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That sound you hear is the nation's TiVos spontaneously powering down in protest.

Earlier this month, Octomom Nadya Suleman activated gag reflexes everywhere by revealing she had a crush on Jon Gosselin, going so far as to dub him "hot." Earlier this morning, In Touch Weekly took that cry for help revelation and ran with it, claiming that the publicity-hungry, parentally challenged duo would be coupling up in a new reality dating show.

And while we can only pray the report didn't give them any ideas, it also (for now) is not true...depending on who you ask.

The supermarket staple quoted the oddly credible former producer of Cheaters, who claimed that the show would follow Gosselin contemplating not only "what hooking up with Octomom could really be like," but what their home life might be like if their respective 14- and 8-strong broods fused, like the Brady Bunch on steroids.

"I heard that Nadya has an insatiable desire to spend time with Jon and to put their families together," producer Bobby Goldstein told the tabloid. "And I had the idea that this could be a very entertaining fiasco." (Apparently Goldstein never heard of one Hailey Glassman.)

It may be Halloween week, but no one deserves this type of scare. Luckily, Gosselin's manager has stepped in to put a lid on the madness, debunking the report and once again restoring order to the television universe.

"This is the first I've even heard of it," he said. "This isn't happening."

Not that it wasn't at one point in the works, with a rep for the would-be trainwreck boasting of email records to prove it.

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Ironically, one little tweet could've nipped this whole thing in the bud a long time ago.

Instead, Miley Cyrus has left rumor control in the hands (and rather loose lips) of her costars and publicists—neither of whom, apparently, bothered to consult one another or get their stories straight before talking to the press.

What they do agree on is that earlier this month, Cyrus fell sick. And while rumors swirled at the time that America's sweetheart had come down with a bad case of the Miss Piggys, her rep denied then that the starlet had contracted swine flu, blaming her concert cancellations instead on the much more press release-friendly strep throat.

Theoretically, the rumor should have ended there. Problem was, Cyrus' Hannah Montana costars didn't get the memo. Enter Cody Linley and the start of Flugate...

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It'll take more than a death hoax to keep Kanye West out of the news.

False reports hit the Internet late last night that the rapper died in a "bizarre car crash in Los Angeles involving two luxury cars." While the tall tale never made its way to credibly news sources, it spread like wildfire on Facebook and Twitter, where "RIP Kanye West" became the No. 1 trending topic.

Thankfully, the star's girlfriend, Amber Rose, put the rumor to rest.

"This RIPKanyeWest topic is not funny and its NOT TRUE! He has people like myself and his family that love him very much," she tweeted. "Its in extreme poor taste to have that as a trendy topic. It's totally disrespectful to make up a story like this where all human and we all make mistakes and to say someone died cuz of a mistake is ridiculous. U wouldn't want someone to say that about u Or someone u love it's not funny. #LongLiveYeezy!!!!!"

Of course, the main reason this story has become so popular so fast is likely thanks to Taylor Swift. People by the thousands are retweeting versions of "Whoever started the RIP Kanye West hoax, I'm happy for u and Imma let you finish…but Balloon Boy had the best hoax of all time!"

Aw, snap!

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Karma's a, well, you know. Kanye may not be dead, but one, two, three major things of his have been killed thus far this month! Do you know what they are?

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In Lily Allen's case, almost $16,000.

The ever-reliable British Sun coughed up a check and a formal apology today after admitting that an item alleging Allen had let loose her acid tongue on David and Victoria Beckham wasn't true.

Plausible, yes. True, no.

In its defense, The Sun hadn't concocted the tale on its own, rather reprinted the alleged Allen quotes from the French magazine SoFoot (no, really).

Among the cheap shots the "Not Fair" singer allegedly lobbed at the Posh ones: "The Beckhams are sickening. Everyone knows Victoria is a monster. I'd rather shoot myself between the eyes than be a WAG."

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This Angel is still firmly earthbound.

Jaclyn Smith's camp had to take time out today to refute an erroneous report that she had attempted suicide in Honduras and was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.

"This is absolutely not true. I just spoke with her today. She is fine and in Los Angeles," Smith's rep, Jay Schwartz, told E! News.

Unfortunately, the rumor that Perez Hilton picked up on, saying it came from "multiple sources in Latin America," did involve someone who at least was once connected to Smith.

"It was her Charlie's Angels stunt double, Sandra Franklin, but details are unknown at this time," Schwartz said.

A Honduran newspaper now has a story about an accident involving the "doble de Jaclyn Smith."

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Remember the life of Jaclyn Smith's lovely Charlie's Angels costar Farrah Fawcett in our tribute gallery.

Halle Berry is not pregnant. Just a little full.

The Oscar winner and flat tummy possessor sat down with Jay Leno last night, doing her bit to keep the buzzmeter high in the already slightly dipping 10 p.m. hour, denying right off the bat that she was expecting a second bundle of joy.

Ever the consummate gentleman host, Leno greeted Berry at the start of the interview by saying how great she looked, thereby providing the perfect opportunity for her to deny Life & Style's "exclusive" and "official" report from earlier this month claiming she and Gabriel Aubry were expecting baby No. 2.

"Thank you for that, Jay, because that must mean all these pregnancy rumors can be put to bed," she said. "I was getting a complex. I was like, I gotta stop with the burgers or something!"

That form-fitting dress would suggest otherwise.

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They're f--king (with) Matt Damon.

Though at least he won't be hurting for material when he turns up—alive and well—to chat with David Letterman tonight.

Fangirls' collective hearts briefly stopped beating yesterday evening when the Internet became awash with reports—or really, just one dubious and, as it happens, reycycled year-old report—that the Oscar-winning father of two had passed away.

Unlike the usual fake celebrity death reports that see victims falling off New Zealand cliffs, Damon's demise reportedly came during a trek through California's Palo Verde Mountains on Wednesday after going missing during a camping trip.

Never mind that Damon wouldn't have time to go camping even if the inclination struck, busy as he's been promoting The Informant! in both Venice and New York over the past few days.

Giving the rumor a touch (though just) of credibility, it cited TMZ as the source of the sad news.

And while the words "Matt Damon," "is" and "dead" did in fact appear on said site yesterday, it wasn't exactly a declaration.

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Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan fighting is nothing new, we know. But seriously, LiLo needs to learn when to stop the twittering.

It never makes her look like the downtrodden victim of SamRo's abuse or whatever she's going for.

No, it makes her look crazy. Just try to make sense of any of this:

"can you make an attempt to not ruin ANYTHI...zG positive that i have FINALLY deserved just to cry myself to sleep with your cheats, errors, and thank you...for being a friend before a sell-out...the term "self out" was coined from ME and i gave them sooooooo much insight...For their not only COMPLETE, BUT SUBSTANISAN ***FRIENDS***********"

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Considering the Elvis Presley sightings continue to this day, it's not surprising that people are already seeing the resurrection of Michael Jackson.

But here's hoping the 880,000-plus people who clicked on a YouTube video that purported to show the King of Pop, alive as ever, getting out of a coroner's van and entering an unidentified building didn't get their hopes up too much.

German TV station RTL has admitted to making the video in Cologne for its magazine Explosiv and sending it out into the ether on Aug. 25 to see what people would do with the infauxmation.

And while the broadcaster couldn't poll the thousands who watched to see how convincing the footage was, it found that there were obviously plenty of people curious enough to take a look and share it with their friends.

"We sent out a press release before we did the video to alert everyone that it was fake, but once posted it spread really fast," RTL spokesman Heike Schultz told CNN.com.

"This was so obviously fake in the case of Michael Jackson, it just was not possible," she said.

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Looks like Brad Pitt still has a few more years to go before he enters into his glibless, insult-hurling, couch-jumping phase.

Despite what seemed like an albeit uncharacteristic verbal sucker punch to Tom Cruise's moviemaking chops last week, a rep for the Inglourious Basterds thesp has denied that Pitt has ever had a bad word to say about his onetime costar.

On Friday, the German magazine Stern ran an interview with Angie's better half, quoting the reigning box office champ as slamming Cruise's rival Nazi-fighting film Valkyrie as, quite simply, "a ridiculous movie."

But this is one dogfight that ended before it began.

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First Jon Gosselin, now Kari Ann Peniche. Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier certainly seems to be surrounding himself with the cream of the crap.

Uh, crop. We meant crop.

Peniche, the clothes-averse costar of Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart, made her way, as all good tabloid targets do, over to Audigier's studios yesterday, and while she left with the impression that she landed herself a design gig, she may be in for a rude awakening when she turns up for orientation at Ed Hardy HQ tomorrow morning.

A source close to Audigier denied reports of any collaboration with Peniche, a budding swimwear designer, saying "those are just rumors."

Now if only we could track down where they first started…oh, that's right.

"I'm gonna be working on a bikini line," Peniche told paparazzi yesterday. "I start on Friday."

Yeah, that's probably what Gosselin thought, too.

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Peniche's bikini designs will no doubt be a loss to the fashion community. Oh well! Console yourselves with our Beach Bodies gallery.