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Jessica Simpson says her fluctuating weight helped her build $1 billion empire

Jessica Simpson has gotten a lot of grief about her weight loss and weight gain over the years, especially around the time she had her two children, and the $1 billion mogul is looking on the bright side. She attributes her massive success in the fashion industry to her ability to “understand women,” which was helped by her weight fluctuations.

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Sherri Shepherd’s husband Lamar Sally wanted her to sign a contract requiring her to enjoy sex and not gain weight

Sherri Shepherd’s divorce drama is out of control. The The View co-host shocked everyone when she filed for divorce a few days ago. Her husband Lamar Sally had filed for legal separation May 2. To further complicate matters, they have a baby on the way with the help of a surrogate, and Shepherd’s first ex-husband Jeff Tarpley is seeking custody of their 9-year-old son. Now TMZ is releasing some “marriage rule” Lamar Sally wanted to add as an amendment to their prenuptial agreement.

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Will Robin Thick win Paula Patton back with a new song?

Robin Thicke wrote a song about trying to get wife Paula Patton back. Last year, at the height of his success with “Blurred Lines” Robin engaged in some pretty blatant dallying around. Paula put on a brave face and played the role of a forgiving wife for a while, but by this February they were done.

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Keeks & Kokes: Kim Kardashian shows off Khloe Kardashian’s big booty

Whether or not they get a little “help,” big booties definitely run in the Kardashian family. Kim Kardashian shared this photo of sister Khloe with their affectionate names “Keeks & Kokes” on Facebook Thursday night. The hashtags #sisters #deeptalk #SheGotABigBootySoICallHerBigBooty made it clear she was showing off the family assets.

Ariel Castro victim Michelle Knight describes exactly how he lured her into captivity

Kidnapping victim Michelle Knight endured unthinkable horrors during her 11 years in captivity in the Cleveland home of Ariel Castro, and after undergoing facial reconstructive surgery, she’s now sharing her plight. Unfortunately her life was already full of unspeakable pain before she was abducted, and in her memoir Finding Me, the 33 year old hopes to bring hope to others, and to help herself get over the pain. She’s also gotten two tattoos, a dragon and “Living life til death do us part,” and changed her name to Lily, her favorite flower.

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A few things you need to know about Maleficent

We all love a good villain, so there’s nothing better than a good villain backstory. In Disney’s Maleficent Angelina Jolie depicts the transformation of a good hearted fairy into the “the Mistress of All Evil” after she suffers a staggering betrayal and loses her fairy wings. This new live-action movie, (out May 30) written by Linda Woolverton, offers a backstory to the evil fairy character created for the 1959 animated version of Sleeping Beauty.

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Louis C.K. and “Louie” guest star Sarah Baker tackle the stigma of being a “fat girl”

Tonight’s first episode of Louie deals with an incredibly sensitive and awkward topic; how men treat women they don’t find attractive, especially overweight women.

One of last week’s episodes dealt with Louie landing in bed with a gorgeous astronaut’s daughter in the Hamptons, a perk of making her laugh, but he was perplexed by the situation. He fumblingly tells her that this type of thing just doesn’t happen to him, and she replies, “Well, maybe it’s not really happening.” Most of Louis C.K.’s FX seems to be happening in an absurdist dream-like state, and it’s this disconnection from reality that allows it to go to some startling realistic territory.

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Eminem apologizes to mom Debbie in “Headlights” music video

Eminem has had a complicated relationship with his mother Debbie Mathers, and he’s been pretty vocal about it in his songs throughout his career. In “Headlights,” the second-to-last song from his latest album Marshall Mathers LP 2, he makes amends. He took the opportunity of Mother’s Day to release the Spike Lee directed music video.

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Third time’s the charm: A look back at Kim Kardashian’s previous ill-fated marriages

As Kim Kardashian gears up to marry Kanye West, there’s been a lot of talk about how she’s been married a lot before. Kim herself seems to have been at one point a little smitten with collecting husbands. She once told Elizabeth Taylor that she wanted to be just like her, but was a few husbands and jewels behind.

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Angelina Jolie talks about wayward youth and believing she’d never find love

38-year-old. Angelina Jolie has something in common with Maleficent: they’re both misunderstood. When she was a starlet in her 20s, she was known as a dark, wild girl of Hollywood, who allegedly did drugs, french-kissed her brother, and had strange obsessions. She once revealed in an interview that she didn’t think she was going to live very long.

Catfish Cassandra Razmus pretended to be Zoe Craig’s friends

When Craig fell in love with a beautiful girl on Facebook, he had no idea that his potential Catfish would terrorize his sister and friends. Somehow she convinced Craig to let her get into his Facebook, and she somehow continued to hack into his account after he changed passwords. He can’t get over his feelings for her, but the things she did to his friends reduced him to tears. “I fell in love with somebody that’s just evil,” he cried after breaking down.

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Justin Bieber’s new girl Yovanna Ventura is a fitness model

Justin Bieber has a new girl, and it’s serious enough that he’s appearing in Instagram photos with her. Justin still calls the high school Yovanna Ventura “my friend,” but they’ve been seen on a date in Venice Beach, CA eating popcorn and getting snuggly. “Justin wanted to meet her,” a source told E! News. “He sought her out. It hasn’t been too hot and heavy, but they have been hanging out a lot. Their relationship is blossoming. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have now started dating.”

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PHOTOS: All of Dean McDermott’s Tori Spelling tattoos

Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling working to save their seven-year marriage on television in the aftermath of Dean’s cheating scandal, alcoholism, and suicidal breakdown and Tori’s hospitalization. Although they tried to put up a front of perfection for many years after falling in love while they were married to other people, their more candid Lifetime…

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Small Town Security’s Irwin and Joan Koplan throwback photos

AMC’s cult favorite reality series Small Town Security returns tonight at 11/10c. In celebration of our favorite batch of eccentric peace keepers making their return to the small screen, we though we’d share some throwback photos of Joan and Irwin Koplan from their rowdier days.

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What’s wrong with RHONY’s Heather Thomson’s son Jax?

RHONY’s Heather Thomson has been through some incredibly difficult struggles with her son Jax’s health. She is now an organ donor advocate after Jax became the recipient of a new liver as a baby after being born with a rare and fatal liver condition. Unfortunately the now-seven year-old Jax still struggles with some major health issues.

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Why aren’t The Duggars allowed to kiss, front hug, or hold hands during dating?

The Duggar family definitely live their lives a bit different than most. They not only believe that a family should have as many children as “God allows” them, but they have strict dating rules for their children prior to marriage. Their oldest son Josh has been married to wife Anna for a while, and before they got hitched they did an official Duggar-style courtship. Now his younger sisters are starting to look for mates, and they are adhering strictly to the family’s guidelines about dating, courtships, and engagements. Are only side-hugs allowed?

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Watch Constance Shulman, a.k.a. Patti Mayonnaise (a.k.a Yoga Jones from OITNB) selling mayonnaise

In anticipation for the new season of Orange Is The New Black, here’s a throwback commercial of Constance Shulman (who plays Yoga Jones,) selling mayonnaise. It’s super awesome, but what makes all of this super meta is the fact that Constance Shulman voiced the Patti Mayonnaise character on the long running Nickelodeon cartoon Doug.

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Mary Jo Eustace, Dean McDermott’s ex wife is writing a new tell-all book

We’re watching Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott’s relationship crumble on reality television and in the press, but they started out from a pretty rocky situation. Both Tori and Dean were married when they got together, and according to Dean’s ex wife, 51-year-old Canadian actress Mary Jo Eustace, he came in one day from golf and told her Tori Spelling was his “soul mate,” who loved him unconditionally. Now, of course, that unconditional love, or at least unconditional acceptance, is being tested by infidelity.

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Adorable Spiderman couple Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield pretend to not know how to kiss on SNL

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is dominating the box office this weekend, and honestly part of the appeal of the movie is how Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield are adorably and genuinely in love in real life. Just to up the cute factor to outer orbiting levels they pretended to not know how to kiss last night on SNL.

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What is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s mystery movie project?

When Brad Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston he fell in love with Angelina Jolie while they co-starred in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. “Not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love,” Angelina said about the movie in 2008, but the Hollywood power couple has not appeared on screen together since. Now there are reports that Brangelina are cooking up a new film together, but it’s all very top secret!

What are the dating rules for the teenagers in Sister Wives’ Brown family? Can they kiss and hold hands?
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What are the dating rules for the teenagers in Sister Wives’ Brown family? Can they kiss and hold hands?

The polygamist Sister Wives’ Brown family seem accepting and laid back, but they do have strong religious beliefs (click here to learn more about that.) With so many kids in the teenage age range, dating is kind of a big issue. The Duggar family is another family with focused religious beliefs and lots of teens, and their rules for dating (or, as they call it, courtship) are pretty strict. Hand-holding is prohibited until engagement, and full on-kissing and full frontal hugs are to be avoided at all costs until marriage. Of course, the Duggars make it clear that they are letting the children decide.

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Before and after Gwendoline Christie transformed into Brienne of Tarth for Game of Thrones

When British actress Gwendoline Christie was named to play Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones, the reaction from fans was that she was too pretty. George R. R. Martin describes Brienne in the books as the “ugliest woman in all of Westros,” which is a difficult role to be cast in for sure. At 6’3″ Gwendoline does fit the description of towering over a lot of men, but after years of the model life she definitely wasn’t buff enough the play Brienne. The main issue with Brienne isn’t her ugliness anyway, it is with her perceived ugliness in the Westros world, which isn’t very accepting of tall, masculine women.

Courtney Love’s dad thinks “with a high degree of certainty” that Courtney was involved in Kurt Cobain’s murder

Courtney Love’s dad Hank Harrison has expressed suspicions before that his daughter was somehow involved in the death of her husband Kurt Cobain, and now he’s voicing these opinions again. “No doubt she was capable,” Harrison told Radar Online. “I can’t prove she pulled the trigger, but I can prove her involvement to a high degree of certainty.”

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A tour through Miley Cyrus’ eccentric backyard

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne’s girlfriend Katie Weaver gave the world a glimpse of Miley Cyrus’ whimsical backyard a few days ago via Instagram. Wayne is collaborating with Miley on a cover of The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” and after a recording session Wayne and Katie stayed over at Miley’s. They had pancakes and documented rainbow roses in her house, a Hollywood sign in the backyard over outdoor couches, a giant teeppee, and a horse hangin’ out by the pool.

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Dean McDermott admits he was suicidal

Tonight on True Tori, Dean McDermott halts production on the documentary series when he candidly speaks about his suicidal thoughts and emotional breakdown. He looks at a crack in the window at the therapists office, and recalls wanting to jump through the window while they waited for the ambulance to come get him.

Two years ago Craigslist murderer Miranda Barbour wrote to Dr. Phil about her mother
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Two years ago Craigslist murderer Miranda Barbour wrote to Dr. Phil about her mother

Craigslist murderer Miranda Barbour, who stabbed a man she met on Craigslist 20 times, and claims to be a serial killer, but her mother Elizabeth and sister Ashley don’t believe that she murdered more than one person. They sat down with Dr. Phil to expose all the dysfunction going on in their home prior to Miranda’s arrest for murder. Dr. Phil also revealed that two years ago Miranda herself reached out to Dr. Phil for help.

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Is Fargo really based on a true story?

We’re two episodes into FX’s Fargo TV series adaptation starring Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton, and we’re hooked. Just like the film, it’s a crime-comedy set in Minnesota that plays up the possibility of dark secrets behind everyday niceness. Both the 1996 Coen Brothers movie and the TV series start out with a declaration that the events depicted are “Based on a true story.” Is there really a true crime inspiration for either?

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How 15th century Wars of the Roses inspired Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones is a masterful and sprawling work of fiction dealing in the stuff of magic and dragon, but the complex power plays and intrigues between the major players was inspired a bit by history, specifically by the 15th century European chaos and conflicts known as The Wars of the Roses.

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Mark Wahlberg sued by kidnap victim Pain & Gain was based on

In 1994 businessman Marc Schiller was kidnapped by the Sun Gym Gang in South Florida. After horrific torturing, he signed away him home and money to the gang. His story was used as inspiration for the 2013 Michael Bay film Pain & Gain, starring Marc Wahlberg. Schiller was not happy about the film’s portrayal of him, and is now filing a lawsuit against Bay, Walhberg, Paramount Pictures, Viacom, and others involved in the film.

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Was Lindsay Lohan’s mom Dina really a Rockette?

On the finale episode of her self-titled OWN reality show Lindsay Lohan talked about how she came from a showbiz family, citing her mom Dina Lohan’s time as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette and her grandmother’s contribution on the early days of radio. However, Dina’s showbiz career has been called into question multiple times. Was she really a Rockette?

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Kris and Bruce Jenner attend Easter Sunday together following Kris’ health scare

After a long separation and talk of divorce, it looks like Bruce and Kris Jenner are back together. Earlier this month Bruce and Kris confirmed that they’ve been together for a while after they were snapped by paparazzi holding hands. They also showed their solidarity this morning by attending Easter Sunday church services.

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My Five Wives’ Rhonda Williams has breast cancer scare

The latest TLC polygamy show My Five Wives features the Williams family, who still live the polygamist lifestyle event though they decided a decade ago the leave their polygamist church associated with AUB (Apostolic United Brethern, which is the umbrella under which the Sister Wives’ Brown family falls under.) Brady currently has 20 children with his five wives, but two of his wives are hoping to expand their family even further.

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VIDEO Dean McDermott admits on camera to cheating on wife Tori: “Sex was an escape”

After years representing an idyllic family life on Oxygen’s Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, Tori Spelling is returning to reality television with a bigger dose of reality for Lifetime’s True Tori. In a new clip Dean admits that he cheated on his wife.