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Posted: 10/28/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

Beyoncel Knowles, right, looks at Jay-Z during the men's championship match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) (CP)

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Adele performs during the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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FILE - This May 3, 2010 file photo shows actress Jessica Biel and actor-singerJustin Timberlake at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala in New York. The couple released a statement Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, to People magazine confirming their wedding. They said the ceremony was beautiful and it was special to be surrounded by our family and friends. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file) (CP)

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Donald Trump's selection to turn the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C. into a luxury hotel surprised a lot of people. He promises to make the project �amazing.� Illustrates TRUMP (category f) by Jonathan O'Connell, (c) 2012, The Washington Post. Moved Saturday, August 18, 2012. (MUST CREDIT: Photo by Jennifer S. Altman for The Washington Post). (BLOOMBERG FOR THE WASHINGTON POS)

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Taylor Swift performs on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (CP)

Blue Ivy: From A to zed

BEYONCé and Jay-Z have lost their legal struggle to trademark "Blue Ivy," the name they gave to their daughter at birth last January.

The high-powered couple's high-powered lawyers were defeated by Boston wedding planner Veronica Alexandra, who's been using that name for her company since 2009, back when the tyke was merely a gleam in Jay-Z's eye.

(Does Jay-Z have an evil twin called J-Zee? Should Canadians call him Jay-Zed? But I digress.)

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says the wedding firm is fine. But various shabby opportunists who launched companies using that monicker after the star couple named the baby have been told to try again.

This reminds me of the 2006 Supreme Court of Canada case, in which the diner chain Barbie's fought off the serried ranks of Mattel's lawyers and won the right to keep its name.

The prince and the Hobbit

PRINCE Charles -- remember him? Father of Prince William? -- was a Tolkien fan back when JFF Tolkien wasn't cool, before he was a cult figure, back when the whole hobbit thing was just an obscure literary diversion.

And now the prince, who turns 64 next month, has lined himself up a pretty cool birthday gift, as princes are sometimes able to do: in New Zealand on a royal tour, he will spend the day -- Nov. 14, it is -- meeting Peter Jackson at the studio where the film The Hobbit is being finished.

So where did you go for your last birthday?

... then comes Jessica with a baby carriage

NOW that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are actually legally officially married, she is talking babies, One Who Knows told RadarOnline.com:

''Jessica has been gearing up for motherhood for a while, but being the traditionalist she is, wanted to wait until after she got married. She is planning for two kids, ideally a boy and a girl, because she grew up with a younger brother herself and believes it's healthy to have siblings.''

They're both 31.

Who will be unfriended first?

REMEMBER Chris Brown dumping model Karreuche Tran so he could resume his "friendship" with Rihanna? Yeah, well, maybe not so much.

He now appears to be seeing both women, says MTV.

So let me get this straight: he's now "friends" with both Rihanna and this knockout model. What could possibly go wrong?

She'll only bare her soul

QUOTE of the day: Taylor Swift, who has dabbled in acting with one movie role and a CSI episode, isn't interested in nude scenes:

"I don't think I can pull it off," she told the New York Post. "Also, most people are only going to focus on one or two things about you -- I want that to be that I write my own songs, not that I have great abs."

Rolling in the... diapers?

THERE'LL be no more sad-sack songs for Adele. No break from music, either. Now that she's a mother she's going to do her next album about... motherhood, the Daily Mirror reports.

I'm sure you heard about the birth of a son, last Friday, for the singer and boyfriend Simon Konecki. (They're not married, despite what you may have read elsewhere.)

The Mirror has Don't Usemyname quoting Adele this way: "I really want to release a happy record now. I have never been happier. I have written some stuff..."

She's 24. Simon's 38.

Cheetos of the rich and famous

FAMOUS fashion designers: they're just like us, only richer. My evidence is Vera Wang's answer when Harper's Bazaar asked what's in her kitchen:

"There are two TVs. There's an ice cream freezer, a soda fridge, and a healthy fridge. There's the liquor thing, where the vodkas are kept ice-cold. We have a candy pantry, a cereal pantry, and a pantry for what I call "orange food"--Cheetos, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, all kinds of chips. ...yes, sirree! It's so fabulous, orange food."

Donald Trump: Love coach

NOBODY asked Donald Trump's opinion, but that never stopped him before and it won't stop him now. Via Twitter, he's trying to warn Katy Perry off of John Mayer:

"Katy Perry is no bargain but I don't like John Mayer. He dates and tells. Be careful Katy (Just watch!)"

I wonder what he meant by that last part.

(Reminder: when I quote people's Tweets, I fix up the grammar and spelling and shorthand and all.)

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