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Oh, those reality-TV producers, always trying to throw us for a loop.

Get the latest elimination proceedings after the jump—and find out how Dancing With the Stars is dealing with Misty May-Treanor's premature demise.

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Nick Nolte is down and out in the Malibu hills. Or is he?

There are conflicting reports about what actually happened at the actor's beach-adjacent homestead this morning around 11:30.

“When they [emergency responders] arrived, the house was fully involved,” Lt. Scott Chew of the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff Station tells E! News. “The occupant of the house, actor Nick Nolte, received a small cut on his right hand when he broke a window to escape the fire.”

The house was declared a total loss, and fire officials estimate the loss at $3.5 million, per Crew. L.A. County Fire Department Inspector Ron Harelson estimated structural damage in the amount of $1.5 million and tacked on another $1.5 million in personal property loss.

Fire department rep Frank Garrido told Us Weekly, meanwhile, that paramedics treated Nolte at the scene for cuts and minor smoke inhalation and that the Prince of Tides star is expected to be just fine.

But though officials are giving closely corresponding accounts of the incident, a rep for the 67-year-old actor put yet another spin on the story. 

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OK, lawyers. Britney Spears has to face the music, you hear?

A three-judge panel has refused to throw out a year-old misdemeanor charge against the popster for driving with an invalid license, a case that's finally scheduled to go to trial Oct. 15 after months of legal wrangling on Spears' behalf.

No explanation was given in the one-page ruling, but the decision was unanimous. A pretrial hearing is set for Wednesday.

Spears' attorney Michael Flanagan filed a 51-page motion in Los Angeles Superior Court Sept. 29 to "immediately stay all proceedings" with the hope that the appellate judges would move to dismiss the charge, which Flanagan has disputed as an example of Spears' celebrity being used against her.

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• Halle Berry is Esquire's new Sexiest Woman Alive. "Being 42 and having just had a baby, I think I’ll take it," she says of the honor. And she's a giver: "I share this title with every woman, because every woman is a nominee for it at any moment." Well, thanks.

• Kanye brought his new music video for "Love Lockdown" on Ellen. Spoiler: There's a couple of nearly naked chicks in Day-Glo paint getting friendly, if you're into that sort of thing.

• Oh yay! Another Jamie Lynn Spears OK! cover to add to our collection. This time we get an inside look at Jamie and Casey's first three months as parents—and a firm denial from Case regarding the cheating rumors.

• Queen Latifah talked to the New York TImes about her sexuality: "I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway."

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Misty May-Treanor is on the rebound.

The Olympic beach volleyball champ and Dancing With the Stars contender is on the mend after going under the knife this morning to repair the Achilles tendon she tore while rehearsing the jive last Friday.

"Thanks for all your concern and well wishes for Misty," her rep tells E! News. "Misty had a successful surgery on her ruptured Achilles this morning.

"She is currently at home and recovering. Her husband Matt is with her."

The crutch-wielding May-Treanor, 31, announced her withdrawal from DWTS on last night's episode of the ABC reality competition.

Still no word whether last week's reject, Kim Kardashian, will return for another spin on the dance floor.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiered big. Friday Night Lights premiered…well… Anyway, it premiered. 

When The Clone Wars bowed in theaters in August, it was called a glorified TV pilot, and sure enough it brought glory to Cartoon Network—4 million viewers for Friday's back-to-back episodes, a new record for the cable network.

Friday Night Lights' third-season opener was watched by, um, 400,000, The New York Times reported, down, um, 6 million viewers from last fall's premiere. But don't punt the football yet: FNL is running exclusively right now on DirecTV, the subscription-only satellite system that helped save the series.

Possibly in need of saving soon: NBC's Heroes , which hit another new low last week (9.5 million) and was down again last night. So no one's watching, right? Not quite.

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Zac, Vanessa, Corbin and Ashley (we know you don't need their last names, otherwise you probably wouldn't even be reading this) continued their glamorous reign over screaming tweens Tuesday, as the quartet converged on Leicester Square in London, England, for yet another premiere of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

Check out the other countries the Wildcats have conquered so far in their ongoing quest for global and, of course, eventual box-office domination in our HSM3 World Tour gallery. The promotion wraps up Oct. 16 in Los Angeles.

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Travis Barker may have been released from Georgia's Joseph M. Still Burn Center last month, but his ongoing treatment is far from over.

E! News has confirmed that the plane crash survivor has been receiving care, including surgery, at a Los Angeles-area hospital.

A source says the former Blink-182 drummer remains in the facility and his condition has been "up and down" since he returned to Southern California.

The 32-year-old rocker was released Sept. 29 from the Augusta, Ga., hospital where he and Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein were taken in the immediate aftermath of the takeoff crash of a Learjet that left the other four people on board dead.

Barker suffered second- and third-degree burns in the Sept. 19 accident but, along with Goldstein, is expected to make a full recovery.

—Additional reporting by Ken Baker