Less than a day after Helio Castroneves was crowned winner of “Dancing With the Stars,†the race-car driver announced that he and his fiancée, Aliette Vazquez, have called off their engagement. Castroneves told Access Hollywood that he’s “sure†they are going to remain friends. Meanwhile, sources say his close relationship to his dance partner, Julianne Hough, may be to blame. Last week Castroneves and Hough, who has signed a record deal, were spotted flirting while they shopped for matching Ritmo watches at the David Orgell store in Beverly Hills. /USAT 1D, DN 23
The Post reports that “Dancing†star Mark Ballas hurt his shoulder during a number on the finale and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. /NYP 93
Gwyneth Paltrow’s rep is shooting down rumors that there’s trouble between her and husband Chris Martin. Apparently the two have not been seen or photographed together in months. Still, rep Steven Huvane insists they have “been completely together and barely separated.†/NYP 13
A judge on Tuesday said he would allow the videotaping of Lindsay Lohan’s deposition in a lawsuit over a car crash that injured a busboy. Raymundo Ortega alleges that Lohan drove her Mercedes-Benz into a van he was driving in October 2005 after she drank alcohol and later tried to escape paparazzi. /AP
Madonna is in hot water with animal activists for dying sheep for a photo spread in Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People. The book points out that the dye was temporary and didn’t harm the animals. /USAT 1D
The staff at ME Cabo Hotel built Adam Sandler’s bulldog Motzaball a mini Chinese opium bed after the actor asked if they could come up with a place for the pooch to sleep. /DN 25
Pictures are circulating on the Internet of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s 14-year-old daughter Bobbi Christina smoking. /DN 25
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem made their NY debut as a couple by accident Tuesday night when they walked into a media storm in the lobby of the 60 Thompson Hotel where Lydia Hearst was launching her line of Puma bags. Meanwhile, Val Kilmer apparently freaked out at Hearst’s party, saying he was “claustrophobic†and needed to get out. / DN 23, NYP 12
Hardcore “Grey’s Anatomy†fans have unearthed a 1997 B-movie titled “Kickboxing Academy†in which new “Grey’s†cast member Chyler Leigh has a few kissing scenes with her real-life brother, Christopher Khayman Lee. /DN 23
People magazine’s Dennis Quaid cover is featured in USA Today’s entertainment section this morning. The paper also picked up our reporting on Brandon Routh’s wedding. /USAT 1D, 2D
Entertainment Weekly this week suggests potential candidates for the next edition of “Dancing.†Among the choices: Shannen Doherty, to fill the “90210 alumni slot,†Dan Rather as the newsman, Cindy Crawford as the former model, and Michael Richards for the controversial star spot formerly filled by Heather Mills. /DN 90
Christina Aguilera appears nearly naked on the cover of the January issue of Marie Claire. /USAT 1D
Amanda Peet shows off her Hollywood Hills bungalow in the December/January issue of Domino. /USAT 1D
Sean Penn, Danny Glover and other big names in the arts on Tuesday sent a letter to President Bush calling for an end to the ban on exchange between U.S. and Cuban artists. /DN 38
Brooke Shield’s new show, “Lipstick Jungle,†will premiere Feb. 7 when “ER†runs out of original episodes, NBC announced. /USAT 1D
Don Imus returns to radio Monday morning. /DN 91
“Early Show†anchor Hannah Storm is leaving the morning program after five years for a different job with CBS News. /USAT 1D, DN 90
WBLS star Wendy Williams will headline her own daytime talk show set to premiere next year. “The Wendy Williams Show†will air only in New York, at first, before rolling out nationally. /NYP 93
Frank Sinatra’s kin have inked a deal with Warner Bros. to market his legacy. /DN 4
Billy Joel and wife Katie Lee have just purchased a home in Sagaponack for $11.625 million. /NYP 50
The Democratic presidential debate scheduled to be broadcast Dec. 10 by CBS News in Los Angeles has been canceled because of a threatened strike by television newswriters at the network. /USAT 1D
The National Enquirer is standing by its Oct. 10 report that John Edwards had an affair with a female campaign staffer and promises a followup. Edwards denied the allegations. /DN 23
Princess Diana saw Dodi Fayed dying when she opened her eyes after their fatal crash, an inquest was told yesterday. French policeman Sebastien Dorzee said Diana mumbled, “My God,†when she realized what had happened. /NYP 16
Jim McGreevey and ex Dina Matos McGreevey are back in court arguing over their daughter’s birthday celebration. Dina is furious that the ex-NJ governor planned a bash for daughter Jacqueline on a weekend that he’s not scheduled to have her. A judge will decide today what parent Jacqueline will be with that weekend. /DN 12
Ellen Barkin and ex-hubby Ron Perelman are in court feuding over whether Barkin used their film production company as a personal piggy bank. /DN 2
O.J. Simpson pleaded not guilty yesterday to kidnapping charges that could land him in jail for life. His trial will begin April 7. /DN 4
Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle has been arrested a second time after failing to properly register as a sex offender, Florida officials said. The 59-year-old musician, whose real name is Thomas Delmer Pyle, was arrested Tuesday at one of three addresses he gave to authorities. He was being held Wednesday on $50,000 bond, Mulligan told The Florida Times-Union. Pyle had been released on $10,000 bond after being arrested on the same charge Nov. 19. /AP
Tests of hundreds of airline passengers show that no one contracted tuberculosis while flying with Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta attorney who caused an international health scare when he flew to Europe for his wedding while infected with TB. /USAT 10D
Emily Sander, a missing Kansas college student believed to be the victim of foul play, led a double life as an Internet porn star by the name of Zoey Zane, a friend told The AP on Wednesday. “She enjoyed it. She is a young teenage girl and she wanted to be in the movies and enjoyed movies. She needed the extra money,” said Nikki Watson, a close friend of Sander’s at Butler Community College. “Nobody in El Dorado knew besides her close friends.” /AP
A rare enamel-and-gold Faberge egg that had been in the Rothschild banking family for more than a century sold for record $18.5 million at auction Wednesday. The sale of the translucent pink egg topped with a diamond-studded cockerel was the highest for a Faberge work of art, Christie’s auction house said. /AP
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