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Nicole Richie is “fed up with husband Joel Madden‘s hectic life as a musician,” reports the National Enquirer, which goes on to claim that Richie is “threatening to leave him and take their children” if he doesn’t quit his band Good Charlotte.

According to a supposed “source” for the tabloid, “Nicole has been complaining nonstop that Joel is like an absentee parent,” explaining, “When he’s not sequestered in the studio with his band mates, he’s touring the globe.”

Richie recently “flipped” when Madden informed her of his plans to record some new material, claims the mag.

“She forced him into a corner and made him choose family over career,” reveals the “source,” adding, “So he reluctantly announced to his band mates that they needed a break.”

Actually, he didn’t.

None of this ever happened.

A source close to Richie tells Gossip Cop the tab’s story is completely “not true,” saying that the couple is very supportive of each other’s careers.

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For a guy who calls himself a celebrity blogger, Perez Hilton sure doesn’t know much about… celebrities.

This time around, Perez writes, “We keep hearing about a possible close friendship or more between [Christina] Aguilera and the Good Charotte (sic) rocker” Benji Madden.

Could those be the voices in his head he’s hearing?

Perez then goes on to note, “Christina seems to have become very buddy buddy with Benji’s sister-in-law, Nicole Richie, in 2010,” before he editorializes, “Very interesting indeed!”

Not really.

A source close to the recently separated singer tells Gossip Cop that Perez’s story is “ridiculous” and “1,000 percent false.”

Indeed.

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Joel Madden is the latest celebrity to confront paparazzi who intrude on family life.

The Good Charlotte singer, composed but irritated, took issue with the photographers waiting in a car across from his daughter Harlow‘s school.

“You guys better hope you’re alright sitting outside of a school, [because] I’m gonna have all your tags run and everything,” Madden warned the paps.

Later, the protective dad addressed the pests again on Twitter.

“Dear @x17online please stop having your photographers wait at my kids school,” he wrote, linking to the site’s video of his interaction with the paparazzi.

Making good on his threat to trace their car, Madden added, “The car that was there today was @x17online.”

“Two men in a black nissan Registered to a Lepe Isidro in Redmond, WA.”

Madden then reiterated his discomfort with the paparazzi’s proximity to Harlow.

“I’ve learned a lot of self control & acceptance. Still never gonna be ok with grown men creeping outside schools. Gotta do what i can do.”

And Harlow’s mom, Nicole Richie, is doing what she can do, too.

Richie blasts the paparazzi on her blog, writing an open letter to X17, the “irresponsible and repulsive” agency that staked out the school and has crossed paths with her before.

“YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. These are young children and you should know better,” writes Richie.

Gossip Cop applauds the couple’s strong but civil response to a growing paparazzi problem.

How do YOU think they — and other stars — should deal with similar situations?

**NOTE: It looks like X17 has pulled down the video Madden linked. If it becomes available, we’ll update.**

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“Get me out of Hollywood!” the National Enquirer claims Nicole Richie said right “before she collapsed and checked into the hospital recently.”

Really?

For months, outlets have made sport of (wrongly) announcing Richie’s marriage to Joel Madden. Now the Enquirer says an “insider” told the tab that an exhausted and sick Richie, along with her not-husband Madden want “to escape Hollywood and raise their kids in New York.”

“They’ve already started house-hunting, and Nicole is telling friends she hopes to be moved in by next summer,” reports the tab. And an alleged “source” adds, “Nicole realizes that both she and her family need a change of pace, schedule and scenery. She feels ditching crazy Hollywood  for New York is best for everyone.” 

What would best really best for everyone is if the Enquirer checked its facts. A source close to Richie tells Gossip Cop this moving story is “not true.”

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UPDATE (8:06 pm): Radar

Huh?

But they’re not that clever because they kept the same URL, which STILL reads, “exclusive-lawyer-confirms-nicole-richie-and-joel-madden-are-married.”

Oops.

But there’s more…

In this quickly slapped together rewrite, Radar NOW writes: ”In court Monday Nicole Richie‘s attorney Mark Gregaros referred to Joel Madden as his client’s ‘husband,’” but then, outside of court, “denied Richie and Madden are married.”

Trying to muddy the waters, Radar writes, “So the question remains, are they or aren’t they?”

No question at all: They aren’t.

We’d say good try, but it wasn’t.

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Today Radar heralded another one of its exclusives, “Lawyer Says Nicole Richie And Joel Madden Are Married.”

Say what?!

Yes, “RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal that Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are officially married,” claims the blog.

In fact, the site even states Richie’s lawyer “confirmed to RadarOnline.com in court Monday that the couple are indeed legally hitched.”

Really?!

Well, this isn’t the first time Radar has tried to convince the public that Richie and Madden are married. A month ago they claimed the two had secretly wed – and a month ago Gossip Cop corrected them.

Rumors of their betrothal got so out of hand at the time that Madden took to posting a comment of his band Good Charlotte’s website, stating “NO we didn’t get married.”

Well, it’s time for Gossip Cop to correct Radar for this second — and hopefully last — time.

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are NOT married. Whatever the attorney said was inaccurate. A source close to Richie tells Gossip Cop, “It was an error on the lawyer’s part.” Talk of them being married, says the impeccable source, is “not true.”

Case closed (at least for now).

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Even though Gossip Cop was the first to shoot down this false rumor, thanks to the Star’s completely fabricated cover “Nicole & Joel Married!” we have to do it again.

No, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are NOT married.

First Radar reported an inaccurate tip, then OK! picked it up and ran with it, and now the Star has added more fake details about how and when the couple secretly tied the knot.

When Richie’s former fiance Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein died, a “source” tells the tab, “she decided she didn’t want to spend another day not being Mrs. Joel Madden.” So according to the Star, Richie and Madden wed “in an intimate at-home ceremony” on October 14. The mag reports their ceremony was part of a mass wedding with 45,000 other people conducted by Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. According to Star, as Rev. Moon spoke via computer stream, “Nicole and Joel’s officiant translated the blessing prayer into English and oversaw the exchange of rings and holy water.” Two days later, the couple supposedly shared the news with friends, with a “source” telling the weekly, “Nicole was just glowing.”

At the time when Gossip Cop first busted this bad rumor, an impeccable source swore Richie and Madden were 100 percent “not” married.

Well, Joel Madden himself has finally weighed in. On his band Good Charlotte‘s website he writes, “I keep getting emails from old friends and family asking about a wedding. NO we didn’t get married!”

Your move, Star.

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The Radar is off again with its piece about Nicole Richie and Joel Madden having secretly gotten married. According to the site, which struck out big this week with its coverage of Jimmy Kimmel, “rumors have been circulating throughout Hollywood and beyond… that after two babies Nicole and Joel have walked down the aisle.”

The site further steps in it when it writes, “One source says that Nicole and Joel, real name Joel Ryan Combs, obtained a marriage license sometime last week and married in a top secret ceremony on Wednesday.”

Numerous other sources, such as OK! magazine, picked up the marriage rumor and ran with it.

Perhaps Radar should not just publish tips.

Thanks to an impeccable source, Gossip Cop can confirm that they are “not” married.