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7:45 AM ET, November 7, 2008

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Rachel Paula Abrahamson / Us Weekly:
Girls Next Door Star Kendra Wilkinson Is Engaged!  —  Girls Next Door Kendra Wilkinson, 23, is engaged to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett, her ex Hugh Hefner tells Usmagazine.com in a statement.  —  “Kendra Wilkinson has met someone who she would like to spend the rest of her life with,” Hefner tells Us.
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Eunice Oh / People.com:
The Girls Next Door's Kendra Wilkinson Engaged to NFL Star  —  Kendra Wilkinson of The Girls Next Door is engaged to football star Hank Baskett, according to her ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner, who plans to give her away at a ceremony at the Playboy Mansion.  —  “[She] has met someone …
Discussion: E! Online, iVillage and OH NO!!
X17 Online:
Kendra and Hef to Walk Down the Aisle... Sorta  —  Yes, Kendra Wilkinson's dream of walking down the aisle with Hugh Hefner is coming true - just probably not the way she imagined.  While she won't be tying the knot with the 82-year-old Playboy founder, he will be giving her away …
Associated Press:
‘Girls Next Door’ co-star engaged to an Eagle  —  LOS ANGELES - One of Hugh Hefner's live-in girlfriends is trading the grotto for the gridiron.  —  The Playboy mogul said in a statement Thursday that “The Girls Next Door” co-star Kendra Wilkinson is engaged to Philadelphia Eagles receiver Hank Baskett.
Discussion: Evil Beet Gossip and The Recapist
Access Hollywood:
‘Girl Next Door’ Kendra Wilkinson Engaged To NFL Star
Melissa Etheridge / The Daily Beast:
You Can Forget My Taxes  —  Obama's JFK Playbook by Thurston Clarke  —  Singer Melissa Etheridge rails against the passage of the gay-marriage ban in California—and she won't be paying the state a dime.  —  Okay.  So Prop 8 passed.  Alright, I get it.  51% of you think that I am a second class citizen.
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Melody S. Wells / People.com:
Melissa Etheridge to California: ‘You Can Forget My Taxes’
Discussion: OH NO!!
Nicole Sperling / EW.com:
‘Twilight’: Will the Movie Be a Hit?  —  Will fans find the film true to the novel?  Will even one male go see it?  Will the filmmakers get the go-ahead to make “New Moon”?  What does Stephenie Meyer think about all this?  Some answers to these burning questions
Jesus Martinez / DrunkenStepfather:
Willis Sister Exclusive of the Day  —  I think the Willis family are pretty f**king rancid girls.  I am talking wrongfully labeled People's Most Beautiful because their mom paid off the magazine to put them on the list and was trying to cover-up the lies that she's been feeding them their entire life …
Discussion: Hollywire.com
Kristin Dos Santos / E! Online:
Sex and the City Studio Confirms Plans for Sequel  —  Attention straight men of the world: Time to work on that excuse for why you can't go see the Sex and the City movie sequel with your girl.  'Cause as of today, it is officially in the works.  —  “They're in negotiations,” …
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Michael Fleming / Variety:
Spielberg, Smith in talks for ‘Oldboy’  —  Pair may kidnap remake of Korean drama  —  Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are in early discussions to collaborate on a remake of Chan Wook-park's “Oldboy.”  DreamWorks is in the process of securing the remake rights, and the new pic will be distributed by Universal.
Discussion: /Film and Ain't It Cool News
People.com:
Diddy and Beyoncé Moved to Tears by Obama's Victory  —  Pete Wentz; Diddy and Beyoncé  —  Mr. Bad Boy himself, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, could not keep it together when Barack Obama was announced President-elect Tuesday night.  —  “I was straight up crying,” he confesses.  “I was with my kids.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and poponthepop.com
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Michael K / Dlisted:
CoCo Keeps It Classy For Diddy
Discussion: OH NO!!
Natalie Finn / E! Online:
It's Human Nature: Britney, Justin Keep Their Distance at Madonna Show  —  Madonna had her bases covered at Dodger Stadium tonight, although she was careful not to double up.  —  The pop über-star's Sticky & Sweet tour was made all the more saucy Thursday when long-ago couple Britney Spears …
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Christina Applegate Undergoing Reconstructive Surgery Around 37th Birthday  —  Christina Applegate says fighting breast cancer “sucks,” but you shouldn't feel sorry for her.  —  “I still have quite a process until this is done,” the actress says in the new issue of TV Guide.  “Yes, it's hard.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy, iVillage and Jezebel
PopEater:
Clooney on ‘ER’?  It's ‘Absolutely’ Possible  —  George Clooney will likely reprise his role as hunky doctor Doug Ross by the end of 'ER's' final season, one of his former castmates has revealed.  —  In an interview soon to run in TV Guide, Noah Wyle spills a few casting beans …
Discussion: TV Squad and Jezebel
Michael K / Dlisted:
What Is That Thing On Her Body?  —  Basement Baby's older sister performed at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool today looking like a rejected extra from “Tron.”  I'm beginning to think that Sasha Fierce stole Solange's fashion sketchbook from the basement and is using all her ideas!
Neil Sean / Fox News:
Leonardo DiCaprio: I'm Glad to Have Shed My ‘Sex Symbol’ Status  —  In town to promote his new film “Body of Lies,” Leonardo DiCaprio talked with FOXNews.com's Neil Sean about films, marriage and life as a sex symbol.  —  Leonardo DiCaprio has grown up since his “Titanic” Days …
Discussion: POPSUGAR
Lizzie Smith / Daily Mail:
Diva Mariah Carey arrives with 20 suitcases ahead of X Factor performance... well, she is staying three nights … Mariah Carey lived up to her diva reputation as she arrived in London for a three-night stay today... accompanied by 20 suitcases.  —  The singer and her husband Nick Cannon needed two huge trolleys to carry their bags.
X17 Online:
Brit Wins Two MTV Europe Music Awards!!!!  —  This is Britney's night!  While she's busy her preparing to go on stage with Madonna, she was awarded two MTV Europe Music Awards — one for Album of the Year for “Blackout” and the other for Act of 2008!!!  —  Other winners were:  —  New Act - Katy Perry
Discussion: CONCRETELOOP.COM
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Ellen DeGeneres Reacts to Gay Marriage Ban  —  The California-voter ban on Tuesday - by some 52 percent - of same-sex marriage has left Ellen DeGeneres “saddened beyond belief,” she says.  —  In a statement posted on her show's Web site Wednesday, the talk host, who married partner Portia de Rossi …
OK! Magazine:
Jennie Garth: Divorce is Not an Option  —  Keeping her family together is the number one priority for 90210 star Jennie Garth.  The actress, 36, who has been married to Twilight hottie Peter Facinelli for seven years, tells OK! that when it comes to making her marriage work, it's about the little things.
John Kay / The Sun:
I'm gonna see my wife Amy and take her knickers down  —  AMY WINEHOUSE's husband tasted freedom for the first time in a year yesterday and declared: “I'm gonna see my wife and take her knickers down.”  —  Junkie BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL made his boast in an exclusive interview at a service station near the prison.
Discussion: Dlisted and TMZ.com
 
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James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:
The Twilight Zone  —  For all Buffy's efforts, vampires …
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Liza Hamm / People.com:
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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.

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Paramount's culture shift under David Ellison, where the focus is on male-driven action movies, and not on prestige films seen as critics' darlings

 
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