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PAMELA ANDERSON and her new husband RICK SALOMON have signed a deal to star in a new reality TV show, according to reports.
The former Baywatch star and Salomon, who married in Las Vegas in October (07), will produce and star in the programme for U.S. TV network E! News.
The currently untitled show will follow the newlyweds as they negotiate the ups and downs of married life.
An insider tells American magazine Us, "These two don’t have any boundaries, which is perfect for reality stars.
Twice-divorced Anderson recently described her wedded bliss: "I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. We’re good for each other. We’re in every night - having sex!"

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Troubled superstar BRITNEY SPEARS has topped a poll of the top Hollywood meltdowns of 2007.
The Toxic singer beat out competition from Owen Wilson to score the number one spot on the list compiled by American magazine Us.
Spears’ public downfall has spanned the whole year (07) and included such incidents as emerging from a car without wearing any underwear; shaving her own head; a stint in rehab; a disastrous performance at the MTV Video Music Awards; a divorce from Kevin Federline and an ongoing custody battle over her two infant sons.
Second-placed Wilson attempted suicide in August (07), while Paris Hilton came third following a tumultuous year which saw her jailed for violating her probation for drink-driving.
Lindsay Lohan, who was arrested twice for driving under the influence and checked into rehab twice in 2007, came fourth, while British singer Amy Winehouse is in fifth place.
The top 10 Hollywood meltdowns of 2007 are:

1. Britney Spears
2. Owen Wilson
3. Paris Hilton
4. Lindsay Lohan
5. Amy Winehouse
6. Cameron Diaz
7. Rosie O’Donnell
8. Ellen DeGeneres
9. Alec Baldwin
10. David Hasselhoff
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LATEST: An illness prevented BRITNEY SPEARS from attending a court-ordered deposition in her ongoing custody trial on Wednesday (12Dec07) morning.
The Toxic singer was expected to give her deposition under oath at the Los Angeles offices of her ex-husband Kevin Federline’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan at 10am.
When Spears failed to show up, the lawyer was forced to start without her, taking testimony from the singer’s former assistant Alli Sims and ex-manager Larry Rudolph, among others.
Kaplan says, "I was told of a general (medical) condition, and Spears felt she couldn’t attend." A new date for Spears’ deposition has been chosen, but not made public.
Sims and Rudolph were both served subpoenas by Kaplan earlier this year (07).
The attorney hopes to determine whether Spears drinks alcohol or uses drugs in front of her young children.

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LATEST: WILL SMITH’s actor son JADEN is to revive the KARATE KID franchise two months after the MEN IN BLACK star’s publicists denied reports.
The young Pursuit Of Happyness star is in talks with film executives about the role.
His proud father confirms, "I met with a couple of people in China. We’re looking to potentially shoot in China." The original Karate Kid films, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, became cult family viewing in the mid-to-late 1980s. Oscar winner Hilary Swank starred in a fourth film, The Next Karate Kid in 1994.

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WILL SMITH has been applauded by a British organisation, for refusing to use albinos in his new movie I AM LEGEND.
Officials at the National Organisation Of Albinism And Hypopigmentation (NOAH) feared film makers would follow the same direction as 1971 film The Omega Man - adapted from the same Robert Matheson novel - and make Smith the last man on earth facing an army of albino villains.
They blame the movie for starting a trend of making albinos movie villains, citing The Matrix and The Da Vinci Code as examples.
So the organisation’s bosses were delighted to discover Smith tackles zombies instead.
A NOAH statement reads. "Will Smith appears relieved to be dealing with a vampire, not an evil character with albinism.
"The latest film version of the I Am Legend tale stars Will Smith as final living human. Notably absent are evil characters with albinism.
"When this material was last made into a movie in 1971 as The Omega Man, Charlton Heston single-handedly took on a cult of virally altered humans. A bio-terror attack transformed Los Angeles denizens into monk-robed, sunglass-wearing villains with white skin, light eyes and alabaster afros.
"The Omega Man jump-started a trend which persisted unchecked for over 30 years - the movie stereotype of an evil albino.
"We are delighted to report that no mainstream Hollywood releases in 2007 have featured evil albino characters. We can only hope this trend away from red-eyed killers with albinism will continue."

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DOLLY PARTON credits SYLVESTER STALLONE with saving her from suicide - because he helped cheer her up when she was at her lowest.
The country star had just learned she’d never be able to give birth after a hysterectomy and plunged into a deep depression.
Then, she started work on flop 1984 movie Rhinestone with Stallone and he made her chuckle every day.
The singer tells U.S. tabloid the Globe, "It was an awful time for me…
Every day I thought, ‘I wish I had the nerve to kill myself.’" And then, along came Stallone: "Even though the movie didn’t do that well, that was one of my greatest projects because Stallone was so full of life and so crazy and funny, and he made me laugh a lot, which was really healthy for me. That got me back on track."

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Campaigning Hollywood star BRAD PITT has been left red-faced after a posing at a Hurricane Katrina rebuilding project with a convicted fraudster.
Pitt visited New Orleans, Louisiana earlier this month (Dec07) as part of his Make It Right project and was snapped with Robert Green, who has qualified to move into one of Pitt’s houses.
But an internet blogger has discovered that just six months ago Green was convicted of housing fraud - a fact court documents confirm.
A message posted online by the anonymous blogger reads: "Poor Brad Pitt. The well-intentioned fellow has no idea who he is dealing with. The tragically described gentleman he is hugging in the photo, Robert Green, was convicted on 11 April 2007 in New Orleans Federal Court for engaging in one of the largest housing-fraud schemes ever perpetrated against HUD (Department Of Housing And Urban Development) in the New Orleans Area." American magazine Star has obtained confirmation Green pleaded guilty to federal charges for his role in a five-year-long conspiracy to obtain fraudulent loans from HUD.

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Spaniard PENELOPE CRUZ has been crowned Hollywood’s new style queen in a new U.S. magazine poll.
The Blow star beat Kate Hudson and Jennifer Garner in the new In Touch Weekly list to find the most consistent best dresser on Tinseltown’s red carpets.
In picking Cruz, In Touch editors claim, "Penelope plays up romance… She steams up the red carpet in strapless gowns that play up her decolletage.
"A true girlie-girl, Penelope loves to play dress-up in romantic styles by classic designers like Chanel and Valentino, and look like the movie star she is." Also making the new top 10 are Cameron Diaz, Ray star Kerry Washington and Katie Holmes.

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JEFF BRIDGES was so desperate to land a part in controversial film THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST he wrote a letter to director MARTIN SCORSESE.
The Big Lebowski star insists it was the only time he’d ever put pen to paper to request a film part.
He reveals, "It was one of my favourite books and I wanted to play Judas.
"I sent him a wonderful book too, called The Saviors Of God, which was the writer’s (Nikos Kazantzakis) last book.
"I didn’t get the part but I enjoyed the movie." The part of Judas in the 1988 film went to Harvey Keitel.

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Actress KATHERINE HEIGL’s husband-to-be is begging the KNOCKED UP star to quit smoking as a wedding gift to him.
Singer-songwriter Josh Kelley will wed Heigl in her native Utah at Christmas (07), and he hopes she’ll have stopped smoking by then.
A friend of the couple tells Life & Style magazine, "He’s been pushing her to quit for a while but realised he needed to give her a deadline. Josh thinks it’s a nasty habit.
"Katherine adores Josh and wants to make him happy, so she’s determined to succeed."

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Legendary actor JACK NICHOLSON worries about contracting a smoking-related disease - because it will prove how stupid he was to smoke his whole adult life.
The 70-year-old star, who has recently cut back on his intake of cigarettes, insists health warnings have never tempted him to quit smoking.
He says, "I can tell you this from 100 per cent experience. No one has ever criticised me in any way about smoking that, while they were saying it, it didn’t inflame my desire to smoke…
"Look, nobody should smoke. It is not so much that you fear that moment when somebody comes in and says, ‘That’s it. You’re dead. You smoked too much.’ Well, that’s not the real fear.
"The real fear is going through now the process and thinking, ‘I’m dying of stupidity.’ This is the self-recrimination about it."

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U.S. news anchor FORREST SAWYER was injured in a helicopter crash in Africa last week (ends07Dec07).
The veteran broadcaster suffered a broken hip when the helicopter crashed into Lake Natron in Tanzania.
The pilot was airlifted to a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya with a broken leg.
Sawyer was filming aerial shots for a TV documentary at the time of the accident.
He says, "I’ve been in a lot of strange situations. But I’d never come as remotely close to dying as this."

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Colourful heavy rockers TWISTED SISTER have been forced to scrap a concert in California due to poor ticket sales.
The gig at the Bren Events Center in Irvine was planned by two entrepreneurial fans who took out a $100,000 (£50,000) bank loan to fund the 14 December (07) show.
Blabbermouth.net reports the Newport Beach, California couple stood to earn a tidy fortune for local charities and cover their loan if the show was a sell-out, but now it looks as if the pair will be left out of pocket after only 600 of the 4,300 tickets sold.

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Composer ANDREW IMBRIE has died after a long illness. He was 86.
Imbrie, who was best known for his 1976 opera Angle Of Repose, passed away at his Berkeley, California home on 5 December (07).
He was also a university music professor at UC Berkeley between 1949 and 1991 and taught at the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music from 1976 to 2004.
Imbrie was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 for his cantata Adam.

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Singer JOSH GROBAN has tied ELVIS PRESLEY’s festive record by claiming a third successive week at number one on the U.S. album chart with a compilation of Christmas tunes.
Groban’s Noel scored an increase in sales to claim a third week at number one, keeping Alicia Keys’ As I Am off the top.
The Eagles’ Long Road Out Of Eden falls a spot to number three on the new countdown.
The highest new entry on the chart belongs to American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis, who debuts Audio Day Dream at number 10.

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Music legend CARLOS SANTANA is set to become the latest celebrity preacher after revealing he wants to start his own church on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
Following in the footsteps of stars like Al Green and rapper Joseph ‘Revd.
Run’ Simmons, the guitar great wants to preach the good work of the Lord in paradise.
He says, "I want to live in Maui five to seven years from now and start a small church. I believe God wants me to be a minister, a preacher." And the Smooth hitmaker insists the ‘Church Of Santana’ will welcome all faiths: "It will be non-denominational and purely about spirit, where everything merges… We won’t leave anybody out."

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Country star TRAVIS TRITT is suing his record label and its president for breach of contract and fraud.
Tritt accuses Category 5 Records, on which he released his most recent album The Storm earlier this year (07), and its boss Ray Termini, of incompetence and denying him the complete creative control he was promised.
In legal papers filed in Nashville, Tennessee, Tritt also accuses Termini of exaggerating Category 5 Records’ financial resources and its ability to honour its financial commitments, and of not paying him money for royalties and promotional travel.
Tritt, who signed a five-year deal with the record label in 2006, is seeking $10 million (£5 million) in damages.
Other artists on Category 5 Records’ roster include George Jones and Sammy Kershaw.

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Irish singer CHRISTIE HENNESSY has died of asbestosis in London.
The 62-year-old, whose illness is attributed to working on building sites as a young man, passed away in the British capital on Tuesday (11Dec07) morning.
A statement on his website reads: "It is with great sadness we announce Christie passed. We just want you all to know how much Christie appreciated your love and support over the years. He will be sadly missed by all." Born in Kerry, Ireland, Hennessy released his first album in 1972, but is best known for his 1992 disc The Rehearsal.

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