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In a city known for making movies, the Los Angeles Times reminded us this past weekend that the people of Southern California read a lot too.

The Festival of Books attracted over 100,000 book lovers to the USC campus Saturday and Sunday to the free event. Three hundred exhibitors represented all things books with demonstrations ranging from poetry reading to cooking demonstrations.

Along with the long list of authors making an appearance at the 16-year-old event, some of our favorite celebs showed up to talk about their very own hot new books.

Ricki Lake has a memoir, Never Say Never: Finding a Life That Fits, set to hit store shelves later this year. The actress and talk show host said that she opens up more than ever in the new book.
Today we’re talking to couples who got married without telling anyone!

Talk show host Ricki Lake eloped on Sunday with her fiancé, Christian Evans, in a secret ceremony in southern California.

"It was a beautiful moment I will never forget," Lake tells ‘People’ of her big day.

You go, girl!

Ricki split from her first husband, Rob Sussman, back in 2003. Ricki has two songs
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Usually we reserve horror stories for Halloween, right? But Thanksgiving provides an untapped market for truly horrible horror stories. When you combine weird aunts who only want to complain to you about holiday traffic or the 13th cat they just adopted, in-laws from Florida that can’t seem to forget that uncle Joe still owes them money from that “one night” and that fact that the Thanksgiving turkey wont fit into the oven and cousin Jenny is newly vegan and judging everyone, then how can we escape from Thanksgiving without a couple horror stories?

Here’s are the stars talking about their Thanksgiving Horror Stories.

Tyson Ritter, frontman for The All American Rejects says his Turkey Day horror story was when they almost set the house on fire.
The season finale of Dancing with the Stars aired tonight and it was full of surprises. Ricki Lake was the frontrunner and expected to take the mirror ball trophy home, but in a shocking twist, she was eliminated during the first half of the night.

Ricki emerged as the leader after Monday night’s performances, but apparently viewers didn’t call/text enough votes to save her. It was a shame that she was eliminated because she really was a great dancer. She came a long way this season and went home empty handed. Sad face.

Judge Bruno Tonioli called Ricki’s performance "unforgettable" and Len Goodman said it was "one of the most memorable dances of this or any season," but she couldn't make it to the end. Again, sad face.
Believe it or not, but Rob Kardashian, the chill-bro brother of the Kardashian Klan who usually just watched TV or ate Doritos in every episode of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” just got a perfect score on last nights episode of Dancing With The Stars.

In night one of the two-part finale of the dancing series, each dancing duo did a freestyle routine and a choreographed routine. Both Rob and JR Martinez received perfect scores for their respective freestyle dances. JR’s perfect score doesn’t surprise me, I mean that guy is great, he’s a war vet turned soap opera star turned dance pro? I can’t get enough!

At the end of last night, the final scores for the three remaining couples are as follows: Rob Kardashian and partner Cheryl Burke (57 points out of 60), Ricki Lake and partner Derek Hough (54 points) and JR Martinez and partner Karina Smirnoff (54 points).

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There was a lot of drama on Dancing With the Stars this week. Maksim lashed out on the judges when they criticized his dance with partner Hope Solo. He then continued to lash out on the morning shows saying that he will not apologize because he doesn’t believe he did anything wrong.

He also managed to pick on Derek Hough claiming that he always gets paired with good partners hence why he’s won three times. Hollyscoop spoke to Derek last night at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles event honoring outstanding members of the Los Angeles community and he told us that he doesn’t care about what people say and all he is worried about is winning.
On last night’s episode of Dancing With The Stars, Kristin Cavallari had a special guest in the audience. Her ex-fiancé, Chicago bears quarterback Jay Cutler was in the audience to cheer on Cavallari.

The two called off their engagement in July after 10 months together, but a source says that the pair is “working it out.”

Bad news for everyone who was rooting for Kristen and her dance partner Mark Ballas to hook up. What would you rather have? A ballroom dancer or a quarterback? Quarterback. Always the quarterback.

However, Kristin and Mark’s on set chemistry is working, they earned 24 points last night for their sultry samba to “Crazy in Love.”
Nancy Grace had a “wardrobe malfunction” on Dancing With The Stars last night, aka a “nip slip,” so enjoy, if you’re into that sort of thing and I’m sorry if you are.

Nancy danced the quickstep on last night’s episode of DWTS and just as her performance ended she suffered a little wardrobe malfunction. The camera immediately cut away to stock footage of an audience looking stunned, while audio of a hooting-and-hollering audience played.

The usually fierce Nancy, who terrorizes people daily on her HLN show, hung her head in embarrassment and buried her face into her dance partner, Tristan McManus’s shoulder.

Nancy quickly adjusted her dress as Tom Bergeron joked, “On the European version that would be perfectly fine.” Hahaha, ewwww. Later, Grace said she hadn’t noticed anything. So she was hanging her head because she thought her performance was bad, not that she was embarrassed over her wardrobe malfunction.
Last Night was the Season 13 premiere of “Dancing With The Stars.” If you missed the show but wished you hadn’t, here’s a re-cap of what went down in order of each celebrities performance.

The basketball star, Ron Artest, who just legally changed his name to Metta World Peace, decided to go by his birth name (as opposed to his “WTF” name) on the show last night. He danced the cha-cha, was convinced he was a good dancer, but according to the judges it was “atrocious.” He scored 14 points and was pretty pissed about it too.

Rob Kardashian, the Kardashian punching bag, danced the Viennese Waltz with Cheryl Burke. That waltz is pretty boring to begin with and the judges said he needed to relax and that he appeared very rigid, however he was still better than Artest. He ended up with 16 points with his sisters Kim, Khloe and hubby Lamar cheering him on from the front row.

Kristin Cavallari uses the show to make a PSA, she states, right away, that, “I’m Kristin Cavallari and I’m not a bitch.” After that weird irrelevant moment passed, she danced the cha cha with Mark Ballas and while Ballas calls her “naturally uncoordinated...
It hasn’t even premiered, and Dancing With The Stars already has an injury, a controversy, and a Kardashian.

Hollyscoop asked DWTS diva Julianne Hough what she thinks of the new lineup, and she told us: “I think its great, you always see the cast list when it first comes out and you’re like, ‘interesting choices’. Once you start watching it, you’re like, ‘oh-my gosh’, and start rooting for the person you didn’t even know existed.”

And who’s Hough’s money on? “Hope Solo.”

How’d we know she’d say that? Hope happens to be paired with Derek Hough.

“I think that anybody who is with my brother might do well, just cause he’s badass,” Julianne tells HS.

We also talked to Karina Smirnoff about Rob Kardashian joining the show, and she told us:

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