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“Joel’s got cold feet,” announces Life & Style in its new issue, which goes on to claim, “As Nicole Richie plans her wedding and cares for her kids, Joel Madden hits the clubs and leaves town.”

According to a so-called “friend,” the Good Charlotte singer has “been stressed and distant lately” because there’s “no way” he wants to get married “right now.”

And even though the family doesn’t need the money, the magazine reports Madden has been frequently taking deejaying gigs out of town, leaving Richie alone to care for the kids.

Why?

The tab says, “Joel relishes the chance to hit the clubs and flirt up a storm with other girls.”

Adds the supposed “friend,” “It’s like he just doesn’t care.”

Seems like it might be Life & Style that just doesn’t care…about the truth.

A source close to the couple tells Gossip Cop the story is “not true,” and Madden doesn’t have “cold feet” at all.

The only thing cold is Life & Style‘s reporting.

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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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