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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Oprah Winfrey will be one of the recipients of an Honorary Oscar.
The Academy’s Board of Governors has named the first Oscar recipients of 2011 — and the honorees at the third annual Governors Awards dinner and ceremony on Saturday, November 12 will include an actor whose career stretches from “Dr. Strangelove” to Darth Vader, a makeup artist who began plying his trade more than half a century ago, and a one-woman showbiz colossus who will be taking home the first Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award bestowed by the Academy in three years.
Winfrey will receive the Hersholt to salute her extensive charitable, philanthropic and educational efforts. Actor Jones and makeup artist Smith, meanwhile, will receive honorary Academy Awards in recognition of lengthy and distinguished careers.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is also one of the Governors Awards, will not be handed out this year.
Smith is the only honoree to have won a competitive Oscar, for “Amadeus” in 1984. He was also nominated for “Dad” in 1989.
Winfrey and Jones were both nominated for acting awards — Winfrey as Best Supporting Actress for “The Color Purple” in 1985, Jones as Best Actor for “The Great White Hope” in 1970 — but neither won.
The choices were made at Tuesday night’s board meeting, and announced by the Academy after the recipients had been notified.
Since the Governors Awards were moved to a separate show in 2009, this is the first year that the governors have selected three recipients, rather than the maximum of four.
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On Friday, Oprah Winfrey visited South Africa, where she was given an honorary doctorate degree in education from the University of the Free State.
The talk-show queen, who wrapped the 25th and final season of her legendary daytime series in May, dressed in formal cap and gown for the affair.
Guests in attendance report that she was moved to tears while on stage for the presentation of the honor.
The university of approximately 30,000 students in the central farming town of Bloemfontein rolled out the red carpet, staging a ceremony for one that the Chicago Sun-Times says rivaled the type of pomp and circumstance normally drummed up for a whole graduating class.
The citation that came with her degree says Winfrey has become a true South African. “She did so because she believed that there was important work to be done here, and she wanted to be part of what Nelson Mandela and others had begun.”
Winfrey famously opened her South African school for girls in 2007, and weathered a scandal in which a dormitory staffer was accused of sexually assaulting students.
A different scandal plagued the University of the Free State five years ago, when white students were caught humiliating black housekeeping staffers and objecting to integration of the historically white college. Winfrey eventually reached out to Jonathan Jensen, the new rector and first black administrator of the college, whose success in achieving a public reconciliation between the two sides set a tone of forgiveness for the entire student body. Once the TV icon agreed to speak at the school, the school decided to turn her visit into a grand ceremony.
In the auditorium, Winfrey knelt on a padded stool, flashing her red stiletto heels as the doctorate degree was bestowed in front of a jubliant audience of more than 4,000.
“What has happened here at Free State in terms of racial reconciliation, of peace, of harmony, of one heart understanding and opening itself to another heart is nothing short of a miracle,” she said. “It is truly what the new South Africa is all about.”
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It’s still only November so there is plenty of time for better celebrity quotes to come out but here is People’s top 20 celebrity quotes of the year so far.
“That girl is like crack cocaine to me…Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.”
- John Mayer, oversharing on his former girlfriend, to Playboy
“He’ll never have this napalm again.”
– Jessica Simpson, firing back on The View
“I will never have surgery again.”
– Self-proclaimed plastic surgery addict Heidi Montag, to PEOPLE
“The only ‘bookings’ that i’m familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that i’d be ‘booking’ into Jail… eeeks.”
– Lindsay Lohan, before spending less than a day in jail, on Twitter
“When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host Saturday Night Live, I didn’t know what Facebook was. And now that I do know what it is, I have to say it sounds like a huge waste of time.”
– 88-year-old It girl Betty White, giving a shout-out to the social network during her SNL monologue
“I’m getting death threats. This is unBeliebable!!!”
– Kim Kardashian, who became a target of Justin Bieber fans after the tween heartthrob jokingly referred to her as his girlfriend in a Twitter pic
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say, ‘Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.’”
– Lady Gaga, to Rolling Stone
“Kristen’s pregnant.”
– Robert Pattinson, still dodging questions about his relationship with Kristen Stewart by starting a rumor, on Oprah
“You are a fame whore is what you are.”
– The Bachelor’s Vienna Girardi, responding to her ex Jake Pavelka‘s disgust with her, on a Bachelor special following their split
“I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.”
– Conan O’Brien‘s bio description on his Twitter account after NBC gave The Tonight Show back to Jay Leno
“I know he knows who I am… He has to stop lying.”
– Jersey Shore’s Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, calling out President Barack Obama on his claim that he isn’t familiar with the pint-size reality star, to E! online
“I wasn’t a druggie stripper. I was a very good person doing it.”
– Playboy Playmate-turned-author Kendra Wilkinson, sharing details from her memoir Sliding into Home, on the Today show
“It’s the performance of his career.”
– Director Casey Affleck, admitting that his “documentary” featuring a wacked-out Joaquin Phoenix was really a mockumentary, to the New York Times
“I’ll burn the g—–n house down!”
– Mel Gibson, during one of his angry phone rants recorded by ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva
“Katy is sexy, which is good because if I don’t have an orgasm every 15 or 16 minutes, I can become very difficult.”
– Russell Brand, before saying “I do” to new wife Katy Perry, to Parade magazine
“If my sons [Sean and Jayden] told me they wanted to be in the entertainment business, I’d lock them in their rooms until they turned 30.”
– Britney Spears, to Cosmopolitan
“We’re going to Australia!”
– Oprah Winfrey, kicking off the final season of her talk show with her biggest audience giveaway yet
“I’ve heard a lot about these places, mostly from rap music. They’re supposed to be pretty reputable, right? So I envisioned myself on a nice couch in stunna shades with T-Pain and Usher making it rain money. And it just wasn’t like that.”
– Zac Efron, ‘fessing up to a strip club visit with HSM costar Corbin Bleu, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
“I was acting my way through the whole thing.”
– Jeremy London, recalling how he survived his alleged abduction, to PEOPLE
“Wasn’t painful, not even a little bit.”
– Gisele Bündchen, on how easy childbirth was for her, to the Brazilian TV show Fantastico
“I’m so not winning an Oscar.”
– Sandra Bullock, a month before her Academy Award victory for The Blind Side, to reporters at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
source: They Said What? 20 Best Celeb Quotes This Year [People]
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Most people have the same type of phobias – spiders, snakes, rats, small spaces but some people have some weird ass phobias. Here are the 5 strangest celebrity phobias that we know of…
5. Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks is scared of dolphins. Tyra has been scared of these beautiful and really intelligent animals since the age of 8 often seeing them in her nightmares.
4. Orlando Bloom
We don’t know the origin of this fear but according to reports, actor and farther-to-be Orlando Bloom is afraid of pigs. Such a strange fear. I’ve seen pigs in my life and even touched them, it is not scary at all!
3. Megan Fox
On of the hottest women in showbiz is terribly afraid of touching paper and is scared of bacteria. That’s why she doesn’t use public restrooms and doesn’t like restaurants and cafes.
2. Oprah Winfrey
I’d never think that one of the most powerful women in the world, TV mogul Oprah Winfrey is afraid of… gum! As it often happens in our life, this fear originates from Oprah’s childhood:
1. Alfred Hitchcock
You may know him as the person behind some of the scariest horror movies you’ve ever seen, but this man also had weak points when it came to phobias. Alfred Hitchcock was afraid of eggs!
source: Top 5 strangest celebrity phobias [Glamour Vanity]
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Oprah Winfrey is ticked off! Apparently, the woman accused of molesting a bunch of girls at her South African school has been acquitted.
The woman in question, Tiny Virginia Makopo, was accused of trying to kiss the girls and fondle them at Oprah’s private leadership academy.
Tiny is the former dorm matron at the girl’s school, but was found not guilty of fondling the girls, who are aged 13 to 15, back in 2007. Oprah has just released a statement, condemning the decision to acquit Tiny, after so many girls took the stand in an attempt to convict her.
Oprah said, “we began this child molestation trial in 2008. More than two years later, I am profoundly disappointed at the outcome of the trial. I will forever be proud of the nine girls who testified with the courage and conviction to be heard.”
It’s a shame that such a miscarriage of justice is allowed to go on like this. Nine girls came forward to tell their stories and still, justice is lost.
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Happy Friday! To celebrate the end of the longest week known to man, we’ve got the best of the best in celebrity quotes this week! To kick off the weekend, we’ve got Sofia Vergara talking about her figure, Oprah’s big surprise giveaway and Ali Larter talking about penises. Lovely!
Enjoy!
“If you have a dog, forget about it. It will crush you.”
– Jon Hamm, on the tears he’s cried over watching Marley & Me, to People
“We’re in the third trimester, and basically I’m dodging punches right now from my wife…She’s completely over me and over being pregnant.”
– Matt Damon, whose wife Luciana is set to deliver the couple’s fourth child this fall, to People
“Piers is a big ninny.”
– America’s Got Talent’s Prince Poppycock, after judge Piers Morgan’s harsh reaction to his final performance, to People
“I think of her as an old friend. I mean an old friend. But listen, she’s got moves you wouldn’t believe…Her arms are stiff, but the hips? Totally flexible.”
– William Shatner, 79, joking in Playboy about what the 88-year-old Golden Girl could teach a young “whippersnapper” like himself
“As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn’t sound tough…So now I have a phony accent that I can’t shake, so it’s not phony anymore. I’m going for the Madonna thing, the Lady Gaga thing – a phony accent that becomes your trademark.”
– Ontario native Ryan Gosling, to W magazine
“I have a little penis inside of me!”
– Mom-to-be Ali Larter, announcing the sex of her first child, on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
“It was like shooting an entire movie inside Alec Baldwin.”
– Ryan Reynolds, on filming Green Lantern in the middle of summer in New Orleans, to GQ
“I know how I look. I know how I sound. I’m not going to tell my agent, ‘Book me for Schindler’s List 2.’”
– Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara, embracing her Latina sex appeal, to Self magazine
“We’re going to Australia!”
– Oprah, kicking off the final season of her talk show with her biggest audience giveaway yet
“No one knows how we really are…Like me, I’ll go to frickin Barnes & Nobles, get a coffee and just sit down and read.”
– Jersey Shore star Snooki, revealing a little-known side of her, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
What was your favorite celeb quote this week. I want to say Ali Larter’s was mine, because it was so cute, but I’m still flabbergasted that Snooki wants us all to believe that she reads. Ha!
source: 10 Best Celeb Quotes This Week – [people]
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Happy Friday everyone! For today’s top ten celebrity quotes of the week, we’ve got some good ones! We’ve got Heidi Montag talking about massaging her breast implants, John Stamos’ ‘Glee’ nosiness and Tim Gunn hiding out from ‘Vogue’ editrix Anna Wintour.
Enjoy!
“It’s like when you’re 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, ‘Do you think I’m stupid?’ They can’t grasp that I’m old enough to be married.”
– Megan Fox, 24, on skeptics accepting her new marital status, to Elle magazine
“All of the kids… I lined ‘em up on the trailers and said ‘Alright, I wanna know who’s banging who, right now! Tell me. Who, who, who?’”
– Glee guest star John Stamos, on trying to dig up dirt on his new castmates, to Extra
“The nation mourned.”
– Newly single Susan Sarandon, on the public’s reaction to her split from partner of 23 years Tim Robbins, to New York magazine
“I’m in a witness protection program.”
– Project Runway’s Tim Gunn, on his relationship with Vogue editor Anna Wintour after she read an unflattering anecdote about herself in his new book Gunn’s Golden Rules, to Live! With Regis and Kelly
“I’m the Susan Lucci of reality TV.”
– Ex-Real Housewives of New Jersey star Danielle Staub, on maintaining her television presence, to People
“I just look for a really nice ass!”
– Josh Duhamel, on his maturing view of love and marriage, at a press conference for his new film The Romantics
“I always thought going on an 11-day, cross-country road trip with your best friend sounded like fun. I’d had enough by the second day.”
– Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, on the Thelma and Louise-like road trip she took with BFF Gayle King, to People
“You seem to be acting like a Lindsay Lohan wannabe. Going through life rude, profane, obnoxious and self-indulgent is not the way you want to go through life.”
– Presiding Judge Damian Murray to Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi on her recent disorderly conduct arrest, at her court appearance
“I have a new hip, I have a new knee…and I’m going to soon be bionic.”
– Veteran actress and fitness guru Jane Fonda, to Entertainment Tonight
“Ladies we have to keep those implants soft.”
– Heidi Montag, on massaging her augmented bosom, on Twitter
What was your favorite celebrity quote this week? Mine was the judge in Snooki’s case comparing her to Lindsay Lohan. That was genius.
source: 10 Best Celeb Quotes This Week – [people]
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Forbes have released their annual 100 of the most powerful and highest earning celebrities in the world, when compiling the list they looked at how much the celebrities earned and how much star power they have based on media exposure. The list is based from June 2009-June 2010. Here’s the top 15, the full list is after the jump below:
#1 Oprah Winfrey ($315), 2009 Rank: 2
News that this coming season of The Oprah Winfrey Show will be her last helped the self-made billionaire garner more media attention than any other member of the Celebrity 100. Her Harpo production company, which spawned the careers of Dr. Phil, Rachel Ray and Dr. Oz, will introduce interior designer Nate Berkus this fall. Months later, the list’s top-earner will add the lifestyle-themed Oprah Winfrey Network in partnership with Discovery Communications to her media empire.
#2 Beyoncé Knowles ($87), 2009 Rank: 4
One half of the most famous couple in hip-hop, Beyoncé continues to expand her business empire beyond music. Endorsement deals with companies ranging from Nintendo to L’Oreal and her growing House of Dereon fashion line bring in millions of dollars per year on top of the $86 million she grossed from a 93-stop world tour.
#3 James Cameron ($210), 2009 Rank: No Rank
As the director of the highest grossing film of all time, Cameron is definitely “king of the world.” Avatar has earned $2.7 billion at the box office alone and has changed the way Hollywood makes films. In the near future almost every studio blockbuster will be released in 3-D. Cameron is already at work on Avatar 2.
#4 Lady Gaga ($62), 2009 Rank: No Rank
A newcomer to the Celebrity 100, Lady Gaga broke down the door to fame with outlandish outfits and quirky videos, including one that featured her and Beyoncé poisoning an unappreciative boyfriend. Bringing in an estimated $31 million with a 106-date tour that grossed $95 million, Lady Gaga is also a marketer’s dream, teaming up with Polaroid, Virgin Mobile, Monster Cable and Viva Glam.
#5 Tiger Woods ($105), 2009 Rank: 5
Tiger Woods’ fall from global sports icon to tabloid fodder was stunning. He saw Accenture, AT&T and Pepsi drop him as a pitchman, but he remains the highest-paid athlete in the world thanks to huge deals with Nike, Electronic Arts and Upper Deck. Nike built a $650 million (sales) golf business from scratch on Woods’ back. His fledgling golf course design business has been hurt by the economic downturn, as all three courses he’s worked on have experienced major delays.
#6 Britney Spears ($64), 2009 Rank: 13
Not long ago, most of the entertainment world had written Britney Spears off as a celebrity flameout. But over the last year Spears logged the fifth highest-grossing tour in the world, bringing in $130 million in gross box office receipts by playing 98 dates. High-profile endorsement deals with Elizabeth Arden and Candies’ prove that the public expects Spears to stay in the spotlight for good.
#7 U2 ($130), 2009 Rank: No Rank
The world’s biggest rock band, U2 launched a massive world tour in 2009 that has brought in more than $311 million in gross box office receipts. Each tour stop brings in $10 million in gross ticket sales. Add in lucrative merchandise sales, heavy radio play and a steady-selling back catalog, and you have the highest-earning band on the planet.
#8 Sandra Bullock ($56), 2009 Rank: 92
With two hit movies (The Proposal and The Blind Side) and an Oscar win, Bullock should have been sitting on top of the world. She is financially. With $56 million she’s the highest-earning actress. But a messy breakup with cheating husband Jesse James turned her into tabloid fodder. Bullock overcame adversity with news of an adoption and a public return at the MTV Movie Awards.
#9 Johnny Depp ($75), 2009 Rank: No Rank
Depp zooms close to the top of our list this year thanks to his work as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s 3-D update of Alice in Wonderland. The Disney film has grossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, making Depp the only actor to headline two $1 billion films. Depp also landed a big upfront payday for The Tourist. Costarring Angelina Jolie, the film is a rare case these days of two big stars getting big bucks.
#10 Madonna ($58), 2009 Rank: 3
The Material Girl isn’t quite ready to cede her spot in pop music’s hierarchy to Lady Gaga or Britney Spears just yet. The 52-year-old singer had the fourth highest-grossing tour of 2009, bringing in $6 million a night and $138 million overall. An episode of the Fox hit sitcom Glee, which featured cast members singing several of her songs, added to her already high profile and cushioned her significant earnings from publishing royalties.
#11 Simon Cowell ($80), 2009 Rank: 25
Cowell made perhaps the biggest decision of his life this year when he ended his Idol run in favor of producing his own talent show, The X Factor, in America. Cowell, who also produces America’s Got Talent, says The X Factor format is his favorite. It won’t compete against Idol.
#12 Taylor Swift ($45), 2009 Rank: 69
The most-played artist on the radio in 2009, Swift’s 100 live dates during the last 12 months grossed $54 million. She’s one of the few artists who can still convince millions of fans to legally buy music–her Fearless album topped the 2009 sales charts, moving 3.2 million units, while fans downloaded another 12 million tracks from iTunes and Amazon. Large endorsement deals with Sony and CoverGirl helped her bottom line, too.
#13 Miley Cyrus ($48), 2009 Rank: 29
The teen star behind Disney’s lucrative Hannah Montana franchise has now matured into a serious entertainment draw, averaging a nightly gross box office of $1.2 million across 57 tour dates. A starring role in the movie The Last Song, heavy radio play for her hit “Party in the U.S.A.” and her cut from all of those Disney shirts with her face on them add up to a large bump over her earnings from last year.
#14 Kobe Bryant ($48), 2009 Rank: 10
Kobe Bryant signed a three-year, $83.5 million extension in April with the Los Angeles Lakers that will make him the highest-paid player in the NBA. He will be only the second player in NBA history with a $30 million salary (Michael Jordan in the late ’90s was the first). His salary this past year was $23 million. Bryant led the Lakers to their fifth title since 2000. Everybody likes a winner: Bryant’s jersey is the NBA’s top seller in the U.S., China and Europe.
#15 Jay-Z ($63), 2009 Rank: 32
Jay-Z likes to say he’s not a businessman; he’s a business, man–and it’s not idle boasting. The rapper-turned-mogul retains his crown as hip-hop’s cash king thanks to a new album and investments in the 40/40 nightclub chain, the Broadway show “Fela!” and the New Jersey Nets basketball team. Jay-Z’s biggest boost comes from his Blueprint 3 tour, which grossed over $1 million per concert this year. He still makes less than wife Beyoncé.
There’s some surprises on the list but for me I fully expected Oprah Winfrey to be back on top, I just didn’t think Angelina Jolie would fall from being on top last year down 17 spots this year.
Full list after the jump!!!
source: The Celebrity 100 [Forbes]
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Simon Cowell was on Oprah Winfrey‘s show yesterday to talk candidly about himself and his life.
Cowell, 50, spoke about his romance with American Idol make-up artist Mezhgan Hussainy, who escaped Afghanistan with her family in 1981 after the Soviet invasion and the rise of the Taliban forced her family to flee. He also admitted that he suffers from depression.
“I get very, very down,” Cowell said. “Pretty much depression. (But) what I always say is, “You’re taking yourself too seriously, so stop it.
“At the same time, you should never put a painted smile on. When you’re feeling down, you’re feeling down.”
He also discussed his reason for leaving American Idol, saying that after eight years he was bored, and was looking forward to launching his show X-Factor in the US.
Then Oprah pulled out some pictures.
After seeing this picture taken sometime in the Eighties, Simon said:
“It’s not a great look, is it? God, I had a mustache. And I wasn’t even a mechanic!”
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The Huffington Post have put together a list of the 4 biggest winners and losers in the celebrity and media world for this week, first up is the winners:
Oprah: Kitty who? It was the week Oprah took New York by storm: starting with the Costume Institute Gala on Monday, where she walked the red carpet with Oscar de la Renta and partied down with Diddy and Pharrell right through Oprah’s Best Life Weekend, celebrating ten years of O Magazine with a live show from Radio City Music Hall and a New York charity walk on Sunday.
Brian Williams: The “NBC Nightly News” anchor broadcast from oil spill-ravaged gulf region Monday night, while his competitors Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer were dolled up at the Costume Institute Gala. He then rushed back to New York to cover the Times Square bomber arrest. Bonus: he turned 51 on Wednesday.
Rick Stengel: It would have been enough for the TIME Managing Editor to simply have hosted the TIME 100 gala Tuesday, featuring Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin and Taylor Swift. But then the announcement that his main rival, Newsweek, was going up for sale allowed him to brag about his magazine’s sustained profitability.
Conan O’Brien: Finally able to make his case, Conan broke his silence on “60 Minutes” — and delivered ratings to boot. And he effectively got his message across: he’s a good Catholic boy who would never have done that to Leno.
Now let’s take a look at the ones we really care about, the losers:
Jon Meacham: It was supposed to be a good week for the Newsweek editor, who’s launching a new show with Allison Stewart on PBS called “Need To Know.” But then the Washington Post announced it would be selling his magazine, leading the history buff to go on a sad-sack media tour explaining why the world needs Newsweek. Unfortunately, many of his staffers are now saying that Newsweek needs a new editor.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: The conservative “View” co-host brought ESPN anchor and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Erin Andrews to tears this week by lashing out over Andrews’ skimpy dancewear and seeming to side with the stalker who peeped into her hotel room to see her naked. She cried the next day, offering up a tearful public apology for her comments.
American Idol: It’s still the #1 show in the country, but there were big and dangerous warning signs for “Idol” this week: on both Tuesday and Wednesday, it hit ratings lows it hasn’t seen since 2002, the year it launched (in the summer, no less). It may have just been a boring Frank Sinatra theme week, With Simon Cowell gearing up to leave at the end of this season already, it doesn’t bode well for the show’s future.
Conan O’Brien: Yes, he made his case on “60 Minutes” — but it may have backfired. The more time he spends complaining about how Big Bad Leno stole the “Tonight Show” from him, the less America remembers why they loved him on it…and the less they look forward to his launch this fall on TBS. Plus, NBC made a splash by saying that he lied during the “60 Minutes” interview.
I guess Conan O’Brien should pat himself on the back, he made both the winners and the losers list, like they say in Hollywood – any press is good press.
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What A Trendsetter: Lily Tomlin – OMG Blog
Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Misspelled Hollywood Star – Amy Grindhouse
Old Carrie Bradshaw Meets Now In The Carrie Diaries – College Candy
Mike Bennett’s Pornography Search – Zelda Lily
Anne Hathaway Is The Good Witch – Celebrity Smack
Jenna Jameson Reconciles With Tito Ortiz – Celeb News Wire
Lindsay Lohan Arrives In Court Without Smiles – Holy Moly
No Divorce In The Works For David Boreanaz – Hollywood Life
Robert Pattinson & Taylor Lautner’s Gay Lover – Hollywood Dame
Kelly Bensimon Should’ve Said No To Bikinis! – Popbytes
Kate Hosselin Returning To Dancing With The Stars – Pop Eater
10 Steps To Becoming Michelle Obama – Betty Confidential
Joanna Krupa Got Engaged – F-Listed
Jason Wahler Admits DUI Guilt – Why Fame
Taylor Swift & Taylor Lautner Still Love Each Other – ICYDK
Katy Perry Keeps A Well Lit Cleavage – The Superficial
Kristen Stewart Is A Beautiful Princess – Yeeeah!
Kourtney Kardashian & Her Beverly Hills Boys – Celebrity Baby Scoop
Chris Brown Is Hurt With Charity Questions – Wonderwall
Sienna Miller Is A Greasy Pig Of The Day – Drunken Stepfather
Oprah Winfrey Likes Tequila Shots – Anything Hollywood
Keanu Reeves & Charlize Theron Hook Up – Allie Is Wired
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