The rumor mill is ablaze with reports of another Britney Spears pregnancy.Now The National Enquirer is reporting that the pop tart was indeed knocked up once again back in January and without a clue as to who fathered the children. The arsenal of five potential baby daddies included: Mario Lopez, ex-BF Issac Cohen, dancer Blake McGrath, ex-J.R Rotem, and now ex-husband Kevin Federline.Britney’s secret pregnancy, which mysteriously ended during a January excursion to her homestate of Louisiana, occured while she and K-Fed were trying to reconcile. *When Britney announced her pregnancy, Kev refused to believe he had fathered the unborn child.*“They got together when Kevin came to see the boys. They had drinks and toasted her birthday. Britney was acting really sweet and seduced him, but Kevin quickly regretted it.”*“Britney was pregnant in January. She told Kevin about it, hoping that he’d say he wanted to reconcile, instead he said: ‘So. It’s not mine.”*“Kevin knew Britney was with other men and at the same time having sex with him to try to win him back,” says the Enquirer’s source.“Kevin couldn’t get over Britney’s filing for divorce so publicly and refused to reconcile.”The Enquirer mole claims Kev’s callous reaction to the news of Brit’s pregnancy drove her to get high:*“As a result, Britney started using drugs and alcohol to mask her pain.”*source: Britney Spears Secret Pregnancy; Five Potential Fathers Including Kevin Federline (http://www.popcrunch.com/britney-spears-secret-pregnancy-five-potential-fathers-including-kevin-federline/)mods: I know this is a slight branch off the post I put up last night, however I thought it may warrant it’s own thread.please merge if necessary.As for Britney: :eek3:

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Ellen DeGeneres promises to liven up the Deal or No Deal proceedings when she makes a guest appearance on the hit NBC game show. But unlike past guests, like Donald “The Banker” Trump and Celine “Open Da Case!” Dion, the canine-regifter will join the show’s Pyramid of Hot Briefcasemodels. TVGuide.com reports:

That’s right: DeGeneres will be one of the 26 briefcase-toting, elegant, sparkly dress-wearing women who may or may not be holding the million-dollar bag.

Will DeGeneres really wear a dress? “Ellen knows our show and knows the kind of sparkly, sequined dresses our spokesmodels wear, and she’s agreed to be [one of them],” Hansen says a bit cryptically. “Ellen won’t do anything she’s not comfortable with.” Then again, Hansen says, “Who doesn’t want to see Ellen in a dress?”

We doubt the staunch anti-frockist will conform to the show’s thigh-length hem standards; instead, expect a platform adorned with some of the shapeliest velvet tuxedos gameshowdom has ever seen, followed by a torrential waterworks session, as Ellen and her model friends learn the $1 million cash prize awarded the contestant will go towards realizing a lifelong dream of opening a kill-free chicken sanctuary.

• Exclusive: Ellen, Office Accountants Make a Deal [TVGuide.com]

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Guitarist Carlos Santana and his wife of 34 years are divorcing, according to documents filed in Marin County Superior Court.Deborah Santana, who in her 2005 memoir, “Space Between the Stars,” described her husband as being unfaithful, moved to dissolve their marriage on Oct. 19, citing irreconcilable differences.Carlos Santana’s publicist, Michael Jensen, said the case is “a private matter and there is no comment.”The musician has said he knew he made mistakes in his marriage.”I sincerely apologized to her and to my kids when I wasn’t in my right mind and did something hurtful. It has helped me become more humble and to try harder to be the man she wants me to be,” Carlos Santana said after the memoir was published.The Santanas have been business partners as well as spouses. Together, they created the Milagro Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports underprivileged children.Earlier this year, they announced plans to create three Mexican restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area named Maria, Maria after one of Carlos Santana’s Grammy-winning singles.The couple have three children, ages 17, 22 and 23.source: Carlos Santana, wife getting divorced - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071102/ap_en_ce/people_santana)

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Following yesterday afternoon’s announcement that the Teamsters will honor WGA picket lines during a possible strike–even though the organization can’t walk out while they still have a contract with the studios, individuals can make the decision not to cross the writers’ line without being disciplined–a work stoppage suddenly seems (dare we allow ourselves to even say it?) less of an inevitability, as the possibility of Teamster muscle backing up the scribes is certainly more intimidating than the presence of the skinny-armed reinforcements the union called upon the last time they needed some back-up. Additionally, a tipster tells us that the Guild already had about 15 members of its red-shirted army stationed outside of the Sony lot at 7 AM (do let us know where else you spot them), handing out “Negotiation Update” flyers urging workers to, “Please encourage the companies to bargain seriously with the Writers Guild, and let the writers on your show know you support their fair and reasonable stand.”

Looks like it’s going to be a fun couple of days! We’ll be anxiously awaiting subsequent reports that the AMPTP has dispatched reps to counter-flyer the studio lots, handing out their own literature explaining, “The WGA would rather waste its time littering your workplace with its propaganda than considering our incredibly generous proposals. Clearly they are maniacally dedicated to impoverishing you and your loved ones with a disastrous strike.”

UPDATE: Another tipster tells us they’re also “redshirting it up” over at Fox.

UPDATE 2: A reader who was part of the Sony flyering effort estimates that they had about 50 people covering the lot’s various gates staring around 6 a.m., and that people were “pretty supportive,” and that anyone who seemed taken aback by the appearance of the redshirts were more against the idea of being handed a flyer first thing in the morning than the writers’ cause.

UPDATE 3: And more redshirts spotted at Universal. (And according to a commenter below, at WB and Disney.) Seems like they had the town completely covered this morning.

UPDATE 3: They were even at the Sunset Gower lot! The WGA is really committed to making sure every last person in Hollywood gets a flier today.

• Teamsters support WGA picket lines [Variety]

With Contract Deadline Looming, The WGA Dispatches Its Red-Shirted Army [Hollywood Strikewatch] - Read More

· Music round-up: Tegan and Sara at the Orpheum; Queens of the Stone Age at the Nokia Theater; Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the LA Sports Arena (there’s still plenty of time to blow a scalper!); Ghostface Killah at the House of Blues; The Abe Lincoln Story finishes up its Monday night residency at Mr. T’s Bowl.
· Take a flashlight tour of the Natural History Museum’s darkened Spider Pavilion; the venue promises all its creatures are “safely” behind terrarium glass, but that won’t stop you from wetting yourself each time your date insists on walking his “tarantula fingers” along your shoulder. [via Citybeat]
· Jenna Bush will be at Vroman’s to sign (but not personalize!) copies of her book Ana’s Story. Also n.b.: security will be high, so the weapons, explosives and fireworks you normally bring to book events are strictly verboten.
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Right about now, as you confront the very real possibility that your city will either be consumed by raging wildfires or an Apocalypse-beckoning strike, we’re betting that you could use some uplifting news to distract you from those hard-to-shake feelings of dread. And so we direct you to the LAT’s tale of how former Warner Bros. chief Bob Daly, using a method originally played out in the blockbuster Bible story of Noah (and recently reimagined in a somewhat less-acclaimed form now available in your local Video Hut sale bin), came to save the impressive menagerie at his Malibu ranch from a fiery doom:

At 6 a.m. Sunday, after being warned by a neighbor that everyone in the area had to clear out, Daly rang up his daughter in Brentwood to give him a hand loading up the “ark.” Some friends hauled the hay and feed in pickup trucks.

Three hours later, the animals were safely encamped at Daly’s 5-acre mansion in Bel-Air, which sits across the street from the Bel-Air Country Club.

“I brought 50 chickens, 10 ducks, 150 pigeons, 10 sheep, 10 goats, plus another one who just had two babies, two donkeys and one miniature horse,” said Daly, who drove a sport utility vehicle filled with pigeon cages. His daughter Linda took the wheel of a horse trailer full of sheep, goats, donkeys and the little horse.

Daly’s horse trainer took his four other horses to board elsewhere.

“It took me a little longer than I had thought to load them all because the sheep and goats have minds of their own,” Daly said.

Early this morning, however, the danger passed, and the Dalys herded the animals back into his “ark” for a trip back to the ranch, depriving the temporarily amused children of his Bel-Air neighbors of the kind of backyard petting zoo they only get to enjoy three or four times a year at their classmates’ birthday parties. (And there’s no pleasing some of the brats, as one was heard to grouse, “What you can’t afford a couple of fucking llamas? Lame.”) But for a few, precious moments, the oddly soothing bleats of those happy goats made everyone forget about the conflagration that could yet imperil their weekend beach homes.

• Studio veteran crafts a fire story with a happy ending [LAT]

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In all the strike deadline hysteria, we’ve barely had a moment to acknowledge that today is an (egregiously not nationally recognized) holiday. It’s Halloween, everyone–the spookiest, scariest celebration of the year! And on The View, that usually means stuffing Barbara Walters into some sort of sex-kitten outfit. This year’s theme–which we think was Ill-Fitting Cotton Club Costume Rentals?–gave Walters an excuse to talk about her club impresario father Lou Walters, a touching, grandmotherly reminiscence about a simpler time, when you could get a steak, a sidecar, and an unobstructed view of a showgirl’s rack all for a nickel.

• The View

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We always eagerly anticipate Franklin Avenue’s coverage of the annual pumpkin carve-off that pits the various media-related tenants of the Wilshire Courtyard office park (E!, The Weinstein Company, Variety, The Family Guy production headquarters, etc) in a thrilling exhibition of their impressive gourd-sculpting skills, an event that more often than not ends in a regrettable knife-fight in the companies’ shared courtyard over perceived voting irregularities.

Inevitably, this year’s contest featured a Britney Spears-themed entry, the LA Business Journal’s “It’s Britney, Bitch” (pictured–the rest are here and here), but we’re a little disappointed that the obvious desire to be timely didn’t yield a Writers Strike pumpkin (though we don’t know what that might look like– a studio exec jack-o-lantern with a rolled up screenplay jammed into an eye-hole?) or one representing the Malibu Wildfires (David Geffen’s face consumed by flames?), two ideas that certainly were within the abilities of the talented individual who handled Var’s impressive offering.

• It’s Britney, B!+?h! And Other Winning Pumpkin Designs [Franklin Avenue]

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Paul Croft, a working-class bloke from Nottingham, had a giant tattoo of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore etched on his back–a gesture meant to surprise and delight his five Potter-obsessed children. We think it’s safe to say that of the many dangers Croft tried to anticipate in subjecting himself to the painful and permanent procedure, the after-the-fact outing of the character by the author at a public lecture in New York City was not one of them:

“It’s been terrible. I’ve always liked Dumbledore - just not in that way.

“I went into work and everyone was sniggering. When I walked in, one of the lads said, ‘Oi, Paul - heard about Dumbledore?’

“There were wisecracks about ‘Watch your backs, lads.’ Someone asked me if I was planning to get a tattoo of Graham Norton. I thought, ‘Why me?’ “

Paul said: “It seemed like a good idea at the time.I don’t regret it and I’m not going to get rid of it.”

Regardless of whether it was his original intention, we still think Croft is to be commended for choosing to remain a walking billboard to rainbow-wizarding pride, and not camouflaging the portrait with a far less risky tattoo of his children’s latest obsession: unambiguously heterosexual star of High School Musical, Zac Efron.

• Dad’s tattoo Dumble-Doh! [thesun via WOW Report]

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From time to time, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer seeks out the temporary camaraderie of the friendly folks patrolling the red carpet of various Hollywood events, looking to make a connection with someone other than the abusive, controlling TiVo mascot with whom she’s recently formed an unhealthy relationship. On Sunday night, Molly turned up at the ArcLight premiere of Postal, the latest addition to director Uwe Boll’s video-game-derived cinematic canon, where she and the legendarily confrontational Boll seemed to hit it off.

Rather than challenging her to a fight or asking for an e-mail address at which he could berate her at his future convenience, he shared his belief that 9/11 was executed so badly by a doped pilot that they’ll eventually “have to redo it.” Say what you will about Boll’s resume, but you’re never going to hear anything that interesting come out of the mouth of Spielberg or Scorsese at one of their movie premieres.

• Previously: Defamer Stakes Out Some Space On The Stony Awards’ Green Carpet [Defamer]

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