Blah! So I woke up at my usual time this morning only to find out that my Time Warner Cable service was not working. I waited for a little while to see if it would come back from wherever it went to and after a call to customer service, I decided I had to find my way to the Information Superhighway elsewhere. I spent all of this morning at my closest Starbucks … which is kind of annoying but ended up not being so bad. It’s a newer coffee shop and was bustling with people so it really wasn’t too bad a situation to work in. Unfortch, tho, it put me behind schedule … I still have work to get done for today so it’s coming. I’m home again and my cable Internet is working again … hurray!

Last night, Josh and I were gonna catch a movie but since he is a fabulously in demand hair stylist, his appointments ran late and we had to postpone. We’re hanging out on Saturday instead. Tonight, I’m going to finally see 9 to 5: The Musical at the Ahmanson Theater here in LA. I’ve heard mixed things about the show, to be honest but I’m keeping an open mind. And now … back to work.

• It turns out that in addition to losing girlfriends, Hugh Hefner is also losing money as well.
• Angelina Jolie credits her babydaddy Brad Pitt with making traveling with her six children “easy”.
• The newly married Ryan Reynolds is planning to run the New York Marathon.
• Eva Mendes hates being compared to Jennifer Lopez.
• Zac Efron has a run-in with an overzealous fan.
• Cosmopolitan magazine really knows a Hot Bachelor when they see one.
• Stylista debuts … but is there anyone to root for?
• Cristiano Ronaldo is on hand to launch his second boutique called CR7.
• Apparently it’s a “clear slap in the face” to not Photoshop away a person’s “flaws”.
• Click HERE to see very NSFW nekkid pics of Hugh Hefner’s proposed new girlfriends, Karissa & Kristina Shannon.
• Britney Spears really has rehabilitated herself … she’s even wearing bras again!
• Salma Hayek and her daughter Valentina do NYC.
• Penn Badgley is a Parker Posey fan.
• Sean Lennon is 33, Steve Burns (Blues Clues) is 35, P.J. Harvey is 39 and Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise) is 54 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
• Green Day is working with producer Butch Vig.
• Lil’ Kim gets sued for millions.
• Lil’ Wayne gets a million for his birthday.

And so … we finally know who the final three contestants are that competed at Bryant Park at New York Fashion Week last month for the title of Project Runway Season 5 winner. Last night’s pre-Finale ep was a nailbiter for me … I was seriously nervous the entire time … but in the end, one of the final four had get cut:

Jerell, Kenley, Korto and LeAnne were challenged to design a wedding dress that showcases their design esthetic. They were given 6 weeks and $8000 to design an entire collection and would be judged one more time on the wedding dress alone … or so they thought. At the last minute, as Project Runway is wont to do, another challenge was thrown into the mix. After the jump find out who was in, who was out and who didn’t quite make it to the fashion altar, as it were, in the episode titled Always A Bridesmaid …

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Nicole Richie and her babygirl Harlow Winter are featured on the cover of this week’s issue of People magazine 9 months after Harlow was born and 8 months after mother and daughter last appeared on the cover of People magazine:

First, this little girl has gotten so BIG! She’s almost bigger than Nicole ;) Second, OMG how cute is she? She is the spitting image of her father Joel Madden. I’m dying. So cute, I’m totally dying. After the jump, check out a couple more photos of Harlow — one with mom Nicole and one with daddy Joel …

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Angelina Jolie is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of W magazine. Life & Style magazine reports that Angelina is photographed breast feeding one of her newborn twins in the mag … and, indeed, the cover photo appears to show Ange breast feeding. It’s unclear if there are any other intimately private photos of this nature inside the mag but I think the cover photo deffo makes a statement … check it out:

It’s true! Sources who’ve seen the photos confirm exclusively to Life & Style that Angelina Jolie really did pose for the cover story of W magazine while breast-feeding! “Angelina posed for Brad [Pitt] in one of the photos while breast-feeding,” the source reveals to Life & Style. “It’s really beautiful and tastefully done.” “The photos are amazing,” adds a second source. Brad shot the photos in mid-August at Chateau Miraval, the family’s home in the South of France. They’re scheduled to appear in W’s November issue, hitting newsstands on Oct. 21.

My guess is that this cover photo is prolly the only one to show Ange breast feeding but … who knows … it is the Art Issue after all, I guess we’ll find out soon enough. As for this cover photo, I personally think it’s really a beautiful shot. Very tasteful, very pretty. Angelina really looks like the portrait of motherhood. I quite like this photo. Thus far, no portions of the W interview (if there is one) have been disclosed and no other photos from the mag have come to light … but I’ll keep my eyes out. Since the mag boasts that they have “Brad’s Private Photos of Angelina Jolie” I am very curious to see them. What do y’all think of this cover photo? Is it too much?

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MTV has released a press release that officially confirms that the new reality TV series The City, which is a spin-off of their hugely successful series The Hills, has been picked up and will begin airing on the network in the early part of the new year. As y’all know, Whitney Port will be the central figure on The City (much like Lauren LC Conrad is the central figure on The Hills) and has been filming scenes around NYC of a romantic and friendly nature with her new cast of reality cohorts. At last we have final confirmation that those scenes will finally make it to air:

From the MTV press release:

WHITNEY TRIES NEW YORK CITY ON FOR SIZE AS MTV GREENLIGHTS “THE CITY”

“The City” is created by Adam DiVello. Adam DiVello, Sean Travis and Liz Gateley will serve as executive producers. Colin Nash is co-executive producer. Catherine K. Whyte is MTV’s executive-in-charge of production. Spike Van Briesen and Sophia Rossi serve as supervising producers for the series.

I mean, c’mon, we totally knew that MTV was gonna air this series so this news isn’t really news at all. But the officialness of the announcement has to sting just a little for Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. It was commonly believed that they would be getting their own spin-off TV series once The Hills ran its course … and, indeed, they might still. It just seems very telling that MTV is investing so much on this Whitney-centered TV series — and there is no sign that Speidi are going to be given the same treatment. My guess is that Speidi will eventually get their own TV series but I wouldn’t be surprised if their show was on another network. They seem like the type of folks that would do well at E! Maybe The Hills will get one more season, mebbe not but at least Whitney can breathe easy … she now knows that she’ll be on TV next year. It remains to be seen if any of the other folks on The Hills will be as lucky.

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Marc Malkin of E! News is reporting that Playboy magazine mogul Hugh Hefner is confirming his split from longtime girlfriend Holly Madison. You may recall that Holly Madison broke the news to TMZ earlier this week that she and Hef are “not together”. Malkin spoke directly to Hefner and learned straight for the old grey mare horse’s mouth that the couple are “over”. In his chat with Malkin, Hef also discloses the state of his relationships with his other two girlfriends Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt (essentially, they’re still doing it but not for long, apparently). Here is a pic of me with Hef and Holly at a Playboy party at Mood nightclub here in LA back in July of 2006 and portions of Marc Malkin’s chat with Hefner:

It’s really over. Hugh Hefner confirms he and Holly Madison are no longer. “If she says it’s over, it’s over,” Hefner tells me. “But like I’ve said before, she is the love of my life, and I expected to spend the rest of my life with her.” The Playboy mogul says the relationship started to crumble about six months ago when they learned he was unable to father a child with Holly. “With my sperm count, it’s not possible,” Hefner explained. “I was willing but it was not possible … She’d like to be married and have children, but it’s not in the cards here for me.” Where does that leave the other two Girls Next Door, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt? Hefner says they’re still romantically involved, but admitted, “the relationship with Kendra will be ending when she moves out, probably by the end of this year.” Hef ain’t wasting anytime getting back in the saddle though. In the last week, he’s been spotted with 19-year-old twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon. “They very much want to be girlfriends and now under the present circumstance, they probably will become my girlfriends,” Hefner says.

Well then, I guess we’ve heard from both of the interested parties so it must really really be over. I gotta say … I’m a bit icked out about Hugh Hefner talking about his dwindling sperm count. You always hear about how men can father children well into old age … but I guess there really does come a time when a man, er, runs out of juice (EW, sorry!). But, onward and upwards, I suppose. Yesterday we got our first look at the set of twins, Karissa and Kristina, that Hef is lookin’ to “probably” make his replacement girlfriends. Malkin adds that Hefner has also been “testing” a girl named Amy Leigh Andrews at the Playboy Mansion this week for the position of one of his girlfriends. As to what “testing” involves, well, I’m sure I REALLY DON’T WANT TO KNOW the specifics of that.

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