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Fox411

Mag “Famous” For Trickery Prints Rob & Kristen Breakup

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(Famous)

“It’s Over” between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, declares Famous magazine in big, bold letters under the words, “Rob confirms to the US media.”

Really?

Site Absurdly Uses Reese and Rob to Taunt Kristen Stewart

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(HollywoodLife.com)

When Gossip Cop busted Fox411′s nonsense about possible romance between “Water for Elephants” co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, we assumed it’d still be picked up and repeated by a few careless sites.

HollywoodLife manages to do even worse.

Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson Supposed “Water” Romance Evaporates

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Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon are working together on “Water for Elephants.”

They previously worked together on the film, “Vanity Fair.”

But Pattinson and Witherspoon are not getting together romantically, as the Fox411 blog would like its readers to believe.

Reports wrong about Lindsay Lohan quitting ‘porn’ flick

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“Lindsanity Might NOT Be Starring In Porn Star Biopic!” reads another inaccurate report from Perez Hilton. The bad blogger claims, “She is not officially locked into the movie yet. She does have some reservations about doing the film.” As usual, Hilton is 100 percent wrong.

No Truth to Rumored “Jersey Shore” Booze Ban (Whew!)

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Without alcohol, will “Jersey Shore” be a bore?

Fox News’ Fox411 blog observes that the cast of MTV’s hit “likes to drink, party and then drink and party some more.”

But at a recent appearance at the Boston club The Estate, Jenni “JWoww” Farley was noticeably sans alcohol and overheard telling partygoers, “MTV doesn’t want [the cast] to drink.”

Sites all wrong about John Krasinski as “Captain America”

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(HollywoodLife.com)

What do Perez Hilton, HollywoodLife, Hollyscoop and Fox411 all have in common? They all reported that John Krasinski is going to play “Captain America,” and they’re all…

Item Claiming Jason Trawick “Hates” Britney Spears Music Hits Wrong Note

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What are the chances an outlet that once fabricated a Lindsay Lohan reality show and just last week steamed Kelly Osbourne for misrepresenting her comments would get a story involving Britney Spears and Paris Hilton wrong?

(Answer: very high.)

“Britney Spears’ Boyfriend ‘Hates’ Her Music” blares a FoxNews.com headline for an item about, of all things, Hilton’s 29th birthday party.

Sites Shamefully Misrepresent Kelly Osbourne Comments

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Here’s a case of rotten journalism twisting a good message into something ugly.

In an interview with Us Weekly, newly svelte Kelly Osbourne talked about her battles with weight gain. “I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict,” the Dancing with the Stars alum said. “I will never understand that.”

Again, Osbourne said that other people gave her more hell for being overweight than for substance addiction. But that’s not the implication of stories floating around the Web right now.

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