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Just one month after being diagnosed with breast cancer, actress Christina Applegate has revealed she is now completely clear of the disease...

In a recent interview Christina said:

"I'm clear. Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. … They got everything out so I'm definitely not going to die from breast cancer."

Applegate, who started getting mammograms six years ago after she turned 30, said the cancer was found through the second of two MRI tests as a follow-up from a biopsy she had last year.

We’re very glad she’s going to be ok!!

As Michael Phelps was breaking seven world records and earning eight gold medals at last week's Beijing Olympics, The Hollywood Gossip staff avoided covering his feats for two reasons:

1. They defied comprehension to such an extent that they left us speechless... which is saying a lot for a group of writers that can fill paragraphs picking apart the latest Brooke Hogan fashion disaster or critiquing the so-called "music" of Heidi Montag;
2. As impressive as it is, swimming faster than any human being that has ever lived does not exactly fall under the category of "celebrity gossip."

Now, though, as rumors about which beauty Phelps is dating become a hot topic, we're ready to dive into the dating pool with the star athlete!

Reports out of Great Britan have narrowed down the possible lucky ladies to a pair: U.S. swimmer Amanda Beard or British fashion model Lily Donaldson.

Beard, of course, is known for being a former Olympic swimmer herself (as well as posing nude for PETA and Playboy), while Donaldson has replaced Kate Moss as one of the faces of Burberry.

Reportedlty, either Amanda Beard or Lily Donaldson is having her breasts stroked by Michael Phelps.

Donnie Wahlberg is a new kid... on the chopping block!

He and and soon-to-be ex-wife Kim Fey each filed for divorce last week in court documents, citing irreconcilable differences. Fey is seeking sole physical and legal custody of their two sons – Xavier, 15 and Elijah, 7 – with visitation rights for Wahlberg.

Wahlberg's former flame is also after spousal support and attorney's fees from the New Kids on the Block singer. It's a good thing that group went on a recent comeback tour. (It's then too bad it was a disaster.)

Fey and Wahlberg were married in August 1999 and separated in January.

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Late last night washed up actress Sadie Frost left Primrose Hill with her boyfriend Kristian Marr and headed towards Camden to visit her old pal Amy Winehouse. Now when we spotted Sadie heading into Amy’s pad we couldn’t help but notice that she seemed to be in a bit of a… how do we put this delicately? In a bit of a *cough* state. But imagine our surprise when she left the flat later looking like this...

What had they been getting up to in there?? The mind simply boggles…

Taking a break from her feud with Miley Cyrus, young Disney star Selena Gomez made a couple of appearances last week.

She presented at the 2008 ALMA Awards and she posed for a photo shoot at the DKNY beach house in Malibu.

Here's an adorable shot from the latter...

Wanna see more of the Wizards of Waverly Place star? Click on the following Selena Gomez pics now...

Below, the best looking, most popular musical group in the industry poses for a photo.

OR DOES IT?

Is this actually a picture of The Jonas Brothers, the trio with the highest-selling album on the market? Or is this a shot of wax statues pretending to be Nick, Joe and Kevin?

You decide in this special edition of Real or Wax...

Follow this article's jump right now to learn the answer…

BOTH!

We know it's cheating, but the photo above actually depicts Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas standing alongsie their wax representations. It's twice The Jonas Brothers for the price of one! Sort of!

Did you answer correctly?

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Guess which scruffy actor we spotted dining last night at posh celebrity hangout Nobu, wearing these filthy leather clothes!!

It’s Worzel Gummidge, aka Rhys Ifans, of course – what a grotty little man he is. Doesn’t he looks as though he needs a good hosing down? We spotted Rhys heading into the exclusive eatery with his girlfriend companion Kimberley Stewart and pal Kelly Osbourne.

Honestly, bum crack hanging out one week, filthy clothes the next, anyone would think he’d been sleeping rough…

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The Hills delivered on its promise of plenty of drama in its fourth season premiere last night - and that's fine with Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.

In fact, Speidi is game for many, many more seasons of this.

“I think that maybe [Lauren Conrad] is tired of being on the show, but we’re just beginning,” Montag told Ryan Seacrest during an interview Monday on his KIIS-FM radio show. “We’re not even remotely sick of it.”

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt quickly shot down talk that the MTV reality soap opera would not continue for a fifth season.

Pratt says that even if Hills star Lauren Conrad opts out of a new season, he and Montag would happily take over her narrator duties.

“Sometimes the narrator has to throw their hate up on the wall and pass the mic,” Spencer Pratt said, adding that he wants to get married on live TV. “It’s my favorite show. I love it. The Hills season 10 is what I’m going for.”

This guy is hilarious.

The two are staying plenty busy with other "projects" as well, such as her new single, "Overdosin,'" which debuted yesterday.

“It’s about when you fall in love with someone,” Heidi Montag explained. “[About] how I feel about Spencer and my relationship.”

Check back for our full recap of last night's episode of The Hills - entitled "We'll Never Be Friends" - later this morning.

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Some great celebrity news to kick off the day:

Not long after a terrible diagnosis, actress Christina Applegate says she's now free of breast cancer following treatment.

"I'm clear," Applegate, 36, told Good Morning America.

"Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. ... They got everything out so I'm definitely not going to die from breast cancer."

In an interview airing Tuesday, the star of Samantha Who?, who was diagnosed just a month ago, says the cancer was discovered in the second of two MRI tests done as a follow-up to a biopsy performed last year.

"I was so mad and I – I just remember I was – I was just shaking," Christina Applegate said. "And then also immediately, I had to go into ... 'take-care-of-business-mode,' which was ... I asked them, 'What do I do now? What – what is it that I do? I get a doctor, I get a surgeon, I get an oncologist? What do I do?'"

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Bad news for the thousands of revellers who have flocked to Europe’s party island  this summer for weeks full of hedonism;  Sleeparound Sienna is planning a temporary move to Ibiza in a bid to escape the media spotlight over her affair with Balthazar Getty. Sorry guys looks like the party’s over. There’s only one problem. Sienna’s mortal enemy, aka Kate Moss, is already there at the moment…

Can anyone else smell a catfight coming on, or is it just us? A source close to Sleeparound recently revealed:

"Sienna is planning to visit her step mum Kelly Hoppen and her sister there. She has also invited Balthazar to join them."

But it looks as though Kate Moss, friend of Rhys Ifans, isn’t too happy about this. A pal of the supermodel's explained:

"Kate would happily drown Sienna if she saw her.”

Get ready to sharpen those claws ladies…

Funnily enough we bumped into Sienna at LAX airport yesterday, is she off to Ibiza already??

• Paris Hilton either added implants to "her A-cup" breasts or wants to spread gossip that she did so she can sell her stupid "push-up" bra. (Yes, you can click the thumb if you need a closer look. Yes, you will feel dirty. But don't you kinda feel that way already?) [P6]
• Graydon Carter's wife Anna gave birth to a baby girl, Isabella Rose Carter, who can already get better reservations and invitations than you. [P6]
• Oppressive Hollywood people will not let Danny Glover make a movie funded by beacon of tolerance Hugo Chavez. [P6]
• Heath Ledger's daughter Matilda will receive money otherwise destined to the actors who completed Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker in The Dark Knight. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell are all donating their proceeds from the movie. [Fox]
• Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt plan to marry on live TV and also wrest the Hills from Lauren Conrad.

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We all know that Lily Allen is a classy woman, but in case you needed any more confirmation of just how sophisticated Lily really is, we suggest you take a good look at these photos. After a heavy night partying at Groucho Club, in London, with her presenter pal Miquita Oliver, a bleary eyed Lily got into an altercation with a loud-mouthed passer-by and ended up trying to punch her in the face!!

The incident occurred after the unknown woman hurled abuse at Lily as she past her in the street. Lily then responded aggressively; slurring a string of insults and threats at the woman. The songstress then made three consecutive attempts to strike the girl in the face.

A wound up Miquita Oliver then attempted to chase after the angry stranger, but merely managed to stumble forward a few paces before both she and Lily were tumbled into the back of a waiting car and hastily driven away. The incident follows Allen's claims yesterday that her record label, EMI, were to blame for the delay in releasing her second album. In her MySpace blog Lily wrote:

“Now, the album. It has been finished for a while now. I don't really know what's going on with it. The record industry is a very political place at the moment and I am on EMI records. Lots of people have been fired or have taken redundancy as the company was taken over by a private equity firm called Terra Firma. Many of these people were assigned to my projects... I might go on another holiday, as I don't have anything else to do."

We wonder if Lily will take to her blog sometime soon to talk about last night's antics….

It's bad enough that 500 bloggers are wasting time and energy "covering" the pointless media spectacle of the upcoming political conventions. Can't tightly-orchestrated pageantry and vacant messaging be left for the television networks and political trades while top bloggers find important actual news that would otherwise go ignored? Apparently not. But the bloggers are making themselves look even more silly and co-opted by accepting a package of goodies, and an embarrassingly nerdy one at that. Reports the Wall Street Journal:

Not only will bloggers have Internet access, workspaces and couches for napping in the "Big Tent" headquarters, they will be provided food and beverages, Google-sponsored massages, smoothies and a candy buffet. On the final night of the convention, Google is co-sponsoring a bash with Vanity Fair magazine for convention-goers and journalists that has become one of the hottest party invites.

A candy buffet — that's so perfect. Perhaps it could be located in a mocked-up "Parents' Basement" zone to make the bloggers feel just slightly more condescended to.

And a fancy Vanity Fair party. Welcome to the Establishment!

Granted, the bloggers each paid $100 for access to their "Big Tent," but that just makes their participation a waste of time, energy and money. And, as the Journal said, Google is still sponsoring many perks, so it's not like the $100 buys a claim on total independence. (If you don't think bloggers can be bought with candy and massages, you just haven't met that many bloggers!)

[WSJ]

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John Mayer is a cheap, attention seeking liar. And that’s not just our character assessment of the paparazzi loving rocker – it’s what Jennifer Aniston’s friends have been telling the world’s press! Over the weekend John told a horde of photographers that he was the one who ended the relationship with Jen. But now pals of the Friends actress are claiming this simply isn’t the case…

According to one of Jen’s snitches, oh sorry we meant to say “friends”: “Jen will never kiss and tell, but it's she who ended the relationship."

In a shocking attack on John’s character the source went on to say that since their break-up John’s: "childish behaviour only confirms she was right to dump him. Now he's acting like a spoiled child. Expect Jen to behave like a lady."

Wow, you think that’s bad wait until you hear what else this friend has to say. One of the major reasons for the couple’s break up, the source alleges, is John’s constant need for attention:

“He has a relationship with certain paparazzi (and) bloggers. He tips them off. He loves the attention. Jen didn't want to believe it was happening, but it was, and she has no tolerance for that."

The source also claims that John is stingy:

"Jen was tired of paying for everything. Cobwebs come flying out of (Mayer's) wallet when he opens it. John liked living like a movie star when he was with her. Jen would never say anything, but you could tell it irritated her."

The friend then added: "We're talking about a guy who had a car waiting to take him home in New York, but he chose to walk so he could talk to the press (along the way). He'll drag this out until there's someone new."

Seriously, don’t sugar coat the truth will you, tell us what you really think. Hang on a second, Courtney Cox, is that you??

According to NBC research, the Olympics are one of the few televised sporting events watched by as many women as men. Oddly enough, the Times reports this morning, they're really into Michael Phelps and other swimmers and also into gymnastics, like perhaps the "artistic gymnastics" medal winners pictured on the far left there. Sensing a theme, Chevrolet is targeting women with an ad "featuring a shirtless hunk who irons, scrubs a toilet and makes reservations for an anniversary dinner." Well, that's fairly pukey, and of course women aren't tuning into the summer games just for beefcake and male athletes. Some advertisers are running more enlightened commercials:

... myriad spots during the Games feature women athletes past and present, like Cheri Blauwet, Nadia Comaneci, Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Kerri Strug and Dara Torres.

Wow, that's a fair number of high-profile women athletes. Could women spectators perhaps be enticed to watch them compete during the four years between Olympiads on channels now jam-packed with men's football, baseball, basketball and hockey? Perhaps! But considering women have been known to heavily consume the Olympics for at least four years now, if not decades, and that women's sports remain a microscopic part of sports television, the idea is something of a dream. So enjoy the miraculous Olympics while they last, women.

[Times]

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Controversial star Jade Goody has been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Jade, who entered the Big Brother house in India this week, was delivered the devastating news whilst in the diary room of the reality TV show…

The news comes after Jade was admitted to Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Essex, for tests after she collapsed on August 2. The mother-of-two, broke down in tears and sobbed to housemates she had suffered some 'bad news' and that she had to leave the house.

She was immediately withdrawn from the show and was last night being flown home to begin treatment.

Her spokesman said she is 'devastated' and is due to fly home today to see a specialist. It is thought the cancer is at an early stage. Jade’s spokesman said:

“She is devastated. It is a terrible thing to be told you have cancer. She broke down while she was on air and told some of the other housemates she had some bad news and had to go home. When I spoke to her she was very upset, frightened and I tried to reassure her as best I could.

“It looks like her cancer is at an early stage but we will have to wait until she gets back to Britain and sees a specialist and has more tests.'”

It is not clear how much of the incident will be shown on Indian TV when Big Brother is aired later tonight.

There seems to be no role left in book publishing an author can't outsource. Ghost writers are commonplace. Laura "JT LeRoy" Albert pioneered the use of a surrogate in book-tour appearances. And judging by the Craigslist ad after the jump, writers are even hiring forgers to affix their autographs to new releases, because that's just way too much work. With all the celebrity books in circulation, this surely can't be a brand-new phenomenon, but has anyone ever been quite so cheap and brazen about it?

At two authors and $25 per 200 books, one would have to churn out a convincing fake signature every 9 seconds just to earn the advertised $25 per hour. And you're supposed to visit their office on spec!

It's not clear on behalf of which authors the ad was posted. The phone number reverses to an ad agency called Nax Partners run by this woman who just appeared on CNBC and advised everyone to adjust their attitudes upward. And their ethics downward, apparently.

[Craigslist]

FASHION-mad WAG Abbey Clancy could bag herself a real crocodile handbag after being asked to appear on I'm A Celebrity.

"The CW is taking the unusual step of not screening its buzzed-about remake of Beverly Hills 90210 for advertisers or the media in advance of the program's premiere." [Ad Age]

newVideoPlayer("/bostonmarket_dubbedad.flv", 506, 423,""); How does Boston Market offer such cheap meals to its sad customers, aside from through atrociously poor food quality? By skimping on TV commercials! Agency Spy caught the fast food chain overdubbing the advertisement at left, in which one guy's voice says "five new meal-size deals for $4.99" but his lips betray the original boom-time price of $5.99. Because, hey, who wants to pay for another take?? Whatever, just keep the stuff cheap. Subprime mortgage holders, ex Bear Stearns traders and eventually everyone will thank Boston Market for its frugality when the still-unfolding economic depression turns us into hobos.

As first noted by the tenacious John Edwards-hounders at Deceiver.com, it seems Times readers are mighty interested in the philandering Democrat, even though many journalists said they simply shouldn't care about the scandal. As shown in the screenshot above, "John Edwards" is the most popular search term over the past week on nytimes.com. If the newspaper was crass enough to actually shape coverage around such reader-interest metrics, it might admit as miscalculation the assertion by the Times' campaign coverage editor last week that while the Edwards scandal was "fair game for journalism," it wasn't a "high priority" because "there are a lot of big issues.... and we have finite resources." After the jump, CNN congressional correspondent Jessica Yellin on why her viewers neither wanted nor needed Edwards scandal coverage:

KURTZ: Right.

Now, CNN, Jessica Yellin, worked this story. In fact, had a package all ready to go, a taped piece with The Enquirer reporter who broke the story, was part of that. But CNN held back and just about all national media organizations held back.

Why do you think that was?

JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, there are two reasons. One is because of the evidence. You have to have your own solid sourcing to go with this.

And the other is that John Edwards was at no point a top contender for the presidency. I mean, before the campaign started this got a little bit of traction. As soon as it was clear that he really wasn't going to be in the running after Iowa, there's no real public interest of need to know here.

[HOWARD] KURTZ: Wait a minute. I'm not buying that. So what?

The guy ran for president two times. He was the Democrats' vice presidential nominee four years ago. And suddenly, because he didn't win the Iowa caucuses and drops out, you're saying it doesn't matter?

YELLIN: Howie, I guarantee you, if we were in hot pursuit of the story and pushing it and putting it on the airwaves at that time, we would have gotten lambasted for ignoring a war, ignoring a tanking economy, and all these issues that matters to voters. Why are we chasing some lascivious sex scandal?

[JOAN] WALSH [of Salon]: I agree.

YELLIN: The media would have gotten lambasted.

Hopefully Yellin has at least learned a key media lesson from all this: What news consumers say they want and what they actually consume are two very different things (paging Julia Allison...).

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has, for now, made that critical flip-turn into full-blown celebritydom. That means we suddenly all officially care about who the gold-metal-dapppled 23-year-old is dating, assuming we weren't already obsessed with such questions the moment we saw his chiseled Olympic bod. The current rumors have Phelps linked with Lily Donaldson, pictured left, the 21-year-old English model who displaced Kate Moss at Burberry. They also have him snogging with Amanda Beard, pictured right, who like Phelps took home gold from the 2004 Olympics but who had less success in Beijing, failing to reach the finals. Will anyone care enough to gossip about Phelps' love life in a year? Will the 2012 London Olympic hopeful have time for a love life in a year? Doubtful on both counts, but for now at least you know who to be jealous of. [Telegraph via New York, Guanabee]