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Nina Garcia isn't saying au revoir to Elle just yet.

Despite rumblings that the fierce (is there any other kind?) Project Runway judge would be making the jump to rival Marie Claire's masthead tout de suite, the media maneuvering now looks to be put off until fall to allow the fashionista—and, more important (to publisher Hachette Filipacchi), the magazine—one more season to shine on the runway hit.

Rather than stay on as Elle's fashion director, her position for the last eight of her 13 years at the magazine, Garcia will become an editor-at-large, a position that she will hold through Sept. 1, Roberta Myers, Elle's editor in chief, announced today.

The time span, needless to say, is just long enough to ensure prime placement for the magazine on the next season of Project Runway.

The announcement comes on the heels of official word that Garcia has already sewn up a job as fashion director at Hearst's Marie Claire, a position that will go into effect on—wait for it—Sept. 2.

The catwalk's never been so catty. Guess the fall forecast is in: Job-hopping is the new black.

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Music today all sounds the same.

Still, the L.A. band Lustra is wondering whether the Hannah Montana song “Rockstar” sounds a little too similar to its song “Scotty Doesn’t Know,” which was used in the movie Eurotrip in 2004.

A spokesperson for Hannah Montana mouthpiece Miley Cyrus directed us to Hollywood Records; the label has not yet responded a request for comment.

The band, of course, did have something to say in a press release. “If Hannah Montana wants us now, who is next? The Jonas Brothers?” asks Lustra’s frontman, Chris Baird.

Yes, we get the feeling he might be enjoying this.

Give the two tunes a listen after the jump. Then tell us what you think in the comments.

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Just when it seemed like Denise Richards' divorce from Charlie Sheen couldn't get any more contentious...enter Ryan Seacrest.

The E! News anchor and executive producer of Denise Richards: It's Complicated spoke with the actress on his KIIS-FM radio show this morning, getting the future reality star to openly—perhaps too openly—discuss the status of her relationship, or lack thereof, with Sheen.

Spoiler alert: It ain't good.

"He just cut me off of child support last week," Richards said. "He doesn't want my kids to have vaccines and shots, but that's a whole other issue. So whatever." (Listen to MP3 of  the entire interview.)

There was no immediate comment from the Sheen camp.

This is the latest bit of acrimony to rear its ugly head in the even uglier split, though for those following the finer points of the former couple's rapidly downward trajectory, it hardly comes as a surprise.

"We don't speak—at all," she said of her contact with Sheen, adding that she has suggested they "see a mediator and just put our stuff aside."

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Hey, look! Tori Spelling poses with her cute son, Liam, as part of Skechers' new Nothing Compares to Family campaign, which includes a charitable element.

That’s right, Tori Spelling—who famously feuded with her mother and got shafted during the doling out of her late father’s estate.

Um...Go family!

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Say what you want about Alec Baldwin, but the man clearly learns from his (very public) mistakes. Sort of.

"If you go through the things I have gone through with the media, like this thing with my daughter, there's only one thing that comes to mind initially: That is how my daughter must have felt to have this played out in public," he tells 60 Minutes of that voice mail in an interview to air Sunday.

"The second thing I realize is, you can pretty much bet all you own that I would never leave another voice mail message for my daughter that wasn't just like something out of a Rodgers & Hammerstein score."

But while the 30 Rock star may refrain from calling his daughter a "thoughtless little pig" on a recorded medium again, he, much to the enjoyment of the public, apparently won't be exercising similar restraint with regard to those on his ex-wife's payroll.

When asked by Morley Safer whether it was appropriate to call Kim Basinger's divorce lawyer "a 300-pound homunculus with a face like a clenched fist," Baldwin replies, "I was being kind, Morley."

Jack Donaghy couldn't have said it better himself.

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Pot, meet kettle.

Marie Osmond, that doll-making savior of Middle America, has uncharacteristically lashed out at Billy Ray Cyrus' parenting skills in the wake of daughter Miley's back-baring photo flap.

"My parents never, never left us alone," the little-bit-country one told AOL Television. "We always had some form of a guardian or something with us, a guardian that would represent what they would have done. But in [Miley's] case, her dad stepped out [of the photo session], and that's when it happened.

"How do you say no to somebody like Annie [Leibovitz] when you're a little girl? It's an interesting thing that happened with her."

Also interesting, perhaps at least to Cyrus, is that Osmond's own adopted teenage son checked himself into rehab just last year.

In his defense, when there's no form of a guardian around—when they're busy, say, fainting on national television—it's hard to say no to somebody like Jack [Daniels].

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It must have been Mary-Kate's headband that did her in.

Apprarently, when Maxim releases its upcoming Hot 100 List, Ashley Olsen will have made the cut, but not her twin.

Now, whether either of them should be on there is open for debate, but seriously, how do you choose one over the other? Who can even tell them apart in the first place? (We think that's Ash to the left at the Met Costume Gala with designer Christian Louboutin.)

What's more, sources tell the New York Post that not only does Ashley (at No. 47) smoke out her other half, she manages to rank higher than Jessica Simpson (No. 53), who, in turn, gets beat out by her sibling, Ashlee (No. 18).

No word yet on who takes the top spot, but let's hope, for her sake, she doesn't have a celebrity sister.

Barbara Walters lacks passion? A certain former senator from Massachusetts may respectfully disagree, but Rosie O'Donnell has wasted no time in calling out her former coworkers' lack of heat as one of the causes of tension on The View.

"Passion on that show was not number one," O'Donnell said on the Today show. "Some people confuse passion for rage. I have a lot of passion about things I believe in."

The oversize personality also said that, despite appearances, she never stirred the pot for controversy's sake, simply for honesty's.

"When somebody would say something that I found insane, I would say, 'That's insane.' "

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Forget about Heidi and L.C. for a sec. There's a new Hills rivalry brewing, as Spencer Pratt and Jason Wahler duke it out in the press over an alleged sex tape.

Spencer tells Tyra Banks on her show Tuesday, "I know for 100% fact [the sex tape between L.C. and Wahler] did exist—1000%!"

J-Wahl quickly responded via Usmagazine.com: ""I do not have a sex tape of Lauren Conrad, and one does not exist. Spencer Pratt is lying again to get attention."

But Spencer stands by his account...

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If it were up to LeBron James, Jay-Z would win the NBA Sixth Man of the Year trophy.

The current playoff matchup between the Cleveland Cavilers and the Washington Wizards has triggered some bitter trash talk between King James and Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson, with Jay-Z inserting himself into the fray by recording a diss track on James' behalf.

In the midst of his Heart of the City tour with Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z recorded a freestyle rap over Too Short's "Blow the Whistle" that included lines like "I don't even know y'all name/ Too big for you to rap LeBron James" and "I don't know what y'all on/ It's chess, know the difference between a King and a pawn."

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Is Iman dissing Heidi Klum, or just telling it like it is?

"I'm not belittling Heidi Klum, but I have been in fashion much more than she has. Not to toot my own horn, but I have been one of the best runway girls," the Somalian supermodel and wife of David Bowie was reportedly quoted as saying.

Iman currently hosts Project Runway: Canada, and tooted, er, talked more about her qualifications, perhaps hoping to make a move south of the fashion border?

"I know clothes, and I know about working hand in hand with designers—I mean, I've worked with Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, John Galliano. Yves Saint Laurent—he created a whole collection for me. Tom Ford, Valentino. Versace. Jean-Paul Gaultier. Thierry Mugler—I could go on and on."

Yes, she probably could—but as much as we love her, we are busy. So in the meantime, check out some other fabulous supermodels in our supermodel supergallery.