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There's only one pairing more natural than beer ads and buxom blondes, and that's Jessica Simpson and Texas.

The marketing geniuses over at Dallas' Stampede Brewing Co. brought the foursome together, bagging the country (née pop) star as their newest spokeswoman.

While the full financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, Simpson will receive a 15 percent stake in the brewery in addition to appearing in ads for Stampede Light Plus.

As the name suggests, it is a light beer aimed at imbibers with an active lifestyle. A girl's gotta keep her figure somehow.

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If Malaysian officials' logic holds, Avril Lavigne is sexier than Gwen Stefani and the Pussycat Dolls and just as potentially morally corrupting as Beyoncé.

The Canadian faux-punkette has become the latest Western pop star to face trouble in the Asian country as she was uninvited from performing a planned Kuala Lumpur gig. The Muslim-majority country's Arts, Culture and Heritage Ministry canceled the show today amid growing protests and claims the singer was, quite simply, "too sexy."

While that, of course, is entirely subjective, the timing of the planned gig—just two days before the nation's Independence Day on Aug. 29—was not and, per a senior ministry official, was the real reason for the cancellation.

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With all the ogling at Britney Spears' fabulous physique has come the seemingly requisite question whenever celebs lose weight: "Gee, how did they do it?"

Sure enough, the pop star reveals just that in the latest issue of OK! magazine, talking about how she's cut out sugar and that her meals consist of things like chicken, salmon, rice, avocados, egg whites and turkey burgers.

"I try to do just 1,200 calories a day," says Brit, who also happens to work out five days a week. "It may sound like it's not much, but it's actually a lot of food if you eat the right things."

Valuable information indeed. Not that anybody out there is really going to use it, but valuable nonetheless.

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• Today in Mayer-Aniston breakup gossip, John reportedly dumped Jen via text. If you have your own fun deets you'd like to add, please leave it in the comment section. Winner gets a high-five from Angelina Jolie.

• Ellen blogs about her wedding, writes it was "all a blur." So be sure to tune in to the new season of her show Sept. 8 and pick up your copy of People!

• Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams are said to be totally dating once again! See, love does conquer all.

• Can someone please explain what's going on with Christina Aguilera's new perfume ad?

• Madonna celebrated her B-day with "crack baby" shots—that's vodka and champagne. Is it too early for one of those?

• PETA decided to get in the middle of the Hogan divorce. Ugh, we can't decide who's more annoying—the Hogans or PETA.

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Gary Glitter's fear of flying has apparently flown away.

After an hourslong standoff in a Bangkok airport, which began with a brief layover for the recently sprung British glam rocker and included the feigning of a heart attack and a refusal to board a Britain-bound plane, Glitter has finally agreed to exit Thailand.

The glam rocker, who was released Monday from a Vietnam prison after serving three years on child-molestation charges, was expected to make just a brief pit stop in Bangkok before continuing back to his native England Wednesday. But after landing in Thailand, he announced he didn't plan on leaving.

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What's in a name? Well, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are about find out, as they're in talks to lend their voices to the title roles of Gnomeo and Juliet, a 'tooned-up version of the Bard's tragedy from Miramax and Elton John's Rocket Pictures.

Even with its comic, computer-generated spin, Gnomeo is a garden-variety adaptation of Shakespeare...sort of.

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McSteamy may be McSettling!

This is one fascinating little nugget of scoopery I gleaned from a one-on-one talk with the always intriguing Eric Dane, who hinted at a big romance coming up for his character in the upcoming season of Grey's Anatomy.

Want to know the details he shared and what's up with Izzie's and Meredith's love lives, too?

Of course you do! Click here for the WWK TV scoop!

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Didn't get invited to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's shindig, either?

We know, it hurts. But at least now you can get a good, up-close look at the pair on their big day and know that it didn't cost you a trip to the Crate & Barrel registry for the privilege.

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The Dave Matthews Band brass has been silenced.

Saxophonist LeRoi Moore, one of the founding members of the Virginia-based jam band, died Tuesday afternoon at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, E! News has confirmed. He was 46.

Exact cause of death is unknown, but it was due to complications from critical injuries that Moore sustained in a June 30 ATV crash on his farm near Charlottesville, Va.

Moore, who suffered a punctured lung and broken ribs at the time, had not performed with DMB since his accident, but had returned to L.A.—where the band is performing tonight at Staples Center—to begin an "intensive physical rehabilitation program," according to a statement released by DMB.

After opening tonight's show with "Bartender," Dave Matthews quieted the audience and informed them that "our good friend LeRoi Moore" had passed away.

"He gave up his ghost to heaven and we will miss him always," the singer said.

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The environment just got some influential new friends.

Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux posted a new episode of the Miley and Mandy Show on Monday night—and this time it's just not all fun and games.

The YouTube video is part environmental PSA and part music video for "Wake Up America," the latest single off her new album, in which she implores all of us to take better care of the environment and "go green."

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Sure, life as a touring rap star seems glamorous and all, but consider the case of Snoop Dogg and his Unity Tour: Between those shows with tens of thousands of screaming fans, clamoring press and raging parties are 15,000 miles of road done in 13-hour stretches between 35 cities, 27 states and two countries. Oh, and did we mention the bus full of people that reeks of fried fish? Get a whiff in our exclusive KillahKev With the Big Boss Dogg video series.