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The Cleveland Cavaliers will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record by getting as many fans as possible to wear a Snuggie during their home game against the Detroit Pistons on Friday.

The record the Cavaliers are hoping to break is for the “Largest Gathering of People Wearing Fleece Blankets.” Team members will be giving each of the 20,000 fans expected at the March 5 matchup free Snuggies before the game. The popular gift item will be draped over every seat and fans must wear the blanket for the first five minutes of the game.

“The Cavs ‘XL’ season keeps getting bigger and bigger with this attempt to set a Guinness World Record. Partnering with KeyBank and Snuggie blankets to create an event where our fans are an integral part of the success to give Cleveland the bragging rights of a Guinness World Record makes it a community team effort that is all the more fun,” says Cavaliers President Len Komoroski said.

Also expected in attendance at Friday’s game? Snuggie creator Scott Boilen, who says he’s tickled that the Cavs’ are incorporating the popular body blankets into this world record event.

Snuggie’s sold approximately 20 million units in 2009.

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Justin Timberlake is reuniting with former girlfriend actress Cameron Diaz on the big screen. The former lovers will rekindle sparks in the new film Bad Teacher.

The Jake Kasdan-directed comedy sees Diaz as a foul-mouthed, gold-digging middle school teacher who gets dumped by her boyfriend. She then develops a crush on school’s model substitute teacher (Timberlake), but runs into some competition for his affection. Jason Segel suits up as a gym teacher.

Filming begins in Los Angeles later this month.

Lady Gaga has inspired a storyline in the upcoming Muppet Movie. Miss Piggy will reportedly become a famous, Lady Gaga-like pop icon in the new comedy being penned by Jason Segel. Let’s hope this inspires some sort of eccentric pig attire for fashion risk taker Gaga. After all, she’s already worn Kermit The Frog…..

Oh no! Former American Idol Elliott Yamin miraculously survived Saturday’s shattering earthquake in Chile, but if he has to stay in ravaged region much longer, the diabetic crooner could face a serious health crisis.

Yamin called into Good Day Los Angeles on Tuesday, where the Idol alum revealed that he’s desperately searching for a way out of South America as he runs out of the diabetic supplies that help keep him healthy.

“I am a Type 1 diabetic and I only packed enough insulin supplies for my pump to last a couple more days, so I’m starting to worry. I don’t know how long we’re going to be here. This country isn’t very keen on insulin pumps; supplies for my pump are running low. Hospitals here are very crowded, and as you can imagine, they are dealing with bigger thing,” Elliott explained. “I hope to get home before I slip into a diabetic coma. That would be nice,” he added. “I’m trying to be positive..”

Yamin had just returned to his hotel after finishing a performance as part of a singing competition festival in Vina Del Mar, Chile, when he felt the magnitude 8.8 earthquake which hit the South American country just after 3 AM local time on Saturday. For the singer, the shock is just beginning to set in:

“Good morning world!… still stuck in Santiago, with no clear idea as to when we get out.. decided 2 stay put.. embassy says not to go to Mendoza … I think I’m starting to have post traumatic stress, as I reflect on where I’ve been over the last 2 weeks, and what I’ve been thru.. although I’m safe, alive, and well, still experiencing aftershox, and will be restless until I touch down on American soil…..” a despondent Elliott Tweeted this morning.

Elliott finished third on the fifth season of American Idol. Best wishes to Elliott. We hope someone can get him the supplies he needs.

Paris Hilton’s too hot for TV….at least in Brazil.

A sexy beer ad featuring the socialite/heiress has been pulled from the airwaves in South America after consumer complaints and a watchdog agency’s investigation. The controversial campaign featured Hilton in a short black dress preening and rubbing herself with a can of Devassa beer to the delight a gaggle of Peeping Toms.

Last week, Brazilian ad watchdog group, Conar, demanded that the ad be removed, arguing that the ad treated women as sex objects and was “offensive to blondes.” Brazil’s Secretariat for Women’s Affairs also said it had received complaints about the ad.

Brewing company Schincariol, who manufacturers Devassa, has vowed to fight the ban.

Some people never learn….

The world’s cattiest catwalker is back! Short-fused supermodel Naomi Campbell is wanted by New York City Police this evening after she assaulted her limo driver in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon.

Just when you thought Naomi had left her violent past in an anger management class!

Campbell’s 27-year-old driver says the fashionista slugged and smacked him while he was driving her around the city just after 1 PM. According to a NYPD official, the 39-year-old model became enraged with the driver and began hitting him from the back seat. After the attack, Naomi jumped out of the car and fled the the scene at E. 58th St. and Second Ave. on foot.

Today’s beatdown is just the latest in a series of notorious temper tantrums from the tempermental beauty.

In 2008, she pleaded guilty to assaulting a pair of police officers during a fit at Heathrow Airport. The year before, she pleaded guilty to assaulting her maid with a cell phone and was sentenced to anger management classes and community service.

It’s official: The woman is certifiable! Girl, you are really not helping us ditch the whole “Angry Black Woman” stereotype. C’mon, we’ve barely recovered from Omarosa!

American Idol is shuffling its schedule to accompany ill contestant Crystal Bowersox — the season’s deadlocked frontrunner — FOX reps announced on Tuesday morning.

The Top 10 male semifinalists will perform tonight instead of the women.

“Due to medical issues which would prevent Crystal Bowersox from performing tonight, the 10 male semifinalists will perform this evening, and the 10 female semifinalists will perform tomorrow night,” the network announced on Tuesday.

According to Us Weekly, Crystal has been hospitalized for complications from diabetes, but will be well enough to perform by tomorrow night. Next week, the competition is expected to return to its usual format of the woman performing on Tuesday and the men on Wednesday.

Metallica fans in Israel have vowed to boycott the band’s upcoming show in Tel Aviv amid complaints of soaring ticket prices. The hitmakers are scheduled to play at Ramat Gan Stadium on May 22 in what will be the band’s first concert in Israel since 1999. But the news has promoted outrage from fans who argue that tickets should be selling for significantly cheaper than the $159 minimum asking price.

Pissed off heavy metal loyalists argue that Israeli promoters are trying to rip them off. More than 500 followers on Facebook.com have “committed” to boycotting the concert, Metal Israel reported on Tuesday.

“The initiators of the boycott state that Metallica tickets do not cost nearly as much as this in the rest of the world and assert that the promoter is trying to take advantage of loyal Metallica fans.”

There Goes The Neighborhood: Wildchild jazz songstress Amy Winehouse is spending big bucks for a new pad in her old ‘hood. The walking health hazard has reportedly forked over $3.7 million for a five-bedroom, four-bath pad in her former neighborhood of Camden, London’s The Sun wrote this week.

We give Roger Ebert’s new voice two thumps up! The legendary film critic made a special return to TV on Tuesday’s Oprah.

Ebert lost the ability to speak and eat, as well as a significant portion of his jaw after a cancer battle a few years ago, but the opinionated movie buff is finding his voice again thanks to new technology. Computer programmers have captured his voice from movie commentary tracks so he can type what he wants to say and listeners hear a voice that sounds like him. A Scottish company called CereProc blended digital recordings of Ebert speaking to create his text-to-audio voice.

“In first grade, they said I talk too much. And now I still can,” Ebert said on the today’s show, before mentioning that he still misses food.

And of course, Ebert wouldn’t be Ebert if he didn’t offer up some is favorite Oscar picks:

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker

Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique for Precious

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart

The mother and children of late pop great Michael Jackson were visited by child welfare officials on Monday after the 12-year-old son of Jermaine Jackson ordered a stun gun online.

What more do you expect from a kid named Jaafar? SMH…..

Katherine Jackson was appointed as the legal guardian of Michael’s three kids; Prince, Paris and Blanket; following the superstar’s death last June, but representatives from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services were sent to check up on the Jackson 3 after the stun gun snafu.

Although DCFS officials have give the Jackson the all clear for now, TMZ.com insiders say Jackson Family Compound security guards caught several children in the Jacksons’ Encino home trying to stun 7-year-old Blanket last week.

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are back with more of their animated band, Gorillaz. The group has released the video for their newest single, “Stylo” — featuring a guest appearance from actor Bruce Willis. “Stylo” is the first track from the Gorillaz’s forthcoming album Plastic Beach, out March 8.

On Tuesday, Robert Pattinson made his inaugural appearance on ABC’s The View — where he chatted about his upcoming romantic drama Remember Me and admitted to the ladies of the femme gabfest that he’s interested in dating older women. And you’ll never guess who Pattz has in mind!

Sorry girls, but Robert only has eyes for 88-year-old Hollywood legend Betty White . “I think Betty White is probably one of the sexiest women in America,” Robert laughed. “She’s vibrant; it’s sexy. I think the more age the better.”

The adrenaline-pumping The Fast & The Furious franchise is revving its engine for a fifth installment. On Tuesday, Universal Pictures announced that Fast Five will be cruising into theaters on June 10, 2011.

Director Justin Lin and series stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are all expected back for the latest feature.

Mark your calendars: Jessica Simpson’s on tomorrow’s Oprah. The singer/actress will talk about the MOM Jeans controversy that crushed her sex symbol status and her new VH1 reality series. She will also address the comments ex-boyfriend John Mayer made about their sex life in the March issue of Playboy.

Mayer said of his relationship with Simpson — whose vajayjay he brands as addictive as crack-cocaine — in the now-infamous interview: “Sexually it was crazy. It was like napalm, sexual napalm. Did you ever say, ‘I want to quit my life and just f—ing snort you? If you charged me $10,000 to f— you, I would start selling all my s— just to keep f—ing you.’”

“I’m not angry,” Jessica tells Oprah about the comments. “Well, I’m a little bit angry. I don’t want people to know how I am in bed!”

Simpson says despite all of the tabloids reporting about her weight, she is “absolutely” happy with how she looks: “I love my curves. I’m not be going to be a size zero and I’m never going to be 90 pounds. I don’t want to look like Daisy Duke every day.”

If you love the contestant backstories on American Idol, there’s a new seres hitting the Interwebs that may interest you. On Tuesday, Simon Fuller, the creator of a little show called American Idol, debuted “If I Can Dream” on Hulu.com. Think of it as a mashup of Idol meets Big Brother. The show follows five young people — three actors, a musician, and a model — living under one roof and hoping for success in a city of Big Dreams; Hollywood. Their lives are followed not only on the weekly program, but by a daily live stream on ificandream.com as each struggles to accomplish their goals.

If you’re a junkie for celebrity dish, you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for Miley Cyrus’ former flame, one is also featured in the podcast. Cyrus’ ex, singer/songwriter Justin Gaston, is the show’s fifth cast member. Here’s the trailer:

‘Robsession” Lives: Robert Pattinson — best known for playing mysterious and immortal vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight films — is getting a new makeover, courtesy of the world-famous Madame Tussauds Museum. Artists at the renowned wax archive are in the final stages of a waxwork crafted in the likeness of the English heartthrob.

“Robert Pattinson is one of the hottest celebrities in the world and we have been inundated by requests to make him at Madame Tussauds London,” says Liz Edwards of Madame Tussaud’s London. “We are delighted that we’ll be able to give fans the chance to to meet their idol and pose for pictures with him. They can even give him a kiss on the cheek which I’m sure will be a big hit with his female followers!”

The figure has taken about four months to complete and cost nearly $300,000. Can you imagine what would happen if you knocked that thing over? We can’t wait to see the finished product. Robert Pattinson’s wax figure will be unveiled at Madame Tussauds Museum in Times Square on March 25. A second wax figure of Robert Pattinson will also be made for Madame Tussauds London.

Pattz joins an elite group of stars who have been immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds locations across the globe, including Madonna, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, The Jonas Brothers, Angelina Jolie, Diddy, and Miley Cyrus.

“Brooke is bisexual….She and Charlie have had more than one woman share their bed in the short time they’ve been married.” Apparently, Charlie Sheen and his wife are higher than we thought. The talking heads at RadarOnline.com cite a snitch who says that the Two and a Half Men actor and his estranged spouse, Brooke Mueller, regularly engage in drug-fuelled romps with unidentified women.

As if The Sheens weren’t already giving Michael Lohan a run for his title as the “World’s Most Dysfunctional Celebrity Parent,” here’s comes a girl who says she had a 3-way sex romp with the troubled addicts.

Despite the fact that both their reps say they’re going to work on their marriage, according to Radar, Brooke wants a divorce after the couple’s Colorado court case for domestic violence wraps up. Mueller, a former real estate agent, has been in and out of rehab five times for crack cocaine addiction, among other things. Sheen — who has a history of alcohol and drug abuse — is currently on vacay in a treatment center in Los Angeles.

Your mailbox is going on strike: After suffering significant financial loses thanks to the global economic downturn, the United States Postal Service is asking Congress to approve a five-day mail week that will eliminate Saturday delivery services.

Mariah Carey left thousands of revellers waiting for more than two hours after demanding a doctor examine her throat before she went on stage in Las Vegas this past week.

Fans turned out in droves on Saturday night to see the hitmaker close out her “Angels Advocate Tour” at The Colosseum, but a packed house wasn’t enough to make a restless Mariah delay a trip to the MD after allegedly suffering problems with her vocal chords, according to New York Post gossip column PageSix.

After getting the all clear from docs, Mariah further delayed the show by waiting in her car until waning R&B star Ciara, who was also performing at the venue, completed her performance.

“Ciara was performing as Mariah arrived, so she waited in the car, saying she didn’t want to upstage her.”