The president of Namibia has supposedly written a personal letter of gratitude to Angelina Jolie to thank her for doing more for the African nation by choosing to pop out her baby there than his tourism budget for the next century:

If it’s true that Namibia is going to declare Shiloh’s birthday a national holiday that just seems like overkill after this over-the-top letter. Angelina is a “founding mother” of Namibia indeed. Do you think someone made this shit up? It sounds too good to be true. Of course Namibia is grateful but this letter is too much.

In related fake news, Star is saying that chain-smoking Aniston plans to confront Angelina for being a homewrecker. I totally doubt this is true.

Star also claims that Angelina wants to move back to France as soon as Brad is finished filming “Oceans 13,” and that Brad wants to get married but Angelina’s against it.That sounds more likely. From their e-mail newsletter:

This is not big news since Angelina has been calling the shots and already dragged the family to her mother’s native France. No matter where they go they’ll be hounded by photographers, though, because there were plenty of pictures of the Jolie-Pitts when they were in Paris.

It’s all well and good for Angelina to say she doesn’t need a nanny when she already has a chef, maid, and personal security staff to do her bidding. It must be easier to focus on your role as mother when there aren’t a ton of other things to do.

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Our distrust in the gossip industry peaked this week, with several rumors being debunked, and fake quotes circulating like wildfire.

Everyone was waiting with baited breath to see what Britney Spears would announce in her press conference yesterday. I even got up early to catch the news and was suprised that it wasn’t listed in the Google Entertainment News section yet.

It turns out that now our week of bullshit gossip news is complete, because the entire press conference was a hoax:

I googled “Karen Phillips” combined with either “Sony Music” or “Sony BMG” and logical variations like “Karyn,” “Caryn,” and “Philips” and got nothing about her – except for this supposed quote about the Britney press conference. There is a musician named Karen Phillips, but no “executive.” She is also not included on the Sony BMG site among the “executives” listing, although there are only four old white guys there, so there are probably plenty more executives there.

The bottom line is, this Karen Phillips person who was quoted about the press conference probably doesn’t exist.

Earlier in the week we found completely fabricated quotes about Katie Holmes’ fitness routine from someone we actually know.

It’s hard to determine where this press conference story originated, but clearly someone is making up quotes and it’s just spreading.

This is gossip, innuendo and rumor, so it’s not like it has to be held to a high standard of journalistic integrity. Still, there’s a huge difference between saying it’s your opinion that someone is pregnant or screwing so and so, and making up shit entirely and acting like it’s true. Too many of these stories are totally bogus.

Oh, and Britney fan site BreathHeavy.com reports that Britney and Kevin are going to renew their vows after Kevin promised Britney that he would change. They don’t have a source listed, though, and this doesn’t sound true to us. Not much does lately.