Lady GaGa to Perform ARTPOP Single at MTV Video Music Awards

possible first single "Applause" from her much-anticipated new studio album "ARTPOP" coming out on August 19, it's now announced that Lady GaGa will first perform it live right at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It will be the 27-year-old entertainer's first performance since being sidelined by a hip surgery earlier this year. As for other firsts, so far only GaGa has been confirmed to perform at this year's awards ceremony, with less than a month away from the expectedly star-studded show. Top nomination getters as Justin Timberlake, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Bruno Mars, Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, Pink and 30 Seconds to Mars are most likely being eyed for the line-up of performers. GaGa...

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Claws and Heart Get a Workout in Japan

Though I sometimes tire of the sufferings of superheroes, I have a permanent soft spot for the Wolverine, the Marvel mutant whose indestructibility causes him endless physical and existential pain. As played by Hugh Jackman through six “X-Men” features (including one about the Wolverine’s origins), he is a shaggy, soulful, perpetually roughed-up character, and a bit of a misfit even among his peers. More About This Movie The Wolverine Overview Tickets & Showtimes New York Times Review Cast, Credits & Awards Readers' Reviews Trailers & Clips View Clip... Enlarge This Image Ben Rothstein/20th Century Fox The Wolverine's Japanese bodyguard, Yukio (Rila Fukushima). “The Wolverine,” directed by James...

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Jeffrey Deitch to quit as head of L A Museum of Contemporary Art

Jeffrey Deitch has made it official: He'll be stepping down after a stormy three years as director of L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art. The MOCA board said it had launched a search for his successor. Deitch told the board of his decision to leave at its meeting Wednesday, according to a MOCA statement. "He will stay on to ensure a smooth transition and the successful completion" of a campaign begun in March to boost MOCA's endowment to $100 million, the statement said. The statement said the campaign is "expected to close this fall." MOCA said this spring it had $75 million in pledges, but provided no update Wednesday. GRAPHIC: MOCA's relationship with Jeffrey Deitch It was not immediately clear whether Deitch, whose resignation comes...

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TMZ Live Amanda Conservatorship In the Works

Amanda Bynes 5150 might be extended, as sources close to the situation tell us doctors think she may be suffering from Schizophrenia. (8:00) The Royal baby has a name! George Alexander Louis? Royal name or boring name? (15:00) Anthony Weiner's New York campaign has been derailed after more revealing photos have been released. Will this cost him the primary? (18:00) We interview "Hardcore Pawn" star Les Gold about the bankrupt city of Detroit. (24:00) Conrad Murray has a very clear message to the Jackson family and AEG, if they ask him to testify, he has a nuclear confession in store. (29:00) Adam Levine send a text to his ex-girlfriend telling her he's engaged! Forward thinking or low blow? (32:00) Richard Gere's Hamptons home is up for...

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Chuck NorrisWalker Texas Ranger house is for sale

They say Chuck Norris doesn't host an open house. He decides you're going to buy his house. Norris doesn't want the Dallas-area home that once served as the on-screen domicile of his alter ego Cordell Walker on "Walker, Texas Ranger," so he's listed it. According to the Associated Press, the four-bedroom home in the Dallas neighborhood of Northwood Hills has been put on the market for $1.2 million. That includes a weight room, seven bathrooms, a theater and a separate building on the property that was used as a studio during production of "Walker," which aired on CBS from 1993 to 2001. It does not include a kicking room. Even Walker liked to leave his work at the office. The 7,362-square-foot home was co-owned by Norris and his brother,...

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Toronto Film Festival 2013 to Premiere Mandela Long Walk to Freedom The Fifth Estate and More

The Toronto International Film Festival has recently announced part of its line-up for this year. Running from September 5-15, the annual prestigious event will be kicked off by "The Fifth Estate", a Julian Assange movie with Benedict Cumberbatch as the WikiLeaks founder. "As soon as we saw it, we knew that it would set the right tone for opening night. It's a movie about what we thought is one of the most important issues of the day - information and who controls it," Cameron Bailey, the festival's artistic director, said of the Bill Condon film in a statement on Tuesday. Another biopic that will also get the gala treatment is "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom", starring Idris Elba. In addition to the Mandela pic, The Weinstein Co. will...

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Amanda Bynes is on mental lockdown

The sad , lurid saga of Amanda Bynes continues unabated. The actress was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold — also known as 5150 — in Los Angeles on Monday after setting a fire in a driveway, according to TMZ.com. She can be held only for 72 hours. According to Captain Don Aguilar of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, "Amanda Bynes was involved in a disturbance in a residential neighborhood last night in Thousand Oaks in the 200-block of Avenida De Los Arboles. Deputies investigated the incident and determined that she met the criteria of 5150 W&I (California Welfare & Institutions Code). She was detained and taken for a mental health evaluation." Back in January 2008, Britney Spears also was placed on lockdown for 72...

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Pearl Jam Debut New Material at Wrigley Field

t was nearly 2 a.m. at Wrigley Field; Friday's Pearl Jam show in Chicago had now stretched into Saturday and frontman Eddie Vedder was fully prepared to keep going. "We have five minutes left," he told the capacity crowd gathered for the band’s first-ever gig at the baseball stadium. "But we don't want to mess it up in case we ever want to play here again." No one complained: It had been a marathon of an evening – even by Pearl Jam standards. Seven songs into the show, fans were evacuated from the main floor and endured a two-hour rain delay before being allowed to return to their seats in time to watch the Seattle musicians rock well into the early-morning hours. The New Immortals: Pearl Jam The Wrigley show was one of only a handful...

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Avengers Age Of Ultron Sequel Announced At Epic Marvel Panel

After impressive San Diego Comic-Con showings from both Warner Bros, with the big Batman/Superman announcement, and Fox's "X-Men: Days of Future Past" all-star photo op, Marvel Studios, the reigning king of the superhero movie, needed to come into Hall H swinging. So they brought a god. Tom Hiddleston came out in character as Loki, the god of mischief, to warm up the crowd and make fun of them for standing in line to see panel, and by the end, the room was boiling and ready for some surprises.                                                            News source:www.mtv.co...

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Glee Boss Ryan Murphy Breaks Silence On Cory Monteiths Death

t's hard to even explain how personally upsetting it is." With those words to E! News, 'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy broke a week-long silence following the death last Saturday (July 13) of Cory Monteith. In an interview published Saturday (July 20), Murphy discussed Monteith's struggles with addiction, his passing and the process of deciding the Fox show's fate. On this last question, Murphy said he and Fox executives left the decision up to Monteith's co-star and off-screen girlfriend, Lea Michelle. "[She] felt that the best thing for the cast and crew was to be together and to get back to work and be together every day and talk about our memories of him," he explained. "So we decided to do that with Lea's blessing and we're going to...

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Dexter takes final season bow at Comic Con

SAN DIEGO -- Comic-Con fans showed their love for a serial killer Thursday as longtime favorite Dexter made its final appearance at the fan convention. The Showtime drama with one of TV's most unusual protagonists finished shooting its final season last week and the finale will run in September. The panel was mostly laughs, but there were a few tears, as actors discussed the impending end. Michael C. Hall, who plays Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter expert with a gruesome sideline, said the ending will sink in about when it would have been time to return to shoot a new season. "Our conscious minds are aware that it's over. Our bodies, five months from now, will start knocking on the door, wondering why we're not doing Dexter again," he...

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BatmanSuperman teamup movie coming in 2015

SAN DIEGO --Start your drooling, fanboys and fangirls, and get ready for lots of Batarangs and heat vision. Batman and Superman will soon be teaming up on a big screen near you. At a Warner Bros. panel at Comic-Con Saturday, the studio announced that Henry Cavill, the star of this summer's Man of Steel, will reprise the role of Superman in a sequel that will also feature Batman. Man of Steel director Zack Snyder will act in the same capacity for the follow-up, expected in 2015. No casting for Batman was mentioned but Snyder teased that the Gotham City hero's relationship with Superman in Frank Miller's seminal 1980s comic The Dark Knight Returns will inform aspects of Man of Steel 2.  News source: www.usatoday.c...

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Game of Thrones at Comic-Con 2013 A Post Red Wedding Reunion

After a facepalm-y close call this afternoon where I almost missed the Game of Thrones panel because it's only Day 2 of Comic-Con but dammit I'm already beat and I mistakenly thought it started later than it did, I made it into Hall H just in time to catch the end of what I'm assuming was a relatively lengthy "In Memoriam" montage, set to Boyz II Men's "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" and featuring character deaths from Seasons 1-3. After that, out came the panelists: showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Michelle Fairley (the late Catelyn Stark), John Bradley (Samwell Tarley), Kit Harrington (Jon Snow), Richard Madden (Robb Stark), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), Emilia Clarke (Dany Targaryen),...

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The Walking Dead' back Oct 13

And we've got a ne w season premiere date for "The Walking Dead:" Oct. 13, a bit earlier than usual but timed to lead into AMC's horror flick marathon, AMCFearfest, going into its seventeenth year, if you can believe it... Same time, same place: Sundays at 9, and as per last season, "TWD" will be split into a pair of mini-seasons, each 8 episodes in length. Yes, all big news out at Comic-Con -- see pix, above -- which is just underway. Meanwhile, this overview, gratis AMC: In the highly anticipated new season, we find Rick and the group fostering a thriving community in the safe haven of the prison. Sadly, in this brutal world, happiness is short-lived, and walkers and outside threats are no match for danger brewing inside the fences....

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Adrienne Bailon Removes Rob Kardashian Tattoo on Her Butt

decision to make a tattoo of her then-boyfriend's name, Rob Kardashian. The "Uncontrollable" singer inked the name on her butt, while he got her name on his left ribcage. The singer, however, no longer wants the permanent ink after they split. "I've gotten pretty bad tattoos before," Adrienne told co-host Tamar Braxton, Tamera Mowry, Loni Love and Jeannie Mai in an episode of her talk show, "The Real". "Everybody knows I have the ratchet-iest booty tattoo of an ex-boyfriend. I don't know what I was thinking," she added. She is currently "in the process" of getting the tattoo removed. "It does not feel good. You could smell your flesh burning. And it's my a** flesh burning! It's awful. Ten-letter last name, Kardashian. It's pretty bad,...

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Romanians Tale Has Art World Fearing the Worst

PARIS — To Olga Dogaru, a lifelong resident of the tiny Romanian village of Carcaliu, the strangely beautiful artworks her son had brought home in a suitcase four months earlier had become a curse. Multimedia Slide Show Art World Fears Fate of Missing Masterpieces World Twitter Logo. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Enlarge This Image Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press A Romanian forensic expert at work in a laboratory at the National History Museum in Bucharest. More Photos » Readers’ Comments Share your thoughts. Post a Comment » Read All Comments (16) » No matter, she said, that the works — seven in all — were signed by Picasso,...

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The Conjuring The Reviews Are In

In a summer where most of the spectacle exists for you to watch it as wide-eyed as possible, "The Conjuring" promises to offer thrills that will have you squinting from between your fingers. Based on the real-life case files of Lorraine and Ed Warren, the film follows the Perron family as they move into a new home and find themselves terrorized by a supernatural menace. James Wan, who already terrified audiences with "Saw" and "Insidious," directs. But how good is Wan at wringing thrills out of similar kinds of material after so many movies? And how scary is "The Conjuring" in comparison to other recent scary movies? MTV News assembled a cross section of reviews from web critics who offered their thoughts about Wan's work, the Warrens'...

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Ryan Goslings Only God Forgives The Reviews Are In

Set in a neon-drenched Bangkok, the film follows the drug-smuggling Julian (Gosling), whose unhinged mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) convinces him to avenge the murder of his brother. (A plot which Gosling told MTV News reminded him of a certain video game.) Yet, while "Drive" sped into critical-darling territory following its debut at the Cannes International Film Festival, "Only God Forgives" seems to be stalled at the start. Check out what the critics have to say. The Story " 'Only God Forgives' doesn't have a script so much as a body count. Its characters, even the one played by Gosling (his name is Julian), don't pretend to be more than one-note abstractions. Julian's brother kills a teenage prostitute, and is then murdered for the...

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Emmy Awards 2013 Netflix bets and wins with House of Cards nom Boardwalk Empire loses out

The Emmys gave a generous welcome to the new kid on the block, Netflix. The online streaming service, which only dove into original programming a year ago, reaped nine nominations for "House of Cards," a gripping political drama starring Kevin Spacey that was based on the British series of the same name. Netflix's ascendancy has been likened to the rise in high-glass cable dramas in the 1990s. HBO has been a major force at the Emmys ever since, followed more recently by AMC with "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" and Showtime with "Dexter" and "Homeland." In fact, this year marks the first time that no Big Four network show earned a best drama nomination. Though last year Showtime's "Homeland," coming off a powerful premiere season, took home...

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The Cuckoos Calling

Few writers in history, possibly none, have given as many readers as much happiness as J.K. Rowling has. That made it easy to accept the flaws in her first adult novel, last year's The Casual Vacancy — truthful but leaden satire has always been her weakest mode — and to accept as well that she might spend some time experimenting with books more interesting to her than her public. But now, more quickly than we had any right to expect, comes good news: The master is back. In The Cuckoo's Calling, a detective novel that Rowling published under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, she returns to the strengths that made Harry Potter great — the beautiful sense of pacing, the deep but illusionless love for her characters — without sacrificing...

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Adam Levine Engaged The Voice judge and Victorias Secret model Behati Prinsloo are tying the knot

Let the countdown begin for the world's most beautiful babies: On Tuesday (July 16), a rep for Adam Levine announced that the hunky Maroon 5 frontman and his girlfriend, Victoria's Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo are engaged. "Adam Levine and his girlfriend Behati Prinsloo are excited to announce they are engaged to be married," his rep told People. "The couple recently reunited and Adam proposed this weekend in Los Angeles." Levine, who previously dated another model, Anne Vyalitsyna, began dating Prinsloo last year, but the two reportedly broke up in late spring. The news comes as a crushing blow to the millions of women who have proposed to him through the screen whenever he appears on the reality competition show "The Voice," as well...

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Coroner Glee actor Cory Monteith died of overdose of heroin and alcohol

VANCOUVER, British Columbi a — “Glee” actor Cory Monteith, who had struggled for years with substance abuse and once said he was lucky to be alive, died of an overdose of heroin and alcohol, the British Columbia coroner’s office said Tuesday. “There is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith’s death was anything other than a most tragic accident,” the office said in a statement. Gallery Notable deaths of 2013: A look at those who have died this year. GoingOut Guide Looking for things to do? Select one or more criteria to search Kid-friendly Free admission Get ideas The 31-year-old was found dead in his Vancouver, British Columbia, hotel room on Saturday after he didn’t check out on time. He was believed to be alone when he died. Hotel video...

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Jenny McCarthy's 'The View' Hiring Draws Snarky Comments on Twitter

o take a vacant seat on the panel. The 40-year-old actress and author would join the show at the start of the new season on September 9 as a permanent co-host, Barbara Walters announced it on Monday, July 15. "We are delighted that Jenny will be joining us as a permanent cohost on 'The View' starting in September," Walters said in a statement. "Jenny brings us intelligence as well as warmth and humor. She can be serious and outrageous. She has connected with our audience and offers a fresh point of view. Jenny will be a great addition to the show as we usher in an exciting new chapter for 'The View'." McCarthy gushed about her new gig, "I'm beyond thrilled ... I look forward to helping make hot topics a little bit hotter, and showing...

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Dave Matthews fans give the singer a lift to his show

HERSHEY, Pa. — A fan on her way to a Dave Matthews concert at Hersheypark Stadium pulled over to help a stranded bicyclist who turned out to be none other than the singer himself. Emily Kraus and her boyfriend pulled over Saturday to give a ride to a man whose bike had apparently broken down, she told WHP-TV in Harrisburg. They realized it was Matthews, who didn't have a cellphone to call for assistance. They helped him stow his gear on their bike rack and he got in their car for the rest of the ride, according to the Associated Press. "We didn't know how to make conversation with him, in fact, so we were talking about his tour and where he had come from," Kraus said. "He had just been in Cincinnati and he said, 'I'm taking a short break...

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Fruitvale Station BET to air special about the film

BET will put the spotlight on "Fruitvale Station"with a special behind-the-scenes program that focuses on the making of the film. "Fruitvale Station: The Story of Oscar Grant" will air at 7:30 p.m. tonight (July 15) and will re-air at 10 p.m. Friday on Centric. The special arrives following "Fruitvale's" strong opening box office performance over the weekend, along with increased public interest in the film, which debuted concurrently with the climax of the George Zimmerman trial. "Fruitvale Station," starring Michael B. Jordan in a breakout performance, is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black man who, while unarmed, was shot to death by a white BART police officer  News source: www.mercurynews.c...

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The show goes on for Mariah Carey in Central Park Elysa Gardner

NEW YORK — A diva may be measured not just by how she acts under duress, but how she dresses. Mariah Carey, who dislocated her shoulder July 7 while shooting a music video, turned up Saturday night at Central Park's Great Lawn in a dazzling, form-fitting white gown by Natalia Danilova — and matching sling. Carey had only recently left the hospital, but she was set to perform as a guest of the New York Philharmonic at the Major League Baseball All-Star Charity Concert, benefiting relief efforts for Hurricane Sandy                                                            News source: www...

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Despicable Me 2 Fends Off Grown Ups Pacific Rim At Box Office

Giant monsters, giant robots and even Adam Sandler and all of his buddies fell before the might of little yellow minions over the weekend. "Despicable Me 2" was the #1 movie in America for a second time, narrowly edging out newcomer "Grown Ups 2" and decisively beating big-budget sci-fi action contender "Pacific Rim," which settled for a #3 debut. It was one of the more unpredictable box office races in recent memory, with all three films switching places on the scorecard all weekend long. In the end, animated sequel "Despicable Me 2" took the #1 spot with an estimated $44.8 million. Featuring the voices of Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove, Kristen Wiig and 2012 MTV Movie Awards host Russell Brand, the movie has generated great reviews,...

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This Detective Novels Story Doesnt Add Up

Readers described it as complex, compelling and scintillating. They compared the author — a former military police investigator writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith — to P. D. James, Ruth Rendell and Kate Atkinson. They said the book seemed almost too assured and sophisticated to be a first novel. As it happens, they were right. In one of the great publishing coups in recent years, “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” which has sold just 1,500 copies in Britain so far, turns out to have been written not by an ex-British Army officer, or by a new writer, or even by a man. Instead, its author is J. K. Rowling, whose Harry Potter novels have made her one of the world’s best-selling, and best-known, authors. Ms. Rowling was unmasked by The Sunday...

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Ryan Seacrest to Host NBCs MILLION SECOND QUIZ Competition Series

As if he doesn't already have enough on his plate, Ryan Seacrest is close to signing a deal to host a new NBC competition series MILLION SECOND QUIZ, according to TV Line. The 24-hour live competition will feature "contestants testing their knowledge and endurance in a battle of trivia for 12 days and nights." According to the report, the series is set to debut on September 9 at 8/7c and continue through September 14 in the same timeslot. After taking a break on the 15th for the network's broadcast of Sunday Night Football, the show will resume on September 16 and air continuously up to the finale on the 19th. The American Idol host Seacrest also helms a daily morning radio show out of Los Angeles as well as the weekly American Top 40...

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Kanye tweets frustration over leaked Skinhead video

Kanye West's Black Skinhead video, the first visual from his acclaimed Yeezus album, popped up online Monday and, like most events in the rapper's universe, it was quickly followed by controversy. The clip, depicting CGI animation of the shirtless West in a mask, was an incomplete, leaked version, the rapper revealed in several tweets today. Famous for explosive Twitter rants, West fired off missives that were unusually restrained compared to past eruptions. "The BLKKK SKKKN HD video that leaked yesterday was not the official version," West tweeted. "Me and Nick Knight have been working on this video for 5 months and for creative it's heartbreaking when something like this happens." "So any websites that may have the unapproved / unfinished...

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Clooney Keibler Broke Up Over the Phone

George Clooney and Stacy Keibler phoned in the end of their relationship ... as in, they broke up over the phone while they were half-a-world apart ... TMZ has learned. Sources close to the couple tell us ... the two had been growing apart over the past 3 months, with George in Europe working on a movie and Stacy in L.A. working on her new TV show. But with Clooney scheduled to remain in Berlin until December -- Stacy decided she couldn't do the long distance for another 5 months. One source tells us, "Both sides realized there is no way to have a relationship when you don't see each other." We're told the two talked out the situation like adults -- and both agreed going their separate ways was best. So how did George handle it? Like...

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck bids farewell to The View

t was billed as "Elisabeth's huge announcement" on Wednesday's View. And it was the hot topic that kicked off the show, as Elisabeth Hasselbeck walked in arm-in-arm with Barbara Walters. "I am a little emotional," said a shaky Barbara Walters, "or as Barbara sometimes says, I'm a little verklempt." She continued: "It was reported last night that our Elisabeth is leaving us to join to the Fox network. ... As you can see I'm a little teary. I always want what's best for you. You know how I feel about you. " Then she said, "I'm happy that you're going." Realizing her blunder, she quickly said, "No, I'm not happy that you're going! ... You tell us about it." Hasselbeck said, "I'm happy and excited to confirm that I'll be joining the Fox...

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