Ramiele Malubay was booted from “American Idol” last night as the show trimmed the competition to eight hopefuls. Fan favorite David Cook was back for the results show after having heart palpitations and high blood pressure during Tuesday’s show. The 25-year-old Missouri native told host Ryan Seacrest that the “whole thing kind of got blown out of proportion. … I have high blood pressure, and it spiked.” /AP
Brad Pitt is taking a break from longtime publicist Cindy Guagenti. A spy said he “wants to not deal with media.” Guagenti told The Post Pitt’s “on hiatus.” /NYP 14
PerezHilton.com reported last night that Beyonce and Jay-Z plan to marry tomorrow in New York City. /DN 5
Jay-Z is close to reaching a $150 million deal with Live Nation Inc. that will give the concert promoter a stake in virtually every aspect of the rapper’s career, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported online Wednesday. The contract covers Jay-Z’s music and music-related businesses for the next 10 years. /AP
Bobby Brown dishes about his marriage to Whitney Houston in a new autobiography due out next month. In “Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But,” Brown says his marriage drove him to drug addiction. He reveals that within the first year of their 15-year union they were separated and claims he never touched cocaine before he met Houston. /NYP 12
Sources say Lindsay Lohan’s album may be delayed because she isn’t being cooperative with scheduling and has canceled important meetings - including one with producer Timbaland. Lohan’s rep denies she’s missed meetings and said Timbaland has yet to be approached for a collaboration. However, singer-songwriter Ne-Yo is rumored to be on board and writing for Lohan. /DN 22
With her 18th chart-topper “Touch My Body,” Mariah Carey has passed Elvis Presley for the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard singles chart, and is now second only to the Beatles. /AP
Ellen DeGeneres has dropped out of co-hosting next week’s “Idol Gives Back” charity special with Ryan Seacrest. Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe told reporters yesterday that DeGeneres “couldn’t do it due to personal production pressure.” No replacement is planned. /DN 82
Teri Hatcher will sing on the “Idol Gives Back” charity special next week. She’ll back up The Band From TV, which includes actors James Denton, Hugh Laurie, Greg Grunberg and Bonnie Somerville. /DN 25
Madonna donated about 100 autographed copies of the Vanity Fair featuring her on the cover to her Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles. /NYP 13
Julia Roberts and husband Danny Moder were spotted making out during dinner at Waverly Inn. /NYP 12
Rehabbed rocker Scott Weiland says his “erratic behavior” isn’t what got him kicked out of Velvet Revolver. “I had already claimed the group dead the group dead in the water on 20 March in Glasgow,” he said, according to the Daily News. /DN 25
“Jackass” star Steve-O talks about his ongoing rehab stint Monday on friend Bam Margera’s Sirius radio show. /NYP 12
Former “Laguna Beach” star Jason Whaler is getting his own VH1 reality show. Meanwhile, “The Hills” star Brody Jenner is in talks with MTV for a show of his own. /DN 22, NYP 87
Amanda Bynes debuted her “dear” fashion line for Steve and Barry’s Tuesday in Hollywood. /DN 24
Taylor Dane performed three songs from her new CD “Satisfied” at Tenjune Tuesday night. /DN 22
Katie Couric admitted Tuesday night during a book reading at Avery Fisher Hall that she plagiarized her first published piece. Her poem about snow, which ran in The St. James Grammar School gazette, had actually been written by Penny Eastman. /DN 22
“Survivor” host Jeff Probst claims original “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch smuggled matched onto the a reunion show in 2004 by hiding them in his rectum. /NYP 86
“Celebrity Apprentice” runner-up Trace Adkins says that Donald Trump’s decision to pick Piers Morgan over him “sent the wrong message” to America’s youth. Morgan was known for being disrespectful to other contestants on the show. /NYP 87
Paris Hilton has a cameo on “My Name Is Earl,” which returns tonight after a long hiatus due to the writers’ strike. /DN 82
Elizabeth Berkley begins her stint tonight as host of Bravo’s reality show “Step It Up & Dance.” She’s also starring in a multi-episode arc on “CSI: Miami” beginning Monday. /USAT 6D
Elvis Costello and Elton John are teaming for a new Sundance Channel series, “Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…” The channel is developing a documentary series following Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir. /DN 82
MTV’s “Rock the Cradle” premieres tonight. Nine children of music stars compete on the competition for a record deal and chance to win $100,000. /USAT 6D
“High School Musical 3” will begin filming later this month at East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. /USAT 1D
“Project Runway,” The Colbert Report” and ABC’s “Bob Woodruff Reporting: Wounds of War” were among this year’s Peabody winners. The awards will be held June 16. /DN 82
Barack Obama will appear as a guest on HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumble” on Tuesday, April 15. /NYP 87
The British jury hearing the inquest into the death of Princess Diana began deliberating yesterday over how she and Dodi Fayed died. /NYP 11
The father of late television star Steve Irwin said he quit the family’s Australian conservation park because he had become a “disrupting influence,” although the widow of the “Crocodile Hunter” denies a rift in the clan. Australian media have speculated for months that Terri Irwin had a falling out with Bob Irwin following his son’s 2006 death. “It’s a strange feeling to spend half your lifetime building something up and walking away from it,” Bob Irwin told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. /AP
UCLA Medical Center has disciplined an employee for snooping in Farrah Fawcett’s medical records, the hospital said Wednesday, a few weeks after announcing that several employees were fired for taking peeks at Britney Spears’ files. The Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site Wednesday that hospital officials had actually fired the employee. Fawcett expressed concern to a doctor in May that details of her condition were being leaked to tabloids, the National Enquirer published details about a recurrence in her cancer before she had a chance to tell family and friends. /AP
Mel Gibson wants to keep financial information about “The Passion of the Christ” out of the public eye. In court filings Tuesday, attorneys for Gibson, who’s being sued by writer Benedict Fitzgerald over payment for the film, asked the court to seal the movie’s financial records and only allow Fitzgerald’s lawyers access to them. Fitzgerald claimed in his February lawsuit that Gibson misled him into accepting a small payment for writing the script by saying the movie would cost between $4 million and $7 million. /AP
The family of singer Sean Levert wants the FBI to look into his death Sunday after a jail medical emergency. According to the jail warden, Levert was pounding on his cell door so guards strapped him in a restraint chair; Levert’s breathing became shallow and he was taken to Lutheran Hospital, where he died less than an hour later. An autopsy did not determine the cause of death. Toxicology tests are expected to take weeks. /AP
Emily Leatherman, who violated an order to stay away from John Cusak, was charged Wednesday with a felony count of stalking. She faces up to three years in state prison if convicted of the charge, and up to a year in jail if convicted of other misdemeanor counts. Leatherman, who pleaded not guilty, remains jailed on $500,000 bail. /AP
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