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Jason Alexander, the childhood friend who infamously married Britney Spears for 55 hours, says he was “in love with her” and calls their annulment “bullsh*t.”

Alexander reflects on his whirlwind marriage in a new “20/20″ interview.

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He was summoned by Spears to Las Vegas on New Year’s 2004, and went to “have a good time.”

One thing led to another, Spears suggested they get married, and they did.

“I went with my feelings. I was in love with her,” says Alexander. “I feel like she felt the same way.”

After Spears told her family and professional team about the wedding, recalls Alexander, “Everyone went crazy because there was no prenup.”

He calls the annulment, which said Spears “lacked understanding of her actions,” “bullish*t.”

Alexander says he signed the documents hoping that they’d get back together.

That never happened.

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“Britney Spears isn’t wasting any time since getting engaged to her former agent Jason Trawick,” reports the National Enquirer, which goes on to claim the pop icon is “eloping on Valentine’s Day to Hawaii.”

According to a so-called “source” for the tabloid, “She can’t wait, and she wants to do it her way — small and intimate.”

The supposed insider says that Spears’ parents, Jamie and Lynne, started to plan a “big, traditional wedding at their Louisiana home” when she and Trawick got engaged in December, but the singer “freaked out” and said “no.”

Adds the source, “Britney said maybe they could have a large reception later, but the wedding will be for just her and Jason.”

The covert nuptials will supposedly be held in Maui, where Spears often vacationed with ex-husband Kevin Federline, notes the mag.

Apparently, Spears’ elopement plans are so top secret… that not even she or Trawick know about it!

A rep for the “I Wanna Go” singer tells Gossip Cop the Enquirer tale is 100% “not true.”

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Britney Spears loves her engagement ring.

A lot.

“I can’t stop looking at it!!” announced the pop star, tweeting a new photo of herself displaying the diamond late Wednesday.

Spears and Jason Trawick got engaged last month.

They showed off her ring, from jeweler Neil Lane, at a huge engagement celebration (and Trawick birthday party) in Las Vegas.

There’s still no wedding date set.

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Britney Spears’ ex-husband has nothing but kind things to say about her recent engagement to beau Jason Trawick.

“I’m really happy for her,” Kevin Federline told Australia’s TV Week.

Federline, the father of Spears’ two sons, said he’s spoken with Trawick “quite a few times” and approves of his ex’s choice.

“He seems like a really good guy,” Federline said. “The kids speak highly of him [and] her family loves him.”

Both Federline and Spears have come a long way since their tumultuous split in 2006 and the pop star’s meltdowns during the next two years.

Reflecting on the “very, very, very dramatic times,” Federline said his kids’ safety was his top priority.

“But at the same time, it tears my heart to pieces to watch your ex go through that, let alone watch anybody go through that,” he said.

Now, it seems, all parties have emerged stronger – and happier.

In August, Federline welcomed a daughter with longtime girlfriend Victoria Prince.

“It’s really good once you’re able to move on with life,” he told the magazine. “I mean, Victoria’s the best person in the world. It took me going through the things that I went through to find a person like her.”

“She’s more than I could ever have hoped for,” Federline added. “Hopefully Britney feels the same way.”

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Britney Spears unveiled her Neil Lane-designed engagement ring (below) on Friday night at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, where she and fiance Jason Trawick celebrated their engagement and his 40th birthday.

The couple is staying in a special suite at the hotel.

Lane told Gossip Cop he worked “a while” with Trawick to create a “dream ring” for Spears.

Celebrating with the newly engaged couple in Vegas were Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn and brother Bryan.

Mom Lynne Spears was not be at the festivities because she has the flu, but she told Gossip Cop she thought the engagement news was “all wonderful.”

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Britney Spears, who for years has marked the big occasions in her life at the various Planet Hollywood retaurants, will unveil her Neil Lane-designed engagement ring tonight at around 7 p.m. PT at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, where she and fiance Jason Trawick will be staying in a special suite.

We’re told newly engaged Spears and Trawick will first be joined by a small group, including her sister Jamie Lynn and brother Bryan, for a reception on the hotel’s mezzanine.

The hotel’s owner — and a longtime friend of Spears — Robert Earl will toast the couple before they head out to a celebratory dinner and partying at the Chateau nightclub at the Paris Resort.

As Gossip Cop reported earlier, mom Lynne Spears will not be at the festivities because she’s got the flu, but told us she thought the engagement news was “all wonderful.”

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While some members of Britney Spears and Jason Trawick’s families will be celebrating their engagement tonight at Paris Resorts in Las Vegas, one person who will be sidelined is the singer’s mom Lynne Spears.

When Gossip Cop reached out to her, Lynne said she’s battling a bad case of the flu, but thinks it’s “all wonderful” that her daughter is tying the knot to Trawick.

As reported earlier today, Spears and Trawick got engaged on Thursday night after two years of dating.

Trawick popped the question with a Neil Lane engagement ring that he and the designer had been working on for “a while.”

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Neil Lane designed Britney Spears’ engagement ring, the jeweler confirms to Gossip Cop.

He tells us he worked with her fiancé Jason Trawick for “a while” to design what he calls Spears’ “dream ring.”

The bauble reportedly features a 3-plus carat round stone and pave diamonds.

Lane has worked on a number of high-profile engagement rings, including the diamond-and-ruby sparkler Eric Johnson gave to Jessica Simpson last year.

As Gossip Cop reported earlier today, Spears and Trawick became engaged on Thursday after two years of dating.

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Britney Spears and Jason Trawick are engaged, a source confirms to Gossip Cop!

The proposal happened last night.

“She’s very happy and they’ll be celebrating this weekend,” a source close to Spears tells Gossip Cop.

The pair plans to begin with a party on Friday in Las Vegas.

Spears hinted at the news this morning, tweeting, “OMG. Last night Jason surprised me with the one gift I’ve been waiting for. Can’t wait to show you! SO SO SO excited!!!!”

She and Trawick been dating for more than two years.

He worked as Spears’ agent until last May, when he left William Morris Endeavor to join a start-up company named Famos.

Spears has been married twice before — to Jason Alexander in 2004 (a union that was quickly annulled), and later that year to Kevin Federline, from whom she filed for divorce in 2006.

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Late on Thursday night, the Las Vegas Review-Journal speculated that Britney Spears may be having a “Vegas engagement party” on Friday at Chateau nightclub at the Paris Resort.

According to the story, “Britney Spears and her manager Jason Trawick are engaged and celebrating the occasion and Trawick’s 40th birthday in Las Vegas on Friday.”

As proof of the imminent engagement, the Las Vegas Review-Journal explains there’s “unusually tight secrecy surrounding her appearance tonight at Chateau,” and “Spears’ camp insisted that various parties sign confidentiality agreements.”

Picking up on the Vegas outlet’s report, TMZ says, “Jason’s plans to pop the question,” and “Britney knows they’re getting engaged, so it’s not going to be a big surprise.”

Gossip Cop is looking into verifying these stories.

Of course, should Trawick and Spears get engaged right now, it would not be a huge shock since the couple has happily been together for the past two years.

Earlier this week, In Touch erroneously claimed that Trawick had already proposed to Spears, but that she turned him down.

We’ve reached out to sources close to Spears, and will update as soon as we receive information.

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In Touch reports that Jason Trawick proposed to Britney Spears with a “massive engagement ring” on her 30th birthday — but she turned him down.

A supposed source for the mag says that on December 2, “Jason got down on one knee and asked,” but Spears “panicked and said she needed time to think.”

The alleged Spears pal claims, “Britney is planning to say yes eventually,” and that her refusal is just “a power move to keep Justin waiting.”

Well, that’s an interesting tactic.

Meanwhile, another so -called “insider” contends that Spears said no to Trawick because she “doesn’t want anyone thinking she’s making another rash decision,” as she did in her two previous marriages.

“She won’t rush into anything without giving it a lot of thought,” explains the source.

Uh, they’ve been together for more than two years.

So what’s really going on here?

Basically, In Touch knows it’s quite likely that Trawick and Spears could get engaged soon, and this is the tab’s way of being “ahead” of the story.

Nice try.

A rep for Spears laughed off the turned down proposal tale, telling Gossip Cop it’s entirely made up.

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Britney Spears could be getting engaged soon, but the decision to marry Jason Trawick is not her own, according to Star magazine.

The mag says Spears’ family is pressuring her to wed her boyfriend “against her will,” quoting an alleged “insider” who claims, “Marrying Jason Trawick is the last thing the vulnerable singer wants or needs.”

Star doesn’t give a reason why the Spears family is allegedly pushing to marry her off, but insists the singer and Trawick’s two-year relationship “has mainly become one of convenience rather than true love.”

The “source” explains that with Trawick, Spears “has someone at her beck and call to tend to her 24/7, and Jason, of course, gets a continual bankroll.”

“Jason is a gold digger,” states the source, adding, “It’s obvious that’s why he’s pushing her to tie the knot.”

The tabloid says despite Spears’ supposed open reluctance to marrying Trawick, he’s sure to pop the question soon.

Another purported insider says, “Everyone around Britney is acting like the wedding would be her happy ending… but pushing her into a loveless marriage could end up being another huge mistake.”

Please.

Of all the ridiculous restrictions the tabloids have imposed on Spears (such as the alleged cell phone “ban” and touring “curfew“), this one has to be the most absurd.

Spears is a 30-year-old woman who’s dating Trawick on her own volition.

And Trawick stopped working as her agent last spring, so we’re not sure where the tabloid gets the idea that he receives a “continual bankroll” from dating her.

Similarly, if they were to wed, there would likely be a prenuptial agreement since Spears is still under her father’s conservatorship.

In any case, a rep for Spears tells Gossip Cop the story is “not true.”

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“Britney’s Engaged,” reads the headline of an OK! story that claims Britney Spears and Jason Trawick are now engaged.

According to the tabloid, the couple is even “planning a tropical wedding this spring” in either Maui or Costa Rica.

And the mag quotes a so-called “confidante” noting, “They’ve been engaged since this summer.”

Of course, if the tab’s source was really a “confidante,” then why doesn’t OK! know one single detail about the supposed engagement — such as when in the summer they got engaged, how Trawick popped the question, or even where he asked Spears to marry him.

That’s because Spears, who’s seriously dating Trawick and quite likely will tie the knot with him, is NOT engaged.

A rep for the singer tells Gossip Cop, OK! is “wrong.”

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In the video, Spears is in love with a criminal played by her real-life boyfriend Jason Trawick.

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In Touch reports that when Britney Spears was staying at Budapest’s Four Seasons Hotel during the Hungarian leg of her “Femme Fatale” tour, she “ordered a chicken gorgonzola mini burger as the [hotel's] bar was about to close at 1 a.m.” But when she asked for a second order of the dish, writes the mag, “she was told no way… the kitchen is closed!”

According to a source for the tabloid, the singer was so “pissed” that she then just “picked up and moved to a different hotel.”

In Touch says Spears, boyfriend Jason Trawick and “her entourage decamped to the presidential suite at the nearby Kempinski.”

Here’s what’s right about In Touch‘s article: Spears in on tour.

Here’s what’s wrong with In Touch‘s article: EVERYTHING else.

The singer did NOT have an issue with ordering late, and more importantly, she did NOT check out of the Four Seasons.

A rep for Spears confirms to Gossip Cop, “She didn’t switch” hotels.

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In photos and footage that surfaced this week, Spears and Jason Trawick are seen filming a segment that depicts a robbery.

The shoot was done in the Hackney borough, which was damaged during the anti-government rioting that spread through London and other British cities over the summer.

Politicians in the area are now asking the Spears production to apologize for “promoting gun violence,” especially after the local council reportedly “did not agree that a replica gun” could be used for the video.

“I think she should apologize and make a sizable donation to a Hackney charity that deals with young people… for the rudeness and damage she’s done to this community,” said one council member.

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“Are Britney Spears and Jason Trawick engaged?” asks Hollywood, which poses a lot of questions and yet rarely has any right answers.

The blog writes, “Britney was caught wearing a huge diamond on the finger generally reserved for engagement rings,” before adding how “Jason recently met with a celebrity jeweler (sic) and reportedly designed a ring for his lady!”

First off, Trawick went to a jewelry store, but he was NOT designing a ring for Spears.

And the bauble she has on, notes our Spears insider, is “the same ring she has worn before,” which has similarly sparked false engagement stories over and over and over again.

A rep for the singer assures Gossip Cop, “She is not engaged.”

Once again, a HollywoodLife story that doesn’t ring true.

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“Britney Spears‘ boyfriend Jason Trawick set to propose!” announces an “exclusive” from X17Online, which says Trawick was seen yesterday shopping for engagement rings at the the Mouawad jewelry showroom in Los Angeles.

A supposed “source” for the blog reveals that Trawick “was spotted chatting with jeweler Pascal Mouawad,” noting, “They spent an hour talking about engagement rings for Britney.”

“They discussed diamonds from the Mouawad private collection,” adds the alleged “source.”

Not exactly.

A rep for Spears tells Gossip Cop, “There is no truth to that report with regards to engagement rings. However, Jason was there to discuss other matters with Pascal but nothing relating to him personally.”

As usual with so-called X17 “exclusives,” this one doesn’t ring true.

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According to the National Enquirer, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan miss their “hell-raisin’ good old days” and are “plotting a sneaky sin-dezvous.”

“Britney misses the fun and craziness of having Lindsay in her life,” explains a so-called “source,” adding, “Brit wants to rekindle their friendship.”

But there’s a problem: Jamie Spears and Jason Trawick don’t want Britney hanging around with Lohan!

That’s why, reports the Enquirer, Spears is using a “super secret cell phone!”

She supposedly bought the pre-paid cell so that her contact with Lohan can’t be tracked.

In their first alleged “secret call,” Lohan sought Spears’ advice on image rehab, while Spears can’t hear enough about her friend’s wild nights.

“Britney just loves hearing about Lindsay’s party-hopping in LA and New York – and hanging with fun guys,” says the Enquirer‘s source. “She really misses the fast-lane lifestyle. She’ll organize a top secret face-to-face when she gets time off from her tour.”

To recap: Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are gossiping on the phone – in secret – and might have a clandestine meeting at some point in the future.

Bolt the doors! Head for the hills!

Ugh. Even for the Enquirer, this is lame.

As source close to Spears put it to Gossip Cop, the story “doesn’t even merit to be used as toilet paper.”

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Britney Spears may be “getting bored with boyfriend Jason Trawick,” reports In Touch, which claims the singer “has struck up a flirtatious friendship with her hunky trainer Derek DeGrazio.”

The mag says Spears has become “tight” with DeGrazio, who’s accompanying her on tour, and has even “started suggesting post-workout get-togethers behind Jason’s back!”

According to a so-called “friend” of the pop singer, “Brit says Derek is young and hot and boosts her self-confidence,” while Trawick is “an old fuddy-duddy” whom she suspects “spies on her and reports back to her dad.”

Uh, then why exactly is she dating him?

Because this entire story is FALSE.

A rep for the “I Wanna Go” singer tells Gossip Cop the tab’s story is “not true.”

When it comes to linking Spears to her trainer, the only thing being stretched is the truth — by In Touch.

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Britney Spears is not secretly engaged to Jason Trawick.

The Sun claims to have an “exclusive” about the supposed engagement, including alleged details about Trawick’s proposal to Spears in the couple’s Los Angeles mansion.

According to a so-called “source” for the paper, “She’s on cloud nine.”

“Britney’s desperate to settle down again and have more children,” explains The Sun source.

“But she is very traditional and didn’t want to start a family with Jason until they’d tied the knot.”

The Sun says Spears and Trawick plan a “low-key wedding in Hawaii” after she finishes her Femme Fatale tour.

Far be it from Gossip Cop to challenge The Sun‘s reporting, but, um, this is the same publication that said Spears and Trawick were getting married way back in October 2009.

It wasn’t true then, and it’s not true this time, either.

A rep for Spears assures Gossip Cop she and Trawick are not engaged.

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Britney Spears may be engaged, according to the Daily Mail, which says the singer was recently spotted in L.A. “wearing a sparkly ring on her wedding finger.”

The British tab writes that Spears’ flower-shaped ring, which she was also seen wearing at Wango Tango on May 14, is “prompting speculation that she may soon be walking down the aisle with boyfriend Jason Trawick.”

So, are Spears and Trawick taking the next step?

Not just yet.

A source close to the “Femme Fatale” singer assures Gossip Cop she is NOT engaged.

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Britney Spears‘ father-conservator Jamie has “forbidden” her from having another child, according to In Touch, due to “fears another baby could trigger yet another meltdown.”

The magazine claims Spears “desperately” wants to marry and have a biological child with Jason Trawick, but Jamie blames postpartum depression for her earlier emotional collapse and “doesn’t want her to risk a repeat episode by getting pregnant again.”

A so-called “source” close to the elder Spears says he understands his daughter’s desires but “feels she’s still too unstable to even think of having another baby.”

Britney, meanwhile, is devastated by this alleged ban.

“While she has railed in the past against the legal conservatorship that puts Jamie in charge of both her professional and personal life, it has never hit so close to home as now,” explains the magazine.

This story is the type of nonsense In Touch assumes it can print without consequence.

If Spears indeed does not have a baby in the near future, the tab can crow about how it’s due to this bogus baby ban.

And if she does have a child with Trawick?

Don’t expect In Touch to mention this premise again.

In any case, the notion that Jamie Spears has forbidden his daughter to have another baby is as ridiculous as it sounds.

A rep for Spears tells Gossip Cop the In Touch piece is “completely not true.”

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Britney Spears‘s longtime boyfriend, Jason Trawick, has split with the pop star professionally.

Trawick has left the talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, to join a start-up company named Famos, where he’ll oversee the new company’s arts and entertainment brand, “f*star,” a partnership with Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart.

Trawick says, “It’s a very exciting opportunity for me professionally, and I’m humbled to be a part of such a visionary partnership.”

Gossip Cop is told the new job will allow Trawick more flexibility with his time, which will come in handy since Spears kicks off her North American tour on June 16.

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Britney Spears and her agent boyfriend Jason Trawick hit up the red carpet last night in Beverly Hills to support her Southern Style St. Bernard Project event.

The proud Louisiana native, looking smashing in a yellow Herve Leger dress, hosted a Southern-influenced dinner to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.

While Spears and Trawick have been dating for over two years and attended a number of events together (such as the 2010 Grammys), they rarely pose together as a couple on the red carpet.

Other guests at the event included Kellan Lutz, Shenae Grimes, Hilary Duff, Mike Comrie, Kim Kardashian and Victoria Justice.

Spears’ father Jamie catered the Southern feast.

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“What’s this ring on Britney Spears‘ finger?” asks Splash News, speculating that the singer may have gotten engaged to boyfriend Jason Trawick.

The outlet writes that Spears was spotted yesterday at her son’s Little League game, noting, “along with the diamonds on the field, Britney seems to have one on her engagement finger.”

“It appears she likes the look of her ring finger flashing,” adds the site.

But Spears’ bling has nothing to do with her becoming a bride.

A rep for the “Femme Fatale” singer tells Gossip Cop “She is not engaged.”

Consider this Splash story flushed.

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“Britney Spears flew into a rage when a weekend getaway to her family home in Louisiana turned into a surprise intervention – complete with a psychiatrist to conduct an on-site therapy session,” begins a piece in the National Enquirer.

According to the tab, Spears went to Louisiana for “what she thought was going to be a few days of rest and relaxation with her parents and her sister Jamie Lynn,” but when she stopped by her sister’s place, “she was ambushed.”

The Enquirer claims the Spears family was concerned the singer’s been “drinking and not taking her medications to treat her bipolar disorder,” so waiting for her at her sister’s home was a psychiatrist.

“Britney realized she was being set up and went ballistic,” reports the mag.

“She started cursing out her entire family for trying to force her into therapy. She accused them of trapping her and betraying her,” says a so-called “source,” who adds, “Britney was screaming at both her father and her boyfriend Jason and then she picked up a vase and smashed it on the floor.”

Whoa!

Gossip Cop investigated…

Here’s what’s true: Spears went to Louisiana for a few days.

Here’s what’s not true: Everything else.

There was no intervention of any sort.

A source close to Spears further confirms to Gossip Cop, “It’s untrue.”

Oops… the Enquirer did it again.

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“Could Britney Possibly Have a Baby Bump?” asks HollywoodLife which could possibly be among the least well-reported celebrity sites.

The blog wonders whether Britney Spears might be “pregnant with her third child,” writing, “Her stomach looks so flat in the new video she just released, but she was spotted out-and-about yesterday and now her belly looks decidedly UN-flat! So is it a baby bump?”

HollywoodLife adds that Spears’ two boys Sean Preston and Jayden James are “the perfect ages to be big brothers” and that the singer and her boyfriend Jason Trawick “would have such cute babies together!”

That’s sweet, however…

In less time than it took HollywoodLife to post this speculative drivel, Gossip Cop checked with a source close to Spears and confirmed she is NOT pregnant.

The site also missed badly with a story suggesting that Zoe Saldana was expecting.

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A number of really, really, really wrong rumors spread in 2010. Here are some of the worst to cross Gossip Cop’s desk:

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Break Up

No couple endured more tabloid trash than Pitt and Jolie, and no big story about them was as wrong as News of the World’s insistence they’d split. A full 12 months later, we’re still waiting.

David Beckham Cheating with Prostitute

A “$10,000-a-night” hooker named Irma Nici convinced In Touch to print her story about having an affair with the soccer superstar. It was so divorced from reality, Beckham pursued legal action.

Britney Spears Abused by Boyfriend

Star magazine’s heinous cover story alleging that Jason Trawick beat Spears was based on faked “phone calls” between the pop star and her ex-husband Jason Alexander.

Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian Hooking Up

The rumor pairing the teenage boy and the reality TV personality managed to be picked up all over the place, despite (fortunately) being 100% inaccurate. Bieber’s fans were so incensed by the phony romance, Kardashian received threats.

Demi Lovato Sex Tape

X17Online concocted a totally false story about the Disney starlet recording sex acts while on tour. Given Lovato’s real struggle with other issues this fall, the baseless sex tape talk was especially disturbing.

Jennifer Aniston Dating Gerard Butler

Sites like HollywoodLife would not stop repeating stories about a relationship between The Bounty Hunter co-stars, even though the two never, ever dated.

Miley Cyrus’ Naked iPhone Photo

When a nude picture, allegedly of the “Hannah Montana” star, surfaced online, the blogosphere went berserk. But the woman in the racy photo was not Cyrus, and the controversy was for nothing.

Ashton Kutcher Cheating Allegations

Star magazine contended that the actor betrayed Demi Moore with a woman named Brittney Jones. It turned out to be unsubstantiated junk that Kutcher called “defamation.”

Bret Michaels Affair with Tish Cyrus

Us Weekly claimed there was something going on between Michaels and Miley’s mom. The rumor was completely false.

Pregnancies for Beyonce, Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Garner

Despite ENDLESS baby bump speculation about all three women all year long, none of them was actually pregnant.

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Will sleigh bells turn to wedding bells for Britney Spears?

The pop star sparked speculation that she and boyfriend Jason Trawick could be engaged by tweeting a picture of herself sitting on Santa’s lap… with a ring on her left hand.

Of course, the twice-married Spears is always the subject of new wedding rumors. Way back in August 2009, for instance, a different ring led many outlets to declare Spears and Trawick were engaged.

They were not.

Gossip Cop is skeptical of an engagement this time, too, and none of our sources has yet been able to confirm one.

We’ll be updating when we receive more definitive information.

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