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What do you get when you take away the producers, directors and camera operators? “College Life,” is a self-produced, groundbreaking new series following students as they embark on their freshman year of school in a way never before seen on television. Following a group of college kids at a Big Ten University in Madison, Wisconsin, the students will tell their own stories in an authentic and unprecedented way, as cameras are put in their hands. From hookups to breakups to academic pressure and homesickness, “College Life” delivers a new level of “real”-ity access starting April 13 at 10:30pm ET/PT on MTV.

“Technology has democratized the filmmaking process for our viewers. That fact combined with this generation’s real time publishing online of every aspect of their lives brings us into a new era of honesty and openness, and College Life exemplifies this,” said Tony DiSanto, head of MTV Programming. “College Life has turned the cameras over to the students themselves, allowing them to tell their own stories, show us their world, bare their emotions and take us on a dramatic journey through Freshman year as they see and experience it. It’s an entirely new and different viewing experience that we are very excited about.”

Engaging college students around the world, mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, is set to launch a “College Life” contest, as part of the Best Film on Campus initiative beginning, in mid-April which challenges students to produce and submit their versions of their college Life. Finalists’ content will be showcased on collegelife.mtv.com and bestfilmoncampus.com, where fans will be able to vote for their favorite video. While several finalists will be chosen, only one winner will receive the hottest MTV gifts and prizes.

For 24/7 access, viewers will be able to see cast photos, watch full episodes and check out exclusive extended footage of each cast member on collegelife.mtv.com. On the go? Watch full episodes, sneak peeks and episode recaps on mobile video across all wireless carrier partners. And MTV Mobile WAP users can check photo galleries, cast bios, weekly episode guides and take weekly polls.

Let’s introduce you to the “College Life” crew: (more…)

Nadya Suleman’s home in La Habra, Calif., should be a scene of chaos, yet when Life & Style arrived on April 4, things were quiet and serene. Nadya seemed less concerned with her appearance than spending time with her kids. “This is who I am,” Nadya says. “There are so many lies out there, and they’re all just so different from the person I really am.” Here, in her first extensive print interview, Nadya finally sets the record straight for Life & Style.

You’ve never talked about the birth itself. What did it feel like to give birth to eight babies?

It was extraordinarily painful. With that many babies, it feels like your insides are being torn apart. The babies were ripping apart my organs. Afterward, people thought I went into hiding. I wasn’t in hiding — I was in pain. I could hardly move.

Did you ever dream of having a family the traditional way?

No. I was married at one point, but it didn’t work out. I decided to go on my reproductive journey alone. But people think I just woke up one day and decided to start a family. I’ve been trying to have kids since I was 19 years old! I’m 33 now. I’d just been saving my money. I was a psychiatric technician — almost every day I was working 16-hour days. For years, I worked non-stop until I saved for the first four in vitros.

How did you approach the babies’ father to donate the sperm?

Years ago, I said, “Hypothetically speaking, would you ever help a friend have children?” He said he would. And I said, “Then help me.” And he did. I kept going back to him, and year after year, he kept helping me. He was upset when I did it again. He said the same thing everyone else did: “You have six beautiful children — why do you want more?”

Baby No. 8, Jonah, is still at Kaiser Permanente Hospital waiting to be released. What’s wrong?

He has a little cleft on his lip. But it’s not a big deal. It’s cosmetic. Eventually, they can close it. Jonah won’t be coming home until he gains a little weight. He’s only 4 pounds but he’s growing bigger and stronger every day.

Are you going to do a reality show?

Absolutely not! I have no interest in being famous. I’d love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has posted a new photo of her 4-month-old son on her Twitter page.

“I present you my little man and his adorable cheeks!” she writes.

Her afternoons with Bronx are about to get a little shorter.Next week, she begins shooting the pilot of CW’s updated version of Melrose Place.

She plays a small-town girl who moves to L.A. with a secret past.”I think it will be awesome,” her husband Pete Wentz recently told Usmagazine.com. “I told her that I hope she gets to play the bitch.”

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What happens when white trash relatives crash a Hollywood pool party? For Zac Efron, whose Uncle Hank (Tom Lennon) tells him he “smells like waffles,” nothing but embarrassing outbursts, awkward requests, and, yes, poop in the hot tub.

Vanessa Hudgens, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, Carmen Electra, Lance Bass, Brody Jenner, Jessica Stroup, Brittany Snow and Queen Latifah are among the stars who join Efron in a wacky Funny or Die video that debuted Wednesday. “A lot of people did it because they want to hang out with Zac,” 17 Again producer Adam Shankmen, who co-directed the clip, tells PEOPLE. “It is the craziest group of people.”

In the video, Bass says he is proud that he has been able to “not Google himself” for over a week, while Madden starts talking marriage with Richie – watch the clip to see how that turns out!

Some of Shankman’s favorite moments: “Nicole Sullivan (as Efron’s Uncle Hank’s girlfriend Randi) sitting over a waterfall in a pool thinking that her water burst – because she’s pregnant. Justin Long drinking beer underwater and eating hot dogs (a.k.a. the poop) while we were shooting with under water cameras,” he says. “And then just this strangeness of all these people sitting around my house at 10 in the morning. It was all on the fly and really fun.”

Even though Efron was the star, he didn’t act like a big shot, adds Shankman. “[Zac] was blown away that we could put it together and he was really, deeply grateful. If you want to know what kind of people Zac and Vanessa [Hudgens] are … I turned around and Vanessa was taking out the garbage and Zac was doing the dishes. They have no entitlement issues, it’s all for one and one for all. Nothing is taken for granted.”

Shankman adds: “The media forces us to take our lives so serious but we know we’re not curing cancer so we might as well make people laugh, we’re entertainers. It’s cool because everyone knows we’re not getting paid so there are no egos.”

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In the new US Magazine Lindsay Lohan opens up about her heartbreaking split from Samantha Ronson, the “humiliating” weekend showdown with Ronson’s family, and says that friends’ fears she is suicidal are unfounded. “It’s absolute hell,” Lohan told Us on Monday in a far-ranging interview over several lengthy phone calls and emails where she was both agitated, crying and baffled by the turn of events. Ronson broke it off with her girlfriend of nearly two years last Friday, and hired five security guards to keep Lohan out of an after party for her sister Charlotte at the Chateau Marmont. “The worst night of my life,” Lohan — who was staying directly one floor above the Ronsons with her mom Dina and sister Ali — tells Us.

The next day, Ronson changed the locks on the Hollywood Hills home she shared with Lohan. On Monday, Ronson’s mom and sister asked police about obtaining a restraining order against Lohan, Beverly Hills Sgt. Nutall confirms to Us.

“I’m not a bad person and this is what happens,” Lohan told Us through tears. “I was raised to treat people well, and I’m so tired of this drama.” Lohan says she’s “so alone” without Ronson. “Everyone’s turned on me,” says the actress. She tells the magazine that the night of the Chateau showdown, Nicole Richie walked by her and said “Uck,” and Drea De Matteo said, “Come at me, bitch.” “I’m a f–king 22-year-old girl who’s in love,” she says. “I felt like I was in Mean Girls, but worse: Mean Girls was a movie.”

Sources tell the magazine Ronson had repeatedly tried to break up with Lohan over the past month, but each time, “Lindsay threatens to kill herself — she cares about her but wants out.” Lohan laughs upon hearing that, saying she’s okay. “I’m just really hurt!” she says. “The whole situation is sick.”

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