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If what you wear says a lot about who you are, someone might want to get Joey Fatone to therapy, stat!

The former member of 'N Sync donned a rather pessimistic—although arguably valid—shirt that read, "Has Been."

Of course, it probably didn't make him feel any better when former bandmate J.C. Chasez told MTV the group would never get back together.

Or maybe all of Justin Timberlake's success has him down in the dumps. Still, we can't help but feel a little bad for Fatone. Anyone got a smiley face T-shirt we can borrow?

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Mark Twain famously said, "Clothes make the man." See what other potentially self-fulfilling prophesies stars are wearing these days in our new Fashion Statements gallery!

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Well look what the cat might not have to drag in after all.

Randy and Evi Quaid have posted bond and there is no longer an outstanding warrant for their arrest on charges of bailing on a $10,000 hotel bill, according to the Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office.

"If they don't show up to court, a bounty hunter will go and get them," Deputy D.A. Lee Carter joked to People.

The couple had posted bail of $20,000 apiece after being arrested in Marfa, Texas, but they were required to pay the same amount in California, where the alleged defrauding of an innkeeper took place.

In total, they've skipped four opportunities to appear before a judge.

Carter started extradition proceedings after the Quaids failed to show up for court a second time and the judge refused to put their case back on the schedule until they had posted bond—which was going to happen one way or another, voluntarily or not.

The Kingpin star and his wife are due to be arraigned Dec. 15 on misdemeanor charges of burglary, conspiracy and the ever-quaint defrauding an innkeeper.

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Silly wabbits, tricks are for kids—like the ones in our Famous Families gallery.

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Listen, if Gwen Stefani wanted to croon like a dude about about doing it with hookers, don't you think she would have done it by now?

Unfortunately, the makers of the newly released Band Hero didn't take the hint and allowed for the avatar of No Doubt's frontwoman to be manipulated into doing just that. Which means only one thing: lawsuit time!

The rock band has filed suit against the video game purveyor Activision, alleging fraudulent inducement and breach of contract, claiming that while Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young all signed off on allowing their likenesses to be used, it came with the stipulation that the company could only employ the use of three of their songs, "Don't Speak," "Excuse Me Mr." and "Just a Girl."

Apparently the technical brainboxes at Activison didn't take the hint from that last song title.

The gamemakers allow players to manipulate Stefani and crew so they can perform more than 60 songs—and here's the sticking point—of other artists, turning the No Doubters, per the lawsuit, into little more than "a virtual karaoke circus act."

The song No Doubt seem to have taken the most issue with is the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Woman," claiming that manipulation "results in an unauthorized performance by the Gwen Stefani avatar in a male voice boasting about having sex with prostitutes."

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Viewers, prepare your TiVos: there's a sure-to-be shambolic new reality show in the Hoffing.

A few weeks ago, reports surfaced that David Hasselhoff might be bringing his trainwreck life to the airwaves (spurred on by his daughter's since-rescinded Twitter claim that the show was a done deal). And while no air date has been set you, the reality project appears to be inching its way toward, well, reality.

"We are in discussions about the possibility of a series, but nothing official at this time," a rep for A&E tells E! News.

Well, somebody's gotta replace those Gosselins.

Teenage Hoffspring Hayley and Taylor, no strangers to candid-camera footage, are expected to appear alongside their dad, a detail seemingly corroborated by Hayley earlier this month.

"The Hasselhoffs signed the deal with A&E…Get readdyy for it," she tweeted in a post that has since been removed from her page.

Ex-wife Pamela Bach, it should surprise no one, will not be appearing in the show. Apparently, you don't hassle an ex-Hoff, either.

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No doubt this show will generate plenty of superlatives but spooky won't be one of them. So check out the Spookiest Show on TV already, won't ya?

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Déjà vu.

During Jon Gosselin's Sunday night appearance at New York City's West Side Jewish Center, the world's most famous reality dad had yet another public epiphany, alongside his newest companion, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Everything got covered during Gosselin's forum, Gawker reports, including his excuse for arriving 40 minutes late. When he got over his own tardiness, he shared on his desire to be out of the spotlight, his rumored split with Hailey Glassman and his request for forgiveness from his estranged wife, Kate.

"I think I'm just misunderstood. I'm not a fame seeker. Everyday I look in the mirror and I wonder [why I'm famous]," asked the reality star at the public event. "I don't sing. I don't dance. I'm not a Nobel Peace Prize winner. I just had eight kids and I had a show on TLC."

TLC fame or not, Gosselin says he in no way condones his actions over the past few months.

"Half the stuff I've done, if I look at my moral compass, I shouldn't have done," he said. "I know that, but I did it anyway. It's like fame canceled out conviction. I didn't grow up this way. But I have to keep on going, keep on working and providing." And in regards to his children, Gosselin stated: "I know I'll have to explain my actions."

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Nothing like a little natural disaster to bring out the funny.

As high-powered winds wreaked havoc in Los Angeles last night, the lights in Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show studio suddenly went pitch black during the last few seconds of his interview with Alicia Silverstone—to the surprise of host, guest and stagehands, and, thanks to the quick-thinking Ferguson, the amusement of viewers.

"Oh!" the suddenly faceless Ferguson cried out. "Oooh, it's getting close to Halloween. This is awesome. We've gone to radio, everybody!"

When prompted by a producer to "keep going," for the last few seconds before the commercial break, Ferguson had a hard time grasping the notion, but like any obliging cheeky monkey, did as he was told.

"Keep going, keep going what? Keep going?! We'll be right back everybody."

The power managed to come back for Ferguson's second interview, with Salman Rushdie (not even a force of nature would dare come between a man and his fatwa), but conked back out by the end of the show.

Not that that put a crimp in the enterprising (and flashlight-possessing) host's late-night denouement...

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An infant's unwavering devotion to matricide, good. Jokes about incest and deaf people, now that, according to Microsoft, is crossing the line.

Doing absolutely nothing to fight its uncool reputation, the software giant has pulled out of sponsoring Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show, what would have been an otherwise ad-free variety special from Stewie mastermind Seth MacFarlane.

In exchange for the corporate backing, the show would have seamlessly woven promotions for Windows 7, its latest operating system, into the show. But after some Microsoft bigwigs attended the live taping of the special on Oct. 16—and heard jokes about deaf people, the Holocaust, incest and feminine hygiene—the company bailed.

As the jokes themselves were completely in keeping with the MacFarlane brand of envelope-pushing comedy, the abrupt pullout certainly gives off the impression that no one from Team Gates had bothered to check out an episode of the show prior to signing up for the deal.

Either that or the Microsoft crew has particularly delicate sensibilities.

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First, she admits to cutting herself, now she's making criminals of meat-eaters. Make no mistake, Natalie Portman is all grown up and not some shrinking violet.

Penning what amounts to a Harvard-caliber book report for the Huffington Post, the actress and animal rights activist holds forth on her devotion to veganism and her opinion that those who choose to feast on flesh without regard for the moral implications might as well change their name to Roman Polanski.

The 28-year-old—with whose glowing self veganism clearly agrees—starts off harmlessly enough, crediting Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with her transition from 20 years of vegetarianism to eschewing all animal byproducts.

"I've always been shy about being critical of others' choices because I hate when people do that to me," she writes. "I'm often interrogated about being vegetarian (e.g., 'What if you find out that carrots feel pain, too? Then what'll you eat?').

"I've also been afraid to feel as if I know better than someone else—a historically dangerous stance (I'm often reminded that 'Hitler was a vegetarian, too, you know.') But this book reminded me that some things are just wrong."

That's where the criminalization of carnivores comes in.

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Randy Quaid's going to be spending his Christmas vacation in the clink if he's not careful.

The Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office is drawing up the paperwork to have Quaid and his wife Evi extradited from Texas, where the duo opted to remain rather than show up for a court hearing today in their unpaid bill case.

"The D.A.'s Office will be seeking extradition of the Quaids," spokesman Lee Carter tells E! News. "That process will take at least two to three weeks. I started to prepare the extradition paperwork when they did not appear last week."

What foresight!

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Celebrity deaths can be tragic.

Or they can be tragically ridiculous.

Thanks to the Interwebs, fake celebrity deaths have been running rampant. Kanye West supposedly lost his life in a car crash this week, while Zach Braff recently had to create a video to prove he was still kicking despite tales of a fatal pill-popping episode.

And by now we know that any star rumored to have fallen off a cliff in New Zealand is more likely to have slipped into an Internet hoax. The Kauri Cliffs have supposedly taken Natalie Portman, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks from us.

Some have died at the hands of Twitter and Wikipedia, while others have met dramatic driving demises. Needless to say, not all false death alarms were created equal. Some are definitely more believable than others.

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Get the scoop on all the celebs who survived their own supposed deaths in our Alive & Kicking gallery!

Before he was allegedly stuffing his six-year-old in a box, hiding him in the attic and then calling the police to say the boy just floated off in a giant balloon, reality-show dreamer Richard Heene was just a normal guy trying to make a kids show about his apparent love of boxes. (That's what normal guys do, right?)

"Box Time" was shot in 2000 and produced by My You Me Productions (hey! that's how you pronounce his wife Mayumi's name!). In the show, a hyperactive Richard teaches kids how to make cool things out of boxes with the help of a primitively animated box named Boxster who makes bad box jokes. 

Did you know animated boxes often suffer from fits of creepy laughter? Well, they do, and it's worth watching the 30-second clip above to experience such a strange sight, which is only made stranger when you realize Richard is actually the one voicing that floating box.

Now that Richard's all famous, maybe this will get picked up and we will learn new box tricks, like how to build a shield to save us from lizard people or something.

—Reporting by Marcus Mulick

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We're not sure if anyone was in cahoots with the Balloon Brood, but we're starting to get a long list of those people who aren't, right William Shatner?

With the local Colorado on the hunt for possible coconspirators—including those with a Hollywood pedigree—in what he claims was a major publicity stunt gone way wrong, people can't distance themselves from the Heene family fast enough.

Those about-facing from the Heenes include Britain's RDF Media, a television production company that confirmed to E! News it was once working with the Heene clan on a possible reality show, a connection RDF now adamantly claims was long dissolved prior to Balloongate.

"At one point in time, we had a show in development with the Heenes," a company rep said.

Had being the operative word.

"We are no longer in active development with the family. Like everyone else in America, we were stunned and held our breath while the events unfolded and like everyone else, we are extremely thankful for the fact that Falcon is safe with his family."

It's RDF which first loosed the family onto the unsuspecting airwaves, thanks to the company-produced Wife Swap, on which the Heenes appeared in March.

Among those also not working with the Heenes...

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