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April 30, 2003 - britneyspears-1981-2 writes "On TRL yesterday, Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden were hosting again, and Benji was asked what he thought of Christina's hair and he said, "I must say, the black hair is very becoming of her." Then he said "A little hair dye doesn’t distract true love." He also said that he was still taking calls. After the video he said he voted for it and that he "didn’t do it.""

April 30, 2003 - Christina Aguilera was on hand at the 14th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Hollywood on Saturday (April 26) at Kodak Theatre. Check out more pictures from Rex Features (page1 / page2).

April 30, 2003 - Peoplenews.com reports Christina Aguilera has turned down Robbie Williams' request for a duet, as the Brit pop star is desperate to crack America hoping the pairing would boost his profile. "I think he's cute," she said. "But our styles are so different. We would not gel." Aguilera suggested, "He should try [Mariah Carey] - she loves to duet."

April 30, 2003 - britneyspears-1981-2 writes "ShockYourMind.org reports *NSYNC's annual charity event, Challenge For The Children V, will take place on the sunny shores of South Beach in Miami on July 18 through 20. Christina Aguilera will likely attend this year's even since she'll be performing with Justin Timberlake on the pair's Justified & Stripped 2003 tour at the Office Depot Center in Sunrise, Florida a day earlier on July 17. "

April 29, 2003 - Extra TV reports the GLAAD Awards audience embraced the no longer blonde Christina Aguilera who sang an a capella version of her hit song 'Beautiful.' She says, "It's a universal anthem for anyone who has ever been discriminated against or unaccepted by a certain group of people." Watch a video clip here.

April 29, 2003 - StubHub.com is running some charity auctions for Christina Aguilera. Auctions winners receive a pair of front row tickets, two backstage passes to meet Christina, a signed picture, and a Stripped CD. Proceeds benefit a great cause - The Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh. Check out the auctions here.

April 29, 2003 - Christina Aguilera was on hand at the 14th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Hollywood on Saturday (April 26) at Kodak Theatre. Check out pictures from FilmMagic, DailyCeleb, CelebrityPhoto, StarFile, BigPictures, GettyImages, LFI, WireImage, and Yahoo.

April 28, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christinamultimedia.com has a new version of the lastest Christina Aguilera' single 'Fighter'. The track is called 'Fighter (Kiss 92 FM Remix)', and you can download it here."

April 28, 2003 - Us Weekly quotes Christina Aguilera saying, "I'm not naive enough to sit here and say I've never tried... you know... drugs. But I found out they weren't for me. I mean, I really found out."

April 28, 2003 - The Los Angeles Times reports Christina Aguilera has purchased a Hollywood Hills five-bedroom, 6,500-square-foot house, built in 1960, for $5 million. The home was built by designer Steve Hermann and features a home theater with a bar, bathroom and lounge, a pool, spa, 25-foot waterfall and unobstructed city views. Read more.

April 28, 2003 - Kelly Osbourne is again sounding off about Christina Aguilera's style. The Sunday Mail quotes Ozzy's daughter saying, "She deserves to be in jail. They're the worst clothes I've seen in my life."

April 26, 2003 - Popdirt.com's latest poll asks who's new hairdo do you prefer. Vote for Christina here.

April 26, 2003 - nellysgirl writes "Christina Aguilera has been rumored to be having a new boyfriend. There is no word on what his name is, but she has been seen out with him and some friends. You can see some rare pictures of them out together here."

April 26, 2003 - Jaime Richards of the Alameda Times-Star profiled how kids can be unbelievably and blatantly mean, fueled by jealousy. Richards writes, "When it comes to celebrities, girls and boys react in the same silly, predictable way. Boys, jealous that superstars like Justin Timberlake and Nelly are rich, famous and desired by millions of girls, absurdly claim that these handsome stars are gay. Girls, jealous of the beauty, talent and success of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, accuse them of being 'hoes.' Which makes absolutely no sense. I mean, Britney and Christina are making pretty nice legitimate livings." Read more.

April 26, 2003 - britneyspears-1981-2 writes "A chart compiled from Digital Download Day (DDD) – the biggest ever give-away of legal digital music – sees Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful' top of the pile. Over 1 million people visited the DDD website in just over two days – making it the number one music site in the UK – with over 150,000 music fans taking part in the downloading initiative. Read more and see the complete list here."

April 26, 2003 - The Enquirer reports Christina Aguilera and Paris Hilton recently drove by the practice session of Hollywood High School's football team, where they put on a cheerleader performance. The pair tooted their convertible's horn, then jumped up on the trunk, dancing in hip-huggers and midriff tops. The boys whistled and cheered until the coach blew his whistle. The girls then drove off, yelling "Have a good workout, boys!"

April 26, 2003 - NSYNC star Justin Timberlake phoned into the Eddie and JoBo show in B96 in Chicago, where he had better luck than with Java Joel. Asked if there was a sexual vibe between him and soon-to-be tourmate Christina Aguilera, Timberlake said, "It would be great for press, you guys would eat it up but no, I think we have a mutual respect for each other and we're friends but nothing more than that." As for whether making a new *NSYNC album would be yesterday's news, Justin says, "I think, honestly, I think with the things that we've done I think that we've proven that we are more than a boyband. I think that we've proved that we have what it takes and I think the essence of everything that we've ever done is always been the blend with each other and our vocal harmonies." Check out the entire interview transcript here.

April 26, 2003 - With Avril Lavigne hitting the Tacoma Dome on Monday, Patrick MacDonald of the Seattle Times says that the Canadian star's label as "the Britney killer" seems to have effected the lackluster ticket sales for Christina Aguilera and *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake's show June 8th at the Tacoma Dome. Read more.

April 25, 2003 - Pat O'Brien of Access Hollywood caught up with Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake of *NSYNC to preview their summer concert tour. The idea for the pair to tour together was from their managers, as Aguilera explained: "Well, it was also that our records were coming out at the same time and whatnot and our singles. Also, the fact that we're both almost kind of a reinvention of ourselves. Like being a little more mature -- me being more grown, having gone through lots of changes. You know, this being my follow-up record to my debut and Justin kind of parting himself from the boys for a minute to do a solo thing. I think it was just kind of fate that we get together and join up to give them a show." As for what fans can expect, Justin offered, "I think you can expect surprises. I mean, obviously, I don't think either one of us wanna tell..." Read the entire transcript and watch a video clip here.

April 23, 2003 - Christina Aguilera has been named the world's most desirable woman by British men. She topped the list in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women Of the Year list compiled from readers votes, beating out Australian singer/actress Holly Valance. Read more.

April 23, 2003 - Justin Timberlake went under the grill with Java Joel on KISS 103.5 FM in Chicago. The *NSYNC star was grilled about drug use, whether he's banged Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, and more. He then asked if he's had any homosexual experiences with his bandmates, and then it got really ugly. Download and listen to the interview here. Check out a transcript at LiveDaily.com.

April 22, 2003 - britney4ever writes "According to a fan at the dotmusic.com message boards, Christina Aguilera's 4th single from 'Stripped' will be 'Can't Hold Us Down'. It's set to be released late September in the UK, and it's rumored to be the last single from the album."

April 22, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christina Aguilera is on the May/June J-14 magazine and you can see the scans of the magazine here."

April 22, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christinaaguilera.to reports that Christina Aguilera won the "Best Female Artist" at the TMF Awards in Holland, the other nominees were Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. Jennifer won the award two years ago."

April 20, 2003 - Christina Aguilera co-wrote Kelly Clarkson's next big single 'Miss Independent', much to the surprise of last season's 'American Idol' champ. "Actually, I had no clue that she even wrote on it 'til after it was already on my album. I had no clue," Kelly told Access Hollywood. Christina wrote the song along with producer Rhett Lawrence for her 'Stripped' album, but never used it. Kelly said Lawrence gave her the song to finish and put on her album. "He was like, 'Well, actually I didn't even finish this song and I was actually working on other projects with it. But they don't want it any longer.' So I finished it up. I wrote the bridge on it and finished up the song and then we ended up doing it," revealed Kelly. Read more.

April 18, 2003 - Globe magazine reports Christina Aguilera has alarmed friends by her recent weight gain and the partying lifestyle that may have contributed to the bloating. "Christina is fond of wearing revealing stuff," a pal said. "But recently she's had to purposely shelve some of her favorite outfits because they either show too much flab or don't fit at all. She knows she has no one to blame but herself for it and she feels tremendous guilt over it." Read more.

April 18, 2003 - The New York Post reports Christina Aguilera has been spending time with underground rapper 7th Letter. The pair were together at Lot 61 in the VIP room after Aguilera's assistant asked a club promoter to introduce them. She also was with the rapper when he and buddy Ja Rule were turned away from Suede because of their thuggish attire. A website for a rapper going by G-Man, aka the 7th Letter (of the alphabet), can be found here.

April 18, 2003 - britneyspears-1981-2 writes "According to Christina Aguilera's official site 'Fighter' video tops the AOL charts with over 1 Million streams served in 7 days."

April 18, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Shockyourmind has six new, never seen before, pictures from Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' photoshoot. Check them out here."

April 16, 2003 - Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl spoke with Blender magazine and was asked if he and Christina Aguilera really did a beer bong together last year. "Yeah, and she parties like a champ," he said. "I give her props for that, for sure. She's definitely the kind of girl you would want to do beer bongs with. She wasn't "dirrty" about it at all -- in fact, she finished every last drop. Dude, that's a fu**ing pullquote right there."

April 16, 2003 - The Daily Express reports Christina Aguilera and Sean Connery will star in an upcoming low budget romantic comedy called 'Magic Isle'. Christina will play the role of a young American drama student who falls for a fellow actor. Aguilera admitted that her "worst nightmare would be for it to be a flop at the box office."

April 15, 2003 - Shockyourmind.org has captures of *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera from today's Access Hollywood. Check them out here.

April 15, 2003 - britney4ever writes "You can see the new *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera' "Justified Stripped Tour" TV commercial here."

April 15, 2003 - nellysgirl writes "Christina Aguilera broke up with he ex boyfriend Jorge Santos about a year ago, but perhaps has now found a new boyfriend? Pictures of Aguilera and a new "boyfriend" in Paris in February can be seen here."

April 15, 2003 - Last season's 'American Idol' champ Kelly Clarkson has already won over Christina Aguilera, who actually co-wrote the first single from the album, 'Miss Independent.' Kelly says, "The song is awesome because I’m a really big fan of her writing." Watch a video clip, which includes her thoughts on the new crop of 'Idols' at ExtraTV.

April 15, 2003 - In the latest edition of her weekly pop culture column, teen scene writer Sabrina Mehra explains why she went from a Christina Aguilera hater to a 'Stripped & Justified' concert ticket holder. "Aguilera can be ‘dirrty’ one moment and ‘beautiful’ the next without losing an ounce of vocal talent – and I’m beginning to realize that the ease with which she reinvents herself, and how she incorporates her innate talent with the drive to innovate, should be celebrated," writes Mehra. "Unlike much of the pre-packaged and studio-engineered crap that’s been so popular the last couple years, Aguilera does her own thing and sounds great doing it. Today, Aguilera, a diva in the truest sense of the word, resides far outside of Spears’ shadow." Read more.

April 13, 2003 - Christina Aguilera's rep assured the New York Post that the singer is not pregnant, contrary to rumors. "Oh God! She has just gained weight," the rep insisted. "The poor thing!" Aguilera is carbo-loading to prepare for her grueling tour with *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake.

April 13, 2003 - Christina Aguilera is on the cover of the April issue of Living Abroad Magazine, where the singer tells Christine Davies she's more than happy to be known as a sexy pin-up. "Society is quick to judge females if they want to be sexually open, they're labelled as a slut," Aguilera complained. "That's wrong. There are so many labels that can be placed upon women for being sexual. But what do we call men for that? Nothing! No matter what, women, men ­ everyone ­ should be empowered to just be themselves." Read more.

April 13, 2003 - Suzanne Ellis of The Aisle Seat reviewed Christina Aguilera's new video 'Fighter' calling it "the coolest music video since Fatboy Slim hired Christopher Walken to two-step through their 'Weapon Of Choice' clip." She added, "It's not the sexiest video she’s ever done -- Aguilera's wig and dress ended up being covered in dead moths –- but it's certainly the most interesting and by far the most artistic. Besides, she'd gone about as far as she could go on the raunchy sex side with the video for her song Dirrty -- any more explicit and it would've been porn." Read more.

April 13, 2003 - britney4ever writes "The Daily Mirror has a picture of Christina Aguilera with the black hair. They write that Christina revealed her darker side on an LA shopping trip this week. You can see the picture here."

April 12, 2003 - WENN reports Christina Aguilera loves the reaction she now gets when she surprises people by wearing 'normal' clothes. "I'm a girl's girl. I like wearing short skirts one time and jeans the next," she said. "I enjoyed going to the '8 Mile' premiere in a simple white shirt and sneakers. People were, 'Oh my God! Christina's wearing some clothes for a change!' I get a kick out of watching that kind of reaction."

April 12, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christina Aguilera is in the new 'The Face' magazine. She talks about her relationship with her father and indeed the split with her ex boyfriend cum dancer Jorge Santos, Christina also speaks about Madonna being an inspiration and Marilyn Monroe being a strong woman. You can read the entire interview here."

April 12, 2003 - dragonznpiano writes "Christina Aguilera is on the May cover of Cosmopolitan in Australia. Titled "Why is Christina Aguilera on our cover? Beautiful, dirrty, and motivated by a tragic secret." Check it out here."

April 12, 2003 - dragonznpiano writes "According to christinaaguilera.com, Christina Aguilera has won the award for Best International Female Artist at the Channel V Thailand awards, despite of all the 'Dirrty' video controversy, where it had been banned."

April 11, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christina Aguilera is in the new 'The Face' magazine. She also is on the cover, and you can see all the scans of the magazine here."

April 10, 2003 - Watch Christina Aguilera get experimental in 'Fighter,' the new video from her smash album 'Stripped', which is streaming at NetscapeMusic.

April 10, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christina Aguilera is on the cover of the new 'The Face' magazine. You can see the cover here."

April 9, 2003 - 'American Idol' champ Kelly Clarkson tells Entertainment Weekly that she had an unexpected writing partner on 'Miss Independent': Christina Aguilera, whom she's never met. "I was working with my producer, Rhett Lawrence, and he was playing the 'Miss Independent' beat and I was like, 'That's hot.' And he was like, 'It's already kind of a song,'" Clarkson says. It turned out that Lawrence and Aguilera had toyed with 'Miss Independent' as a track for her last album, 'Stripped,' but never finished it. Some tinkering time later, Clarkson, Lawrence, and Aguilera now share writing credit for the song, according to a representative for both artists' label, RCA. Read more. [Requires subscription or AOL]

April 8, 2003 - Us Weekly asked Amanda Bynes if she felt good beating out Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson for the lead in 'What A Girl Wants'. Bynes said, "I don't know how good that makes me feel because it's like, they're singers. I'm like, well, I'm the only actress in the bunch, so hopefully I would make it!" As for why Christina Aguilera's perfectly titled hit wasn't included in the movie, she says, "Because I asked for it not to be, just because, I like Christina a lot and she's an amazing talent, but I didn't want that to be what the movie was about."

April 8, 2003 - Radio 1 reports some are saying that Christina Aguilera could be pregnant -- or at least packing on the pounds -- after she appeared at a show previewing Jeremy Scott's autumn collection in Hollywood. "I feel like a little mermaid right now. But Jeremy Scott - he's great," Aguilera said. "I love his bold, ambitious, being unafraid to be out there and be different and go as under or overboard as he wants to. I love that. I love people who take it to that level of being unafraid to go there." Read more.

April 8, 2003 - Shockyourmind.org put up Christina Aguilera's new 'Fighter' video for everyone to watch, as well as captures. Check it out here.

April 8, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christinamultimedia.com has the video of the Christina Aguilera's NBA promo commercial. It was premiered yesterday during the Washington and Boston game. You can download the video here."

April 7, 2003 - Recently, Kelly Osbourne pointedly set herself apart from pop tarts like Christina Aguilera when she called her "one of the most disgusting human beings in the world." She tells Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan of the Baltimore Sun, "It is the truth and the truth hurts. She actually spoke to me and I couldn't understand a word that she was saying. She tries to speak in ebonics and it doesn't work for her. I wouldn't say I'm friends with the Britney Spearses of the world. That's just not me." Read more.

April 7, 2003 - WENN reports Christina Aguilera's stylist Trish Sommerville insists the singer is not a slut. "Because she wears revealing clothes, people think Christina is slutty - but she isn't," Sommerville said. "In fact, she hardly ever dates new people. She was with her last boyfriend for two years and now she's single she doesn't go out a lot or put herself about at all. She doesn't mean to cause controversy with her clothes - it's just like playing dress-up for her." Read more.

April 7, 2003 - britney4ever writes "ChristinaMultimedia.com has more video captures of Christina Aguilera's new Making The Video of 'Fighter' from AccessHollywood and Extra."

April 5, 2003 - The lineup for KIIS FM's big annual Wango Tango event was announced today. The artist performing include Christina Aguilera, Lisa Marie Presley, Daniel Bedingfield, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Michelle Branch, *NSYNC star JC Chasez, and O-Town. Read more.

April 5, 2003 - Christina Aguilera was on hand at the Jeremy Scott Fall Collection Fashion Show at the Palace in Hollywood, California on Thursday (April 3). Check out pictures from DailyCeleb.com, CelebrityPhoto.com, LFI (page1 / page2), WireImage.com (page1 / page2), and ShockYourMind.org.

April 4, 2003 - britney4ever writes "The next 'Making The Video' of Christina Aguilera's 'Fighter' will be airing on Monday (April 7th) on MTV, but you can see some video captures here."

April 4, 2003 - The Mirror reports Christina Aguilera has a new boyfriend, who happens to be a partner in the company that manages her, Irving Azoff Management. The diminutive 22-year-old is going out with Jordan Bratman is dating the singer. "They've been seeing each other quietly for a while," says a source. "He is a really decent bloke. He is very short, though. But then again, she is tiny, too."

April 4, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christinaaguilera.to has more pictures of Christina Aguilera' NBA promo commercial from Entertainment Tonight. Check out the pictures here."

April 4, 2003 - In honor of the impending catfight between Kelly Osbourne and Christina Aguilera, MuchMusic asked PowerShift viewers to do a little manipulating and create a picture of what a fight between the two kittens would look like. Check out illustrations of some of their favorite entries here.

April 3, 2003 - Groovevolt.com reports that Christina Aguilera is in talks to star in a new movie for New Line Cinema. Aguilera has been receiving movie scripts since the release of her latest album 'Stripped'. The movie is said be a romantic-comedy and will be filmed after her summer tour with *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake ends. Read more.

April 3, 2003 - Anonymous writes "The French website 'FanMed!a' has three exclusive pictures of Christina Aguilera playing Game Boy Advance SP. Check them out here."

April 3, 2003 - Anonymous writes "andPOP is reporting that Kelly Clarkson may have worked with Christina Aguilera on her album, although what is Aguilera's role has not been confirmed. She also worked with Babyface and Tamyra Gray. Read more."

April 3, 2003 - Globe magazine reports Christina Aguilera is a regular at Sunset Blvd. hotspot Tantra, where she slurps down drinks like Death by Chocolate martinis and cocktails like Tiger's Milk and Mango Method. An employee said, "Christina is a regular here, and she always looks like she's having a blast."

April 3, 2003 - britney4ever writes "Christinaaguilera.to reports that the Christina Aguilera's New "No Make Up, Moth Filled, Dark, Morbid, Marilyn Manson Type Video About Empowerment," A.K.A. 'Fighter,' will debut on MTV's Making The Video on Monday (April 7). Check it out at 5:00 PM ET/PT."

April 3, 2003 - Anonymous writes "Christina Aguilera is featured here and there in March's issue of ETC (Malaysia's entertainment magazine). In this edition, Christina and *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake made it to the 'Gossip Central' section. And there is also a review of Christina's latest album 'Stripped'. Its a very good review; 'Stripped' got 5 stars. Check out the scans here."

April 3, 2003 - The New York Post reports Christina Aguilera and pal David La Chapelle were spotted at the first anniversary of the 'Home School' party at the Cock in the East Village.

April 1, 2003 - Billy Masters of Filth2go.com asks readers in this week's blind item: "Could it be that a certain dirty girl is gearing up for a hush-hush performance at Jeffrey Sanker’s White Party in Palm Springs? This week, I got the official word but was sworn to secrecy. As with last year’s special guest (J-Ho), this performer will only do the gig if it’s not publicized – and what this girl wants, she gets. She’ll be singing her song (three songs, actually) in a highly emotional live set – no obvious lip synching for this underappreciated belter. As for Sanker and company, they have planned quite an extravaganza, destined to leave revelers wanting more as they walk away. Impossible? Just you wait."

April 1, 2003 - The Sunday People reports that according to Kelly Osboune, Christina Aguilera seems to have fallen out with Pink, with whom she recorded 'Lady Marmalade'. Ozzy's kid said, "Last time, I saw them they looked like they were about to punch each other's lights out."

April 1, 2003 -  The Sunday Mail quotes Christina Aguilera saying, "Two women together is way sexier than two men."

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