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- On Saturday night, John Galliano, the keynote speaker at Savannah College of Art and Design, called in sick, disappointing the hundreds of students who were probably already sort of disappointed by having to go to fashion school in Georgia for 4 years.
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- Heart bags, hot pants, and high heels with guns highlighted the Karl Lagerfeld cruise collection at The Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach. More Scarface than Golden Girls.[WWD, 1st item]
- Jerry Hall is set to auction off the wedding dress she wore when she married Mick Jagger. Who will be the lucky (?) bidder? [UPI]
- This just in: Agyness Deyn doesn't drink during working hours, flies first class, gets knackered after a photo shoot! Now I've heard everything. [The Independent]
- Watch every woman in New York City go wild as Bloomingdale's hosts a Sex And The City lingerie party. It's a seven-day marathon with a sweepstakes prize that includes free tickets to the premiere, fingernail scratches all over your face, and your hair extensions being ripped from your skull. Good times! [WWD]
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- Lindsay Lohan: Protective of lady love Samantha Ronson. A source says "Ashley Olsen said hello to Sam at [NYC hotspot Beatrice Inn], and Lindsay screamed at her, 'Get your 15-year-old Full House ass away from my girlfriend.'" [Page Six]
- And don't forget! Even though LL was in AA, she downed vodka cocktails all night. [Gatecrasher]
- Here's how Lindsay looked on her way home: Drunk. [ONTD]
- Ali Lohan will make her screen debut in Mostly Ghostly, a flick based on an R.L. Stine book. She'll play a "popular high school senior." A mean girl maybe? [People]
- Emma "Hermione Granger" Watson celebrated her 18th birthday by flashing her see-through underwear to paparazzi. [Page Six]
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- A fight broke out on the set of Pharrell's new video a few hours before Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson showed up. Oh, and the N.E.R.D. song, "Everybody Nose," is about girls waiting on line for a club bathroom to do coke. [Page Six]
- Hey, guess who is making a cameo appearance in that video about cocaine? Your girl Lindsay! Classy. [Perez Hilton]
- Contrary to earlier reports, a source says Lindsay's album is on track to be released this fall. [People]
- As previously reported, Anne Hathaway's boyfriend, Italian property developer Raffaelo Follieri, was arrested for trying to pass a bad check for $250,000. [People]
- Also as previously reported: Naomi Campbell was arrested after a kerfluffle at Heathrow's Terminal 5, after a dispute involving a missing piece of luggage. Since Terminal 5 opened last week, more than 28,000 bags have been separated from their owners. Naomi is out on bail and must report to the police station in late May. [Yahoo News]
- There's some new strain of medical marijuana people are calling "Tom Cruise Purple" and guess whose lawyers are investigating? Spoil sport. [Rush & Molloy]
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- Oscar winner Marion Cotillard has conspiracy theories! She questions the attack on the World Trade Center towers: "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there (in New York), in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed." Plus! She doubts Neil Armstrong! "Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered," she says. "I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure." [Variety]
- Are Britney and Adnan Ghalin dunzo? Did she throw his iPhone into the pool after finding "saucy" texts from another woman? [The Sun]
- Jennifer Lopez has indeed, as previously reported, named her twins Max and Emme. A reader points out that those were the names of the kids in the cartoon Dragon Tales. WTF? [CNN, YouTube]
- Colin Farrell is hooked on Russian steam baths. "There's something very basic about rubbing honey on your skin and going steaming with a bunch of strange Russian men," he says. Well, it's healthier than drugs and alcohol, for sure. [UPI]
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- Okay, get ready for this: The UK'sNews Of The World alleges that, the night she ended up in the hospital, Britney Spears took 10 sleeping pills, 12 Vicodins, six Ritalins and 10 Zantacs — and washed them all down with her "purple drank", i.e. vodka, NyQuil and Red Bull. She also supposedly phoned her sister and shouted, "You're not going to be the only fucking Spears on the front cover of a magazine next week!" As for reports that Brit will be on Dr. Phil, a source says, "Based on the interaction between Dr. Phil and Britney . . . it'll be a cold day in hell before Britney goes on his show." [New York Post]
- Doctors at Cedars-Sinai hospital are pissed that Dr. Phil visited Britney in the first place — the patient has to give consent for stuff like that and it was a violation of her rights. [TMZ]
- Dr. Phil says he went to see Britney at the request of one Lynne Spears, her mother. [TMZ]
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- Britney Spears is furious at In Touch magazine and may even sue! Her "pal" Sam Lufti says the cover story stating that Brit's preggers is bullshit and "completely fake." But what does Brit have to say? And was she knocked up, but then had it "taken care of"? [Page Six]
- Oh, Brit texted Ryan Seacrest with the same sentiment. What the hell is really going on? [Rush & Molloy]
- Katie Price, the British celebrity known as Jordan, is having her giant breast implants removed, which is why there's a headline that reads "Bye To Britain's Biggest Bangers." [The Sun]
- Helio Castroneves won Dancing WIth The Stars, and maybe a new girlfriend, partner Julianne Hough, as well. He's called off his engagement and says Julianne is "very close to me." All those long hours getting sweaty in front of a mirror rehearsing just lead to trouble! [Gatecrasher]
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- Is Lindsay Lohan broke? She spent millions on legal fees, hotels, booze and drugs over the last year, the British press claim. They say she spent $450,000 living at the Chateau Marmont, $500,000 on chauffeurs and thousands on "endless bottles" of Cristal. We believe everything except the booze, because everyone knows stars drink for free. Especially when they're underage. [The Sun]
- Photographer Steven Klein recently shot Tom Cruise for W magazine and a source says Klein felt Cruise was "annoying to work with." Ugh, we predict boring pictures. [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]
- Is Kevin Federline smoking weed on the set of TV show One Tree Hill? Maybe he's confused about the meaning of "tree." [Rush & Molloy, 3rd item]
- Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be going on maternity leave November 8 or 9, so celebrity guest hosts will be filling her place on The View. We sorta wish Rosie would do it! [People]
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- Holy shit! It's a match made in both gay and straight man Heaven: The Spice Girls will play the Victoria's Secret show in Los Angeles. [Fashion Week Daily]
- 15-year old Mick & Jerryspawn Georgia Jagger becomes (shock!) a model. And by shock we mean what exactly took her so long? [Sassybella]
- Israeli model/DiCaprio girlfriend Bar Rafeli swears she didn't talk shit about Israel and get married to get out of her military service. [WWD, 2nd item]
- Does Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour not have air conditioning in her NYC townhouse? Her guests apparently panted and sweated through the party she threw for this year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nominees. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Harper's Bazaar is 140 this year and wants us to believe that it's more relevant and important than ever. LOL! [WWD, sub req'd]
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- Britney Spears lost custody of her kids because she didn't meet with a drug counselor, submit to drug testing or enroll in parenting classes — all things the judge overseeing her custody battle with Kevin Federline had ordered. Is it possible that she'd be relieved not to have primary custody? [TMZ]
- By the way, Britney finally applied for a California driver's license. For the love of Zeus, let's hope she passes the written test! [People]
- The new issue of Vanity Fair claims that Lou Perlman — the man who created *NSync and the Backstreet Boys — was a pedophile and a sleazeball who had inappropriate contact with boy band members, including Nick Carter. Wonder if Timberlake was spared? [Page Six]
- Derek Jeter is dating actress Gabrielle Union? First of all, In Touch said she was dating Ludacris. Second: Does she know about the herp? [Page Six]
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