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Jon and Kate -- remember them? -- set aside their differences to spend Independence Day at their Pennsylvania home with their eight kids, playing volleyball and picking blueberries for a cake baked by Kate. The Gosselins, although they are divorcing, have agreed to spend holidays together and focus on their kids, they say. In her recent People magazine cover story, Kate said, "Jon pointed to the July 4 holiday and said, 'What are we going to do about that?' I absolutely cannot imagine not spending every single holiday with my kids. I don't care what it takes. I will be there." Although their reality show is on hiatus until August, it's not clear whether the festivities were taped.

Police in Los Angeles are bracing for the arrival of possibly hundreds of thousands of fans for the Michael Jackson memorial at the Staples Center Tuesday. The number that might converge on the city is the "great unknown," they say, but warn that only people who have won the online ticket lottery or have legitimate press credentials will not be admitted into the perimeter around the center. Here's a clue about interest, though -- more than 1.6 million people applied online for the free 17,500 tickets, and a British Airways spokesman says a "huge influx" of fans are coming from Britain for the memorial. Jackson will be buried in Forest Lawn after the memorial service, and little is known about those plans. The memorial will be shown live Tuesday starting at 1 p.m. Eastern Time on E! and also on Eonline.com, TMZ.com, and probably other web sites.

Not only did Marty Wolff and Amy Hildreth meet and fall in love in 2007, when both appeared on the third season of "The Biggest Loser," they have now added a new member to the family. Blaine Patrick Wolff weighed in at 10 pounds, 14 ounces on his Jul 4 birthday. The pair married in March 2008.

Rupert Grint, the actor who plays Harry Potter's best friend Ron Weasley, was felled by the H1N1, or swine flu but has recovered enough to attend this week's London premier of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Grint, 20, was filming the next movie in the series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" when he contracted the illness, but producers were able to film around him while he recovered.

The family of the little boy who starred in "Slumdog Millionaire" has finally been moved from the slums where their shack was demolished and into a $50,000 one-bedroom apartment in Mumbai. "We have lived on the road for so many years," said Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail's mother, Shamaam.  "I had never dreamed that we would have a roof over our heads." The Jai Ho trust, set up by producers, is still searching for a home for Rubina Ali, the little girl who appeared in the Oscar-winning Best Picture, which has earned millions in profits.

Susan Boyle and Simon Cowell are working together on her debut album, but the singer, who has missed several concerts on the "Britain's Got Talent" tour due to exhaustion, is taking her time in the studio. "She sounds fantastic on record," says Cowell. "She's so good, the album is not just going to be show tunes. We're going to take our time with this."

-- Anne Neville