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People.com:
Usher, Tameka Foster Expecting a Baby — Tameka Foster and Usher — Usher is going to be a father for the second time, PEOPLE has learned. — The R&B star and his wife Tameka Foster are expecting their second child together, a source close to the singer confirms.
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Singer Usher and Wife Expecting Second Child — Usher and wife Tameka Foster are expecting their second child, Usmagazine.com has learned. — See photos of Us' bump hall of fame. — The R&B singer, 29, and Foster, 38, welcomed their first child, Usher Raymond V, in November.
BBC:
Jonas Brothers react to Brand — American band The Jonas Brothers insist they haven't taken offence at comments made by Russell Brand during the MTV Video Music Awards. — The comedian took a pop at the band over the purity rings they wear which symbolise their virginity.
Daily Mail:
Short Beck-and-sides: Posh steals the show at New York Fashion Week with a Halle Berry inspired crop — Victoria Beckham is the talk of New York Fashion Week after unveiling a surprise new cut at the Marc Jacobs catwalk show yesterday. — Posh has abandoned her famous Pob in favour of a daring pixie crop …
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Ken Baker / E! Online:
Brody Jenner's New Playmate — Lauren Conrad now has even more competition if she ever hopes to get Brody Jenner back in her hands. — E! News has learned exclusively that Jenner is dating 2008 Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole. The couple is serious enough that Jenner took …
New York Post:
CLOSE CALL — PETE Wentz once played a scary game of Russian roulette while in a booze-and-pill stupor. “I pulled a trigger on a gun aimed at myself,” the Fall Out Boy star and hubby of Ashlee Simpson confesses in next month's Playboy. “My friend and I did one pull each. We'd been drinking and had taken Ambien.
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Pete Wentz: 90% Sure “It's a Boy” — Break out the cigars for Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson. — “We know with 90% accuracy that it's a boy, and our due date is around Thanksgiving,” he tells the October issue of Playboy. — See photos of Ashlee Simpson's baby bump.
TMZ.com:
Diddy = Fraction of a Baller — Diddy blew a lot of hot air last week about going green by ditching his “own” private jet. It was hotter than we knew. — Turns out P. doesn't even have his “own” private jet at all. An extensive look through federal aviation records by the Palm Beach Post turned …
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Lizzie Smith / Daily Mail:
What would Tom say? Katie Holmes ‘gets surprise visit from first love Joshua Jackson’ — As Dawson's Creek couple Joey and Pacey they were inseparable, with an onscreen love that spilled over into real life. — But while Katie Holmes now lives an A list lifestyle with superstar husband Tom Cruise …
Metro.co.uk:
‘New Kate Moss’ in ‘cocaine’ party pictures — Model Alice Dellal is in a new drugs scadal — She has been dubbed by the fashion world as the new Kate Moss - but now Alice Dellal is facing a storm of questions after pictures emerged of her with what appears to be cocaine a party.
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NY Daily News:
Rush & Molloy: Stern in virgin territory — Look for Howard Stern to shock again on Tuesday morning when he's due to kick off the auction of a 22-year-old beauty's virginity. — Expected to step on the block, so to speak, of Stern's Sirius radio studio is a San Diego woman who says she wants …
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Jessica Simpson Stops Performance on Live TV — Jessica Simpson tripped up a rocky performance on live television Tuesday, the day of her latest album release. — “Hold on, I know this is live TV but I can't hear anything,” she said as she starting singing her quadruple platinum hit “With You” on Good Morning America.
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BBC:
Josh Hartnett sues over sex claim — Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett is taking the Daily Mirror newspaper to court for alleging he had a “sexual dalliance” in a public area of a London hotel. — The 30-year-old, who is about to star in a West End production of Rain Main …
Ree Hines / MSNBC:
Tidbits: Jolie struggles with twin demands — Plus: Shannen Doherty's ‘90210’ feud; co-star bashes Sharon Stone — While Brad Pitt is out and about, hopping between film festivals to promote his latest flick, “Burn After Reading,” Angelina Jolie's remained in near-seclusion at their French home since giving birth to twins in July.
Jay Bird / Cele|bitchy:
Lynne Spears claims she didn't push Britney into show business — While some of the really “good” gossip that was supposedly going to be in Lynne Spears' book might not exist (there's no talk about her drug addictions or sex - so the whole “drinking at 13, sex at 14” stuff probably either …
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:Lynne Spears to Britney: You're Still My “Brave Little Girl”
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John McCain / Telegraph:
Sarah Palin dolls go on sale as John McCain's running mate's popularity soars — Two Sarah Palin action dolls portraying the Republican vice-presidential nominee as an executive and an action hero have gone on sale in the United States. — The dolls are an attempt to cash in on the popularity …
Alex Weprin / Broadcasting & Cable:
2008 MTV VMAs Deliver Demo Success — 2008 edition of Video Music Awards delivers 15% increase over 2007 and 41% increase over 2006 in target 12-34 demo. — MTV took a risk in choosing a relative unknown — British comedian Russell Brand — to host the 2008 installment of the Video Music Awards …

