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Meghan Markle believes she and Prince Harry are being 'picked on' and the restrictions being placed on them are 'payback' for wanting to be independent, she told her close friends, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Meghan grumbled to her inner circle last week over the Queen banning the couple from using the word 'royal' in their 'branding', later issuing an extraordinary statement appearing to complain the palace was treating them differently to other family members. 'Meghan said that [she and Harry] were left with no choice but to make a public statement,' a friend explained. 'She said if anyone should feel...

Prince Andrew's suggestion that sex is a 'positive act' for a man, so therefore difficult to forget, is said to have left Meghan Markle 'troubled'. A source, described as 'close to The Duchess of Sussex' spoke to The Daily Telegraph criticising his BBC Newsnight interview and describing Meghan's reaction to seeing it. After a week of catastrophic headlines for Prince Andrew, in which his charities have abandoned him, Meghan's camp hit out at the Duke. 'The interview left everyone watching it wanting to curl under a table. It just got worse and worse and worse,' a source close to the...

You remember when bonnie lass "Kristen," the girl who brought down a governor, was profiled this morning in the New York Times? They reported her age at 22, which seems about right. She's a lovely young thing, and, well, when you're paying you might as well buy the ripest fruit. (Oh God, ew, we hate ourselves for coming up with that metaphor.) But we've done some sleuthing, and we've discovered that two separate public identification records reveal that the only Ashley Youmans (the real name of "Kristen," a.k.a Ashley Alexandra Dupré) from the Jersey Shore (or anywhere in New Jersey)...

Britney Spears has been warned to take an Aids test before she marries fiancé Kevin Federline. The sexy star has been told to get tested by the dancer's former girlfriend, Kerri Whittington, who claims the former dancer has had unprotected sex with a string of girls. She is quoted by Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "Kevin's slept with so many women, Britney should get an Aids test. He is a charmer who has been around and he never used protection with me." Meanwhile, Britney's father has reportedly been admitted to rehab to fight addictions to drink and drugs.

PAM ANDERSON’S FEATHERS RUFFLED BY DALE EARNHARDT JR.’S KFC CHICKEN DEAL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Immediate Release: June 7, 2004 Contact: Dan Shannon 757-622-7382 Los Angeles -- PETA spokesperson Pamela Anderson has sent a letter to NASCAR driver and KFC spokesperson Dale Earnhardt Jr., asking that he use his new relationship with the company, which is based on KFC’s sponsorship of his race car, to curb its suppliers’ worst abuses of chickens, including painful shackling and live scalding in defeathering tanks. Pam says, "Little chickens need a big man like Dale to stick up for them!" and writes in her letter to...

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie worked the crowd more than they worked at Dell DiamondBy John DeFore SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN Tuesday, April 6, 2004 ROUND ROCK -- It was a beautiful evening for baseball Saturday, as the Round Rock Express met the New Orleans Zephyrs at the Dell Diamond. The sky was clear; the rising moon was full; the smell of hot caramel hung in the air. And a filthy-rich party girl in pink stockings was helping with batting practice -- or would be, if she could figure out which hand to stick in the glove she was given....

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton was thrown from a horse on Friday during production of a sequel to the hit Fox series "The Simple Life" and was airlifted to a hospital on Florida's Gulf Coast, producers said.</p>

Paris Hilton Thrown From Horse, Injured in Taping 'Simple Life 2' TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Paris Hilton was hospitalized Friday after a horse she was riding threw her off and kicked her in the stomach during the taping of "The Simple Life 2," a reality show featuring the hotel heiress and a friend on a 30-day cross-country trip. Hilton, 23, was first treated at the scene in rural Florida north of Tampa, then taken to a hospital, said Chris Alexander, publicist for 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles. The kick to the stomach left her bruised, but she was...