Jersey Shore Star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was caught with new boytoy Emilio “The Guido Juicehead” at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Snooki was all smiles as she made her way through LGA.

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Taylor Swift is only 20 years old, but she’s already won four Grammy Awards, was the youngest person to ever be named the CMA Entertainer of the Year, stars in the upcoming flick “Valentine’s Day,” and just dropped $2 million on a swanky 4,062-square-foot penthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

“I’m so excited,” Taylor tells In Touch Weekly of her luxurious new home in the 18-story Adelicia building, which features 3 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, and a state-of-the-art gourmet kitchen. Not bad for a girl who grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania!

When her tour for Fearless winds down in June, Swift says she’s looking forward to decorating her new pad in a “quirky, whimsical style.” Of course, she already has plenty of ideas up her sleeve. “It’s going to be my fantasy world,” she revealed in Rolling Stone. “The ceiling of my living room is painted like the night sky. There’s a pond in the living room … The pond is a moat around the fireplace and may possibly have koi fish in it. You step on a stepping stone in the pond in order to get on a spiral staircase, which takes you up to the human-sized bird cage observatory. They’re delivering a human-size birdcage, which I’ll put a brass telescope in.”

Fortunately, the country cutie can afford to deck out her home anyway she likes — she raked in an estimated $18 million in earnings last year. Despite her grand plans, Taylor says she’s a simple girl at heart. “I love Target and Walmart,” she shares. “I find the coolest things there.”

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It’s MTV, minus the “music television.”

The network that launched the video about killing the radio star has redesigned its iconic logo – to take out the music video.

The new look, revealed on-air yesterday, features the original 3-D large “M” with the small, graffiti-style “tv” on the right side. But the new design is expanded, so that photos of MTV talent, including the cast of “Jersey Shore,” “The Buried Life” and “My Life as Liz,” can be seen through it.

And, for the first time in almost 30 years, the logo drops the “music television” tag line altogether.

“We were really thinking about it in terms of having the brand and our talent living in the same space together,” Tina Exarhos, executive vice president of marketing and multiplatform creative projects, told The News.

“If you watch the channel, you’ve seen that it’s definitely going in a new direction,” said Exarhos. “We really wanted to see the logo featured in a new way, and this was really meant to be able to house all the great things that are happening at MTV at any given time.”

Exarhos said the network started thinking about an overall redesign at the end of last year. While other aspects of MTV had evolved, the logo was always something that had stayed the same, and talk of updating it seemed almost blasphemous.

“I’ve been at MTV a long time, and as it was reinvented over the years and maintained sort of a fluid nature, we never touched our logo, which is sort of ironic,” Exarhos said. “It’s a fantastic, iconic logo, but it wasn’t working for us in a way that we needed it to anymore. It needed to express more about what MTV is today, not what it was in 1981.”

Over the past few years, MTV has come under fire from critics and fans who say the network known for music television no longer played music videos. And while fans can check out artists on sister stations MTV2, MTV Hits and MTV Tr3s, MTV itself has moved on to more reality and, in the upcoming months, scripted programming.

Ditching the longstanding “music television” tag line seems like a signal that the network has accepted where it now stands.

“From a truly design perspective, we didn’t look at losing ‘music television’ for any other reason than from a functionality standpoint,” said Exarhos. “But we realized that it would have an impact if we took that off. I think those who watch MTV today think about it as much broader than music television.

“Music is still at the heart of everything we do, but it’s about a lot more now,” she added. “If MTV didn’t change, we’d be irrelevant.”

Frank Olinsky and his team at Manhattan Design created the MTV logo when the network launched. When the change was announced yesterday, Olinsky wasn’t feeling much nostalgia.

“I had no idea” the change was coming, said Olinsky. “MTV now is a whole other reality than MTV was back in the day. Things change. The fact that it doesn’t say ‘music television’ anymore, that’s appropriate.”

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Charlie Sheen and his wife were reunited Monday after a judge modified a restraining order and allowed them them to work out their differences following a Christmas Day domestic violence dispute in which the actor allegedly pinned his spouse on a bed with a knife to her throat.

The couple hugged in court, and Brooke Mueller Sheen’s attorney, Yale Galanter, said they hugged again and kissed in the basement of the 19th century Pitkin County Courthouse after the brief hearing before leaving in separate vehicles. They planned to fly out of Aspen together, and Galanter said he has asked prosecutors to drop the case.

“I can tell you, Brooke very badly wanted to have contact with Charlie,” Galanter said. “There are many children’s issues that she wanted to communicate with him about… They have two gorgeous beautiful babies together.

“Brooke would like this case to be over and charges dismissed so they can get on with their lives.”

Charlie Sheen is accused of holding a knife to his wife’s throat and threatening to kill her on Dec. 25 at his Aspen home. Prosecutors charged TV’s “Two and a Half Men” star with felony menacing and misdemeanor charges of third-degree assault and criminal mischief. The most serious charge carries a maximum three-year prison term. Sheen did not enter a plea Monday and is due back in court March 15.

Asked about District Attorney Arnold Mordkin’s reaction to the suggestion that the case be dropped, Galanter said: “He filed charges.” Sheen’s attorney, Richard Cummins, was not immediately available for comment.

Mordkin declined to discuss the case but said he dropped opposition to allowing the Sheens to have contact with one another, saying it’s not productive to make people estranged who aren’t.

“It won’t affect the prosecution,” Mordkin said.

Judge James B. Boyd left in place standard provisions of the protection order that prohibit Charlie Sheen from harrasment or retaliation against his wife. Sheen is also prohibited from possessing weapons or using alcohol or drugs, unless they’re prescription.

Charlie Sheen, wearing thick black-rimmed glasses, said only “Yes, sir” to the judge as he looked straight ahead, at the table or at his attorney during the hearing. His wife sat in the front row of the gallery, occassionally glancing at her husband.

The Sheens have twin baby sons and have been communicating through their attorneys since his arrest. Through their attorneys, they have expressed a desire to reconcile.

“I don’t know how people survive something like this,” Galanter said, adding that time will tell whether the marriage survives.

Boyd did allow Sheen to visit his wife in a Los Angeles hospital last month after she was admitted with a high fever and an infection following oral surery.

A police officer’s arrest affidavit quoted Brooke Sheen as saying the actor pinned her on a bed while holding a knife to her throat and told her that she “better be in fear.”

The officer said Brooke Sheen reported her husband also told her he could hire ex-police “who know how to get the job done and they won’t leave any trace.”

Charlie Sheen denies threatening or hitting his wife but told police that he broke two pairs of her eyeglasses in front of her.

In an audio recording of a 911 call, a woman who identifies herself as Brooke tells the dispatcher that Charlie Sheen threatened her with a knife and added, “I thought I was gonna die for one hour.”

She said at least five times during the four-minute call that she wanted to file a report. “It’s happened before,” she said, according to the affidavit.

Galanter said Brooke Sheen has stood by her statements to police and will honor her legal obligations.

“When people make these type of (911) phone calls, they’re not contemplating all the legal complications that will occur,” he said. “It’s her position that this is a private matter.”

Denver defense attorney Dan Recht, a former president of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, said victims wanting a case dropped is common in domestic violence cases and prosecutors are under no obligation to comply. Recht said Mordkin has several options, including issuing a subpoena to Brooke Sheen compelling her to testify.

“Once you report a crime in this type of case, you’re just a witness for the prosecution,” Recht said.

Galanter said the only reason the Sheens did not leave the courthouse together were the logistics that required three vehicles for the couple and their attorneys. He says the vehicles were packed with luggage and strollers, though he declined to say whether Brooke arrived in Aspen with their children.

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Actor Gary Coleman pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief in conjunction with a domestic violence charge, TVGuide.com has confirmed. The April 18 incident involved an escalating argument between Coleman and his wife, Shannon Price, defense attorney Randy Kester told The Associated Press. Coleman was arrested on Jan. 24 for failing to appear in court and was released the following day after posting $1,725 bail.

Coleman pleaded guilty on Monday to the lesser of the charges. “There was originally two charges: assault domestic violence and criminal mischief domestic violence. They dismissed Count 1 and he pled guilty to Count 2,” Santaquin Court clerk Jane Swan told TVGuide.com. The Diff’rent Strokes actor was sentenced to 30 days in jail, a $595 fine and a domestic violence course. If he completes the course successfully, his jail time will be suspended.

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Her husband, tennis star Andy Roddick, usually steals the spotlight but Monday night all eyes were on Brooklyn Decker.

The sports star’s little known 22-year-old wife was unveiled as the 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl on “The Late Show With David Letterman.”

After a false alarm in which Letterman pointed to a fake billboard of a naked Scott Brown (in reference to the senator’s vintage nude spread in Cosmo), a sheet was removed from the real SI billboard in Times Square to unveil Decker’s tanned body in a yellow bikini.

The “Perfect 10″ has been married to Roddick since April. According to Eonline.com, they met in 2007, after she caught Roddick’s eye in Sports Illustrated’s 2007 swimsuit issue.

As soon as Decker’s 2010 cover was unveiled, the model took to Twitter like all good celebrities, and expressed her thanks.

“THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! I Wish I could respond to every single one of you but thank you so much for your AMAZINGLY sweet tweets!”

Cover girls in the past have included Tyra Banks, Bar Rafaeli and Heidi Klum – all of whom went on to carve out successful careers in the spotlight.

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Kate Gosselin has a new book on the way.

The mother of eight will release “I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith, and Family,” the follow up to her first book, “Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets,” on April 13. According to the online Web site for book retailer Barnes and Noble, Kate’s new book will pick up where the first one left off.

It will give readers a look inside the journal of the TLC reality star and share moments not seen on her former reality show, “Jon & Kate Plus 8.” “The book covers the three years her family lived in their Elizabethtown home, a period Kate considers one of the happiest of her life,” a description of the book reads on Barnes and Noble. “It shows the parents of eight kids (all under the age of six) transitioning from the chaos of caring for infants to the structured days of a home filled with budding preschoolers.”

The newly single mom will also reveal her spiritual side in the book, as well as offer a look into raising twins and sextuplets.

As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Kate is currently working on a television project with TLC, the network announced at the Television Critics Association panel last month. Details of the project, however, were still in development and therefore not available.

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A star for former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday evening during a whimsical ceremony that also marked the 50th anniversary of the sidewalk attraction’s groundbreaking.

Starr’s name was the 2,401st to be unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“This is the start of the next 50 years of stars,” he said outside the Capitol Records building. “I’m proud to be the first one.”

The Walk of Fame also includes individual stars for the drummer’s former bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison, as well as the likes of musicians Roy Orbison and Ozzy Osbourne.

“It’s cool to get one at night,” said Starr. “I don’t know about you, but where I live, the stars come out at night.”

The Beatles as a group were given a star in 1998.

Those by Starr’s side for the unveiling included actress-wife Barbara Bach, musicians Joe Walsh and Ben Harper, producer Don Was, director David Lynch and actor Noah Wyle.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame attracts an estimated 10 million visitors annually to the 18-block stretch lining Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce conceived the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1953 in an effort to return glamour to the decaying neighborhood at time when the film and television industry was on the decline.

“We’ve seen positive changes,” said Hollywood Chamber of Commerce senior vice president Bill Farrar. “We’ve seen an increase in housing, the opening of many new businesses, the significant reduction of crime and the continual influx of visitors. This walk represents much, much more. This is more than just a tourist attraction and a monument to art.”

The Hollywood Walk of Fame’s anniversary celebration will continue throughout the year with a community festival in July and a gala in November in which every living celebrity who has received a star will be invited to attend. Other celebrities due to receive stars this year include rockers ZZ Top, funnyman Adam Sandler and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

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Rap star Lil Wayne is poised to spend as much as the next year in a New York City jail cell instead of a spotlight.

The Grammy Award-winning rapper is set to be sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in a gun possession case. His plea deal calls for a year in jail, though good behavior could shave that to as little as eight months.

The 27-year-old was born Dwayne Carter. He’s one of music’s biggest sellers and rap’s hottest stars. His “Tha Carter III” led 2008 album sales with 2.8 million copies sold. His Grammys include 2008’s best rap solo performance award, for “A Milli.”

He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He admitted he illegally had a loaded gun on his tour bus in July 2007.

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If Motorola’s Superbowl commercial proved anything Sunday night, it’s that there are one too many bloggers out there who are overly familiar with Megan Fox’s body parts – especially her thumbs.

The commercial features the sexy “Transformers” star au natural in a bathtub filled with strategically placed bubbles.

According to the Daily Mail, after the commercial aired, meticulous bloggers noted that Motorola employed a hand double for Fox’s closeups.

“Did anyone else catch this?” wrote a blogger for Celebrity Smack. “I couldn’t help but chuckle when they showed a close-up of the Motorola phone and the hands holding it were definitely not Megan Fox’s.”

After Fox’s promotional movie photos surfaced last summer, revealing a candid look at her abnormally shaped thumbs, the Daily News learned that the 23-year-old actress has a hereditary defect known as brachydactyly.

“Literally, what it means is short finger,” Dr. Steven Bendner, a hand surgeon at Beth Israel Medical Center, told us. “The nail of the thumb in this condition is often very short and wide.

“It is usually hereditary. Although it could also have been caused by frostbite, or it could have been an injury to the growth plate in childhood.”

But don’t expect Fox’s so-called clubbed thumbs to stand in the way of her career anytime soon.

“In Megan Fox’s case, it appears that only the last bone of the thumb is affected and that it does not involve the joint,” says Dr. Richard Kim, director of congenital hand surgery at Hackensack Medical Center. “For her, it looks like it’s just a cosmetic deficit.”

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