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Despite the fact that we all knew New Moon was coming and The Oprah Winfrey Show was going sometime soonish, the stars of both made major splashes this week every time they offered up even the weeniest tidbit of information for their adoring fans.

We, on the other hand, have offered up a tidal wave of info from the week gone by. You better dive in and start swimming...

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Before everyone and his mother had a daytime talk show, there was Oprah Winfrey.

And the news that in less than two years there won't be an Oprah Winfrey Show as we know it has prompted an outpouring of well wishes and appreciations from those whose stars have shined a little brighter thanks to Oprah's warm glow.

"I am going to enjoy every episode between now and 2011," offered Food Network star turned syndicated talk-show host Rachael Ray, who waited until Oprah had discussed the matter "one-on-one" with her audience today to comment.

"Oprah opened the door for me to move into daytime television and I can't thank her enough. I look forward to seeing what she does next…there will only ever be one Oprah!"

Hell, even Dr. Phil McGraw knows who first put him on the map.

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Whoever said "everything leaves a paper trail" was damn right.

Dr. Conrad Murray has admitted to giving Michael Jackson the surgical anesthetic propofol to help him sleep, and police say they know where he got it.

According to additional search warrant documents released Friday, investigators found receipts in Murray's Nevada office showing that the cardiologist purchased five bottles the drug from a Las Vegas pharmacy on May 12 and had it mailed to the L.A. mansion Jackson was living in when he died a month later.

All of which should come as no shock to anyone, according to Murray's attorney.

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R.Pattz wasn't there, so why did a bunch of screaming fangirls nearly cause a riot at a Long Island mall?

They were waiting for Justin Bieber, of course!

One girl ended up at the hospital and a member of Bieber's entourage was arrested after more than 1,000 young and rowdy fans whipped themselves into a frenzy awaiting the arrival of the the 15-year-old Canadian pop star, who ended up steering clear of the mall altogether because of the melee.

"They are not allowing me to come into the mall. if you dont leave I and my fans will be arrested as the police just told us," Bieber twittered this evening, about an hour after writing, "On my way to Roosevelt Field Mall in Long Island, NY to sign and meet fans!! im pumped. see u there."

Aw.

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With the news that Oprah Winfrey is signing off after...wait, what? She's not pulling the plug on The Oprah Winfrey Show until 2011? Well, shoot, what are we all scrambling around for?!

Still, just thinking about Winfrey's eventual exit after what will be 25 years in syndication has put us in a nostalgic mood, and we've compiled nine of the most memorable Oprah moments, using criteria such as star wattage, emotional heaviness, cultural impact, etc.

Of course, we've probably forgotten your favorite, so be sure to remind us in the comments section. A lot of stuff has happened on Oprah's couch over the last two and a half decades.

Or, in some cases, several inches above her couch...

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Every season, it all comes down to Bryant Park.

Nine months after they marched their 13-look collections down the runway at Fall Fashion Week, Althea Harper, Irena Shabayeva and Carol Hannah Whitfield stood quaking before Heidi Klum & Co., waiting to hear who would be named the winner of Project Runway's much-delayed sixth season.

Of course it looked as if time was going to run out, garments were going to go unfinished and each woman was going to float away on a river of tears (mixed with other fluids, in the virus-stricken Carol Hannah's case).

But wouldn't you know, all three ladies, competing in the second all-girl finale in a row, showed classy, polished and, for the most part, extremely wearable collections at the couture extravaganza in NYC.

And for the spoiler-avoiders among us, it seemed like anyone's game.

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It's not a death, but it will be a loss.

The accolades are pouring in already for Oprah Winfrey, who's planning to talk on the air tomorrow about her decision to end her syndicated daytime show in September 2011, following its 25th season.

Fellow Daytime Emmy winner Ellen DeGeneres, who a couple weeks ago had a special only-on-Oprah moment when she and wife Portia de Rossi shared their wedding video, took a moment today while taping her own show to laud her colleague's prolific career.

"Right before I came out here, I got a call from Oprah and she told me that she is announcing that next year will be her last year," DeGeneres told her studio audience.

"I don't think I could be here without her. I think she has blazed a trail...She is an amazing woman. She will always be the queen of daytime television?and she also said she is leaving me all of her money."

That got a big hoot from the audience.

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Hard to imagine a world without The Oprah Winfrey Show on weekday afternoons.

But that's exactly what the world's going to be like after Sept. 9, 2011, which will mark the end of Winfrey's 25th season as host of her eponymous daytime talk show—and her last show altogether.

We can just hear the Rolodexes twirling as the folks at Harpo Productions start lining up celebrities to tape "goodbye, Oprah" messages.

"Yes, it's true that she will be ending her show in September 2011," a rep for Harpo tells E! News. "She will be speaking about it on tomorrow's live show."

Where will the big shots share, cry and couch-jump now? How will mere mortals get free cars?!

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Eddie Cibrian is a one-woman guy, and he's got the lawyers to prove it.

The soon-to-be divorced actor has followed through with his promise to sue Life & Style, filing a defamation suit against the magazine today for reporting that he's been two-timing girlfriend LeAnn Rimes.

"Since the separation from his wife, Eddie Cibrian has not had a romantic or sexual relationship with any woman other than Ms. Rimes," the lawsuit states.

Citing an online article from Nov. 4 ("Eddie's Cheating on LeAnn Already!") and a story in the Nov. 16 issue (a more detailed version of the same), Cibrian's camp accuses L&S of doing nothing to verify its story, which turned out to be "rife with demonstrably false accusations."

And that article, in turn, led to "hundreds of articles" alleging rampant infidelity on Cibrian's part, the suit alleges.

Sure, it was that article...

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James Van Der Beek didn't want to wait for his life to be over to be single again.

The Dawson's Creek star has filed for divorce from wife Heather McComb, five months after the duo confirmed they were separating after almost six years of marriage.

Van Der Beek, 32, cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, according to the petition filed Nov. 13 in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The once very cute couple tied the knot in July 2003. They did not have children together.

After stringing together a series of TV appearances, including guest spots on Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother and Medium (he plays a great creep), Van Der Beek recently landed a role on ABC's freshman drama The Forgotten.

Van Der Beek had this to say via Twitter this evening: "Time to go to work. My job tonight - piss off Antonio Banderas take after take after take... 'Let's play...'"

OK. Well, he and Heather were separated already.

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We have a sinking feeling that our Big Celebrity Splits gallery is only going to get bigger.

Good things come in small packages.

Before the first-ever petite cycle of America's Next Top Model came to a close tonight, Southern belle Laura Kirkpatrick and the unprepossessing Nicole Fox had two more chances to prove they deserved to be on top.

First came the requisite CoverGirl commercial shoot, which left both girls fighting for their composure as the only words they could get their glossy lips around were easy, breezy and beautiful. (Both ended up with decent takes, but it was torture getting there.)

Then it was on to the runway for a Julia Clancey fashion show.

Off Laura and Nicole went, their dresses billowing, fringe flapping and faces shellacked with shimmer, as Tyra Banks, Nigel Barker, J. Alexander and Eddie Murphy(!) looked on from the audience.

The show—which also featured lucky losers Erin, Sundai and Jennifer—went smoothly and both finalists stalked the catwalk like pros, and tall pros at that!

So who was the last girl standing at the end of cycle 13?

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Sure, Tom Colicchio's got much respect for the five who made it this far on Top Chef and it was a pleasure watching them all cook.

But only four made it out of tonight's episode alive after an especially meaty quickfire round and an elimination challenge inspired by the Olympics of culinary arts, the Bocuse d'Or.

While the fantasy foursome of Bryan and Michael Voltaggio, Kevin Gillespie and Jennifer Carroll was planted in people's minds weeks ago, you could bet that surprise contender Eli Kirshtein wasn't going to let them just whisk past him into the semifinals.

Not to mention the fact that Jen's been sliding in recent weeks, Kevin's not one for classic French technique and Brian and Michael could just as easily self-destruct by getting too fancy for their own good.

And we heard that there was an upset brewing...

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