A couple weeks ago, we heard that Christina Applegate was battling breast cancer. Well, she beat it! In an interview airing on “Good Morning America” tomorrow, Christina said, “I’m clear. Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. It did not spread. They got everything out, so I’m definitely not going to die from breast cancer.”

Christina said she underwent a double mastectomy, even though the cancer was detected it only one breast. She said, “My decision, after looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy. So basically I had a prophylactic double mastectomies. I didn’t want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything. I just wanted to kind of be rid of this whole thing for me. This was the choice that I made, and it was a tough one.” She chose not to undergo chemotherapy.

J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other members of the Ewing clan are getting back together for a “Dallas” reunion party.

Cast members of the popular prime-time soap opera that ran from 1978-91 will return to the Southfork Ranch north of Dallas on Nov. 8 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show. Several key actors, including Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, have confirmed they will attend.

Hagman, who played central character J.R. Ewing, a scheming oil baron and cattle rancher, said he is looking forward to the event.

“I may not be able to do the 40th,” said Hagman, 76, in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. “Thirty years is pretty good, and the show is still very popular.”

The reunion at the ranch in suburban Parker, north of Dallas, is open to the public. Tickets go on sale Aug. 22 and will cost between $100 and $1,000. The event will include fireworks, a country music concert, a question-and-answer session with the cast and tours of the mansion.

The show is perhaps best known for the “who shot J.R.?” cliffhanger that concluded the 1979-1980 season in which Hagman’s character was blasted within an inch of his life. (The shooter turned out to be J.R. Ewing’s sister-in-law, Kristin.)

“Dallas” featured the antics of a wealthy Texas clan that punched, slapped, drank, cavorted and schemed to gain control of the family fortune. The reunion promises to be tamer.

“Larry and I will have a bowl of Mueslix and a small shot of prune juice and be in bed by 9 o’clock,” Duffy, who played Bobby Ewing, told the newspaper. “We’ll let people file by the bed and watch us go to sleep. I think we can hang with the best of them until midnight.”

From high school geek to hot blonde on the cover of Playboy!

Welcome to Anna Faris’ life.

The funny bombshell has landed the cover of the men’s magazine for two reasons: She stars as a Playboy Bunny who moves into a sorority house in the upcoming comedy The House Bunny, and, well, she’s friggin’ hot!

But Faris, 31, wasn’t always so confident about her looks…

“I felt unattractive, short and self-conscious about my body, and I would purposely emphasize that by doing odd things,” she tells the magazine (it hits newsstands on Friday) about her teenage years. “I wore glasses, braces, odd hairdos and dumpy clothes…When I was a freshman I wore a Christmas-tree skirt as a cape. I couldn’t get any dates until senior year.”

While Faris doesn’t appear nude in Playboy, she actually told me recently she was definitely tempted to strip down for the mag.

“I felt really sexy,” she told me of the shoot. “I found myself totally getting into it. I was like, ‘Let’s just take it all off.’ ” (Her publicist convinced her otherwise.)

No surprise, but Faris wears body-bearing barely there outfits for most of the flick.

“I was working out hard,” Faris said about getting in shape for the flick. “My boyfriend was like, ‘Baby, you got to eat. You’re losing your butt.’ ”
The House Bunny is the first full-length feature allowed to shoot at Hugh Hefner’s legendary Playboy Mansion. “It was my first time there,” Faris said. “It was surreal. There were randomly placed jars of baby oil but no babies that I knew of…It was great: peacocks, monkeys, hot girls and old men in pajamas! It was awesome.”

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This is the moment Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai’s first Olympics ended in agony when he dislocated his right elbow in the ugliest moment yet of the Olympic weightlifting competition.

Baranyai was trying to snatch 148kg in his third lift in the men’s 77kg division, when his elbow popped out of its socket.

No longer able to support the weight of the barbell, his right forearm bent backward. The 24-year-old Hungarian fell to the floor in shock, shaking and crying out in pain.

Hungary’s coaching staff and competition officials rushed to Baranyai’s aid as he lay trembling on the floor, his arm limp and twisted out of position.

Baranyai was carried off the platform on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment, said Benny Johansson, a technical controller at the event.

It was not immediately clear how serious the injury was.

It looked really awful,’ Johansson said. ‘If the ligaments are damaged then it could take several months to heal.”

He said elbow and knee injuries are the most common injuries in the sport, ‘but the number of injuries are quite small in comparison with the number of athletes. You cannot even compare it with football for example.’

A former judo wrestler from Oroszlany, Hungary, Baranyai was competing with the so-called B-group of lifters in the 77kg division.

Hungary’s lone lifter in the Olympics, he was ninth in both the snatch and clean and jerk in the European Championship earlier this year and placed 33rd in last year’s world championship.

He cleared his first snatch attempts at 140kg and 145kg before loading up the bar at 148kg - a relatively modest weight in top-level competition. The world record in the snatch is 173kg.

In the snatch, the bar is pulled overhead in one continuous motion as the lifter settles into a squat, then rises with arms extended.

Baranyai was in the squat position when his elbow popped.

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Michael Phelps continued his gold rush Wednesday, winning two more gold medals and smashing two world records.

The wins – his 10th and 11th career golds – make him with winningest Olympian in history. As the announcer at the National Aquatics Center declared, that makes him “arguably the greatest Olympian of all time.” (The comment earned a smile from Phelps, who remained stoic for most of the day’s competition.)

The day began less than auspiciously, when Phelps’s goggles filled up with water during the 200-meter butterfly. The 23-year-old still won handily – in a world-record time of 1:52.03 – but he was visibly annoyed after he touched the wall.

“I couldn’t see anything for the last 100 [meters],” Phelps said afterward. “It just kept getting worse and worse through the race.”

Although he was disappointed in his time, Phelps begrudgingly admitted, “for the circumstances, I guess it’s not too bad.”

Actually, it got much better. Later in the day, Phelps led off the U.S. 800 freestyle relay. The team – which included Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay – won gold in under 7 minutes, with a mark of 6:58.56. (That shattered the Americans’ previous world record by 3.63 seconds.)

“It’s everything I ever dreamed about,” Phelps said of winning his second relay gold in Beijing. “On the podium, I kept tearing [up] at it. I’m almost at a loss for words …. It’s the best thing having four American guys … swim all well together.”

The gold medals give Phelps his fourth and fifth wins in China – putting him more than halfway toward his historic quest of claiming eight victories in the Games. (American swimmer Mark Spitz holds the current record of seven gold medals in a single Summer Olympics.)

“From now on, it’s just a downward slope,” Phelps said. “The end is close. I love it! I’ve still got some left in the tank.”

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ADAM West may be busting a move on “Dancing With the Stars.” The original “Batman,” now almost 80, is being considered for a spot on the next “Dancing” season. “Adam is in outstanding shape,” said a source. “He works out an hour a day and walks with his big dog on his farm in Sun Valley, Idaho.” A rep for West said that he is “not definite yet, but is one of the people they are seriously looking at. They will decide on everyone on Aug. 25.”

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Boris Becker took to the seas to celebrate his engagement to his girlfriend of a month - who was just a one-year-old baby when he first conquered the Centre Court in 1985.

The couple appear to have no regrets over the decision to get married as they enjoyed an afternoon sunbathing on a speedboat.

The happy pair made no attempt at hiding their joy as Alessandra ‘Sandy’ Meyer-Woelden showed off her sparkling diamond ring.

Boris, 40, popped the question to beautiful Alessandra, 24, the daughter of his late manager Axel Meyer-Woelden, at the weekend.

He proposed to her on the island of Sardinia, Sandy said last night in Germany.

The two have been rumoured to be a pair since early this month after paparazzi caught them on the Spanish island of Formentera and later on Sardinia.

They first met when her father, Axel, was Becker’s manager. He died in 1997.

The engaged couple are set to fly to New York to plan their nuptials but they have yet to release additional details.

‘Our relationship is completely serious,’ she said.

The tennis star married Barbara Feltus in 1993 and the couple had two sons, Noah Gabriel, 14, and Elias Balthasar, 8, before the marriage ended acrimoniously in 2001.

Becker’s divorce from Barbara reportedly cost him £10 million. He gave her their £1.8 million apartment on Florida’s Fisher Island, several hundred thousand pounds worth of jewels and pays £4,000 a month in maintenance for his sons.

In 2000, he was forced to confess to fathering a daughter with Angela Ermakova after having sex in a broom closet with her in a London hotel.

He has also dated German rapper Sabrina Setlur and dancer Caroline Rocher.

‘I can’t ask every woman I fall in love with to marry me after six months.

‘Rather than cause disappointments I think it’s important to be above-board,’ Becker said during an interview in 2006.

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Peaches Geldof has married an unknown American musician after a whirlwind romance lasting just a few weeks.

The 19-year-old tied the knot with Max Drummey in a Las Vegas wedding chapel last week.

In a statement, the couple said they were ‘delighted to announce their very happy marriage’.

The news comes as a shock, because just last month Peaches was publicly declaring her love for another man, Faris Badwan, the 21-year-old frontman of The Horrors.

But her father Bob Geldof, 56, told the Mail last night that he gave the marriage his full support adding: ‘I have nothing further to add to what has been set out in the statement.’

It is believed he did not know about the wedding until the last minute.

Critics have already branded the nuptials a publicity stunt, as Drummey’s band, Chester French, is launching its first album next month.

The statement about the wedding was littered with plugs for Mr Drummey’s band. It went on: ‘Max’s band, Chester French, played at the ITV iTunes festival (in London in June), where Peaches was a co-presenter of the show.

‘The acclaimed new Boston band were signed by Pharrell Williams to his label Star Track, a subsidiary of the giant Interscope Label. Their marriage has the full support of their family and friends.’

Peaches first met Max, 23, a Harvard graduate in anthropology, two years ago, according to her statement.

The ‘quickie’ ceremony took place last Tuesday at the Little White Wedding Chapel, with the Reverend Stephen Fabretti officiating. The couple had applied for their marriage licence at the Clark County Marriage Licence Bureau that morning.

Mr Fabretti said: ‘They both looked very young. They were cuddling and kissing and didn’t look in the slightest bit nervous. It was just them and one witness. It was one of our standard services inside the chapel.’

The Little White Wedding Chapel is world famous for its drive-through ‘quickie’ celebrity weddings. Others to have married there include Britney Spears, Joan Collins and Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.

Peaches’ behaviour appears to have been spiralling out of control in recent months. In July, she was reportedly treated by paramedics after a suspected drugs overdose at her home. And earlier this year, she was videoed allegedly handing over money for drugs. She was not charged by police.

Her father has jumped to her defense in the past saying that she is a ‘good kid’ who has always done well in her school exams.

But others have expressed concern that she is going down the same route as her mother, Paula Yates, who died of an accidental drugs overdose in her Notting Hill house in September 2000.

Last night, Peaches’ publicist said she was on a flight back to Britain while her new husband continues his U.S. tour.

She has apparently been a fan of his music since they met, regularly posting notes on the band’s MySpace page.

In July they met up again when Miss Geldof, 19, presented ITV2’s coverage of the iTunes Festival.

The pair were spotted together on a night at the popular Maddox club and were later seen heading back to her North London apartment.

But until last month Miss Geldof was dating Badwan. In a recent interview, she wore a small Victorian photo frame containing a black and white portrait of him.

She said: ‘He’s completely gorgeous and I’m totally in love. He is a very calming influence and makes me happy.’

Mr Drummey graduated from Harvard in anthropology last year, but the success of Chester French - which he formed with his college roommate DA Wollach - meant he opted to pursue a career in music.

His father said last night that he was happy about the wedding.

Paul Drummey, 50, said: ‘We’re very happy for them both. We have met Peaches and we are very happy to have her as part of the family. It’s true that they married in Las Vegas last week.’

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Authorities in Memphis say Isaac Hayes apparently died of a stroke. The deep-voiced soul singer died Sunday after he was found unconscious at his Memphis residence.

Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Shular said Tuesday that paperwork filed by Hayes’ family physician, Dr. David Kraus, lists the cause of death as a stroke.

Shular said no autopsy has been performed. No official determination has been released by the medical examiner’s office or filed with the Memphis health department, which issues death certificates.

Family members found Hayes lying on the floor of his home beside a treadmill that was still switched on. Relatives said Hayes was under a doctor’s care but did not give specifics.