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Apparently, it runs in the family.

No matter how many topless photos, inappropriate TV interviews, solo sex tapes or unrelenting victim complexes Carrie Prejean takes on, she'll always be daddy's little girl. And daddy's little girl can do no wrong.

Miss California pageant officials, on the other hand...

"The personal information they are bringing out against Carrie is irrelevant to anything," Will Prejean tells E! News exclusively from his home in San Diego.

Make that, irrelevant to anything, and distracting as anything.

"Look at Larry King, he asked Carrie harder questions than he asked [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad.

"Carrie is supposed to be doing all of these TV appearances to promote her book, and everyone can only focus on the tapes," he continues. "I'm not someone who looks backwards. I think we need to look to the future. Why isn't anyone talking about the charity work and all of the charitable organizations that Carrie's involved in?"

Probably because people like Carrie and (like father, like daughter) Will keep making lightning-rod statements. Just like this:

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Count Dina Lohan among those sickened by this type of behavior.

While Michael Lohan continues his near daily release of embarrassing and hitherto private phone call recordings in a misguided, press-hungry bid to shame his daughter into recovery, Lindsay Lohan's mother is finally speaking out about his despicable tactics.

"The tapes were from a long time ago, and for a father to stoop this low is unforgivable," she tells E! News, before imploring people to consider the source.

"My ex-husband has been in and out of jail for 10 years. My children and I gave him a chance to get to know them again, and he clearly blew that chance!"

We'll say. And while Dina, along with Lindsay and Lindsay's former assistant, are among those threatening legal action against Michael for his leaky ways, she also says that he should never have had the opportunity—or the access—to record phone calls like the one involving Heath Ledger in the first place.

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Comedy is all about timing. Unfortunately, Brüno's stank.

Days after Michael Jackson's June 25 death—just two weeks before Sacha Baron Cohen's raunchfest was set to premiere—filmmakers scrambled to remove a scene that could have been deemed distasteful, even by their standards. The flamboyant Austrian fashion plate lured La Toya Jackson to a Hollywood home, sat her on a Mexican laborer, made her eat sushi off the nude body of another, shanghaied her BlackBerry and read out Michael's number, all after asking her to impersonate him.

But what a difference four months makes.

Now, like Edward and Bella or Suri Cruise and seasonally inappropriate garb, Brüno and La Toya are once again back together, with the cut scene restored for the film's forthcoming home video release. But not before resurfacing exclusively right here!

Though if it all seems a little familiar, there's a good reason for that...

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Ryan Seacrest wants the world to know that he's doing fine after this morning's scary visit from an obsessive, weapon-wielding fan.

"An interesting day here at E!" Seacrest says of his headline-making (and delivering) day. "My sincerest thanks to the LAPD, who helped us out here at the building today."

As for unwanted guest Chidi Uzomah Jr., the 200-pound, 6-foot-4-inch man apparently just doesn't get the hint. He was arrested last month for brandishing a knife and bum-rushing Seacrest's security guard at a charity event at a children's hospital in Orange, Calif.

And despite pleading guilty to two misdemeanors and being sentenced to three years' probation for that dust-up, Uzomah still sought face time with Seacrest.

Uzomah turned up in vain at KIIS-FM's Burbank offices looking for the host (whose radio studio, as Uzomah clearly figured out, is actually located at E!'s HQ in Los Angeles).

"He asked somebody where Ryan was," a source said. "They said he didn't work here, he works at E! That was a few weeks ago."

Between that drop-in and today's incident, Uzomah may be facing jail time for a probation violation.

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Debuting new music, hosting a radio show, manning the E! airwaves and outwitting an alleged stalker are all in a day's work for Ryan Seacrest.

An armed man was caught outside Seacrest HQ on the E! campus just before 10 a.m. and was quickly handcuffed and detained by security guards before being handed off to Los Angeles police officers.

E! News has confirmed that the man was Chidi Uzomah Jr., who was sentenced to 15 days in jail and three years' probation after attacking a member of Seacrest's security detail outside a charity event last month.

Uzomah, who was wielding a three-inch folding knife, never came close to Seacrest today. As he entered the E! lobby, security immediately recognized Uzomah from a photo that was circulated following that earlier incident. Guards confronted Uzomah and held him until LAPD arrived.

Officers have since removed Uzomah from the E! premises, which also houses Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio studio, and have taken him in for questioning by the Threat Management Unit.

They didn't, however, take in his car...

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Well, well, well. Looks like you can teach old, press-hungry, reality-has-been, selfunaware, partner-hopping dogs new tricks.

Or at least teach them to hire a better spin doctor.

In an exclusive statement to E! News, Jon Gosselin has apologized for, well, everything he's put the media-watching public through over the past few months. And that includes new promises to Kate Gosselin and their plus 8.

His epiphany came after bogus reports surfaced yesterday linking him to a reality project with the other Octomom.

"I am troubled to learn that the media has accepted as true the scurrilous rumor that I would appear in a reality television program with Nadya Suleman. This is utterly false. I do however accept that some of my previous actions have in some way lent credence to such outrageous stories."

He continues: "I am well aware that my behavior over the past few months has not always reflected my personal and religious values.

"I further accept that I have allowed myself to become somewhat severed from my own moral anchor and be carried away by the challenges of fame. It is for this reason that I have endeavored of late to reconnect with my deeper, more spiritual, more altruistic self with regular study sessions and counseling."

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We'll believe it when we see it—or rather, when we don't see it, hear it or read about it—but after what we can only imagine was a contentious weekend for anyone bearing the surname Gosselin, something of a détente has been called, at least temporarily, between Jon and Kate.

"We have a truce," Jon's attorney, Mark Heller, told E! News. "Neither side will be commenting until after the hearing."

A noble if exceedingly tardy gesture, to be sure, but all won't be quiet on the Gosselin front for too long: The silence-breaking hearing of which Heller speaks is taking place tomorrow.

The arbitrator's conference will be held in Pennsylvania at an as-yet undisclosed location (in other words, not the courthouse) most likely at an attorney's office.

Over the weekend, Kate's attorney, Mark Momjian, told E! News that the duo will attempt to hash out agreements on "economic issues"—all 235,000 of them, we're guessing—during the hearing. Last week, Kate filed for temporary spousal and child support from Jon.

But while the duo may be doing their best to keep a low profile today, the same can't be said for their hangers-on. Chief among them, Michael Lohan.

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This is no Jedi mind trick.

Nope, the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars begins Oct. 2 on Cartoon Network, and we've got an exclusive sneak peek at the premiere episode, featuring a battle involving Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka, Clone Capt. Rex and R2-D2 squaring off against new bounty-hunting nemesis Cad Bane and a whole host of baddies.

Lightsaber slashes? Check. Dark side-loving evildoers? Natch. Ill-fated clone troopers? Sadly, yes. 

Gives us a new hope for the coming season.