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4:25 PM ET, June 30, 2008

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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Heidi Montag: I Want to Record a Christian Album  —  There is a different side to Heidi Montag that you don't see on MTV's The Hills, the 21-year-old budding singer tells USA Today.  —  “I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old.  I always felt this crazy connection to God …
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Vanity Fair:
Bright Young Hollywood  —  Since V.F. first focused on Hollywood's teen titans, in 2003, the YouTube-Gawker machine has upped the ante.  For every Shia LaBeouf success, there's a Lindsay Lohan flameout.  For our August issue, Mark Seliger photographs today's crop of hot young things …
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Singer Britney Spears Has Overnight Visit With Her Boys  —  Britney Spears spent Saturday night with her boys at her Los Angeles home.  —  It was the singer's first overnight visit with Sean Preston, 2 1/2, and Jayden James, 1 1/2, since she was hospitalized at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in January.
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New York Post:
‘GOSSIP’ GUYS ARE IN THE CHACE  —  TV's “Gossip Girl” show is engendering big gossip but not about the girls.  About the boys.  On the show Chace Crawford plays the role of Nate Archibald and Ed Westwick plays the role of Chuck Bass.  It's who they're playing with off the show that's causing the juices to flow.
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Rosie O'Donnell Laughs Off Split Report  —  Rosie O'Donnell is laughing off a report in Cindy Adams' New York Post gossip column that she is leaving longtime partner Kelli Carpenter.  —  “Rosie thinks that Cindy Adams is a lesbian but she doesn't know it yet,” a rep for the former View co-host tells Usmagazine.com.
Discussion: Lifeline Live
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Ringless Guy Ritchie Boards Flight to NYC  —  A ringless Guy Ritchie was photographed Monday at London's Heathrow Airport for a flight to New York, presumably to meet up with Madonna.  —  The two spent this past weekend apart as split rumors swirl.  —  Looking anguished, Madonna …
Discussion: omg!
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In Touch Weekly:
Madonna and Guy are “close and loving,” says Mom
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Daniel Macht / Telegraph:
Guy Ritchie's mother denies Madonna divorce rumours
Discussion: Celebrity Smack! and Dlisted
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Supermodel Plunges to Death in Apparent Suicide  —  Ruslana Korshunova  —  A supermodel plunged to her death Saturday afternoon by leaping from her Lower Manhattan apartment window in an apparent suicide.  —  Ruslana Korshunova, barely shy of her 21st birthday, apparently jumped …
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TMZ.com:
Coroner: Supermodel Jumped to Her Death
Discussion: Bumpshack.com
Contactmusic.com:
ALICIA KEYS - KEYS TO RETIRE AT 30  —  R+B singer ALICIA KEYS has decided she wants to retire by the age of 30 - so she can spend the rest of her life travelling the world.  —  The 27-year-old star often finds herself exasperated by the pressures of fame and in 2006 she took a break from music and travelled to Egypt to recuperate.
BBC:
Fan filmed Amy Winehouse incident  —  A man who was allegedly elbowed in the head by Amy Winehouse at Glastonbury Festival has handed mobile phone footage of the incident to the BBC.  —  James Gostelow, 25, from London, said the singer caught him on the forehead after someone in the crowd behind him threw a hat at her.
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TMZ.com:
Hulk Hogan: Manboy's Riding More than Linda  —  Who could've guessed Hulk Hogan — the guy who body-slammed Andre the Giant — would finally meet his match in a 19-year-old beach bum?  —  Hogan told radio host Bubba the Love Sponge that Linda Hogan's younger-than-Brooke boyfriend, Charley Hill …
Discussion: Gone Hollywood and Vh1 Blog
James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:
Who's Up?  Hollywood's Next Wave  —  It's been only five years since V.F. took a reading of Hollywood's youthquake—featuring the likes of Lindsay Lohan, the Olsen twins, and Shia LaBeouf—but the celebrity terrain has gotten rougher.  Nonetheless, the new kids seem more sure-footed amid the YouTube-Gawker-TMZ minefield.
Michael K / Dlisted:
A Shirtless & Dirty Prince Hot Ginge  —  JustUsBoys posted this newish picture of Prince Hot Ginge looking like a sexy, dirty mess.  Who cares if his hair looks like it could be used to clean the hell out of my bathroom tile grout.  And who cares if his bush probably looks and feels like a Chore Boy.
Discussion: WOW Report
Carla Rivera / Los Angeles Times:
Scientology is focus of flap over Will Smith's new school  —  Some teachers at New Village Academy in Calabasas are church members, and instructional methods developed by the religion's founder will be used.  But an official says the religion will not be taught.
POPSUGAR:
Lindsay Lohan Smokes While Pregnant with Samantha  —  Despite all the Lohan drama last week with Lindsay's supposed long lost sister, LL went about her usual routine in LA. She was spotted wearing a fake baby bump on a smoke break on the set of Labor Pains — obviously an unflattering sight …
Discussion: OH NO!!
Mark Jefferies / Mirror.co.uk:
Sienna Miller in messy love triangle with married millionaire  —  Sienna Miller is in a messy love triangle with a married millionaire a month after dumping actor Rhys Ifans.  —  The star has fallen for Balthazar Getty, 33, a member of the super rich oil dynasty.
 
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Contactmusic.com:
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Roger Friedman / Fox News:
Christie Brinkley Still Friends With Billy Joel
Discussion: Jossip and Jezebel
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ITV:
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Dave McNary / Variety:
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Starpulse:
This Not A Repeat, DMX Is Arrested Again
Discussion: poponthepop.com
The Mail on Sunday:
Baby's Greatest Hits: Nicole Kidman chooses Irish flautist James …
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish Get Cozy at Weekend BBQ
3am:
Kelly Osbourne not in the Glastonbury mood as she mourns dead dog
Discussion: Seriously? OMG!
Ulrica Wihlborg / People.com:
Chris Evert and Greg Norman Wed in Bahamas
 

 
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Emma Loffhagen / The Guardian:
Amazon withdraws from the Paris book festival, after the French booksellers' association said it will boycott the festival in protest at Amazon's involvement

Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Ahmad Batebi, a journalist with VOA's Persian service, says he was fired over a clash about VOA limiting coverage of Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

Jennifer Orsi / Poynter:
The Poynter Institute appoints President Neil Brown as chairman of the board, succeeding Paul Tash, who served as chairman for 20 years and is retiring

 
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