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The premiere of Season 8 of "The Bachelorette" airs this Monday. Expect drama! Heartbreak! Tears! Or not. Here, a look at the show's star, Emily Maynard.

You've seen her before
The blond beauty has already done this rodeo. Maynard captured Brad Womack's attention, and she received his final rose in Season 15 of "The Bachelor." But the romance didn't last, and the two split up last June.

Third time's the charm?
The Southern belle has been tragically unlucky at love. Viewers of "The Bachelor" may remember that Maynard revealed that she had been engaged to her high school sweetheart, NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick, who died in a plane crash. Days after his death, she learned she was pregnant with his child.

Sheryl Crow is looking mighty good for being 50 years old--but the singer proved on Saturday night that her brain, at least, isn't immune to the rigors of aging. At a concert in St. Petersburg, Florida, she forgot the lyrics to one of her biggest hits right in the middle of the song.

During her performance of "Soak Up The Sun," Crow paused, and said "Oh, what's the words?" She then joked, "It's live! Nothing on tape here!"

To her credit, Crow seemed to have a good sense of humor about the incident. She kept her composure, grinned, and noted: "I'm 50...what can I say? My brain has gone to s--t!"

Hollie says goodbye

It may have taken 57 minutes of Ryan Seacrest agonizingly dragging out the proceedings, the judges babbling seemingly without a teleprompter, and J.Lo ickily flirting with her boy-toy backup dancer Casper Smart...but eventually on Thursday, Ryan did get around to announcing the "American Idol" result that everyone had been expecting not only all day, but really for weeks now: Hollie Cavanagh was, unsurprisingly, eliminated. Hollie had a pretty good run on "Idol," but after being on the chopping block six times this season (not to mention being sent home during Hollywood Week when she tried out last year), her time was finally up.

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Sean Bean is probably best known for using his brute strength and armour to intimidate his foes in "The Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones." But in real life, he's now been accused of using words to harass his ex-wife.

The 53-year-old actor was taken into custody in London on Tuesday after police arrested him on "suspicion of harassment." He allegedly sent multiple hostile text messages and phone calls to his ex, actress Georgina Sutcliffe. He was later released on bail.

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Jon Hamm may look like Don Draper, but when it comes to women, they are worlds apart. While "Mad Men's" ad guru Don is famous for his philandering ways, the actor who plays him has been faithful to his girlfriend, actress Jennifer Westfeldt, since 1997.

But if that isn't enough evidence for their opposing approaches to the opposite sex, just take a look at the 41-year-old actor's installment of the "Ask A Grown Man" video series. Like Paul Rudd and B.J. Novak before him, Hamm doled out advice to teen viewers, summoning a surprisingly deep reservoir of Girl Power from within his brawny exterior.

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Well, after weeks of speculation, E! News and Us Weekly are finally reporting that Britney Spears has officially inked a deal to be an "X Factor" judge.  So the bad news is...this show going to be a trainwreck. And the good news is...THIS SHOW IS GOING TO BE A TRAINWRECK!

Let's face it, this development could be awesome. Every reality fan loves a good trainwreck, of course, and the possibilities here for utterly ridiculous television are almost endless. Rubberneckers will undoubtedly tune in to "The X Factor" just to check out what goes down, and I admit I will be among them, popcorn at hand. We all have to remember that the original British version of "The X Factor" really amped up the camp (Jedward singing "Ghostbusters" with proton packs on their backs being but one example of this), but Jedward's antics might look positively tame compared to what Britney could bring. (Even her short-lived "Chaotic" reality series with her future ex-husband Kevin Federline was can't-look-away fascinating.) So set your DVRs now, people.

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In an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Tom Gabel, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of Florida punk rock band Against Me!, has announced that he has "privately dealt with gender dysphoria for years" and plans on making the transition to "begin living a woman."

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George Clooney should send Ryan Seacrest a thank-you note. It turns out the 51-year-old actor, who was nominated for best actor for "The Descendants" and best screenplay for "The Ides of March," was the original target for Sacha Baron Cohen's infamous red carpet ash stunt at the 2011 Academy Awards.

The British comic arrived at the ceremony as his "Dictator" alter ego and, on the red carpet, spilled what he claimed were dictator Kim Jong-Il's ashes on Ryan Seacrest's Burberry suit.

Though the "E! News" host was shocked by the turn of events, he forgave Cohen this past weekend at the taping of "Saturday Night Live" when they met unexpectedly.