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‘Jacko doc told me to put vials in bag’

As Michael Jackson’s lifeless body lay on a bed in his palatial mansion, a bodyguard obeyed a frantic doctor’s instructions to bag up medicine bottles and intravenous bags and shield the Jackson children from seeing their father — all before being told to call emergency services, court testimony revealed on Wednesday.

Santana ties the knot at 63

Guitar legend Carlos Santana secretly married his girlfriend in a beach side ceremony over the Christmas period. The 63-year-old musician wed drummer Cindy Blackman, 51, on December 19 in a ceremony which was witnessed by 180 guests including comedian George Lopez and musicians Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.

Eclipse, House hits at People’s Choice Awards

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Dreamy vampires, a surly doctor and a rapper in Recovery are top winners at the People’s Choice Awards. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, TV’s House M.D. and Eminem each won four awards at Wednesday’s ceremony, hosted by Queen Latifah at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.
Fans picked Twilight as their favourite overall movie and favourite drama.

Bodyguard to testify against doc

A bodyguard who prosecutors say was ordered by the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death to conceal syringes and other items before calling 911 is expected to shed light on the chaotic efforts tha

Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal end relationship

Hollywood heartthrob Jake Gyllenhaal’s romance with country sweetheart Taylor Swift has ended just two months after it began.

‘Zsa Zsa to get leg amputated’

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was in hospital in Los Angeles on Sunday following complications with one of her legs and will have to undergo a partial amputation, CNN reported.

Shania ties the knot with Frederic

Country pop diva Shania Twain celebrated New Year’s Day by getting married on Saturday, in a private ceremony on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, her manager said.

US channel won’t air Jacko show

Executors of Michael Jackson’s estate welcomed on Friday a TV channel’s decision not to air a TV programme re-enacting the pop icon’s autopsy, which it called exploitative and in shockingly bad taste.

Brown sorry for gay rant

R&B singer Chris Brown has landed himself in trouble again following a heated homophobic twitter rant with former singer Raz-B. Brown, who recently completed domestic violence classes for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009, apologised for his Twitter bout with Raz-B.

Outrage over Jacko autopsy re-enactment

The executors of Michael Jackson’s estate are expressing outrage over an “insensitive” television special “in shockingly bad taste” that plans to re-enact the King of Pop’s autopsy. In a letter to Discovery Communications on Wednesday, John Branca and John McClain deplored in the strongest terms the Discovery Channel’s “blind desire to exploit Michael’s death, while cynically attempting to dupe the public into believing this show will have serious medical value.”

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