NBC's Handsome Middle East Reporter Richard Engel -- I Was Kidnapped in Syria ... I Escaped During Gun Battle

Handsome Middle East Reporter
I Was Kidnapped in Syria,
Escaped During Gun Battle

Breaking News

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Richard Engel -- NBC News' chief foreign correspondent -- is alive and well ... but just barely ... after being held hostage by masked gunmen in Syria for several days.

Engel was reporting on the conflict in Syria earlier this month when he and his crew

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Ke$ha's 'Die Young' -- PLUMMETS from Radio Charts After Newtown Massacre

Ke$ha's 'Die Young'
PLUMMETS from Charts
After Newtown Massacre

EXCLUSIVE

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Ke$ha's new hit "Die Young" has fallen on deaf ears ... after radio stations around the country yanked the song from their rotation after the Newtown tragedy ... TMZ has learned.

"Die Young" clocked in at #3 on the radio playlists on Friday (the day of the shooting) ...

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Pauly D -- I'm Getting a NEW Reality Show ... Not on MTV

Pauly D
I'm Getting a NEW Show
... Not on MTV

EXCLUSIVE

1217_paulyd_mtv_e_tmzSAYONARA MTV ... Pauly D hasn't accepted the network's offer to renew "The Pauly D Project" ... and sources tell us, it's all because he's getting poached by another network, for a lot more cash.

Sources close to the situation tell TMZ ... MTV -- the network Pauly has been with since 2009 --

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Kate Upton Strips for Antarctic Photo Shoot -- 35 Degrees BELOW ZERO

Kate Upton
Strips for Antarctic Photo Shoot
35 Degrees BELOW ZERO

EXCLUSIVE

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Kate Upton and Lindsay Lohan have something in common ... because Kate's assets were FROZEN recently -- when the curvaceous 20-year-old model stripped down to her skivvies for an Antarctica photo shoot ... where the temperature hit 35 BELOW!!!

We're told Upton and a camera

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'Honey Boo Boo' Star -- Hell Yeah, I Wanna Do a Redneck Porno!

'Honey Boo Boo' Star
Hell Yeah, I Wanna Do
a Redneck Porno!

EXCLUSIVE

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"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" star "Crazy" Tony Lindsey is so dang excited by the recent redneck porn boom ... he's ready to make a hillbilly skin flick of his own!

We broke the story ... sales of redneXXX films are surging -- increasing 250% in the last two years -- thanks in part to

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