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HUGE Thank You to salter-path for letting me know a TV Listing site had this up already.

Supermodel Macpherson, Partner Separate LONDON - Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson and partner Arpad Busson announced Friday that are separating. The couple, who have two sons, said that "whilst remaining the greatest of friends, we have decided to spend some time apart to consider our future." They said no third party was involved. "We have had, and in many ways continue to have, a wonderful relationship, which has produced two beautiful children," said the statement, which appealed for privacy. Macpherson, 42, and Swiss financier Busson are parents of Flynn, 7, and 2-year-old Aurelius Cy. Macpherson, one of the world's top earning supermodels in the 1990s, now has her own line of lingerie, Elle Macpherson Intimates. Nicknamed "The Body" during her modeling career, 6-foot-tall Macpherson has also had a series of film and television parts. She starred opposite High Grant in the 1994 film "Sirens" and had a recurring role in the TV comedy "Friends."

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LOL@ Morty! Didn't Will have a wet dream?

Prince William Graduates From University ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Prince William graduated from St. Andrews University on Thursday in a colorful, tradition-steeped ceremony watched by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, and father, Prince Charles. Wearing a hood with cherry-red lining to indicate he is a Master of the Arts, the 23-year-old prince knelt before university chancellor Sir Kenneth Dover, who tapped him on the head with a cap. According to St. Andrews tradition, the cap is sewn from a fragment of breeches worn by Scottish religious reformer John Knox, who preached in the medieval university town in the 16th century. William, 23, was one of 260 students to graduate in the 4 1/2-hour morning ceremony. Girlfriend Kate Middleton graduated in the same ceremony. William earned a 2:1 geography masters degree in four years of study. A 2:1 denotes an upper second class degree, a very respectable achievement

I've actually got a copy of the commercial on my PC, but I cant post it. But I can watch it over and over again. :roll:

Good to see you again king. :wink:

I dont want to start another Romber thread. I wonder how it will go with the feeds with a bigger house. :?: Better not be a bunch of wanna be actors again! :roll: Hmmmm, wonder who they will be.. so exciting! :shock: Shame we cant vote them out! :twisted: If they have fish this year. I'm going to go INSANE with the bubble noises.

You mean this button? The one in the Foum Index?

LOVE the new button Morty gave you on the top left of the forum index salter!

:rofl :rofl :rofl The ones you dont pay?

Brain Cells 'Recognize' Famous People By MALCOLM RITTER NEW YORK - Halle Berry? Jennifer Aniston? Everybody knows them. And now a surprising study finds that even individual cells in your brain act as if they recognize them. The work could help shed light on how the brain stores information, an expert said. When scientists sampled brain cell activity in people who were scrutinizing dozens of pictures, they found some individual cells that reacted to a particular celebrity, landmark, animal or object. In one case, a single cell was activated by different photos of Berry, including some in her "Catwoman" costume, a drawing of her and even the words, "Halle Berry." The findings appear in a part of the brain that transforms what people perceive into what they'll eventually remember, said Dr. Itzhak Fried of the University of California, Los Angeles, a senior investigator on the project. The findings do not mean that a particular person or object is recognized and remembered by only one brain cell, Fried said. "There is not only one cell that codes for Jennifer Aniston. That would be impossible," Fried said. Nor do they mean that a given brain cell will react to only one person or object, he said, because the study participants were tested with only a relatively limited number of pictures. In fact, some cells were found to respond to more than one person, or to a person and an object. What the study does suggest, Fried and colleagues say in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, is that the brain appears to use relatively few cells to record something it sees. That's in contrast to the idea that it uses a huge network of brain cells instead. It's surprising that an individual neuron would react so specifically to a given person, said the study's other senior investigator, Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology. "It's much more specific than people used to think." Charles Connor, who studies how the brain processes visual information but who didn't participate in the new study, called the results striking. Nobody would have predicted that conceptual information relating to Aniston, for example, would be signaled so clearly by single cells, said Connor, who works at Johns Hopkins University. The "really dramatic finding," he said, is that a single brain cell can respond so consistently to completely different pictures of a given person. "That will surprise everybody," Connor said. The part of the brain the researchers studied draws heavily on memory as well as signals from what the eye sees, so the result may illustrate how memory is represented in the brain and how it relates to visual signals, he said. He noted that in one participant, one brain cell responded both to Aniston and to Lisa Kudrow, her co-star on the TV hit "Friends." "That's a tantalizing glimpse at how neurons represent concepts like membership in the cast of `Friends,' and could lead to much more extensive studies of how conceptual information is organized in human memory," he said. The researchers tested eight people with epilepsy who'd had electrodes placed in their brains so that doctors could track down the origins of their seizures. The electrodes monitored the activity of a small fraction of cells in a part of the brain called the medial temporal lobe. The researchers kept track of which cells became activated as the participants looked at images of people, landmarks and objects on a laptop computer. One participant had a brain cell that reacted to different pictures of Aniston, for example, but was not strongly stimulated by other famous or non-famous faces. Oddly, when that participant was shown photos of Aniston paired with actor Brad Pitt, from whom Aniston later separated, the brain cell didn't respond. "I don't know if it was a prophetic thing," Fried said.

Mel Gibson stalker gets three years prison LOS ANGELES - A homeless man, who believed he had been sent by God to pray with "The Passion of the Christ" director Mel Gibson, was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for stalking. Zack Sinclair, 35, was recommended for psychiatric treatment as part of his prison term. The Idaho man began writing to Gibson after the release last year of "The Passion of the Christ" and later turned up at Gibson's Malibu mansion and at a church that he attends. Gibson was not in court for the sentencing but he testified at Sinclair's trial in March that he was both worried about his family's safety and concerned for Sinclair's mental health. Sinclair wrote 12 letters to Gibson saying he wanted to strengthen the actor-director's faith. "I realized we were probably dealing with someone fairly deluded," Gibson told the Los Angeles court in March. Gibson said that at one point, Sinclair approached him at his church and put his face within four inches (10 cm) of the actor, asking him to pray. Sinclair, who represented himself at trial, was convicted of stalking in March and said nothing on Wednesday before being given the maximum sentence permitted under California law.

Housekeeper charged with robbing celebrities By Jeanne King NEW YORK (Reuters) - One New York maid did more than clean house for her celebrity clients -- she cleaned them out of diamonds and expensive clothing and ran up big tabs on their credit cards, prosecutors and police said on Tuesday. Among Polish-born Lucyna Turyk-Wawrynowicz's recent victims is Grace Hightower, wife of actor Robert De Niro, who hired the 35-year-old in May but became suspicious when several items, including $95,000 diamond earrings, went missing. Soon after Hightower reported the theft, the diamond earrings and her other property were recovered in the home that Turyk-Wawrynowicz shares with her husband and two young, orphaned nephews, police said. The maid was arraigned late on Tuesday and charged with several counts of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and forgery. She faces up to 15 years in prison. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson ordered Turyk-Wawrynowicz held on $150,000 bond, or $75,000 cash bail. She was being held at the Rikers Island jail until her next court date on Friday and was ordered to surrender her passport. Police sources have said Turyk-Wawrynowicz's other victims included the actresses Candice Bergen and Isabella Rossellini. The maid's court-appointed lawyer, Jeffrey Berman, declined to speak with reporters after the arraignment. At the arraignment, he denied the allegations on his client's behalf. In court, Berman told the judge his client has worked for many "high-profile celebrities ... and still is on good terms with a number of them."

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Court TV Anchor to Write Jackson Book NEW YORK - The Michael Jackson saga is coming to bookstores. Court TV anchor Diane Dimond is writing a book about the singer's legal struggles, to be published this fall by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Judith Curr, executive vice president and publisher, announced Tuesday. Financial terms weren't disclosed. The book is not yet titled. Jackson was acquitted last week of child molestation charges following a 4-month trial, but his supporters have long alleged that Dimond's reporting favored the prosecution, a charge she has denied. She even obtained a temporary restraining order against one Jackson fan, Bobby Joe Hickman, 18, of Knoxville, Tenn. Dimond alleged Hickman was inciting people to attack her and she felt so threatened that Court TV hired three guards to protect her.

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STORMY! Is that you??? ..... WELCOME BACK!

Raises I liked Ali too. BUT, I must say I got feeds last year and it made my perception of the HG's very different. CBS are very good at showing you what they want. So maybe Ali was bad on the feeds?!? BB 4 was very strange. The last episode, all the jury really hated having to vote for either June or Ali.. IMHO anyway.....

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Judge OKs Divorce for Jerry Lee Lewis HERNANDO, Miss. - A judge in Mississippi has approved a divorce settlement between Jerry Lee Lewis and his sixth wife, Kerrie Lynn McCarver Lewis, and promptly sealed the court records. The settlement was reached Wednesday, the same day the case was to go to trial. "It's been a long day and it's been an expensive day," Lewis said outside the courthouse. The Commercial Appeal, quoting sources familiar with the case, said Kerrie Lewis, 42, would receive $250,000 immediately and $30,000 a year for five years. Lewis, 69, is known for such hits as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On." He married Kerrie Lynn McCarver on April 24, 1984. They lived together at his 40-acre ranch near Nesbit in north Mississippi. Lewis also pay $20,000 in child support annually for four years for 18-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis III, the newspaper reported. Lewis will keep his ranch. "Sure, I plan to live there," Lewis told the newspaper. "It's been my home for about the past 40 years. That's where I'm going to be." Jerry Lee had accused Kerrie of adultery and she had questioned his marital fidelity. Kerrie had claimed that Lewis and his daughter, Phoebe, had hidden assets from her. leaving her and Jerry Lee Lewis III penniless. She claimed her husband's income topped $1 million annually. Attorneys declined comment on the case, citing the judge's order sealing the records. J.W. Whitten, Lewis' road manager, said uncertainty about court dates had prevented Lewis from accepting a number of long-term bookings. Whitten said the settlement clears the way for Lewis to resume a regular concert schedule and to complete work on an album scheduled to be released this fall. "We leave for Europe June 24," he said. "We needed this to be over just so we could get back to making some money."

Breach at Harry's School Investigated LONDON - Britain's defense minister ordered an investigation Thursday into security at the military school where Prince Harry is training, after a newspaper said one of its journalists, with a fake bomb and camera, gained access and videotaped the prince. The Sun tabloid said one of its reporters posed as a student to get permission to use the library at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Surrey, where Prince Charles' younger son is an officer cadet. The journalist spent some eight hours wandering the grounds and took video footage of Prince Harry, stills from which were published in the newspaper. He also built what The Sun called a fake bomb, with wires, plasticine, a battery and clock in his car while at the academy, the newspaper said. A Ministry of Defense spokesman confirmed that The Sun's report was accurate. Defense Secretary John Reid said he had ordered "an immediate investigation into this serious security breach." "I have instructed Sandhurst to change their procedures to prevent a recurrence," Reid said in a statement. Reid didn't specify what the changes would be. Prince Harry, 20, began his training at Sandhurst last month. The Sun's stunt follows several recent lapses in royal security. In September, a protester disguised as Batman climbed onto a ledge on the front of Buckingham Palace and remained there for several hours. A comedian dressed as Osama bin Laden gatecrashed Prince William's 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle in 2003. Later that year, a reporter from the Daily Mirror got a job as a servant at Buckingham Palace and took pictures of the royals' living quarters.

QW, she headed right for the BB forum.. lol