Hey, boys around the world! Pippa Middleton is single and on the market! The 27-year-old gal just broke up with Alex Loudon after their year-long relationship.

“After lengthy conversations, they’ve taken what they call a ‘permanent break,’” one insider close to the couple tells Us. Duchess Kate’s little sister met Loudon, a 30-year-old cricketeer turned finance whiz, on a blind date set up by mutual pals.

“They hope to stay friends,” adds a second source. “They’re doing their best to move on in a dignified manner.”

How is the handsome ex taking the news? “Alex is upset but getting on,” a friend tells Us.

Although social butterfly Pippa has seemingly relished her newfound spotlight, Loudon’s “life was turned upside down” ever since he was the outgoing, ever-stylish Maid of Honor’s date for the royal wedding on April 29, his pal says.

Even before the confirmed breakup, Middleton set tongues wagging for her wedding day chemistry with Prince Harry (who’s happily ensconced with love Chelsy Davy) and recent bonding time in Madrid and London with close friend/coworker George Percy.

I’m all for Pippa and Harry!

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Music Producer Phil Spector was charged today with 19 years in jail for the murder of Hollywood starlet Lana Clarkson.

The famed music producer who created ‘The Wall of Sound’ was found guilty of Clarkson’s murder last month.  Spector’s lawyers are appealing the sentence, considered by many to be a life sentence for a the 69 year old who is in frail health  “He’s adjusting to the circumstances and settling down to wait out an appeal with high hopes. He feels he will win the appeal.”

Prosecutors claimed that after meeting  Clarkson, 40, at the House of Blues club in Los Angeles in 2003 , the producer took her home to his Alhambra, California “castle,” where she was shot to death in the home’s front foyer. Spector had claimed that Clarkson killed herself by putting the gun in her mouth, but his chauffeur said he witnessed Spector emerge from the home holding a gun and heard him say, “I think I killed somebody.”

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Despite Nine Inch Nails aggressive sound, front man Trent Reznor is a softie deep down. He has managed to raise more than $200,000 to help fund a dying man’s heart transplant.

He began offering fans special incentives in exchange for donations to the fund on his website earlier this week (may 18) after seeing a the plight of 27 year old Eric De La Cruz on a news program.

De La Cruz needs to undergo the surgery to survive, but has not been able to secure insurance coverage for the procedure which will cost approximately $780,000. In less than two days Reznor and his fans have been able to contribute $260,000 to De La Cruz’s fund.

Wealthy fans with $1,000 to spare can donate the amount to the good cause and land themselves an invitation from the band to “hang out with us before the NIN /JA (Jane’s Addiction) show of your choice.”

Those less financially well-off can make a smaller donation of $300 to gain access to a soundcheck session and meet-and-greet with Nine Inch Nails.

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Former footballer turned actor Vinnie Jones claims he was acting in self-defense during a bar brawl in Sioux Falls last December.

The alleged victim, Juan Trevino-Barrera, claims Jones was ‘very rude’ and punched him three times in the face.  The brawl allegedly began after Jones tried to join a pool game when witnesses then say Jones became offended when someone asked him if he was “that guy from X-Men” in reference to his role as Juggernaut in the franchise.

 Jones’ lawyer, however  says his client was acting in self-defence when he struck Mr Trevino-Barrera, while on his way to clean his facial injuries.

“Vinnie Jones used very reasonable force in an attempt to protect himself when he finally could,” Mr Wold claimed during opening statements.

However, Sioux Falls police officer Chris Treadway told the court Jones was arrested after admitting punching Mr Trevino-Barrera for heckling and taunting him over his accent.

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After being named as ‘the other man’ in a recent divorce filing, Bruce Springsteen stands by his claims that he is an innocent man. The accusations first surfaced 3 years ago, when he also denied he had been unfaithful to his wife of 18 years, Patti Scialfa.

His rep claims that he stands behind the statements he made, which appeared on his website, back in 2006.

“We have built a beautiful family we love and want to protect and our commitment to one another remains as strong as the day we were married.”

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Jessica Seinfeld just came out with a cookbook. As previously reported, she even visited the Oprah show in order to promote the book and thanked Oprah with some extravagant gifts! Seinfeld’s new “Deceptively Delicious,” about hiding healthy ingredients in foods children will eat, is already the best-selling book in the country, with print runs of 2.5 million through January. But now there seems to be some controversy surrounding Jessica’s best selling book. Chef and baby-products mogul Missy Chase Lapine came out in April with a book, “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals.” Lapine baked her spinach brownies with Al Roker on the “Today” show; Seinfeld shared her spinach brownies with Oprah on that show last week. People are wondering if Jessica ripped of Missy Chase Lapine’s recipes from her book. There are striking similarities between a lot of the recipes.

Lapine, who founded the Baby Spa natural products line, writes: “If you want to hide something in macaroni and cheese, you have to match the color of the dish. You could easily introduce white bean puree in the mac and cheese.”

Seinfeld and Lapine both have recipes for mashed potatoes with hidden cauliflower, grilled cheese with secret sweet potatoes, green eggs made with pureed baby spinach, and carrot-laced tacos.

Lapine’s rep was unable to comment until next week he said. Jessica’s publisher said “Jessica Seinfeld’s work is completely and entirely original and stems from her own personal experience cooking for her own three children and husband. We all know children will see healthy food and run in the other direction. We have full confidence in the originality of Jessica’s recipes. We have been involved in creating the content of this book for almost two years.”

A spokesman for Seinfeld said, “She admits she didn’t invent pureeing. But she never saw the [Lapine] book. And she worked really hard on hers.”

According to a poll, Jamie Lee Curtis’ strip tease in True Lies has been voted the sexiest strip tease in movie history. I don’t know if anyone remembers that movie, but Jamie Lee danced around a bed post in undies. I have to say that she did do a good job.

Kim Basinger in 9 1/2 weeks earned the number 2 spot, while Salma Hayek from From Dusk Till Dawn got the 3rd spot, Elisha Cuthbert earned the number 4 spot for the movie The Girl Next Door.

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