CHRISTINA MILIAN TO STAR IN NEW CW SITCOM, '8 DAYS A WEEK.'

After being dropped from her record label, Island Def Jam earlier this year due to poor record sales from her third album, So Amazin', R&B beauty Christina Milian has so far, successfully made progress in launching a career in the unpredictable world of television sitcoms. The singer, along with Mario Lopez (Dancing with the Stars, Saved by the Bell) and Robert Ri'chard (One on One) will star in Eight Days a Week, which will serve as a mid-season replacement (when one of the fall season's new shows falls through) series on the CW in early 2008.

The comedy sitcom revolves around four twentysomethings who work under the top movers and shakers in New York. Lopez will play one of the bosses, an impeccably dressed wunderkind with a cell phone attached to his ear. Milian will portray the role of assistant Olivia Campbell; a beautiful, young woman who left behind a law career to start over as a lowly entry-level job as a receptionist/gopher at an art gallery.

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NEW PICS: RIHANNA ON THE SET OF HER 'HATE THAT I LOVE YOU' VIDEO SHOOT

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USHER & HIS 'MEKA MAN MONKEY ARE STARTING TO MAKE MY ASS ITCH.

US magazine is reporting that Usher and his groom of less than a month will exchange vows again, in an official wedding ceremony this weekend, in front of friends and family in their hometown of Atlanta. I guess it would kill Usher and his wife 'Meka Man Monkey to stay out of the spotlight for even a moment. I don't know whose the bigger camera hog....nevermind, yes I do. Over the past couple of months, the essence of Usher's bitch-ass ways have emerged like never before.

It hasn't even been a month since they tied the knot in Usher's lawyer's office in Atlanta. Just a week before, Usher(and allegedly Tameka) had called off their wedding due to a pregnancy scare Tameka experienced the night before she was supposed to walk down the aisle. *Note to Tameka* Stay your ass home and up out of the clubs with Usher wondering whose going to run up on him. Because here's the GOTCHA: you're the only one who wants him now. Trust.

The rumored event will be more in line with the couple's original plans for a ceremony and celeb-filled celebration. That gathering at the Hamptons home of record exec L.A. Reid was canceled at the last minute on July 28 in favor of a small private gathering days later on August 3. Guests are rumored to include Jermaine Dupri, Janet Jackson, Ashanti, and Diddy.

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NEW PICS: CELEBS @ JERMAINE DUPRIS GRAND OPENING OF STUDIO 72 IN ATLANTA

Celebs were out in full force last night in Atlanta to help Jermaine Dupri (who was accompanied by girlfriend Janet)celebrate the grand opening of his Studion 72 club. Pics speak volumes; look at Usher and his pregnant husband looking like a husband and husband team! LOL!; Monica was there too showing off her preggy belly as well. Let me find out Momica is showing more than Tameka is. Other celebs in attendance included Nelly, T-Boz, Lil Jon, Lyfe Jennings and more. Judging by these pics, it looks like a good time was had by all.

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RIHANNA: I LOST A LOT OF MY FRIENDS OVER THEIR JEALOUSNESS TOWARDS ME.'

Pop star Rihanna is so successful she has lost many of her friends over their jealousy towards her. The 19-year-old singer - who dominated the global charts with her summer track Umbrella - admits she finds it hard to make new pals because of her beauty and successful career. She says, "When I was in school I had a lot of jealousy. I lost a lot of my friends to jealousy when I won a beauty pageant. When I signed my record label it got worse. People were very envious."

While the music biz may have safely guided the early stages of her career, it didn't protect her from salacious gossip. So when the very real drama of her mother being forced out of her longtime accounting job by catty co-workers who resented Rihanna's success unfolded back home, she was prepared to stand strong. "I don't want my mom to be in an uncomfortable situation," she says with resolve. "I was so sorry that it happened because of me. But everything happens for a reason and i thank God that she could leave."

In related news, the Bajan beauty has hinted she could strip off for a movie role after visiting a strip club. The singer visited the venue for research for a film role - but admits the experience "weirded her out". She says, "I went with some friends to a strip club not long ago. I went because I was very curious. I didn't learn any dancing tips. I've been reading some film scripts so I had to go to see what it's like. I was very weirded out."

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CANDID PICS: MEL B. WORKING OUT W/TRAINER; SINGER TO APPEAR ON 'DANCING W/THE STARS.'

ABC officially announced the new celebrity lineup for Dancing with the Stars, with many of the names matching the list that leaked Monday on the Internet, including boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown. Brown enters the competition on the heels of a failed romance with Eddie Murphy that resulted in a daughter born in April, paternity tests, lawsuits and a secret rebound marriage to Stephen Belafonte in June.

Joining Mayweather and Mel B. will be Sabrina Bryan of Disney Channel's "Cheetah Girls," Indianapolis 500 champion Helio Castroneves, actress Jennie Garth ("Beverly Hills, 90210"), model-actress Josie Maran soap star Cameron Mathison ("All My Children"), singer Marie Osmond, model Albert Reed, actress Jane Seymour ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"), Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Las Vegas staple Wayne Newton.Dancing With the Stars, which pairs the celebrities with a professional dancer to cut a ballroom rug each week for votes, returns to ABC on Sept. 24.

Melanie was also seen leaving Koi restaurant with her husband Stephen Belafonte the other night.

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