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SEX & THE CITY star JASON LEWIS has laughed off reports he’s JENNIFER ANISTON’s secret lover.
The 36-year-old, who has previously dated Rosario Dawson, insists he’s never even met the former Friends actress.
He tells U.S. news show Extra, "That’s a big rumour. I imagine she’s a lovely woman. I never met her." Lewis jokingly adds, "(The rumour source is) probably one of my friends crank-calling somebody."

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Oscar winner HILARY SWANK was honoured for her cancer charity work in Los Angeles on Wednesday (20Feb08) night.
The Million Dollar Baby star was presented with the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s 2008 Courage Award in recognition of her efforts on behalf of the EIF’s Women’s Cancer Research Fund.
Among those paying tribute to Swank at the glitzy pre-Oscars event were Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Christian Slater.
Last year (07), the actress cut nine inches off her hair on Oprah Winfrey’s U.S. TV show to encourage others to donate their locks to cancer survivors.

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BRITNEY SPEARS’ estranged manager SAM LUTFI was served with a temporary restraining order on Thursday (21Feb08), ordering him to keep away from the troubled star and her family.
Under the terms of the order, Lutfi is forbidden from being within 250 yards of the Toxic singer, her properties or any of her family’s properties.
As conservator of Spears’ estate, her father Jamie sought the restraining order and claimed Lutfi had avoided being served for three weeks.
Lutfi was finally served with the legal papers at 11am on Thursday as he left his Los Angeles apartment.
According to People.com, the order claims: "Mr. Lutfi has drugged Britney. He has cut Britney’s home phone line and removed her cell phone chargers. He claims to control everything."

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LINDSAY LOHAN forthcoming album will feature songs inspired by her traumatic and headline-grabbing 2007.
Jeremy Greene, the R&B singer/songwriter responsible for writing much of Lohan’s new record, admits he studied her newspaper cuttings before setting to work on two tracks he has penned for the upcoming disc.
Speaking after a recording session with Lohan in Los Angeles earlier this month (09Feb08), Greene told Life & Style magazine, "She’s working hard on her new songs. She’s just in the recording stages, but she’s going strong." He says of one track, I Miss You: "I wrote it specifically for her and what she’s going through right now. She said she relates to it. It reminds her of her relationship with her dad. She connects with it." And Greene adds of another, Faith: "I think she’ll relate to this song as well because it’s about complicated relationships in someone’s life. With everyone around her, she’s definitely dealt with these kinds of relationships."

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PARIS HILTON’s brother BARRON was with the 16-year-old daughter of a Hollywood producer when he was arrested for driving under the influence earlier this month (12Feb08).
Barron, 18, was stopped by California police on the Pacific Coast Highway and was reportedly found to have almost twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system.
He was held by cops and then released on bail.
Now police have revealed Superman Returns filmmaker Jon Peters’ daughter Skye was in the passenger seat of the Mercedes, and was driving it before Hilton took the wheel.
California Highway Patrol officer Leon Hines claims Peters was driving when the Mercedes - registered in her name - is alleged to have hit another car before knocking over a gas station attendant, prior to Hilton’s arrest, reports PageSix.com.

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LATEST: ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT’s adoption of four-year-old PAX THIEN JOLIE-PITT has been formally approved in a Los Angeles court.
Jolie adopted Pax from an orphanage in Vietnam last year (07), after a Vietnamese judge approved the adoption.
And on Wednesday (20Feb08) a Los Angeles County Children’s Court judge approved legally made Pax a member of Jolie and Pitt’s family.
The Hollywood couple have two other adopted children - Cambodian Maddox, six, and two-year-old Ethiopian Zahara - and 20-month-old biological daughter Shiloh.

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Oscar nominee ELLEN PAGE isn’t content with a critically-acclaimed acting career - she also wants to become a psychologist and help people for free.
The actress celebrates her 21st birthday on Thursday (21Feb08), three days before she finds out if she’s picked up the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Juno.
But Page isn’t resting on her laurels and insists she has other ambitions outside Hollywood.
She tells actress pal Drew Barrymore in Interview magazine, "I’d like to study psychology or be a counsellor for young people, or maybe work with Doctor’s Without Borders.
"I don’t know whether they have anything like Psychologists Without Borders, but I think I would like to do something like that. A lot of people who need to talk can’t afford $150 an hour to sit on the couch."

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JULIE CHRISTIE has urged fans to make the most of her Oscar-nominated performance in AWAY FROM HER - because she plans to disappear from Hollywood again.
The notoriously reclusive actress emerged from movie retirement to play an Alzheimer’s Disease sufferer in the new film, for which she’s up for a Best Actress Academy Award.
But Christie has no plans to act again for a while - because she is lazy, has no ambition and doesn’t need the money.
The 66-year-old says, "I live very simply. I don’t have any aspirations for the big this and the big that. From the parts and from the bits and pieces I do now, I’m well covered. So I can choose not to work."

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Veteran actor OMAR SHARIF has been ordered to pay $318,000 (£159,000) in damages to a car park attendant he punched in 2005.
The Doctor Zhivago star was leaving Mastro’s Steakhouse in Beverly Hills, California when he tried to pay Guatemalan valet Juan Anderson for his car in euros.
When Anderson pointed out euros aren’t a valid currency in the U.S., Sharif hit him in the head and called him a "stupid Mexican".
Last year (07), Sharif admitted battery and was ordered to take an anger management course and fined $100 (£50).
And on Thursday (21Feb08), Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Joe W. Hilberman awarded Anderson damages totalling $318,190 (£159,095) and costs and legal fees.
Sharif, who is representing himself, wasn’t in court.
In August 2003, the actor was found guilty of hitting a police officer at a casino near Paris, France.

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Rapper FLO RIDA continues to ride high at the top of the U.S. singles chart his smash hit LOW has claimed a ninth week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Low again keeps Chris Brown’s With You and Rihanna’s Don’t Stop The Music stuck at two and three respectively.
Alicia Keys is another non-mover at four with No One, while Sara Bareilles’ Love Song climbs a place to five.
Mariah Carey’s Touch My Body is the new chart’s highest debut at 57.

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LATEST: Rapper PITBULL is pleased his label TVT Records is in financial difficulty as it puts him "one step closer to freedom".
The outspoken star - real name Armando Christian Perez - has publicly condemned the label in recent months, accusing bosses of hampering his blossoming music career.
Pitbull launched an angry tirade against TVT, accusing the company of not doing enough to promote his album The Boatlift, and even urging his fans not to purchase the disc.
And Pitbull now insists he’s relieved to hear TVT has filed for bankruptcy and axed the majority of its staff.
He tells AllHipHop.com, "Of course the situation is very unfortunate for the people who lost their jobs, and it’s unfortunate that it came to this.
"But it’s a very fortunate situation for the artists. That puts us one step closer to freedom." TVT’s founder and president Steve Gottlieb, who launched the label out of his New York City apartment in 1985, claims the company is downscaling all its operations but will continue to work on all of its forthcoming projects.

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LENNY KRAVITZ’ music career almost floundered before it had begun, because record labels refused to accept a black man could rock.
The Are You Gonna Go My Way singer is proud he stood firm and refused to let music bosses push him into R&B.
He tells Alicia Keys in a feature for Interview magazine, "That’s why I didn’t get signed for years. People would listen to my tape and say, ‘We think you’re really talented, but you can’t do this. Well, we’ll hook you up with a producer and then you can make an R&B record.’ I never went for it.
"When I look back at the person I was then, I don’t understand how I had the strength to not sell out. How does a guy who lives in his car say not to money and an apartment and an opportunity to make records? "But thank God I didn’t take any of those deals, because my career would have been over in an album."

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THE BAND drummer LEVON HELM and UNCLE EARL took home the top honours at the third annual Folk Alliance awards on Wednesday (20Feb08) night.
Helm was named Traditional Artist Of The Year at the Memphis, Tennessee event, while Uncle Earl’s Waterloo collected Album Of The Year.
Elsewhere, Tom Russell’s Who’s Gonna Build Your Wall was honoured with the Song Of The Year prize, and Susan Werner picked up the Contemporary Artist Award.

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ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT have taken steps to formalise the actor’s adoption of their children MADDOX, ZAHARA and PAX, according to reports.
The couple was spotted paying a visit to children’s court in Los Angeles on Wednesday (20Feb08) amid reports they want to make Pitt’s parentage of their non-biological kids more formal. Jolie and Pitt are also parents to their own biological daughter 20 month old Shiloh.
The pair was later spotted dining in Brentwood, California with Clint Eastwood and his wife Dina Quiz.
The report follows claims Jolie and Pitt are planning to make their relationship legal by marrying.
Magazine Star claims they will wed in the Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, after agreeing on a $200 million (£100 million) pre-nuptial agreement.
A source says, "They will ensure that the children won’t want for a single thing for the rest of their lives. But hopefully, they will have a happily married mom and dad."

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Singer-turned-actor JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is hoping to meet the members of a U.S.
minor league baseball team - to pick up tips for his upcoming role as a baseball player.
The 27-year-old pop star is set to portray fictional baseball player Carlton Garrett in forthcoming film The Open Road, and has asked to meet with the Houston Astros’ Double-A team in Texas to gather information for the part.
Hooks President J.J. Gottsch says, "Justin wants to portray what it’s like playing for the Hooks, playing for an Astros minor league team and playing at Whataburger Field."

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British soccer legend PAUL GASCOIGNE has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act following a disturbance at a Tyneside, England hotel on Wednesday (20Feb08).
Gascoigne was detained after police received a report of disorderly behaviour at a hotel in his hometown of Gateshead.
A police statement said: "Police attended the Hilton Hotel in Gateshead yesterday evening after we received a report of concern for a 40-year-old who was staying at the hotel.
"The man was detained under the Mental Health Act and no one was injured during the incident." Gascoigne, the former captain for England’s national team, was once regarded as one of the world’s best soccer stars. His battle with alcoholism is well-documented.
In 2005, Gascoigne was hospitalised with pneumonia and last year (07), he sparked fresh fears for his health after undergoing emergency surgery for a perforated stomach ulcer.

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Teen sensation MILEY CYRUS is calling on teenage fans to be her friend, because her overprotective parents veto all the girl pals she brings home.
The 15-year-old Hannah Montana star claims she is lonely, because father Billy Ray and mother Tish have banned her from spending time with many of her friends.
She says, "Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do. And that’s not it at all. It’s actually the opposite.
"They’re protective for sure. My mom is more strict than my dad.
"You want to keep your closed circle of friends. And sometimes my mom is saying, ‘I have a bad vibe about this person. She needs to hang out with you when I’m around just to keep you safe.’ "I need more friends. Its kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends."

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LATEST: U.S. TV network ABC has failed in its attempt to overturn a ruling penalising the broadcaster for depicting illicit nude scenes in an episode of NYPD BLUE.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) refused to alter its judgement and the TV channel will now be forced to pay a multi-million dollar fine for showing female nudity before the American television watershed.
More than 40 affiliate TV stations have landed $27,500 (£13, 750) fines for the 2003 episode which was said to have featured "multiple, close-up views" of an actress’ buttocks.
The total fine will be approximately $1.2 million (£600,000).
ABC was originally handed the penalty last month (Jan08) but appealed on the grounds that the scene was not intended to shock viewers and they had not been given enough time to respond to the complaint.
But the FCC rejected those arguments and upheld the fine.

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