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Celebrity deaths can be tragic.

Or they can be tragically ridiculous.

Thanks to the Interwebs, fake celebrity deaths have been running rampant. Kanye West supposedly lost his life in a car crash this week, while Zach Braff recently had to create a video to prove he was still kicking despite tales of a fatal pill-popping episode.

And by now we know that any star rumored to have fallen off a cliff in New Zealand is more likely to have slipped into an Internet hoax. The Kauri Cliffs have supposedly taken Natalie Portman, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks from us.

Some have died at the hands of Twitter and Wikipedia, while others have met dramatic driving demises. Needless to say, not all false death alarms were created equal. Some are definitely more believable than others.

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Get the scoop on all the celebs who survived their own supposed deaths in our Alive & Kicking gallery!

One Top Chef team named its restaurant Revolt, which is right up there with E. coli as a name you should never pick for an eatery.

However, it was the other team that drew the revolting looks from host Padma Lakshmi in this season's "Restaurant Wars" competition. For this episode, she seemed harder to please than gruff Tom Colicchio, who responds to nearly everything with a disapproving scowl or a sad, bemused grin. (Ash, we think, would agree.)

Things only got rougher when Lakshmi requested extra salt—for a dish she actually said she liked! To be fair, she may have been politely ordering it for her dissatisfied tablemates. (Or perhaps she was feeling under the weather due to her pregnancy? We hope not.)

Still, it could have been worse. At least she didn't ask for ketchup.

You know what always makes a happy diner? Ice cream!

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If you're like us, you spent your weekend wondering about Balloon Boy's next move. What? You have a life? We envy you.

For our part, we've been pondering the options available to B.B. (aka Falcon Heene), especially in light of the criminal charges facing his parents.

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Forget the Gosselin 8. Could we be getting the Jackson 3?

Earlier today, Us Weekly claimed that Michael Jackson's family was at odds over whether his trio of kids, Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket, should be included in The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty, the reality show in the works for A&E and tentatively set to air in December.

Thankfully, a rep for the network now tells E! News that the kids "are not part of the show."

That statement directly contradicts the Us report, which quotes an unnamed source saying that Michael's eldest sister, Rebbie, is opposed to having his 12-, 11- and 7-year-old going Gosselin. We're not sure of the math, but the magazine does cite the show's executive producer, Jodi Gomes, as saying that they "have 23 castmembers with the last name Jackson"—supposedly including Janet Jackson and family matriarch Katherine.

"They've done a great job opening up about losing a brother," Gomes says.

UPDATE: In a new statement to E! News, an A&E spokesman seemed to allow for the possibility of the kids to be seen, if the family OKs it (and that remains a big "if")...

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The oven mitts are off as Jennifer Lopez drops a new single.

"Fresh Out the Oven" has nothing to do with pizza or any other heated meals that deliver. It's a pop track by "Lola" and Pitbull, produced by the Neptunes.

We're not sure why Jenny from the Block needs to use yet another moniker, but they're attempting to get all viral by launching WhoIsLola.com, as well as an accompanying Twitter.

But we do know that Lola = J.Lo and that we haven't heard a new song from her in ages. However, after a couple listens to this one, that might have been for the best. Her love may not cost a thing, but what has "Oven" cost your eardrums?

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Regardless of how she sounds, Lola always looks great in our Fashion Spotlight!

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We know Edward Cullen is dashing, but what's hotter than Robert Pattinson playing a real, honest-to-goodness prince?

If U.K. reports are to be believed—and that's a ginormous if—our favorite vampire may be in the running to take on the role of Prince Harry in an upcoming biopic.

Of course, he faces some heady competition, including a certain broomstick baron we also know and love…

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We're happy Britney Spears is getting so much quality time with her sons, but she may want to scale back the Sesame Street marathons. And not just because her new, slightly phoned-in single, "3," could very well have been brought to us by the letters W, T and F.

The only new track to appear on her forthcoming compilation, The Singles Collection, the fun-with-numbers song—which debuted this morning on New York's Z100—features such thought-provoking lyrics as "everybody loves counting," "come out and play," and, oh yes, the ad nauseam repetition of "1, 2, 3."

Of course, the ménage à trois-promoting (and, oddly enough, Peter, Paul and Mary-referencing) tune isn't for the Big Bird set. Unless they too think that "living in sin is the new thing."

And it being a Britney track, we're well aware it's also not for the lyric-dissecting set. It's for the dance-floor set. And, since it happens to have been produced by Max Martin, the same guy responsible for Spears' career-launching "…Baby One More Time," we'd say it has a pretty good shot at becoming a hit.

What do you say?

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Khloé Kardashian's wedding may be last-minute, but she's not skimping on any of the glamorous details—you've seen the invitation, right?—especially her bridal gown.

Like Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson and Heidi Klum before her, the E! reality star will be walking down the aisle in Vera Wang—stepdad Bruce Jenner leaked the previously top-secret information to People.

While the style of the wedding dress has not been released, we want to know what type of look you think the 25-year-old will sport.

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Get ready for two new singles from two—like it or not, Britney haters—pop icons: One whose recording career hasn't exactly been showing signs of life lately and the other whose, well, life hasn't exactly been showing signs of life lately.

That's right, just in case a feature-length documentary, unrelenting media coverage (you're welcome?) and a tribute milkshake weren't enough to slake the public's thirst for the King of Pop, Sony Music Entertainment today announced it will be releasing Michael Jackson's first posthumous single, "This Is It," Oct. 12.

We're guessing if sales go as hoped, this definitely won't be it...

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