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FROM MTV.COM: a Former MTV reality star Nick Lachey and former "TRL" host Vanessa Minnillo have broken up after three years together, according to People.

"They have amicably split but remain good friends who still greatly care for one another," a rep for Minnillo told the magazine.A rep for Lachey, a former member of 98 Degrees, also confirmed the news.

Lachey and Minnillo began dating in 2006, but rumors of a breakup had dogged the couple recently. Earlier in June, Minnillo told People that her relationship was "very much still on."

Continue reading more about Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo's split at MTV.com.

Tags Nick Lachey, Vanessa Minnillo

Zac Efron is all grown up, and having quite a year. He's received good reviews for the upcoming "Me and Orson Welles," and "17 Again," and proved to have a lot of staying power at the box office with his starring "17" turn. (He even managed to hold out against "X-Men Origin: Wolverine," which is no small feat!)

Efron surprised many when he dropped out of "Footloose", but he's eager to take on more mature roles, and making good progress by joining projects such as "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zac is continuing his movie maturation by landing the lead part in an untitled thriller. Read more...

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FROM NEWSROOM BLOG: Alexa Chung is only into the second week of her new MTV show “It’s On With Alexa Chung,” and already her sense of style is making waves. She’s brought a bit of East London chic to New York, and the girls in the office forced me to ask her how one achieves the Alexa Chung look.

Apparently, it’s all very simple. According to Alexa, first you have to look like “a girl who borrowed her brother’s school clothes via her grandmother.”

Press play below to hear the host explain her sartorial sense and continue reading more about Alexa's style at Newsroom.MTV.com

Tags Alexa Chung, Fashion & Style, It's On With Alexa Chung

Make room on your bookshelves, Twilighters. EW.com just revealed the new movie tie-in book cover for "New Moon" (click here to see the full version in all its Taylor Lautner glory), and it might make you a Team Jacob convert yet (that is, if you're not one already!).

Upon initial inspection the first thing I noticed was Jacob's shorn hair (finally!) and that extra 30 pounds of muscle Taylor packed on to secure the role (thank you, sleeveless tee!). It then took nearly five seconds of frantic searching to locate Edward's (Robert Pattinson) dazzling face staring back at me from inside the moon. Clever, publishers. Clever. Read more...

Tags Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, Taylor Lautner, Twilight

The mood was melancholy in the Twitterverse this morning as celebs shared memories and expressed condolences over the death of "Tonight Show" sidekick and "Star Search" host Ed McMahon. Britney Spears credited the 86-year-old with giving her her first shot at stardom, while Ashton Kutcher called him the "originol [sic] Hype man." He truly will be missed.

Among the other goings-on, a reality star prayed for you, a writer discussed cringe-worthy condiments and an actress admitted aging.

Take a look at who tops our Tweet Dreams list for Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Oh, and don't forget to follow Hollywood Crush on Twitter while you're at it! Read more...

Tags Christina Applegate, Kellie Pickler, Nick Cannon, Twitter

By Haley Murphy

Shoppers of the world BEWARE! “Confessions of a Shopaholic” comes out on DVD today, and we bet that fashionistas everywhere are dying to get their hands on this classic label-savvy movie! The movie follows a 25-year-old Manhattanite (Isla Fisher), who has a horrible shopping addiction that begins to ruin her life. After some drama, several AMAZING outfits and a classic Hollywood romance, she attempts to pay off her debt. Below, check out an exclusive clip from the DVD's bonus features, in which costume mistress extraordinaire Patricia Field explains how she gave Isla such an over-the-top, yet still polished look.

In the bonus, the fiery designer, who also worked on “Sex and the City” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” discusses her process for how she decided what Isla would wear. She says she brought in clothes from all over the world to make one giant "store" where she could "shop" for whatever looks she needed. Read more...

Tags Confessions of a Shopaholic, Fashion & Style, Isla Fisher, Pat Field

The fantastical romance "Beastly" — a modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale about a NYC boy who, due to a curse, is transformed into a "beast" — won't hit theaters until July 2010 (production began in Montreal just last week), but star Alex Pettyfer's new hardened look has already been unveiled.

In the film, Alex, who's best known for his titular role in "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker," plays the beast (actual name: Kyle) to Vanessa Hudgen's Belle (actual name: Lindy). Lindy winds up living in Kyle's Brooklyn hideout (yes, his father apparently banishes him to a borough) after Kyle promises her drug addict dad that he'll watch over her. "Beastly" is among a slew of films already on the "High School Musical" star's plate. Make sure to check out Hollywood Crush's exclusive clip of her in her next flick, "Bandslam" (out August 14)!

Tags Alex Pettyfer, Beastly, Vanessa Hudgens

FROM MTV.COM: "Twilight" doctor and vampire patriarch Peter Facinelli has won the bet he made with his friend Rob DeFranco that he could get 500,000 Twitter followers by June 19. And on June 30, he'll bask in the glory of his victory when DeFranco will dance in a bikini to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" on Hollywood Boulevard.

Facinelli was holding his breath there for a while when, due to a glitch in the Twitterverse, he wasn't sure he'd make the cut. "What I had heard was that Twitter was treating the followers like spam because so many were coming in, so they were getting tossed off," Facinelli told E! News. "So at the end of the day, I'll never know if my follower count is right, but I do know that we had over 500,000, which was the magic number for Rob doing the bikini dance."

Continue reading more about Peter Facinelli's Twitter win at MTV.com.

Tags Peter Facinelli, Twilight, Twitter

If there's one thing that "Twilight" and "True Blood" fans can both agree upon, it's that vampires don't suck — well, they do literally suck, but... ah, you get the point.

No matter which one you're a fan of, both bloodthirsty franchises have strong support from their viewers. In a lot of cases, those viewers are active in the social media circuits like Twitter and Facebook. And while neither "Twilight" nor "True Blood" tends to edge the other out too badly in terms of online mentions, something very odd occurred to the contrary just last week.

OneRiot has compiled an interesting chart that details the amount of mentions that "Twilight" and "True Blood" each receive in the social media circuit — and while they're usually neck and neck, "True Blood" soared past "Twilight" on June 15, 2009, dwarfing the likes of Edward and Bella by eight times the normal amount of mentions. Read more...

Tags Bella Swan, Bill Compton, Edward Cullen, New Moon, Sookie Stackhouse, Twilight

FROM MTV.COM: The lavish ice palace had gone silent. The Fire and Water nations were no longer waging acrobatic battle between its frosty walls, and from the snow covered steps to the blown-glass chandeliers hanging above the balconies, a beautiful tranquility had descended. Meanwhile, the production was in full, hectic swing across town, where another massive hangar housed another set for M. Night Shyamalan's gargantuan, fantastical adventure story, "The Last Airbender." Packs of extras wearing Samurai-like battle gear wandered here and there. Workers drilled and sawed and hammered. And Shyamalan and his star, Dev Patel of "Slumdog Millionaire" fame, were in the middle of it all, filming a pivotal fight scene.

Take after take, they kept at it, kept pushing to get it perfect, until the director decided to move on. "We'll live with it," Shyamalan said with a smile as MTV News watched from the sidelines.

Continue reading more about "The Last Airbender" at MTV.com.

And don't forget to check out MTV's first look at the trailer at SplashPage.MTV.com.

Tags Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, M. Night Shyamalan, The Last Airbender