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7:50 PM ET, July 26, 2009

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TMZ.com:
Candy to Tori: Get Real, Baby  —  Candy Spelling — the mother famously at war with her daughter — has taken the bold step of communicating with Tori Spelling through TMZ ... and her opening line isn't gonna get her a lot of invites.  Here's the open letter in all its glory:  —  EXCLUSIVE TO: TMZ.COM
People.com:
Jon Gosselin: 'I'm Single'  —  After a romantic trip to Saint-Tropez with Hailey Glassman and a double date in the Hamptons with Kate Major, Jon Gosselin now says he's happily flying solo.  —  “At this point ... I'm single - per se,” he told PEOPLE at the Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge at Blue Star Jets Field on Saturday.
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People.com:
Jon Wants Friendship with Kate  —  Even as Jon Gosselin prepares for divorce, he hopes to remain close to his wife Kate, mom to their eight kids, according to pal Michael Lohan.  —  “He would love to be friends with her,” says Lohan, the estranged father of Lindsay Lohan …
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Jon Gosselin: “My Heart Is Always With Hailey” Glassman  —  Jon Gosselin's been hanging out with Kate Major lately, but he tells Usmagazine.com he still has a thing for Hailey Glassman.  —  “My heart is always with Hailey,” the dad of eight told Us at the 2009 Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge …
Samantha McIntyre / People.com:
LeAnn Rimes & Dean Sheremet's Split: What Went Wrong?  —  Dean Sheremet and LeAnn Rimes at their anniversary party  —  LeAnn Rimes made her first public appearance on Saturday since PEOPLE broke the news that she and husband Dean Sheremet have separated after seven years of marriage.
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Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
LeAnn Rimes, Dean Sheremet Separate
Margaret F. Bonafide / Asbury Park Press:
Former American Idol contestant found dead in Seaside Heights  —  SEASIDE HEIGHTS — A 25-year-old Allentown, Pa. woman and former contestant on the television show American Idol was found dead at about 4 a.m. today outside at Dupont Avenue and Bay Boulevard, authorities said.
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PopEater:
‘Glitter Girl’ on ‘Idol’ Fatally Hit by Car  —  Alexis Cohen, whose audition for ‘American Idol’ devolved into one of the show's most memorable rejection meltdowns, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver early Saturday in a New Jersey shore town, according to officials in Ocean County.
Discussion: Dlisted and Bitten and Bound
Daily Mail:
Victoria Beckham unveils her very Posh new hairstyle  —  From tumbling long WAG-style curls to the asymmetric ‘Pob’, Victoria Beckham's hairstyle has always launched a thousand imitations.  —  And now she looks set to start yet another new trend.  —  The former Spice Girl debuted a brand …
Discussion: Jezebel
New York Post:
OFF AGAIN, INN AGAIN  —  RIHANNA & ‘BANNED’ BROWN IN SAME SWANKY CITY HOTEL  —  Could they be making sweet music again?  —  Just days after Chris Brown publicly apologized for his February beating of then-girlfriend Rihanna, the two spent the weekend at the same luxury Midtown hotel under …
Will Payne / Mirror.co.uk:
‘Michael Jackson was not my father,’ says man at centre of lovechild rumours  —  Michael Jackson's “secret lovechild” has declared: ‘He is NOT my dad’.  —  Omer Bhatti has revealed how Jackson feted him as an honorary son after inviting him and his family to move in with him.
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Octo-Mom Signs Reality TV Deal, Kids to Earn $250 a Day  —  It's official: Octo-Mom Nadya Suleman's kids are coming to a TV near you.  —  Suleman signed agreements for each of her 14 children to earn $250 a day to star in a reality show, according to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday.
PEOPLE TV Watch:
Jennifer Lopez Not Replacing Paula Abdul on Idol  —  Jennifer Lopez is denying reports that she's in the running to replace American Idol judge Paula Abdul, who still hasn't signed a contract with Idol producers to return for season 8 of the FOX hit singing competition.
 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition

Bloomberg:
Netflix secured $59B in bridge financing from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC for its WBD bid, one of the largest loans of its kind; Wells' share is $29.5B

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.

 
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