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  1. Queen G

    Who will come out next?

    Gawker/Defamer saying it's Shelby Lynne. <<That's me yawning.
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    Andy Dick

    ***Updated*** Andy Dick charged with felony, shows still on January 23, 2010 @ 02:59 PM The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON -- Andy Dick, in town for weekend performances at the Funny Bone, was arrested around 4 a.m. Saturday by Huntington Police on sexual abuse charges. The 44-year-old comedian appeared before a magistrate early in the afternoon and a spokesman for the club said he expected Dick’s shows Saturday and Sunday to go on as scheduled. Dick was taken into custody around 4 a.m. after two men accused Dick of groping them at Rum Runners, at 819 3rd Ave. According to a press release issued at 12:26 p.m. Saturday from the Huntington Police Department, officers responded to a call to investigate “two alleged incidents of a patron engaging in non-consensual sexual contact with a bar employee and another patron.” “Based upon statements of two victims and independent witness accounts alleging that he had engaged in unwanted and uninvited groping of the two victims' genital areas, Andrew R. Dick (AKA Andy Dick) of South Pasadena, Calif., was arrested and charged with two counts of Sex Abuse in the First Degree,” the press release stated. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2. If convicted, Dick faces one to five years in prison. Tom Schaefer, owner of the Huntington Funny Bone, said he was posting Dick’s $6,000 bail -- 10 percent of the $60,000 bond placed by Magistrate Patty Verbage Spence. He also said he was with Dick early Saturday morning and disputes what happened at Rum Runners. “We were at Rum Runners for literally 10 minutes. Nothing happened there except walking through the door and sitting at the bar,” Schaefer said. Dick has appeared in various movies, starred in MTV's The Andy Dick Show for two years earlier this decade and recently appeared on VH1's "Celebrity Rehab" spin-off "Sober House." According to Dick's biography and various entertainment reports, this is not his first time having issues while on tour. A July 2008 release from the MTV Newsroom, stated Dick was arrested in California on suspicion of drug possession and sexual battery. He allegedly grabbed and pulled down the tank-top of a 17-year-old girl, exposing her breasts. It also details several other incidents. However, Dick was never convicted in most of the cases. He is currently serving a three-year probation for a lesser charge of battery in the 2008 incident involving the teenage girl. http://www.herald-dispatch.com/breaking/x8...arrested-by-HPD
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    Andy Dick

    Andy Dick charged with felony January 23, 2010 @ 11:07 AM The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON -- Andy Dick, in town for weekend performances at the Funny Bone, was arrested around 4 a.m. Saturday by Huntington Police. The 44-year-old is charged with two felony counts of first-degree sexual abuse. He is being held at the Western Regional Jail, awaiting arraignment. No details were immediately available surrounding his arrest, but he is expected to be arraigned sometime after noon by video conference with a magistrate at the Cabell County Courthouse. According to the ticket office at the Funny Bone Comedy Club and Restaurant, Saturday night's show is still on. Dick has appeared in various movies, starred in MTV's The Andy Dick Show for two years earlier this decade and recently appeared on VH1's "Celebrity Rehab" spin-off "Sober House." According to Dick's biography and various entertainment reports, this is not his first time having issues while on tour. A July 2008 release from the MTV Newsroom, stated Dick was arrested in California on suspicion of drug possession and sexual battery. He allegedly grabbed and pulled down the tank-top of a 17-year-old girl, exposing her breasts. It also details a 2007 citation by Columbus Police for urinating on a sidewalk and building. He also was reportedly intoxicated during his standup show and was accused of groping patrons at the comedy club. In 2007, he also was escorted from "Jimmy Kimmel Live" for repeatedly touching the breasts of guest Ivanka Trump without her permission. In 2005, he dropped his pants and exposed his genitals to the audience. He was ushered off the stage, and his second show was canceled. In 2004, he was arrested for indecent exposure outside a McDonald's. And in 1999, Dick was arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana following an arrest for driving his car into a telephone pole in Hollywood. http://www.herald-dispatch.com/breaking/x8...arrested-by-HPD
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    Kate Hudson

    He's been in a few movies...Zathura comes to mind.
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    Andy Dick

    I would have paid good money to see him get his ass kicked!!! Lovitz's theorty about the Hartmans is terribly sad, but I can see it being true. Link here.
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    Kate Moss

    Kate 'planned Bali wedding to Pete today' EXCLUSIVE by KATIE NICHOLL, Mail on Sunday 23:58pm 19th August 2006 When Kate Moss took her family and friends to an exclusive villa in Bali last week they were told to expect a very special celebration. The supermodel flew her brother Nick and a group of her closest friends on a 14-seater private plane to the upmarket resort of Bukit, where she was due to 'marry' her drug addict lover Pete Doherty. Kate, 32, had planned a Balinese-style ceremony - similar to the Hindu wedding of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall in 1990 - down to the final detail and had told friends excitedly that it was to be the intimate 'spiritual ceremony' she and Pete had always dreamed of having. The model, spotted last week with a large ring with a gemstone on her engagement finger, had even told her guests she had arranged to have a Balinese priest at the venue on the southern peninsula of the Indonesian island. But the wedding was off and Kate was being comforted by her friends after 27-year-old Doherty, a self-confessed drug addict, failed to show up for the wedding after he was ordered into a rehabilitation clinic in Britain following his arrest for possessing class A drugs. The Babyshambles singer was charged with seven counts of possessing drugs including heroin and cocaine and spent Thursday night in jail. He was bailed by a district judge on Friday on the condition that he immediately checked into The Priory clinic. He is allowed out, but only between 8am and 10pm. Kate was said to be "in tatters" and speaking to her lawyers in the vain hope of finding a legal loophole so that Doherty can be flown to Bali this week. "She is in a terrible state," a source told me. "She is in tatters and very distressed. When she flew to Bali on Monday she was ecstatic and told her friends that there was going to be a ceremony for her and Pete this weekend. "Kate loves Pete and while she has no intention of marrying him in a traditional wedding ceremony, they decided they wanted to have a spiritual ceremony to show their commitment to one another. "Kate asked Pete to prepare a beautiful ceremony with poetry and music and he was thrilled. "The holiday was initially meant to be a treat for her daughter Lila Grace and there are five little ones and two nannies out in Bali with Kate. But Kate decided to turn the holiday into a celebration." A spokesman for the model confirmed that Kate was in Bali, but denied that she was planning a wedding to Pete. I can reveal, however, that she has been making plans for the wedding for weeks and discussed the possibility of a pre-nuptial agreement with her mother Lynda. The source said: "Kate's mum is understandably concerned about her marrying Pete because of his drugs problem. She has tried to persuade Kate to have a pre-nup, but Kate's adamant that Pete is not marrying her for her money. Her words were, 'He's not materialistic - he's an artist'." While Mick Jagger challenged the legality of his Hindu wedding to Jerry Hall in the courts, claiming it was not legally binding in the UK, Kate, who is worth £16million, is said to have no concerns about the legality of a Balinese wedding. The source said: "Kate wanted a Balinese-style wedding because it's bohemian and simple and represents everything she loves. She's not concerned about whether it's legal over here." Friends said that Kate is still hoping Doherty may be able to fly to Bali before the end of the week. "She has her lawyers working round the clock to see if there is any way she can get Pete out of the UK. He was meant to leave with her last Monday, but he had problems with his passport. Then on Thursday he got arrested. "It's a race against time if they are going to marry, as Kate is only out there for another week." A spokesman for Kate told me: "She is on holiday with friends. There is no spiritual ceremony because her boyfriend is in The Priory. There have never been any plans for a wedding." Link here.
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    The Celeb Price of Fame

    Will Tax Crackdown End Swag Handouts?Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:52 PM EDTThe Associated PressBy SANDY COHENLOS ANGELES (AP) — While the IRS reminded celebrities Thursday that gifts to curry their favor constitute taxable income, don't expect a sudden end to the swag-bag parade.The celebrity tradition rewards stars for on-air appearances and the like with overflowing goodie bags approaching six figures in value."This is a big perk that (celebrities) have become very, very accustomed to," said Lash Fary of Distinctive Assets, a company that provides lavish gift bags for celebrity events. "You're never too rich or famous to deserve gratitude and appreciation. This is a nice thank you gift for them."Uncle Sam, though, wants his cut."Merchants who participate in giving the gifts do not do so solely out of affection, respect or similar impulses," the IRS said on its Web site. "In general, the person has received taxable income equal to the fair market value of the bag and its contents."The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that it had reached an agreement with the IRS to pay taxes on gift bags given to Oscar presenters through 2005. Recipients of the 2006 Oscar booty basket will be issued tax forms as reminders of their obligations to Uncle Sam.Neither organization revealed how much was owed or paid.The practice of giving swanky thank-you gifts to celebrity presenters who donate their time to appear on the Oscar telecast has been popular since the early 1970s, according to Academy President Sid Ganis.The IRS raised a flag days before this year's Oscarcast reminding participants that "movie stars face the same tax obligations as ordinary Americans." Academy leaders decided in April to discontinue the longtime gifting tradition, said spokeswoman Leslie Unger."The Academy would still like to be able to express its gratitude but we don't yet know how we might do that," Unger told The Associated Press. "There are no plans as yet."Lavish gift bags have been assembled for presenters at next week's Emmy Awards, but recipients will have to sign a letter acknowledging they are aware of possible tax implications before taking the gift bag, said Pam Ruben Golum, a spokeswoman for the television academy.A decision has not yet been made whether the Emmy Awards will discontinue the practice for future ceremonies. "It's premature to discuss any decision at this time," Golum said.Celebrity gift baskets typically come packed with the latest electronics, designer clothes and jewelry and gift certificates for fancy dinners, four-star hotel stays, spa treatments and cosmetic surgery procedures.Actors who don't take home trophies at this year's Emmy Awards will receive extravagant consolation gifts from Distinctive Assets worth $42,000, Fary said. Each massive swag bag — packed in a rolling footlocker for ease of transport — includes a couture iPod case worth $395, Stud Monkey jeans that sell for $280 and a VIP stay at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas valued at $8,500.Presenters at February's Grammy Awards enjoyed free LASIK eye surgery, a SportsClub LA bicoastal gym membership, a dozen skin-care treatments, an XM satellite radio, martial arts classes, customized Louisville Slugger bats and a case of whiskey. Total value? Nearly $70,000."Ten thousand dollars is the minimum value" of a celebrity gift bag, Fary said. "For the Grammys, Oscars and Emmys, you're talking $50,000 plus."Academy officials never comment on the value or contents of the Oscars gift bag, Unger said. All items are donated and companies clamor for inclusion. A handful of staff and Academy members select which gifts make it into the bag, she said.The tax necessities don't diminish the need — or effectiveness — of celebrity marketing, Fary noted."There's no better brand ambassador than a celebrity," he said. "Awards shows are a great access point. The rules of the swag game may be changing but the game itself is going to be around for a long, long time."Officials at Sundance — whose annual Park City film festival has become connected with a celebrity gift-house free-for-all — hope new attention from the IRS dissuades celebrities from accepting piles of swag that has nothing to do with their work."Our feeling is that it's embarrassing and uncool to be a highly paid actor or actress who is photographed with free things," said Elizabeth Daly, a director at the Sundance Institute. "My hope is that it will be a real wake-up call that the whole idea of celebrity gifting has gotten out of hand. It's tacky."
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    What Ever Happened to.....?

    I actually think he is (was?) dating Keri Russell (former Watch with Kristen BI). He has done a few TV movies and is starring in a new series this fall called Jericho--I think it's on CBS.
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    Hilary Duff

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    Colin Farrell

    Colin Farrell Confronted On 'Tonight Show' Stage BURBANK, Calif.(July 20, 2006) -- Access Hollywood breaks the news that Colin Farrell was surprisingly confronted on stage as he appeared on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" by a woman who sued him for harassment. Dessarae Bradford, alleged in a small-claims lawsuit that Farrell stalked her with inappropriate calls and text messages, but her lawsuit against Farrell was dismissed. On Thursday, Bradford was a studio audience guest at "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and surprisingly confronted him walking up to him on the stage. According to other audience members, Bradford left a copy of her self-published book, "Colin Farrell: A Dark Twisted Puppy," on Leno's desk. According to a studio audience guest, Farrell calmly walked Bradford off stage and then, as she was escorted off the set, she shouted, "I'll see you in court" and Farrell retorted, "You're insane." When asked about the incident by Access Hollywood's Billy Bush at this evening's Los Angeles "Miami Vice" premiere, Farrell replied, "I don't know. I don't know." Sergeant Gunn of the Burbank Police Department told Access, she was "identified" and advised not to return to NBC property. Gunn added that she was detained by the police, but not officially taken into custody. Link
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    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Says She and Friend Not GayMonday, July 17, 2006 3:40 PM EDTThe Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey and her friend Gayle King want to be clear: they're not gay.In the August issue of O, the Oprah Magazine, the talk-show host explains that some people misunderstand her close friendship with King."I understand why people think we're gay," she says. "There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it — how can you be this close without it being sexual?"In a long article, Winfrey, 52, and King converse about their 30 years of friendship and "four-times-a-day phone calls." King, who hosted "The Gayle King Show" in 1997, is an editor of O, the Oprah Magazine.The two friends say they would have no problem telling the public if they were in a sexual relationship."The truth is, if we were gay, we would tell you, because there's nothing wrong with being gay," says King.Says Winfrey: "Something about this relationship feels otherworldly to me, like it was designed by a power and a hand greater than my own. Whatever this friendship is, it's been a very fun ride."
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    Oprah Winfrey

    The divine Miss Winfrey? By Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY Thu May 11, 7:28 AM ET After two decades of searching for her authentic self - exploring New Age theories, giving away cars, trotting out fat, recommending good books and tackling countless issues from serious to frivolous - Oprah Winfrey has risen to a new level of guru. She's no longer just a successful talk-show host worth $1.4 billion, according to Forbes' most recent estimate. Over the past year, Winfrey, 52, has emerged as a spiritual leader for the new millennium, a moral voice of authority for the nation. With her television pulpit and the sheer power of her persona, she has encouraged and steered audiences (mostly women) in all matters, from genocide in Rwanda to suburban spouse swapping to finding the absolute best T-shirt and oatmeal cookie. "She's a really hip and materialistic Mother Teresa," says Kathryn Lofton, a professor at Reed College in Portland, Ore., who has written two papers analyzing the religious aspects of Winfrey. "Oprah has emerged as a symbolic figurehead of spirituality." On Monday, Winfrey shares one of her most ambitious events of the past year -Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball- as a special on ABC (8 p.m. ET/PT). It lets viewers in on a weekend in which she invited 25 legendary black women and other guests to her home in Montecito, Calif., for a luncheon, ball and gospel brunch in their honor. It was something she spent a year planning and describes as one of the "greatest moments" of her life. She appears on The View on Friday to talk about the special. "This weekend was the fulfillment of a dream for me: to honor where I've come from, to celebrate how I got here, and to claim where I'm going," Winfrey says on her website. And now, as Winfrey "lives her best life," as her TV motto says, we get to experience it with her. Although the concept of the Rev. Oprah has been building through the years, never was it more evident than this season of her talk show, during which she conducted the public flogging of author James Frey. Feeling stung and embarrassed after endorsing his memoir about addiction, A Million Little Pieces, which turned out to include exaggerations and falsehoods, Winfrey had Frey on the show to do an about-face. "I left the impression that the truth is not important," she said on the show. "I am deeply sorry about that because that is not what I believe." It was a watershed Winfrey moment, showing herself as not only a talk-show host with whom you don't want to mess, but also someone who is fully aware of the power of her own image. Think back: She appeared in New Orleans to take on the government after Hurricane Katrina hit last August, and she sent a message to us all about civil rights as she stood by the casket of Coretta Scott King in February. Last week, she shed a tear with Teri Hatcher over sexual abuse memories, and she jumped on the Darfur bandwagon, encouraging viewers to support refugees there. "She's a moral monitor, using herself as the template against which she measures the decency of a nation," Lofton says. But while this past year showed Winfrey at new heights, it also was a year that polarized people, particularly after the Frey incident. "A self-righteous attack dog," wrote arts and culture critic Steven Winn in the San Francisco Chronicle. "A sanctimonious bully," said media critic Robert Thompson on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. "She puts the cult in pop culture," wrote media critic Mark Jurkowitz in The Phoenix Winfrey was applauded by many for her public mea culpa and for getting Frey to do the same, but her righteous demand for justice also evoked criticism. "No one person should have that kind of power to affect markets, politics or anything else," says Debbie Schlussel, a lawyer, conservative columnist and blogger. Deifying Oprah Love her or loathe her, Winfrey has become proof that you can't be too rich, too thin or too committed to rising to your place in the world. With 49 million viewers each week in the USA and more in the 122 other countries to which the show is distributed, Winfrey reaches more people in a TV day than most preachers can hope to reach in a lifetime of sermons. "One of the things that's key," says Marcia Nelson, author of The Gospel According to Oprah, "is she walks her talk. That's really, really important in today's culture. People who don't walk their talk fall from a great pedestal - scandals in the Catholic Church, televangelism scandals. If you're not doing what you say you do, woe be unto you." In Ellen DeGeneres' stand-up comedy act several years ago, she included a joke about getting to heaven and finding that God is a black woman named Oprah. Last fall, at the start of this 20th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, guest Jamie Foxx said much the same thing, but he wasn't joking. "What you have is something nobody can describe," Foxx said to Winfrey on the air. Then he explained about how he told Vibe magazine: "You're going to get to heaven and everyone's waiting on God and it's going to be Oprah Winfrey." He told her she has "different gears" than most people. "You're on the top of the world, and we really do watch and listen for everything you do and say to kind of get our lives together. It's the truth." In a November poll conducted at Beliefnet.com, a site that looks at how religions and spirituality intersect with popular culture, 33% of 6,600 respondents said Winfrey has had "a more profound impact" on their spiritual lives than their clergypersons. Cathleen Falsani, religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, recently suggested, "I wonder, has Oprah become America's pastor?" "I am not God," Oprah said in a 1989 story by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison that ran in The New York Times Magazine titled The Importance of Being Oprah. But at the time, Winfrey called her talk show her "ministry," Harrison wrote. It remains an interview Winfrey says she hates. In a Los Angeles Times interview in December, the talk-show host said that "at every turn everything I said was challenged and misinterpreted." She declined to be interviewed for this story, and she declined to allow USA TODAY to cover her most recent, and now rare, Live Your Best Life seminars. Tickets, priced at $185 each, sold out in minutes. Katrina Singleton, 34, paid $450 each for tickets to the February event in Charleston, S.C., which she purchased through a ticket broker. "For Oprah, nothing is too much," she told the Associated Press. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience." At the seminar, according to AP, Winfrey repeatedly spoke of her relationship with God. She even sang a chorus of I Surrender All. "I live inside God's dream for me. I don't try to tell God what I'm supposed to do," she told the crowd. "God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself." Claire Zulkey, 26, an Oprah follower who has written about Winfrey in her online blog at zulkey .com, says, "I think that if this were the equivalent of the Middle Ages and we were to fast-forward 1,200 years, scholars would definitely think that this Oprah person was a deity, if not a canonized being." Marcia Nelson says that it's not going too far to call her a spiritual leader. "I've said to a number of people - she's today's Billy Graham." Nelson said that concept was most apparent when Winfrey co-hosted the 2001 memorial service held 12 days after the terrorist attacks in New York. She urged the people who filled Shea Stadium that day, and all Americans, to stand strong, rousing the audience by repeating the refrain, "We shall not be moved." One of Winfrey's most appealing subtexts is that she's anti-institutional, says Chris Altrock, minister of Highland Street Church of Christ in Memphis. He says Winfrey believes there are many paths to God, not just one. After doing his doctoral research three years ago on postmodernism religion, a religious era that began in the 1970s as Christians became deeply interested in spirituality and less interested in any established church, he came up with what he calls "The Church of Oprah," referring to the culture that has created her. "Our culture is changing," he says, "as churches are in decline and the bulk of a new generation is growing up outside of religion." Instead, they're turning to the Church of Oprah. "People who have no religion relate to her," Nelson says. Oprah's own evolution When Winfrey started in the talk-show business 20 years ago, her goal was to beat Phil Donahue, then the reigning talk-show champ. As the Jerry Springer era of tabloid talk shows came into favor, she vowed to use her show to promote good, not sleaze. By the late '90s, Winfrey's focus was Change Your Life TV, and a New Age message was more prevalent. She preached making the message of her life - take responsibility, and greatness will follow - the substance of the show. Keep a personal journal, purchase self-indulgent gifts, take time for you - because you deserve it. The notes rang true to millions of viewers. Debbie Ford's book, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, shot up the sales charts after Ford appeared on Winfrey's show in October 2000 to talk about aspects of ourselves that we deny but which can be sources of joy and strength. "I think at the time when she had me and Gary Zukav and a lot of the other spiritual teachers on her show, it was her own journey, and she was taking all of the world on that spiritual evolution," Ford says. Lately, Winfrey has seemed to focus more on social issues (along with the inescapable talk-show fare of celebrity guests, home and diet makeovers, and marriage and financial troubles). "She's fabulous. She looks great and is not suffering," Ford says, so it makes sense she isn't exploring New Age philosophies anymore. Instead, Ford says, people now "look to her to find their greatness. She is so real. That's why people are attracted to her - for different reasons. Some people will say her brilliance. Others will say authenticity. Others will say her power. They're seeing part of themselves in her." Adds Ford, "We're all on Oprah's journey, in a sense." Maybe not quite "all" of us. Schlussel says Winfrey followers "are incredibly gullible, bandwagon-jumping trend-slaves." Winfrey, she says, "acts as if her show has 'evolved,' but in fact, she still has the salacious sex and deviance stories, with a psychologist in the audience to make it seem highbrow and give it the kosher seal of approval. If this is the person whose morals we are putting on a pedestal, then America's moral compass is in much need of retuning." The fact that Winfrey has never been married, never had children and is a billionaire distances her from her audience, Schlussel says. "How could anyone like this be in touch with the average American woman?" The roots of faith Lofton points out that any discussion of Winfrey should not be one that criticizes her or how she came to be a spiritual icon for the history books but one that examines how it came to be that way. "Why do we all need her so much? What is wrong with us that we so need this little woman in Chicago?" Jim Twitchell, a professor at the University of Florida who has written several books about branding and describes himself as a cultural anthropologist, says Oprah reverence makes sense. "Religion essentially is based on high anxiety of what's going to happen to you." Winfrey pushes the idea "that you have a life out there, and it's better than the one you have now and go get it." It's most apparent in the setting of her show, Twitchell says. "The guest is sitting beside her, but what she's really doing is exuding this powerful message of 'You are a sinner, yes, you are, but you can also find salvation.' What I find intriguing about it is it's delivered with no religiosity at all, even though it has a powerful Baptist, democratic, enthusiastic tone. "It has to do with this deep American faith and yearning to be reborn. To start again." Link here.
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    Sienna Miller

    Link here.
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    Famous Mismatched Couples

    Not sure that they qualify as a couple yet, but Heather Locklear and David Spade are definitely mismatched!
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