You heard it first ... on Twitter or did you ?


	You heard it first ... on Twitter or did you ?

mrmoan

6-29-2009 5:04 AM

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mrmoan says:

i have to say i heard this news story or should say read this at tmz when it broke and it took the news channels on tv around 1 hour give or take few min to report this now i have been going to tmz.com for a year now and they really are on the ball with ALL story's and they are the 1st online with most celeb story's they break news story's before the big telly channels do tmz rock

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