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● Just 18 days in, Sinead O'Connor has called off her marriage. The whole thing was "kyboshed" by her husband's concerned family, she explains on her blog. Admitting also that "a bit of a wild ride i took us on looking for a bit of a smoke of weed for me wedding night as I don't drink" couldn't have helped the matter. [People]

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The lineup for VH1's Divas was announced today. In addition to Clarkson, Blige, and Florence, Jessie J, Jennifer Hudson, and Jill Scott are also slated to perform at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom; the concert will air on VH1 on December 19.

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● Someone has offered a cool $1,000,000 for the unreleased track playing in the background of Tupac's sex tape. Bidding on the tape, meanwhile, has only hit $150,000. [TMZ] ● Roseanne Barr's return to network television is nearer then ever, NBC having picked up her sitcom Downwardly Mobile. [THR] ● Michael Jackson's kids showed up to Saturday's tribute show to the late performer in MJ-inspired garb. Also of note from the night: Beyoncé performed "Wanna Be Where You Are", and Jennifer Hudson failed to show up, citing "production problems." [People]

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Maybe when I got up to visit the bathroom during Jennifer Hudson's big Oscar-winning Dreamgirls diva moment, I missed some breakthrough. But seriously, giving her an Oscar for assaying a role that any soul singer signed on for the same role could've sleepwalked through was a bit premature, and could lead to complications like this -- complications wherein Hudson gets roped into playing Nelson Mandela's wife in Winnie, which begins filming May 2010. Is such a role too much too soon for the still-green thesp?

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Andre Leon Talley will not be styling Michelle Obama! Non-existent crisis averted. Confused? Let me back up a few months to June, when Mrs. Obama made a trip to New York to attend several fundraisers. The New York Post reported that certain unnamed political advisors became nervous after one fundraiser hosted by Andre Leon Talley (Anna Wintour's right hand man). These advisors worried that Talley would become a style Svengali to Michelle Obama and steer her towards unfortunate fashion choices, like the metallic bolero jacket he created for Jennifer Hudson at the Oscars. No less than Derek Blasberg recently caught up with Talley and got the real story: He hasn't offered any advice to Obama about what to wear. "I think that Michelle Obama does not need advice," intoned Talley.

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