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It's being reported that Boyzone star Stephen Gately has died suddenly while on holiday in Majorca.

British newspaper The News of the World is reporting that Gately went to sleep after a night out but failed to wake up.

A close friend told the paper it appeared Gately died after going out in Majorca, where he was on holiday.

"It looks like he went out for a few drinks, then got back, fell asleep and never woke up," the source said.

Boyzone manager Louis Walsh told the paper "We're all absolutely devastated."

"I'm in complete shock. I was only with him on Monday at an awards ceremony. We don't know much about what's happened yet.

"I only heard after The X Factor and we will rally around each other this week. He was a great man."

All four remaining members of Boyzone - who recently reunited - are said to be flying to Majorca.

A spokesman for Boyzone has confirmed the death but details are yet to emerge.

The four remaining band members will be flying out to Palma.

Fellow band member, Ronan Keating - who had been in Chicago - has been left devastated.

A friend told the News of the World: "Ronan is completely distraught. No-one saw this coming. He loved Stephen like a brother, they were so close, it's absolutely floored him."

Gately leaves a partner Andrew Cowles, who he married in a civil union in March, 2006.

The gay singer's coming out ten years ago caused a sensation in the world of pop music.

Gately joined Boyzone in 1993 after answering an advert in Dublin to audition for Ireland's first boyband.

The band went on to have huge success with six of their singles reaching number one in the UK.

source: TVNZ

Shannen Doherty wants the world to know she's not the bitch that many people think she is.

Doherty, 38, will not only star in the project, tentatively titled Shannen, but she will also produce. She has apparently met with several networks.

A source said that she is excited about it because she doesn't want that stigma anymore of being a bitch, she putting final touches on a reality-type series to show her "lighter and funniee" side.

This isn't Doherty's first foray into reality television. Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty, which ran on Oxygen for one season in 2006, featured the actress doing things like helping women call it quits with their boyfriends.

Meanwhile, Doherty said she thinks her ex-husband Ashley Hamilton has a good chance of going far when he competes in the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars.

"He's a great guy," she said. "The women will vote for him for sure because he's gorgeous, so he'll do very well."

Source: E! Online

Hard at work on their hit CW series, the stars of “Gossip Girl” were busy filming scenes in Central Park in Midtown Manhattan on Monday afternoon (October 5).

As Blake Lively and Chace Crawford teamed up to film at an ice cream stand, their co-stars Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester strolled through the scenic setting as cameras rolled.

Meanwhile, you can catch an all-new “Gossip Girl” episode titled “Dan de Fleurette” when it airs tonight at 9/8C on The CW.

A synopsis via the show’s Web site tells: “It’s the first day of school at Constance Billard which means it’s also time for Jenny to take her rightful place as the new Queen Bee. Unfortunately for Jenny, Blair is more than happy to intervene when news reaches her that she may be needed back at Constance. Meanwhile, Lily returns home to Rufus and her family to find that things are definitely not as she left them. Plus, a famous movie actress, Olivia Burke (recurring guest star Hilary Duff), enrolls at NYU in hopes of having a somewhat normal college experience, and is assigned to be Vanessa’s roommate. Guest star Tyra Banks appears as Ursula, an actress co-starring in Olivia’s movie and someone who Serena befriends.”

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Tonight at 9pm pst on the CW Network, this episode of GOSSIP GIRL will be featuring Far East Movement’s online viral homage song to the king of pop called “Dance like Michael Jackson” (featuring Wong Fu Productions and Quest Crew from ABDC) made over a year before his passing.

Source: allkpop, celebrity-gossip

Show will change to 'Kate Plus 8'

TLC announced on Tuesday morning that as of Nov. 2 Jon Gosselin would no longer appear on the popular reality series Jon & Kate Plus 8.

Jon Gosselin is a star of the reality show "Jon and Kate Plus 8," which tracks the lives of the busy parents as they deal with their eight children.

Jon had previously complained that filming the show had become a "nightmare," and had acknowledged in interviews that he wanted out, but he had to support his children. Meanwhile, Kate recently told Larry King that TLC was committed to the show, and hinted that it might go on without Jon.

An unnamed source close to Jon told People that he would move to the periphery of the show, and would still make occasional appearances, but it's hard to portray him as the good guy in this situation. "Given Jon’s recent antics, there was no way the show could continue to portray him as a doting Dad, not while all this other crap was going on," the source said.

The series first debuted on April 16, 2007, and experienced a ratings spike once the Gosselin marriage became troubled earlier this year. This past season the couple announced they would divorce.

The fifth season premiere attracted a record 9.8 million viewers, making it the most-watched show of that evening including those on broadcast TV.

But after a six-week hiatus from new episodes, only 4.2 million viewers tuned in to see Jon & Kate on Aug. 3, and only 1.7 million reportedly watched last Monday.

Kate Gosselin recently completed a stint as a guest host of The View, sitting in for Elisabeth Hasselbeck during her maternity leave.

Gosselin has also reportedly taped a pilot for a talk show costarring Food Network star Paula Deen.

source: tvwatch, zimbio

THIS IS IT! THE VIDEO YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! Michael Jackson on the Dating Game Show! He was 14 years old! This is SUPER rare, SUPER funny and SUPER embarrassing……….for Michael lolz!

Rest In Peace Michael Jackson I Love you….so much! You will live in my heart forever and ever!!! I’ll never forget the great times. And lastly, I’ll see you again, love.

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Fans of Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater have long been able to visit the architect's modernist masterpiece as a museum, but soon they can enjoy the house almost as if they were living in it.

In the coming months, curators of the house built amid a waterfall in the leafy Laurel Highlands of western Pennsylvania will offer a new program, Insight Onsite at Fallingwater, where visitors will spend one full day and two evenings at the residence, enjoying the house as it was intended.

While regular visitors are whisked through the iconic house in guided tours lasting about one hour, those at the Insight Onsite program can lounge about reading, engage in interesting conversations on the terraces, have a cocktail by the fireplace, write a personal letter at a desk and enjoy a lively dinner party.

Previously, only students, teachers and staff could do more than go through on a tour, according to director Lynda Waggoner.

So far, dates are set for three sessions, during which visitors can pay to stay two nights at a house on the grounds - the Bear Run Nature Preserve - and spend hours lingering inside Fallingwater itself, even having dinner there, she said.

The sessions are set to start May 11, June 10 and Sept. 7, she revealed this morning.

Eight to 10 visitors will participate at a time, at a per-person cost of $1,095 double occupancy, $1,595 single occupancy.

The spots may already be spoken for, however.

Yesterday, a news story told of a single session being envisioned as a test, with no dates selected, because officials were unsure about public interest.

"It just got out yesterday, and we're kind of overwhelmed by the amount of attention it's getting," she said.

Phone calls kept coming in, and the Web site, www.fallingwater.org, bogged down because of all the traffic.

This morning, a waiting list was growing for the program called InSightOnsite, Waggoner said.

Additional dates are a possibility, though.

"I don't know how many we can do a year," she said. "We have to test it to see what the impact is one us."

Many have marveled at how Wright configured the home of a Pittsburgh department store king into a forest landscape - partly over a waterfall.

Waggoner speaks as if compelled to help others comprehend the magic of the Fayette County place, about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

"There is a feeling of being right with things," she said. "The house is so in harmony with nature, and there is something in our nature that wants that."

It has moods that change not just with the seasons but as sunlight shifts throughout the day, so one needs to linger for hours to sense its richness, she said.

During the sessions, besides sojourns and meals inside, participants will take part in such activities as landscape tours, a bonfire and cookout, a picnic, and a lecture at the historic barn. Visitors will stay in a four-bedroom house with private baths.

"It's just something we've always thought to share," said Waggoner, who fell in love with the place as an area high school student.

"It's everyone's dream house in the woods," she said. "I get excited still whenever I see it. I love showing it off. . . . It is the great American house. Truly. It's been voted the most significant work of American architecture."

Regular visitors pay $18 admission but the more intimate experience comes with a more exclusive price tag -- $1,195.

"It's a different experience of the house when you are here by yourself than when you are with a group of people," Fallingwater Director Lynda Waggoner said in her office, nestled at the back of the house.

"We'd like to be able to share that."

Up to eight people will arrive in the evening and be given an in-depth tour and then sleep overnight, not in Fallingwater itself but in a newer four-bedroom home built on the grounds for the accountant of the family which owned the property.

The next morning visitors have the morning to lounge around the house and grounds, have lunch on the terraces, have more time alone to do as you wish and then have a dinner party at the house with curators and a guest, perhaps a leading figure in the architecture community.

Waggoner said the program would appeal to those with a passion for architecture.

"It's a compete experience of nature and art. This is the tree house you always wanted to live it," she said. "The goal here is to provide the best experience we can of the house without sleeping in the house."

Curators unsuccessfully attempted to launch the program earlier this year as a mid-week program since the house is normally closed on Wednesdays.

But those who expressed an interest said they wanted to attend on the weekend rather than midweek. Now curators are finalizing weekend dates for the debut program, perhaps in December or in early March when the house is normally closed.

Fallingwater was built for Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar Kaufmann Sr., whose son briefly studied architecture under Wright.

More than 4 million people have visited the house, about 90 minutes from Pittsburgh, where leaders of the Group of 20 leading rich and developing countries were meeting at a summit Thursday and Friday.

The house features an innovative cantilevered design, with terraces and floors extending over the waterfall, meaning that while the sound of water can be heard throughout the house, you have to go outside to actually see the waterfall.

Built in the 1930s at the height of the Great Depression, the house cost $155,000, or about $2.3 million when adjusted for inflation.

To contact Fallingwater, phone 724-329-8501 or e-mail fallingwater@paconserve.org.

As if Facebook did not receive enough attention already, The main cast for the Facebook movie, “The Social Network,” has been established.

The Facebook movie, “The Social Network,“ has confirmed its main cast, which includes Justin Timberlake.

The script will be a drama, penned by Andy Sorkin. Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster who eventually became the founding president of Facebook. Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin.

The film will be produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by David Fincher. Production will begin in October in Boston and Los Angeles. Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti and Cean Chaffin will produce and Kevin Spacey will be executive producer.

The story will detail the formation of Facebook, the online social network which is now the single-minded obsession of many high school and college youngsters, as well as their parents. It will focus on how the ensuing fame and wealth from the success of Facebook had changed the lives of the two men who created it.