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Oct 01 2008 3:41pm EDT

Late Breaks: Celebrities Embrace Peer Pressure

-Every celebrity ever will be bitterly disappointed in you if you don't vote. [YouTube]

-Why must fitness magazines forever be tampering with Kelly Ripa's perfectly good bellybutton? [Huffpo]

-Texas Monthly has a new editor.* [TM]

-Speaking of new editors, Nick Denton has reportedly tapped New York Observer and W alumnus Gabriel Snyder as the new managing editor of Gawker. [Radar]

Correction: An earlier version of this item said Texas Monthly had named a new editor in chief. In fact, Jake Silverstein is editor, reporting to Evan Smith, who remains editor in chief.


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