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<title>Celebrity Worship</title>
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<description>Celebrities do the craziest things. When they do, Laura Dempsey &amp; Amelia Robinson will bring you the latest pop culture headlines and have a little fun at the celebrities&apos; expense. Now, on with the show!</description>
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<title>Reports: Funeral for Jackson set for Tuesday. Do you plan to go?</title>

    

    


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<description>It appears that final respects will be paid to Gloved One&amp;#8217;s in Los Angeles Tuesday, July 7. The Associated Press has reported that talks are going on to have Michael Jackson&amp;#8217;s funeral at the Staples Center, home of the Los...</description>
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It appears that final respects will be paid to Gloved One&amp;#8217;s  in Los Angeles Tuesday, July 7. 

The Associated Press has reported that talks are going on to have Michael Jackson&amp;#8217;s funeral at the Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Alicia Mayoral, of Santa Maria, Calif., looks down as she stands near the gates of the late Michael Jackson&amp;#8217;s former residence, Neverland Ranch, in Los Olivos, Calif., Thursday, July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)


A source has told FOX News that the tribute to Jackson will  start at  10 a.m.

The Dayton Daily News wants to hear from Miami Valley resident who plan to attend the event. Send an email to Localnews@DaytonDailynews.com  or call  Amelia Robinson at (937) 225-2384. 

The King of Pop died Thursday, June 25, in Los Angeles. 

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<title>Does Magazine&apos;s cover photo of Michael Jackson&apos;s death go too far?</title>

    

    


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OK! Magazine paid top dollars for a photo of the King of Pop dead or dying, but should they have made it the cover shot of this week&amp;#8217;s magazine? 

Does this cover take it too far?

The celebrity magazine is catching more than a little flak for doing just that. 

Gawker.com and other sources say OK! paid $500,000 for the photo of Michael Jackson apparently taken as he laid dying or dead Thursday, June 25. 


Play judge and juror. Did OK Magazine go to far with the Michael Jackson death cover?(polls)


Maybe that&amp;#8217;s why they they figured they could do what they wanted with it.  But seriously, do we really need to see a dead man while standing in line to buy eggs and Slim Jims?   

What the heck?

In other MJ news, Jermaine Jackson told the Today Show&amp;#8217;s Matt Lauer that he wishes he had died instead of his brother. 

&amp;#8220;I always felt I was his backbone,&amp;#8221; an emotional Jermaine Jackson says, adding that he always tried to protect his brother.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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<title>Jonas Brother getting married</title>

    

    


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<description>So sorry pre-teen ladies. It looks like one of the Jonas Brothers will be off of the market soon. Kevin Jonas co-hosting MTV&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;TRL.&amp;#8221; (By Evan Agostini &amp;#8212; Associated Press) Kevin Jonas, 21, was engaged to his girlfriend Danielle Deleasa...</description>
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So sorry pre-teen ladies. 

It looks like one of the Jonas Brothers will be off of the market soon. 

Kevin Jonas co-hosting MTV&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;TRL.&amp;#8221; (By Evan Agostini &amp;#8212; Associated Press)

Kevin Jonas, 21,  was engaged to his girlfriend Danielle Deleasa Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. 


No date has been set, so perhaps you can swoop in and bring K2 to his senses. 

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<title>Reports: Neither Jackson or Debbie Rowe biological parents to children</title>

    

    


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<description>This one won&amp;#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone with eyes or a brain. Michael Jackson may have not been the bio dad to his two oldest kids. TMZ reports that the King of Pop &amp;#8216;is not&amp;#8217; the biological father...</description>
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This one won&amp;#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone with eyes or a brain. 

Michael Jackson may have not been the bio dad to his two oldest kids.

TMZ reports that the King of Pop  &amp;#8216;is not&amp;#8217; the biological father of Prince Michael Joseph Jackson or Paris Michael Katherine Jackson.

Really! You don&amp;#8217;t say. How could this be? 
 But there&amp;#8217;s more.

The celebrity website reports that Jackson&amp;#8217;s ex Debbie Rowe carried the kids, but is not the biological mother to either.

Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson&amp;#8217;s ex-wife and mother of two of his children, steps from the courtroom at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Thursday, April 28, 2005 (AP) 

Like Michael Jackson&amp;#8217;s youngest child, Prince Michael Jackson II  (AKA Blanket) , the older two kids were conceived by vitro, TMZ says. 

Michael Jackson, at left wearing the traditional Arabic women&amp;#8217;s veil and gown called an abaya, holds the hand of one of his children, also veiled, as they walk with a security man toward their car Jan. 25, 2006, behind a Manama, Bahrain, shopping mall. (AP) 

The website, reportedly relying on sources close to the births, says donor eggs and sperm were used.

We are assuming none of those source are connected to the Maury Show. 

True on false, this seems like a icky time to be exposing such revelations.  The Gloved One died  in Los Angeles Thursday, June 25.  

His parents Joseph and Katherine have temporary custody of his three children.

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<title>King of Pop to have a large, public funeral</title>

    

    


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Michael Jackson lived a great, big life so it should be no surprise he&amp;#8217;ll have a great, big funeral.

The pop icon will be laid to rest after a large public funeral, Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson said Monday, June 27, during a press conference with Rev. Al Sharpton.

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 1996 file photo, Michael Jackson performs in Sydney. Jackson, 50, died in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, file)
  

The funeral details are still being worked out, according to FoxNews.com

&amp;#8220;We don&amp;#8217;t have the time frame yet because we want to see when the private autopsy comes out,&amp;#8221; Jackson said according to the Fox report. 

Jackson was referring to the second autopsy paid for by his family. 

When he died Thursday, Michael Jackson was a shell of his former self, according to the London Sun. 

The newspaper said it obtained a copy of an autopsy preformed by officials in California. 

Jackson&amp;#8217;s body was emaciated and covered in needle marks and bruises, the newspaper said. 

Read early blog entry here. 

(UPDATE: Seems like the Sun either received bad info or simple made a bunch of stuff up. 

The Los Angeles coroner&amp;#8217;s office says details released by the Sun are bogus and came neither from a  private or the county autopsy, The LA Times reports.

Read more here. ) 


Custody of Jackson&amp;#8217;s children has been temporarily granted to his parents. 

Joe Jackson gave the media an update of the children during the press conference, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Joe Jackson said his son&amp;#8217;s children are happy and around other children.

&amp;#8220;We have kids back there that are small just like they are,&amp;#8221; Joe Jackson said. &amp;#8220;They was never around other kids, they&amp;#8217;re happy.&amp;#8221;

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<title>Sun: Jackson emaciated, bald and full of pills at time of death</title>

    

    


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UPDATE: Seems like the Sun either received bad info or simple made a bunch of stuff up. 

The Los Angeles coroner&amp;#8217;s office says details released by the Sun are bogus and came neither from a  private or the county autopsy, The LA Times reports.

Read more here. 


If the London Sun has it right (let&amp;#8217;s hope it doesn&amp;#8217;t), the King of Pop was a mere shell of his former self when he died Thursday. 

The newspaper, reporting on an apparently leaked autopsy report, says that Michael Jackson was bald and a &amp;#8221; virtual skeleton,&amp;#8221; weighing just 112 pounds. 

The &amp;#8216;Thriller&amp;#8217; singer&amp;#8217;s 5 foot 10 inch body was full of needle marks and bruises, the Sun story says.  

Pills were the only thing found in his stomach as Jackson only ate one meal a day, the newspaper reports.

Read story here.

See video from the BET Awards Sunday, June 28, of Janet Jackson speaking about her beloved brother.



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<title>Joy Behar breaks off engagement</title>

    

    


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<description>Did you know Joy Behar was engaged? If so, know now that the wedding is off. Or postponed. Or put on the shelf while she pursues her own show. &amp;#8220;The View&amp;#8221; co-host, who&amp;#8217;s getting her own talk show on HLN,...</description>
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Did you know Joy Behar was engaged? If so, know now that the wedding is off. Or postponed. Or put on the shelf while she pursues her own show.

&amp;#8220;The View&amp;#8221; co-host, who&amp;#8217;s getting her own talk show on HLN, told the New York Daily News:

&amp;#8220;Actually, I got cold feet again, so I don&amp;#8217;t know what I&amp;#8217;m going to do. It&amp;#8217;s off the table. What&amp;#8217;ll happen is, when I decide to do it, I&amp;#8217;ll do it, and then everybody will know I did it. I can&amp;#8217;t make up my mind.&amp;#8221; 

In March, Behar, 66, talked vaguely about being engaged to longtime companion Steve Janowitz. 

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<dc:date>2009-06-26T10:48:20-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>E! heeds fans&apos; wishes to ignore Speidi</title>

    

    


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<description> Finally. E! has announced that it will ban Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag-Pratt from the network, after 94% of respondents to an online poll said they&amp;#8217;re sick of the reality-show couple. Network officials say they&amp;#8217;ll no longer cover &amp;#8220;the...</description>
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Finally. E! has announced that it will ban Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag-Pratt from the network, after 94% of respondents to an online poll said they&amp;#8217;re sick of the reality-show couple.

Network officials say they&amp;#8217;ll no longer cover &amp;#8220;the misadventures of Speidi until the pair does something truly newsworthy.&amp;#8221;

&amp;#8220;If her album went to No. 1, that would be a newsworthy thing. If they were to become parents, we&amp;#8217;d see that as worth noting. If something did happen to them, physically, we&amp;#8217;d probably cover that. But ultimately, we were looking at it more like avoiding stories about them walking down Robertson or going to dinner,&amp;#8221; Suzanne Kolb, chief marketing officer for Comcast Entertainment group and general manager of E! Online, told the Daily News. &amp;#8220;It will affect the various news shows on E! and it will affect online.&amp;#8221;

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<title>Kim K joins crush of crushes on Megan Fox</title>

    

    


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<description>Megan Fox was just named sexiest woman in the world by FHM magazine for the second year in a row, and Kim Kardashian knows why. &amp;#8220;Megan Fox is so hot,&amp;#8221; she told Entertainment Tonight, which Us Magazine picked up. &amp;#8220;She...</description>
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Megan Fox was just named sexiest woman in the world by FHM magazine for the second year in a row, and Kim Kardashian knows why.

&amp;#8220;Megan Fox is so hot,&amp;#8221; she told Entertainment Tonight, which Us Magazine picked up.  &amp;#8220;She is, like, my girl crush &amp;#8212; and I don&amp;#8217;t have girl crushes!&amp;#8221;

Kardashian went on to admit that her attendance at the L.A. premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen this week was for the sole reason to get a look at the Fox. 

&amp;#8220;That&amp;#8217;s really the only reason I&amp;#8217;m here,&amp;#8221; she said, adding that her boyfriend Reggie Bush also has a thing for Fox. A boy-thing.

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<title>Remembering Farrah Fawcett: 1947-2009</title>

    

    


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Farrah Fawcett died Thursday, June 25, after a long and grueling battle with anal cancer, which was diagnosed in 2006. She was 62. 

She was an icon, one of the first and probably the most striking angel in Charlie&amp;#8217;s crew; her orange tank suit poster a de rigeur decoration in boys&amp;#8217; rooms across the planet &amp;#8212; the hair, the teeth, the unusual first name and hyphenated last name (when she was married to Lee Majors), the crazy Letterman appearance and the impressive acting chops displayed in such television fare as &amp;#8220;The Burning Bed&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;Small Sacrifices.&amp;#8221;

Remembering Farrah is easy; forgetting her impossible. Here are some highlights:

The Wella Balsam ads: Farrah had been in myriad campaigns, but this shampoo ad is credited for starting the ball really rolling, and it didn&amp;#8217;t take long for the Texas-born beauty to catch the attention of a poster company, which lead to &amp;#133;



THE poster. It wasn&amp;#8217;t overtly sexy, but it was all-American hotness at its best. It caught on and sold well &amp;#8212; an unparalleled 12 million copies. Enough said.

&amp;#8221;Charlie&amp;#8217;s Angels&amp;#8221;: Farrah played Jill Munroe on this campy detective show that debuted in September 1976, around the same time the poster was released. Believe it or not, though &amp;#8220;Charlie&amp;#8217;s Angels&amp;#8221; was a huge hit, Farrah only stayed a year. 

&amp;#8220;Farrah Hair&amp;#8221;: Long, layered, blond and breezy, this was the style to have. It always looked better on her, though.

1982&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Extremities&amp;#8221;: Farrah starred in this off-Broadway production, which became a 1986 film, as a rape victim who turns the tables on her rapist. She was nominated for a Golden Globe award for the film version.

1984&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;The Burning Bed&amp;#8221;: Her role as a battered wife earned Farrah the first of three Emmy nominations, and proved she was serious about &amp;#8212; and pretty good at &amp;#8212; acting. The television movie was a pioneer in the medium&amp;#8217;s effort to draw attention to social issues, running a nationwide toll-free number that offered assistance to victims of domestic abuse.

Playboy: Farrah initially rejected all efforts to pose or appear nude, but changed her mind: Her December 1995 Playboy pictorial was the magazine&amp;#8217;s best-selling issue of the decade. She did it again in July 1997, in honor of her 50th birthday (she was born Feb. 2, 1947). She also produced a video for Playboy in which she painted her naked body and rolled it on a canvas of chiffon; it wasn&amp;#8217;t her first foray into art &amp;#8212; she studied sculpture at the University of Texas and collaborated with Keith Edmier, scoring an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2002.

David Letterman: In June 1997, Farrah appeared on the late-night talk show acting distracted and strange. She later explained she was just joking around, but her bizarre behavior became joke fodder for quite some time.

Men: Farrah was married to Lee Majors (&amp;#8220;The Six Million Dollar Man) from 1973 to 1982, though they separated in 1979). In 1980, she became involved with Ryan O&amp;#8217;Neal. They never married, but have been together on and off ever since; their son, Redmond, was born in 1985. In 1998, during an off-period with Ryan, Farrah was beaten by her then-boyfriend, moviemaker James Orr, after she took several swings at his car with a baseball bat; Orr was prosecuted and convicted. Farrah&amp;#8217;s son Redmond has a long history of drug abuse and problems with the law; both Ryan and Redmond were arrested in September 2008 when methamphetamine was found in the house they shared. Ryan pleaded guilty in January 2008, and was sentenced to an 18-month rehab program. Redmond was also sentenced to rehab (after pleading no contest), only to be arrested in first on a drunken driving charge and later on a felony drug possession charge, for which he was imprisoned. In April, Redmond was released for a thee-hour visit to his ailing mother; in early May 2009, he was given a last chance at rehab, which is where he remains.

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<title>The babies&apos; names are (drum roll ....)</title>

    

    


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<description>Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick (5 pounds and 11 ounces) Tabitha Hodge Broderick (6 pounds) Hodge and Elwell are family names on Parker&amp;#8217;s side. This would be Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick&amp;#8217;s babies, BTW....</description>
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Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick (5 pounds and 11 ounces)

Tabitha Hodge Broderick (6 pounds)

Hodge and Elwell are family names on Parker&amp;#8217;s side.

This would be Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick&amp;#8217;s babies, BTW.

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<title>NJ Housewife junkie? Read all about Danielle...</title>

    

    


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<description>On Tuesday, The Smoking Gun website published federal court documents detailing Real Housewives on New Jersey &amp;#8220;star&amp;#8221; Danielle Staub&amp;#8217;s sordid past. The papers show that Staub, 46 (then known as Beverly Ann Merrill and sometimes as Angela Minelli) &amp;#8220;was arrested...</description>
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On Tuesday, The Smoking Gun website published federal court documents detailing Real Housewives on New Jersey &amp;#8220;star&amp;#8221; Danielle Staub&amp;#8217;s sordid past.

The papers show that Staub, 46 (then known as Beverly Ann Merrill and sometimes as Angela Minelli) &amp;#8220;was arrested by FBI agents in June 1986 for her role in a kidnapping plot that grew out of a cocaine deal gone bad.&amp;#8221; Also involved was Daniel Aguilar, a guy she met while she was working for an escort service.

The papers reveal that she and Aguilar &amp;#8220;sought to extort a $25,000 ransom from a man whose son they were holding.&amp;#8221; The son &amp;#8212; whom they &amp;#8220;threatened injury or death&amp;#8221; &amp;#8212; &amp;#8220;was blamed by Merrill and Aguilar for the botched drug deal, which cost them a kilo of cocaine worth about $24,000,&amp;#8221; according to the papers.

When they were arrested, &amp;#8220;agents discovered six kilos of cocaine and about $16,000 in cash,&amp;#8221; according to the papers.

Staub &amp;#8220;was charged with eight felonies, including extortion, cocaine possession and narcotics conspiracy.&amp;#8221;

Along with Aguilar, she later became an informant and pleaded guilty to &amp;#8220;a single felony count.&amp;#8221; She was sentenced to five years&amp;#8217; probation (Aguilar got 15 years behind bars) and was ordered into a drug treatment program.

In other NJ Housewife news, Jacqueline Laurita tells US magazine that she and Danielle no longer speak. 

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If anybody needed any more proof that what we see on TV is not reality &amp;#8212; in any shape or form &amp;#8212; here&amp;#8217;s some more evidence, courtesy of Jon - Kate + 8.

Apparently, the couple&amp;#8217;s divorce papers, filed Monday in Pennsylvania&amp;#8217;s Montgomery County Court, feature Kate Gosselin describing her marriage ias &amp;#8220;irretrievably broken&amp;#8221; &amp;#8212; she also checked a box that indicated she and hubby Jon have been &amp;#8220;living separate and apart&amp;#8221; for at least two years. 

Don&amp;#8217;t know about you, but I feel cheated. Played the fool. Not really, because does it really matter? But still. 

&amp;#8220;Over the course of this weekend, Jon&amp;#8217;s activities have left me no choice but to file legal procedures in order to protect myself and our children,&amp;#8221; Kate said in a statement Monday.

E! Online reports the following:

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<title>Nick Lachey, Vanessa Minnillo break up</title>

    

    


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Grab your handkerchiefs.

Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo have broken up, according to People.com and about a thousand other gossip Web sites.

A publicist for the actress and former MTV VJ confirmed to E! News that she and the 98 Degrees alum &amp;#8220;have amicably split but remain good friends who still greatly care for one another.&amp;#8221;

Minnillo, 28, started dating Lachey, 35, in 2006 after meeting during a shoot for his music video for &amp;#8220;What&amp;#8217;s Left of Me.&amp;#8221; She had just ended her three-year romance with New York Yankees star Derek Jeter, and he had just gotten divorced from singer Jessica Simpson.

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<title>Jon&amp;Kate production on hold until August</title>

    

    


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<![CDATA[TLC is stopping production of Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8, following Monday night&#8217;s televised announcement of the couple&#8217;s impending divorce. The network said next week&#8217;s episode will be a &#8220;clip package&#8221; with some &#8220;new footage&#8221; &#8212; the next all-new episode will air Aug. 3. The Los Angeles Times reported that the decision was the network&#8217;s &#8212; not the family&#8217;s. 

This year, six episodes of the 40-episode season have aired. Both Kate and Jon said Monday night that they would continue the show: Kate even gamely declared, &#8220;The show must go on!&#8221; 

Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8 is TLC&#8217;s highest-rated show. Its May premiere drew in 9.8-million viewers, a record for the network.
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