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Season eight American Idol contestant Allison Iraheta dropped in to Z100′s Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden in New York City Friday December 11th. The singer is promoting her debut album Just Like You. Hear her first single ‘Friday I’ll Be Over You’ here.

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Earlier in the week, Nobu hosted the 2nd Annual Golden Globes salutes Young Hollywood Party in California. The December 8th event had the super hot cast of the CW show The Vampire Diaries including Katerina Graham, Nina Dobrev, Kayla Ewell and Ian Somerhalder.

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While Miley Cyrus is enjoying herself in Paris with Liam Hemsworth, the Hannah Montana star just got wind that her song ‘The Climb’ will not be up for a Grammy in the category of Best Song Written for a Soundtrack. The reason? It was never commissioned and written for that soundtrack specifically. The tune’s songwriter, Jessi Alexander, had shopped it to other artists before Cyrus and Disney grabbed it up. Competition rules are that the song must be written for the soundtrack to the movie it is nominated for. Alexander feels that substantial changes were made to the first version of the song she had written to make it work for the Hannah Montana soundtrack and therefore it should fit the guidelines. The execs at Disney did not see it that way and yanked it before NARAS (The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences – The Grammy’s) made it’s final call. Alexander is understandably disappointed in the big D’s decision and says:

“You can look at it a million ways. And I’m sure they wouldn’t do this if there wasn’t a true belief that it wasn’t eligible. To be honest, it’s devastating.”

Unfortunately for her, it is already decided that ‘The Climb’ will be replaced by Karen O’s ‘All in Love’ from Where The Wild Things Are. What do you think? Fair? or is everyone out to get Miley?

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Jourdan Dunn has given birth to a healthy baby boy on Tuesday, December 8th. The model and her boyfriend of five years are proud parents and still deciding on a name.

The nineteen year old fashion model announced back in July that she was pregnant and would continue working as long as she could even doing the Jean Paul Gautlier show while 7 months along.

Congratulations to the happy mom and dad!

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Nick Cannon is hosting some amazing teens tonight for TeenNick‘s HALO Awards. HALO stands for ‘Helping and Leading Others’ and this generous group understands that reaching out is an everyday occurrence, not just at the holidays. Justin Timberlake, LeBron James, Alicia Keys and Hayden Panettiere suprised the four teens honored by their efforts and handed each a silver baton award. Cannon gave each a check for $10,000 to continue their efforts and a matching check to continue their education. The four winners were:

1. Leah Stoltz, 17 for Curvy Girls of Long Island – a support group for people with scoliosis.
2. Darrius Snow, 18 for working with kids in tough areas using sports as an outlet.
3. Megan Kilroy, 17 for her environmental and community activism.
4. Brryan Jackson, 18 for HIV/AIDS outreach and education.

Congratulations to all the recipients.

Did you catch the show? I thought it was great. I hope they do it again next year with more teens who are so inspirational.

Team Jacob will be watching Saturday Night Live this weekend when Taylor Lautner hosts. Bon Jovi is musical guest too (I mean really, SNL couldn’t come up with any band more relevant than them?) – but does anyone care about that? Nope – it’s all about the hotness that is Lautner.

We know Taylor Swift’s new hairstyle has been causing some controversy in the teen universe. We have read your comments and your tweets but we are still not sure about the final verdict.

Please vote in our poll and tell us what you think about Taylor’s new hairdo in the comments below. Straight or Curly? Thanks Teens!! If you are not following Gossip Teen on Twitter yet then you must! We are @gossipteens.

POLL RESULTS: Taylor Swift, Bring Back The Curly Hair!

Selena Gomez and The Scene performed their single ‘Naturally’ off their debut album, Kiss & Tell, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show December 11th. Check out the vid and tell us here at GT what you think.

The Wizards of Waverly Place star attended the 2009 UNICEF Snowflake Ball last night in Los Angeles.

Actress/singer Miley Cyrus was caught kissing her “The Last Song” co-star Liam Hemsworth in Paris, France, last night. WHAT!? I thought Miley said they were just friends… Naughty Miley! Miley and Liam are certainly dating… unless she gives hot smooches to all her friends!

Selena Gomez looked stunning in a bright pink Notte by Marchesa gown at the 2009 UNICEF Ball at The Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on December 10th. Selena has been working with UNICEF by being a teen ambassador and going to Ghana for the organization, and for the second year, promoting their annual Trick or Treat drive at Halloween.

The Wizards of Waverly Place star had a chance to rub elbows with some of Hollywood’s A-List talent including Bruce Willis, George Clooney, Cindy Crawford, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

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