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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.