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LeBron James has rented six cabanas at the W Hotel South Beach this weekend to celebrate his team decision, two sources confirm to UsMagazine.com.

That adds more fuel to the fire that James, 25, will announce he’s joining the Miami Heat Thursday night, as several insiders told ESPN this morning. (He’s still confirmed to attend NBA star Carmelo Anthony’s Saturday-night wedding to former MTV VJ LaLa Vazquez in NYC.)

The basketball great will make his announcement from the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich, Conn. Thursday night during an hourlong sports special called The Decision, to be aired on ESPN at 9 P.M. ET. Proceeds from commercial sales will be donated to the club.

If James goes to the Heat (where he’d play alongside All-Stars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh), he’d likely take a $30 million pay cut, ESPN reported. His current team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, has offered him a six-year, $128 million contract, while Miami would sign him to a five-year deal worth $99 million.

Both the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets (who are relocating to Brooklyn) have been wooing James as well, with campaigns starring everyone from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Jay-Z, a Nets part-owner.

Joked Diddy on Twitter Wednesday night, “Breaking news!!! Lebron signs with the Knicks!! I just saw him leaving the knicks owners house!!! He lives next door to me! Let’s go NYC.”

Former Hooters waitress and this season’s Bachelor Beard winner Vienna Girardi will be posing for Playboy sometime this year. I’m sure thousands hundreds tens of men are just drooling with anticipation right now. Radar Online says:

“I am going to be on the cover of Playboy later this year,” Vienna [reveals].

“The Bachelor didn’t pay me a dime, and I ran through my savings living with [Bachelor star] Jake [Pavelka],” Vienna says.

She hopes she’ll score $250,000 for the spread. “I need the money. And I want to do something fun and happy for myself!”

$250,000 for the poor man’s Ashley Tisdale? That’s about $249,999 too much. I’ve seen inflatable sex dolls that were better looking than this broad. Maybe she won’t actually be facing the cameras in any of the pictures.

UPDATE: Apparently this is news to Playboy, because they just publicly announced that they never made her an offer. Fortunately, Ugly Attention Whore Magazine still needs an August cover girl.

If you want a luscious mane like Miley Cyrus’, be prepared to sell off a kidney, because it’s gonna cost you a goddamn fortune. Or you could always wait until a particularly large wad of seaweed washes up on the shore and get it for free. I doubt anyone would notice the difference. According to the Daily Mail:

The star appears to be gaining a reputation for being just a little high maintenance.

She recently spent an impressive $24,000 on new hair extensions.

Miley is said to have had extensions flown from Italy to New York’s Gemini 14 salon, at which point stylist Kristina Baricelli flew with the extensions to Los Angeles, where they were finally put on.

You could do a lot with twenty-five grand other than gluing it to your head. Like a whole year of college, for example. But I think the Cyruses have made it very clear that they don’t need no edumacation or fancy book-learnin to get ahead in this life. That’s huccome they gots the TV and Twitter.

What’s better than one Kim Kardashian? Two, of course!

Kim has become the latest star to be immortalized in wax for Madame Tussauds. The reality vixen posed next to her newly-finished wax figure at its unveiling in New York earlier today. Can you tell which one is the real Kim?

Personally, we prefer the real Kim to her wax version, but that is mostly because we like our Kim to have the ability to move, think and speak. Either way, they both look great!

Okay, so they’re not diamonds (we don’t think), but Lady GaGa threw on a whole lotta bling yesterday for a photo shoot. Not that we would consider this to be out of the ordinary for GaGa, but don’t act like you don’t flick on your computer every morn experiencing sheer excitement in the anticipation of what dear GaGa could be wearing next. We’re just here to help.

Kate Gosselin has made it her life’s mission to exploit her litter and wring every last penny out of their little hides. If she can make money off her own kids, then why not the Baby Jesus? Popeater reports,

Kate Gosselin wants to show America that it’s not just her dance skills that are a hidden talent. Now, the famous mom and her eight adorable tots want to release a holiday CD packed full of all her favorite religious classics.

“Kate is pitching a CD of holiday songs sung by herself and all her children,” a record executive tells me. “She sees herself as a modern day Maria from ‘The Sound of Music,’ except this time the family singers won’t be the Von Trap family, they would be the Gosselins.”

“Don’t be fooled,” a friend of Kate’s tells me. “Kate sees herself as a brand. She knows her fifteen minutes are not going to last forever and wants to make the most of it. After all, it’s Kate that’s putting the food on the table for all those children.”

Von Trapp family? I don’t think so. I think she’s a little less Maria and a little more Miss Hannigan from Annie, if you ask me.

Johnny Depp might have to brush up on the basics of time and space travel. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor has reportedly been tapped to play The Doctor in a big-screen adaptation of the long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who.

According to sources, the movie is being written by former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies, and is slated for release in 2012. Davies and series producer Julie Gardner left the BBC show in 2008 for Los Angeles, and Davies has since revealed that one of the reasons for the relocation was the possibility of bringing Doctor Who to the big screen:

“Bringing the Who franchise to the theaters is a regeneration for the character beyond the usual one. A theatrical release has a greater range and can reach millions of more people than just the fans. There will be brand new concepts and the film will be just as adventurous, scary and humorous as the television programme. But none of us working the film will forget what makes the character great and interesting and the long-time fans will not be disappointed because yes, the [extraterrestrial] Daleks make an appearance.”

If Depp is really making an appearance as well, they just might have a hit on their hands.

Now that Larry King has announced that his show, Larry King Live, will end after a 25 year run, everyone is buzzing about who is going to replace the interview king.

One name that is getting floated around? Well, we just hope that Elisabeth Hasselbeck isn’t reading this: CNN is reportedly talking to The View’s Joy Behar to take over Larry King’s time slot.

Joy already has a show on a CNN-linked network, HLN, and the show has been preforming fairly well. However, Larry isn’t pleased with the pick and is publicly throwing his support behind Ryan Seacrest.

No offense to Ryan but doesn’t he already have, um, 14 hosting jobs? The guy’s schedule is already pretty packed.

After playing Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott for the last six years, Steve Carell will not be returning to “The Office” after his contract expires next season. According to People Magazine:

“I just think it’s time,” he said at the premiere of his new movie, Despicable Me, Sunday in L.A. “When I first signed on I had a contract for seven seasons, and this coming year is my seventh. I just thought it was time for my character to go.”

“[This might] add some new life and some new energy to the show. [The writers] have incorporated so many new characters and so many new, great storylines that I have no doubt it’ll continue as strong, if not stronger than ever.”

I can’t imagine the Scranton branch dynamic without Steve Carell. It just seems wrong. But like Michael Scott said, “There comes a time when the Daddy cannot take a bath with the kids anymore, as much as he might want to.” I’m sure this was really hard on everyone. *sniff* That’s what she said!

Harry Potter beauty Emma Watson has a new love in her life and she’s not being shy about it!

The actress met boyfriend George Craig during her Burberry photoshoot last summer and stepped out for the first time with Craig as a couple at this weekend’s Glastonbury Music Festival.

Watson is also the star of George’s band One Night Only’s new music video for “Say You Don’t Want It.” Cute! Check out the video below:
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