British model Suki Waterhouse, on the back burner.
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In Case You Didn't Know and Celeb Gossip …
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
The Young Salinger, Mordant Yet Hopeful — On Nov. 18, 1941, a struggling Manhattan author wrote to a young woman in Toronto to tell her to look for a new piece of his in a coming issue of The New Yorker. This short story, he said, about “a prep school kid on his Christmas vacation,” …
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Christina Hernandez / nbcmiami.com:
Man Arrested After Fatal Shooting of Brother of Rapper Trina: Police — Ron Dobson, 27, faces a second-degree murder charge, Miami-Dade Police said — Wilbrent Bain, the brother of the famous female rapper Trina, was shot and killed Tuesday morning in northwest Miami, residents said.
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