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Jennifer Aniston has trumped her ex-husband Brad Pitt’s new partner Angelina Jolie – by earning a reported $13 million more than her in 2008.

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Billy Bob Thornton has scrapped the remainder of his North American dates as support to Willie Nelson after fans booed him onstage at a Toronto show on Thursday night.

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Actor Skylar DeLeon has been sentenced to death for murdering Arizona couple Tom and Jackie Hawks.

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Twitter has been regularly featured on a number of television shows for some time now (I’ve always found CNN’s anchors to be a bit too enamored of the service), but this looks like the first time it’s been featured prominently in a commercial. As Biz Stone writes in the Twitter blog Sprint has just released a new ad called “What’s Happening”, during which an announcer spouts off a number of totally made-up statistics describing how people are using the Sprint network.

Nestled in the middle of the ad, the commercial’s speaker states “233,000 people just Twittered on Twitter. 26% of you viewing this have no idea what that means” as a few dozen 3D blue Twitter birds fly around. I think the 26% figure is on the low side (many people who hear about Twitter every day still have no idea what it really means, and some people who have actually used the service still don’t really get it). But those 3D birds sure look cool.

Oh, and that phone shown at the end? That’s a Palm Pre.

Unfortunately Twitter doesn’t seem to be coping too well with its growth at the moment. The service was well known for its shoddy performance during the first half of 2008, but it has become quite stable since then (coping admirably with such large events as the Election). But in the last two days it has been reverting to its old ways – yesterday users noticed as they lost avatars and messages, which brought the service down for about an hour. This morning more issues are popping up with delayed tweets and errors. This is one of the first times that Twitter has really faced extended issues since it really started approaching the mainstream.

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AP – Farrah Fawcett is being treated for anal cancer that has spread to her liver and has been hospitalized for a complication from a routine treatment, a producer who worked with the actress and her doctor said Monday. read more

Actress Camilla Belle has dismissed rumors she has split with teen singing heartthrob Joe Jonas.

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Twitter user BreatheHeavy and owner of BreatheHeavy.com, a Britney Spears’ fansite has been forced to close it.

Britney Spears‘ father has forced the closure of one of the pop superstar’s top fansites – because it keeps breaching copyright rules by posting unauthorized photos, lyrics and videos online.

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Slap chop to the face! Vince Shlomi, aka the ShamWow Guy, aka You’re Gonna Love My Nuts, was “arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room,” reports the Smoking Gun.

Shlomi says the prostitute bit his tongue while kissing him, so he had to punch her to get her to let go. We guess that’s one of those things you learn in the real world, like how to survive a bear attack or how to fend off a shark. The police, however, say both of them were drunk, which sounds even more believable. The website reports that prosecutors decided not to file formal charges against either party this month.

“ShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust” [The Smoking Gun] (Thanks to Maya!)

Paris Hilton has been left stunned and “scared” after she was allegedly abused by a DJ’s bodyguard in Miami, Florida in the early hours of Friday.

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