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There’s a new product out for girls who want celebrity sexy lips, and it comes in a classy container guaranteed to impress:

Unlike other products on the market that sting and irritate, Celebrity sexy lip plumper claims to draw moisture into your lips, enriching, nourishing, and filling them out. Now you can get Angelina Jolie style lips without having to spend thousands of dollars on plastic surgery, pain and suffering. Too good to be true? Celebrity sexy lips boasts endorsements from E!, VH1, the Oxygen Network, Extra, and OK magazine.

Just looking at this lip gloss, it seems a bit nicer than the ones you get from Victoria’s Secret or other fashion stores, like Sephora, where the lip glosses are heavy, thick, and shiny, almost like putting metal paste on your delicate lips. Celebrity sexy lip plumper looks delicate, translucent, a clear coating of shine and fullness. If you’re worried about wearing too much makeup and not looking natural, this lip gloss might be the solution you need.

The secret of this lip plumper, according to a forum post I saw, is Atelocollagen, tiny, dehydrated, marine collagen micro spheres that are instantly absorbed by the lips, and seek out the body’s natural moisture. As soon as the spheres become re-hydrated, they plump and hold onto the moisture they’ve collected, creating a mild swelling of the lip tissue. The result is fuller, smoother, perfectly plumped lips in seconds.

Bored Shopping says, “The best thing about the Celebrity Sexy Lip Plumper is that it is not created with celebrities in mind but for ordinary women like you and me.” I’m a man, so I couldn’t say it .

If you’d been wondering what happened to the Jolie-Pitt babyshower photos, or how they were leaked to the press, we’ve got the answer. According to CNN, state and local police, as well as secret service, the home of a man named William Keys was searched for the memory card containing the photos. They were finally found at Precision Camera and Video Repair in Enfield, Connecticut, where he worked.

Apparently, James Haven (Angelina Jolie’s brother) had taken the photos in Namibia at their baby shower. When he returned to the US, his camera had somehow broken, so he returned it to a local LA Best Buy for repair. They shipped it to Precision Repair in CT, where an excited chain of employees, and then family and friends, passed the photos along until they arrived in the hands of the individual who attempted to sell them.

No arrests have been made in this bizarre case of grapevine photo-theft. However, the world will probably go unhappy knowing that 450 intimate photos of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their happy family will never see the light of day.

According to a FOX news report this morning, the reason we haven’t seen Suri Cruise at all is because nobody was willing to pay $4 million to print pictures of her! One has to wonder what kind of ugly monster she’s gotta be…

The article adds:

According to my sources, a photo shoot of Suri was offered to Wire Image, the prestigious agency, for sale to the various celebrity magazines right after the little “Mission: Impossible”/”Dawson’s Creek” tyke was born in silence to her unmarried movie star parents Tom Cruise and the dazed-looking Katie Holmes. An auction was conducted, with People, US Weekly, Star and the lesser names like In Touch all putting in their two cents.

But apparently the bids weren’t enough for TomKat. The article writes, “The Cruise auction is said to have produced not more than a $3 million bid. At that point, the offer was rescinded.” So basically since they couldn’t fetch a nice sum for their baby, they’ve taken to hiding her in the house out of embarassment. Wow. This is after Tom Cruise tried to simultaneously congratulate Angelina Jolie on Shiloh and convert her to Scientology. Speaking of Scientology, apparently had the pictures of Suri Cruise been properly auctioned, the Church would have gotten a cut:

Exactly who from Cruise’s strange inner circle initiated the contact is still unknown, although I am told the enterprise was “official.” It’s likely that the Church of Scientology would have gotten a cut, too, considering they like to take 10 percent of everything from their celebrity clients.

The article also claims that Shiloh’s $4 mil is probably the highest price baby pictures will fetch for a long time:

“Shiloh was the whole deal,” my source said. “We won’t see a baby like that again for a while.”

Just imagine what poor little Suri Cruise will have to face when she meets Shiloh one day.

Update: Contrary to the above report that Suri Cruise photos weren’t sold for $3 million, Tom Cruise is now apparently saying that his Scientology beliefs wouldn’t let him bring the newborn outside, anyway. The article writes:

It has now been claimed Tom is reluctant to show off Suri because Scientology doctrine teaches followers of the sci-fi cult to avoid taking newborn babies out unless absolutely necessary.

A friend of the actor told Britain’s Grazia magazine: “Tom insists he’ll do it in his own time. He won’t be bullied into showing his world his precious angel. Tom wants to obey Scientology rules about keeping babies out of … the public eye.”

I recently got a strange email claiming to have a memory stick with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie photos:

I am contacting you because I have recently acquired some digital photos (450 pictures). On this memory stick are personal photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and their children. These photos are in thier home and on vacation, are good quality and are close up. These pictures have not been seen by anyone else. I am contacting you and several other Papers, magazines and websites to see what these photos may be worth. I am attaching 3 photos so you can verify the authenticity of them.

The EXIF information on the photos says they were taken in late May, 2006 by a Sony DSC-N1. I have no way of authenticating the photos, except to say that they do not appear to be taken by paparrazi. Perhaps one of you, our readers, could tell me if these pictures really are of Shiloh Nouveau Jolie-Pitt’s babyshower. Anyway, here are scaled down versions of what I was sent.

Update: The photos have been removed.  According to an email circulating from their lawyers, the photos were stolen from their home.  Our sympathies go out to the Jolie-Pitt family.

Angelina Jolie will announce today on Anderson Cooper’s show that Brad Pitt and her will adopt another child after having given birth to Shiloh Nouvel. The article writes:

“We don’t know which … country. But we’re looking at different countries. And we’re–I’m just–it’s gonna be the balance of what would be the best for Mad and for Z right now. It’s, you know, another boy, another girl, which country, which race would fit best with the kids,” she explained, referring to her adopted kids Maddox and Zahara.

But before you begin to think about child number four, you might want to mitigate the situation you’ve created in Namibia due to birth of child number three, Angelina. Apparently charities in Namibia are quite pissed off that Brangelina took advantage of the remoteness of the country. The article states:

Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) branded the couple “colonial overlords” and accused them of taking over the African country when Shiloh Nouvel was born this month.

Perhaps they’ve forgotten the positive press coverage the country has gotten because of Brangelina? Nevertheless, the human rights group continue:

An NSHR spokesman said: “To shut down a national border so she can give birth in peace is a massive abuse of power.” The human rights campaigners claim Angelina and Brad “used heavy-handed and brutal tactics” to persuade the Namibian government to agree to their demands.

Do these “heavy-handed and brutal tactics” involve guns and assassination, like their roles in Mr. and Mrs. Smith? One can only imagine. Everything, it seems, revolves around that movie, seeing as Brad Pitt is now advising co-star Vince Vaughn to marry Jennifer Aniston. He even thinks they’re “perfect for each other.” The article reads:

“You and Jen are perfect for each other,” he reportedly said, according to an insider cited by Life & Style. “You should get married.”

Apparently Vince could foresee the troubles ahead while filming the movie. The article adds:

Vince was Brad’s wingman in the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith and at one time it was reported that Vince had told Brad to be cautious as he believed Angie and Brad were getting too close on the set.

The reported quote from Vince to Brad was “go home to your wife.”

You’ve got good intentions, Vince, but too little, too late.

And most spectacular of all, given all this publicity, what do the pair want to do? Build a 200-foot wall around their Malibu home to protect their kids! A source has said:

Brad wants to make the home secure for the baby and Angelina. They don’t want people seeing in.

Don’t believe me? How about additional reports that they’ve met with builders to discuss the 200-foot high wall in front of their cliff top, beach front home? We’ve learned the following juicy detail:

Mr. Pitt and Mrs. Jolie met builders last week to discuss the daft plan. At its tallest section the wall would stretch upwards from the beach.

This is after we’ve reported that there are huge curtains surrounding the home, making it virtually impossible for photographers to catch a glimpse of the family except if they brave the waves.

What can we anticipate next? Will Angelina buy an island in the middle of the Pacific to escape? Or maybe they can rent a room on the International Space Station, where there are currently only 3 astronauts to bother them. The possibilities are endless.

Update: For those who weren’t able to watch Angelina Jolie’s interview with Anderson Cooper about World Refugee Day, there are some short excerpts available online at CNN.com. Here are the links:

• Angelina Jolie on Namibia (and having her baby there)
• Angelina Jolie on her charity work

And Gawker has a play-by-play synopsis of the two-hour interview, if you’re so inclined to read what seems mostly their reactions to what is said, rather than the substance of the interview.