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3:50 PM ET, January 3, 2017

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Mark Hamill / Hollywood Reporter:
Mark Hamill's Carrie Fisher Tribute: “Making Her Laugh Was a Badge of Honor” (Guest Column)  —  “She was a handful, but my life would have been so much drabber if she hadn't been my friend,” Hamill writes in a remembrance of his late ‘Star Wars’ co-star.  —  Carrie and I occupied a unique area in each other's lives.
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Joely Fisher / Hollywood Reporter:
Joely Fisher Pays Tribute to Sister Carrie: “You Lost Princess Leia, I Lost My Hero” (Guest Column)  —  “We promised we'd spend Christmas together.  It's a promise we kept, although not in a way either of us had anticipated,” the late actress' half-sister writes in a remembrance.
TMZ.com:
Carrie Fisher — Family Wants to Thank Heroic United Passengers
Discussion: PerezHilton and Page Six
Jayme Deerwester / USA Today:
Mariah Carey's manager on NYE fiasco: ‘They wanted a viral moment’  —  Dick Clark Productions is biting back at claims from Mariah Carey's team that she was sabotaged during her performance.  Jose Sepulveda (@josesepulveda87) has more.  Buzz60  —  We're already three days into 2017 …
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TMZ.com:
Mariah Carey's Team Claims ‘Sabotage’ for Ratings (VIDEO)  —  Mariah Carey believes her New Year's Eve performance — which turned out to be a trainwreck — was sabotaged so TV execs could score bigger ratings than usual.  —  Sources connected with Mariah tell TMZ they repeatedly complained …
TMZ.com:
Kim & Kanye — Family Trip to Visit Mom's Grave  —  Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and their kids all touched down in L.A. Monday night after a very timely New Year's trip to visit the grave site of Kanye's mother.  —  The Wests stepped off their private jet — with Saint and North in tow — after traveling to Oklahoma City.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Megyn Kelly Is Said to Be Leaving Fox News for NBC  —  Megyn Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a television news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars, has decided to leave the network to take on a broad new role at NBC News for an undisclosed amount, people briefed on the negotiations said on Tuesday.
TMZ.com:
Demi Lovato & Luke Rockhold Break Up ... Singer Out with New Fighter  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS  —  Noooooooooooooooo!!  —  It's over for Demi Lovato and UFC stud Luke Rockhold ... the two have called it quits, multiple sources connected to the former couple tell TMZ Sports.
Mchiupeople / People.com:
Sam Hunt Is Engaged to Hannah Lee Fowler  —  We're thinking this wedding might be a little bigger than a “House Party.”  —  Sam Hunt recently popped the question to his girlfriend Hannah Lee Fowler.  “Sam and Hannah are engaged,” a rep for Hunt confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.
mirror:
George Michael's boyfriend speaks out as he blames ‘suicide’ tweets on hacker  —  Fadi Fawaz says he's “shocked” at the vile messages posted on his account  —  Get Celebs updates directly to your inbox  —  George Michael 's boyfriend is “shocked” over a series of tweets posted to his account claiming the singer committed suicide.
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Patrick Strudwick / BuzzFeed:
George Michael's Family Say They Will Not Speculate Over How He Died
Discussion: People.com and The Independent
Anthony Bond / mirror:
GEORGE MICHAEL AND HIS PARTNER FADI FAWAZ SPOTTED IN 2012
Discussion: PerezHilton
Ciara Farmer / Daily Mail:
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie hits the slopes with her kids during Colorado ski trip... as she enjoys NYE getaway in wake of Brad Pitt split  —  She suffered a painful split from her husband Brad Pitt after over a decade as a couple.  —  So Angelina Jolie was naturally keen to distance herself …
Rich Cohen / Vanity Fair:
Cover Story: Chris Pratt's Call to Stardom … Photographs by -  —  Chris Pratt wanted to cook me lunch—you can tell a lot about a person by the way they cook.  And not just any lunch—a lunch made from an animal that Pratt himself had killed, in Texas, where the mesquite blooms …
Discussion: PerezHilton and People.com
Eva Martino / Happily Eva After:
The Struggle Is Real  —  Today is a new year.  A new start.  Fresh beginnings.  I am inspired in the name of that optimism to share something with my readership today: I'm not doing well.  In fact, I'm really struggling.  I've been extremely overwhelmed recently, in a lot of different ways.
TMZ.com:
Janelle Monae — Claims Kim Burrell Won't Be on ‘Ellen’ ... After Homophobic Rant  —  Janelle Monae says gospel singer Kim Burrell has been 86d from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in the wake of her homophobic rant.  —  Janelle told our photog at LAX Burrell sunk herself with an anti-gay church sermon last week.
Discussion: Queerty, AOL and Bossip
 
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From Mediagazer:

Financial Times:
Sources: WBD's board wanted a proposal it could sign immediately, and Netflix was the only bidder whose paperwork was fully executable the night of December 4

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zaslav distrustful of Ellison

 
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