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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Britney Spears Sweeps VMAs, Thanks “My Beautiful Boys for Inspiring Me” — Britney Spears got off to a good start at Sunday's 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, scoring laughs during her opening and winning her first ever “moonman.” — She kicked off the show with Superbad's Jonas Hill in a pre-taped skit …
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Brian Orloff / People.com:
Britney Wins Two Video Music Awards — Britney Spears at the MTV VMAs — Britney was back in fighting form at MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday night - opening the show and nabbing her first win. — A nervous Britney Spears opened the 25th edition of the VMAs, live from Paramount Studios in Los Angeles …
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Russell Brand's ‘retarded cowboy’ jibe at George Bush shocks MTV audience — Russell Brand faces being blacklisted by the American media after causing outrage with a string of offensive jokes at the live MTV Video Music Awards. — The Essex-born comedian labelled President George Bush a ‘retard’ …
New York Post:
BRIT SNIT OVER HER MOM'S BOOK — Britney Spears is said to be “furious” with her mother, Lynne, after Lynne detailed her daughter's past in her memoir, “Through the Storm.” While the book doesn't dish on Britney's sex life or drug use, it blames all of Britney's problems on her daughter's former managers.
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Britney sweeps at otherwise tame VMAs — LOS ANGELES - It took a year, but Britney Spears got the comeback she was seeking from the MTV Video Music Awards and she didn't even have to sing or dance. — Spears nabbed three VMAs, including video of the year, erasing last year's career-low performance.
Libby Keatinge / Scandalist:
EXCLUSIVE: Dumped By Holly, Hugh Hefner Seeks Girls Next Door Replacements? — Amid rumors that Hugh Hefner's main squeeze Holly Madison has been hooking up with another major playboy (magician Criss Angel), a Playboy Mansion insider not only confirmed that the rumors are indeed true …
Brian Orloff / People.com:
Jordin Sparks Defends Purity Rings on VMAs — Jordin Sparks — Not everybody is laughing at Russell Brand at this year's Video Music Awards. — Jordin Sparks spoke out against the British comedian's jokes about the Jonas Brothers and their purity rings before introducing T.I.'s performance.
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Marc Malkin / Yahoo! News:
Pal: Ashlee and Pete Expecting Twins — Los Angeles (E! Online) - Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz could find themselves facing another round of twin rumors. — Pete's buddy, hip-hop artist Tyga, says that the parents-to-be are expecting not one, but two bundles of joy.
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Will Smith puts on ‘Pharaoh’ hat — Actor set for Columbia's ‘Last’ film — Will Smith may next morph into a god. — “Braveheart” scribe Randall Wallace will write “The Last Pharaoh,” a Columbia drama crafted as a vehicle for Smith to play Taharqa, the pharaoh who battled Assyrian invaders in ancient Egypt.
Charles Clover / Telegraph:
Robert De Niro's restaurant chain sells endangered tuna — A Michelin-starred restaurant chain part-owned by the actor Robert De Niro is serving endangered bluefin tuna at its London outlets without telling customers, DNA tests have shown. — Undercover investigators targeted the Nobu chain …
James Brady / PARADE Magazine:
Heidi Klum — I don't know about you, but I'll always take a call from a chartered vacation yacht sailing off the Italian coast—especially when it's international cover girl Heidi Klum, the host of TV's Project Runway, who's phoning. — “Whenever I hear the name Jim Brady,” she began, “I think of The Brady Bunch.”
Buddy Blankenfeld / KTVX-TV:
Man run over by Gary Coleman … PAYSON, Utah (ABC 4 NEWS) - A Spanish Fork man claims actor Gary Coleman assaulted him with his fists and his truck. Police say it happened just after midnight on Saturday at the South County Bowling Lanes in Payson. Two very different stories have emerged …
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Kay West / People.com:
Jessica Simpson Makes Grand Ole Opry Debut — Wearing a short and sparkly black frock with a plunging neckline that had camera operators on high alert for a wardrobe malfunction, Jessica Simpson made her Grand Ole Opry debut Saturday night. — Performing “Come On Over,” …
Daily Mail:
KT Tunstall weds her drummer boy on the Isle of Skye — It resembled a music festival rather than a wedding, with folk-singing guests and outdoor chemical toilets. — But yesterday Scots singer KT Tunstall married her fiance, drummer Luke Bullen, on the Isle of Skye.
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