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Hiring a celebrity spokesperson can be a boon for weight loss companies since they don't even have to pay entertainment magazines and websites to run their "before and after" photos. However, hiring celebrities is also a big risk for diet programs, because like all humans, they're likely to gain the weight back — and they'll do it in the public eye. More »
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Sara Rue seems pretty happy about losing 50 pounds in 35 weeks on the Jenny Craig program. So why does her latest commercial seem so sad? More »
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We've just learned that women should exercise an hour a day, seven days a week. Seems tough, but it's easy! Just follow the lead of the ladies featured in today's New York Times: Hire a trainer who makes house calls. More »
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• Despite their pleas to help "poor Haitian children," a Vegas crowd booed party-crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi, reports People. "We're sick of it," says Tareq. "We were invited to the White House and that will come out." • More »
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• Ashton Kutcher elaborately pranked CNN and Ted Turner:

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• Claire Danes and her boyfriend, actor Hugh Dancy, are engaged to be married. Both Jordan Catalano and Brian Krakow are extremely bummed right now. No word yet on how Tino feels about all this, though.[People]

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• Tara Reid looks like she has no longer been ridden hard and put away wet! The former winner of Miss Hot Mess 2002-2007 is dating fashion executive Julien Jarmoune and apparently fending off marriage rumors. A pal of the couple says, "It looks like she's finally gotten her act together!" [E! Online, AHN]
• Someone who has decidedly not gotten her act together: Amy Winehouse. She was spotted stumbling out of a Camden pub at 3:30 this morning, looking a fright. [Daily Mail]
• The Olsen twins are causing dramz in the West Village: their partying habits are bugging the neighbors near the W. 13th Street apartment they're renting for $12,000 a month."Plenty of other celebrities around this block [Sarah Jessica Parker, Liv Tyler, Gisele Bundchen and Julianne Moore] are good neighbors and blend in with the neighborhood - but these two are invaders," a source says. [Page Six]
• One half of the gruesome twosome, Mary Kate, was spotted at fashion week with a new boyf, artist Nate Lowman. [Perez]

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In Sunday's New York Times Alessandra Stanley offered an assessment of weight loss shows, discussing the extremity of the weights we see on TV. There are, Stanley notes, "supersized" contestants on weight loss spectacles like The Biggest Loser, while "sitcom moms and crime-show detectives are reed thin," but "real women — and the national average is between size 12 and 14 — are certainly not represented on television in any proportion to their actual numbers." But these two extremes are so far from most people's experiences as to be rendered almost absurd, and while "society venerates skinniness," Stanley says, "people identify mostly with those who have trouble measuring up." Which is why the 20-pound weight loss of Queen Latifah on Jenny Craig might be the most brilliant marketing scheme to hit the dieting market in years: it's not based on unattainable goals, says size acceptance blog Big Fat Deal, or concrete ideas of "success" and "failure." More »
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Brides-to-be in Hong Kong find that boxing is a good way to tone up before their wedding days...and kick some serious ass should their groom sget out of line. • Preconception care is becoming an important part of healthy planned pregnancies. • The Guardian claims that Mr. Methane, is the world's only "professional flatulist"; have they never heard of Fartman? • More »
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Lisa Marie Presley is suing the Daily Mail for writing an article mocking her weight gain. She says the article "forced" her to announce her pregnancy." • Speaking of weight gain, Valerie Bertinelli said she embarked on her Jenny Craig journey because Victoria Principal implied she was chubby. "She asked point-blank how much I weighed... Nervously, I told her, 168, and it almost took her breath away. It was the kind of politely horrified reaction that had turned me into a Hollywood hermit." • Paris Hilton has been wearing a ring on her ring finger with the initials "B.M." branded on it. Some say it stands for Paris's new flame Benji Madden, but in our hearts it will always stand for bowel movement. [Reuters , National Post, Us Weekly] More »
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• Did Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, overdose on heroin in jail? He was reportedly found passed out in his cell and rushed to the prison hospital. [TMZ]

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