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Posted: 5:34 a.m. Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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By Vikki Locke

Administrative Professionals Day: Today is National Administrative Professionals Day. According to an FTD survey, 53% of people believe administrative professionals are really the ones, who run their offices. 52% of administrative professionals would like to receive a nice lunch today while 31% want flowers. There are over 4,300,000 administrative professionals in the U.S.. A new survey by the International Association of Administrative Professionals reveals that executive assistants will earn an average of $51,600 this year. That's up from $50,200 in 2010. Administrative assistants will earn an average of $36,400 this year.

 

Facebook now has over 900 million users.


- The Kardashian family has signed on for three more seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Keeping Up With The Kardashians is E!’s highest-rated and most-watched series of all time. The deal is reportedly worth $40 million.


- Life & Style Weekly claims Drew Barrymore is having a baby girl.


- Jack Osbourne and his fiance, Lisa Stelly, are the proud parents of a new baby girl named Pearl.


- Pizza Hut
is selling pizzas with cheeseburger and chicken nugget-stuffed crusts in the Middle East.


- Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have bought a $2 million country home together in Bedford, New York.


- Lakers forward Metta World Peace has been suspended for seven games for elbowing Oklahoma City guard James Harden


- Some Long Island, New York gas stations are charging $2 more per gallon to customers, who pay for gas with a credit card. The gas stations say the extra charge is necessary to cover merchant's credit card authorization fees and other bank charges.


- Martin and Shamicka Lawrence
are divorcing after being together for 17 years.


- The La Habra, California Police Department and the Orange County Dept. of Family and Children's Services were called to the Octomom's home yesterday. Nadya Suleman's hairstylist called them because she believed her 14 kids were living in filth. The authorities stayed for 90 minutes and then left because the kids were not in danger.

 

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: AshleyMadison.com, a dating Website for married people, is reportedly offering $1 million to any woman, who can prove she slept with Tim Tebow. Site founder Noel Biderman says, "Sports and sex and of course, infidelity go hand in hand. If Mr. Tebow is indeed abstaining from adult relationships, I would encourage him to find a nice lady or two and enjoy his youth and fame as much as possible."

Harry’s Banana Farm Bar, in Lake Worth, Florida, has a marquee that reads: 'Tebow In NYC Will Be Boinking Kardashian In No Time'

 

39 year-old Sofia Vergara was recently refused entry into the Ava Lounge in New York because she didn’t have ID to prove she was over 21. She was stopped on her way into a party for the Broadway show “Ghost the Musical”. The doorman would not budge.

 

Big Mac Walks Up To Drive-Thru Window: A dairy cow recently walked up to a McDonald's drive-thru window in Brush, Colorado. Sandy Winn says her cow, Darcy, wandered from her pen because she was bored.

 

 If You Ink It They Will Come: Baseball fan Mike McWain spent $10,000 tattooing a 'Field of Dreams' onto his back. The Pasco, Washington native has images of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, Walter Johnson and Ty Cobb inked across his bod. Yankee Stadium adorns his lower back. It took 180 hours to complete the tatt.

 

Steven Tyler has purchased a $1.1 million Hennessey Venom GT Spyder. The 1,200 horsepower sports car has a top speed of 275 mph and is powered by a Chevy Corvette V8 engine that’s twin-turbocharged. The hardtop version of the Venom can reportedly accelerate from 0-200 mph in 15.3 seconds. Only five Spyders will be built next year.

 

The producers of the new Liz Taylor movie are moving the production to L.A. to accomodate Lindsay Lohan's schedule and life. A source tells RADAR Online, "The producers recognized that there could be problems stemming from the fact that Lindsay is under investigation for assault, and she is still on informal probation in her necklace theft case. It was just easier to move the shoot to Los Angeles as Lindsay lives there and relocating also gives jobs to local film crews which is always beneficial to the economy."

 

  

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis recently spent a romantic weekend together near Santa Barbara. A source tells RADAR Online, "He was so in love with her for a while when they worked together. He thought she was a goddess, was always talking about how beautiful she is. But she was with Macaulay (Culkin) for a lot of that time and also just generally gave off a not interested vibe."

 

One Direction star Harry Styles is a momma's boy. His mother says, "When there’s a time difference, he tends to text saying, "I love you, Mum," or "I miss you". He’s still my little boy... He gives the best hugs ever. He’s a very caring and lovely guy - being in the group is the best thing that could have happened to him, because Harry wouldn’t enjoy being out on the road on his own as a solo artist. 'I love hugging him and kissing him when he comes home."

 

One Direction says Simon Cowell pays them with candy. Niall Horan quipped: ''Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself. We're paid in jelly beans.''

 

Katy Perry’s friends are concerned about her rebound romance with Florence + The Machine guitarist Robert Ackroyd. A source tells the Sun Times, “She’s in love with the idea of being in love. This won’t last.”

 

Justin Bieber has written a song about Mariah Yeater accusing him of fathering her baby. He tells Heat magazine, “I’m going to be talking about everything I’m going through. I’ve written a song about that whole situation with that girl who said she’s having my baby – Mariah Yeater. I’ve written about my mum, loads of things I’m going through

 

Kelly Clarkson says she pushed for a Country week when she competed on American Idol. "I was born and raised in Texas, and I've always been a huge country music fan. In fact, when I was on the first season of American Idol, I begged them to do a country week, but they didn't do that until the second season."

 

Chad Kroeger says Nickelback will never be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “Nickelback will never get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We may be dead if the band ever gets inducted. But I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will probably show up the same time as our first Grammy. And the only Grammy that we would ever win would be the Lifetime Achievement Award: ‘Thanks for sticking around longer than anyone else.’”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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