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Monday, 17th November 2008

A choice round-up of corrections from the NY Post's gossip page. Michelle Obama didn't have lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf (she wasn't even staying there), and Nicolas Cage's wife didn't say "What is the Declaration of Independence?". Oh, and there's this

ON April 23 we reported that the fiancée of Gregg ‘Opie’ Hughes, one half of the Opie and Anthony radio show, was involved in an X-rated sex video with MTV star Bam Margera. We reported that Hughes was taking legal action against a disgruntled ex-employee of the radio duo who had acquired the rights to the video. We have since learned that this information, supplied by Steppin’ Out’s Chaunce Hayden, was entirely incorrect. There is no sex tape. Further, Hughes’ fiancée has never met the MTV star.
And this:
WE blew it yesterday when we reported that Herman Melville worked at the front desk of the Riverview Hotel on West Street in 1907, an impossibility since the ‘Moby Dick’ author died in 1891...

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