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One-Time Ring Bearer Marries Flower Girl… 17 Years Later

Adrian and Brooke Franklin recently got married at a church in South Gastonia, North Carolina. No, in and of itself, that fact is not especially interesting. But here's the thing: Adrian and Brooke first met in that same church 17 years ago, when they served as ring bearer and flower girl at the same wedding. “I had a crush on him from the start,” Brooke tells the town's local affiliate ABC11 of Adrian, who she met when both were five. “He absolutely could not stand me. He said I got on his nerves. I'd tried to play with him at school and at church and he just didn't want much to do with me at all.” The pair went through elementary and middle school together before clicking romantically in high school. Among their guests at their September nuptials? The bride from the wedding where they first met. Crazy, right?!? “We forgot that we were in the wedding together and she brought the photos to us,” Brooke says. “She just thought that was the neatest thing. She was really excited.” Heck, we're really excited! And we don't even know you!

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Paige Thomas and Vino Alan React to X Factor Eliminations

The X Factor results show was not especially kind to Paige Thomas and Vino Alan last night, as the hopeful singers were each sent home. Did the eliminations take these contestants by surprise? “I wouldn’t say I was expecting it,” Thomas told reporters after the show. “But at this point in the competition, because everybody’s so good, you can never really expect anything… I’m somewhat relaxed because now I can really just be myself.” Alan was more direct (“I didn’t expect to go home,” he said), while admitting he changed his Wednesday night song at the last moment from “Too Close” to ” You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling .” But he holds no grade toward mentor L.A. Reid. “I don’t blame L.A.,” he said. “I blame myself for not standing up. That’s the advice I’d give to anybody: follow your gut.” Thomas also harbors no ill will toward Demi Lovato , saying she’s grateful for that star’s support. “We spent a lot of time with [Demi], especially compared to all the other judges,” Thomas said. “She really did take time to sit down with us and talk to us. She’s got a career that she’s still building and so do I, but I’d definitely like to stay in touch with her.” Did you think Thomas and/or Alan deserved to be eliminated?   No way, Paige deserved to stay! Nope, Vino all the way! Yes, but I wish them luck! View Poll »

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And Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is… Ron Paul?

Or some other lukewarm cling-monkey: “If I were feeling less generous and more cynical on this holiest of all Oscar-calendar mornings , I might say that to decipher this year’s Academy Awards contest, we need only look for inspiration to the GOP presidential race. The Artist is Mitt Romney — desperate to please, doesn’t stand for anything in particular, not especially popular with the general public, will eventually keep most of its money offshore, and, though dinged up and trash-talked, will probably cross the finish line first by default. The Descendants is Newt Gingrich (emotionally unsteady, hard on wives, doing better than expected, but probably can’t go all the way). Hugo is Rick Santorum (a little slow, doesn’t really like anything that changed in the culture in the last 80 years). And The Tree of Life is Jon Huntsman (believes in evolution, probably a little too classy for this field).” [ Grantland ]

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And Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is… Ron Paul?