Following his headline-grabbing car accident over the weekend, Tiger Woods‘ sponsor Nike is reportedly giving the golf great it’s "full support."

Nike released the following statement on Monday:

"Tiger and his family have Nike’s full support. We respect Tiger’s request for privacy and our thoughts are with Tiger and his family at this time."

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Two polo-playing socialites have the nation talking — especially those who innocently helped them pull off their White House hoax! ET has an exclusive interview with the stylists of aspiring reality stars Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who were with the couple moments before they reportedly crashed the White House State Dinner Tuesday night.

Erwin Gomez and Peggy Ioakim — of the Erwin Gomez salon located in the Georgetown area of Washington D.C. — told ET they did hair and makeup for the entire event. Erwin considers the duo friends, often attending events together. Calling the party-crashing a "major stunt," the stylist to the stars adds that Michaele is "really a nice person inside."

Now Erwin and Peggy wonder if their clients may have crashed other big parties — watch the video to see which major Hollywood star they recently rubbed elbows with!

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(HMG) – If Cleveland Indians center fielder Grady Sizemore should be grateful for one thing, it’s that baseball season is over.  Even so he is never going to hear the end of this next season. A series of racy photos he took of himself, for sexting to his girlfriend and Playboy Playmate Brittany Binger (photo right), recently made their way to the internet. The humiliating 15 pictures of Grady, 27, run the gamut of shirtless with sweat pants, but also nude and smiling into a bathroom mirror as he holds a teacup (baseball players use cups!) in front of his privates. Sizemore said the pictures were only meant for his girlfriend:

“These pictures were stolen illegally from my girlfriend’s e-mail,” Sizemore told the Cleveland Plain Dealer this weekend.

“It’s now a legal matter that is under investigation. I can’t say anything more.”

You can head over to Deadspin a sports website owned by Gawker Media, for the racy photos.

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(HMG) – Tiger Woods has seemingly ended his season of golf for the year, skipping his last scheduled tournament.  That comes as no great revelation given this is the offseason for PGA golf anyway, and his return would have been filled with press questions and photographers trying to get snapshots of his face to study his injuries.

Woods released a statement on his website today, citing injuries from his mysterious car accident, he will not play or appear at this week’s Chevron World Challenge in California, his last scheduled competition of 2009.

“Due to injuries sustained in a one-car accident last week, Tiger Woods will be unable to play in the 2009 Chevron World Challenge,” adding that Woods also “will not participate in any other tournaments in 2009 and will return to action next year.”

“I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week,” Woods said in the statement. “I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I’m very sorry that I can’t be there.”

The tournament, which benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation, issued a statement saying that Woods canceled a pre-tournament news conference that was scheduled for Tuesday at the Sherwood Country Club.  As I mentioned above there was just no way Tiger was going to play in a tournament right now with his current state of affairs, but I wouldn’t dismiss the significance of his injuries.

According to a TMZ eye witness to the aftermath of the accident:  “Tiger was laying on the ground unconscious when EMT workers arrived. They used “pain stimulus” — a method where pressure is applied on an unconscious person to make them alert — but Tiger only briefly opened his eyes and then lost consciousness.”

So far Woods’ major endorsers, including Nike, Gatorade and Gillette, lined up on Monday to state their support, as you would expect given the money he makes for their brands. But sponsors are a fickle bunch so if the going starts getting real tough well see how quick they are to bail.  I don’t really expect that to happen though, as long as the alleged mistress, Rachel Uchitel, doesn’t back the National Enquirer’s story despite any proof they might have.  I think Tiger is surrounded by a team that will help him navigate through these rough seas otherwise.

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The scandal-ridden golfer says he is “extremely disappointed” to miss the event

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Tiger Woods will not be participating in the 2009 Chevron World Challenge as scheduled, citing injuries sustained from his one-car accident that occurred last week.

"I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week," the acclaimed golfer said. "I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I’m very sorry that I can’t be there."

"We support Tiger’s decision and are confident the strong field and excellent course will provide an exciting week of competition at the Chevron World Challenge," said Greg McLaughlin, Tiger Woods Foundation President & CEO.

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ET has the latest…

From Gatorade to AT&T to Nike to Gillette, Tiger Woods makes much of his living off of endorsing popular brands. But now that the pro golfer’s squeaky-clean image has come into question after his car accident on Friday, could those deals be in jeopardy? One expert weighs in.

"Tiger Woods is on track to become the first billionaire athlete," Lacey Rose of Forbes magazine tells ET. "Between endorsement fees and prize money and some of these real estate projects, Tiger Woods is worth an estimated $500 million right now."

Rose says it’s Woods’ reputation that made him so likable to these companies.

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[HMG] – Despite a stormy but impassioned romance that has kept the less tasteful tabloids in business for months, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are on course to implode, or so a salacious new book would have us believe.

Sourcing his data from more than 900  ‘close sources,’ author Ian Halperin claims his new 285-page expose has the real, inside scoop on Hollywood’s most glamorous union.

Brad and Angie first encountered each other while making the 2004 New York-based comedy, Mr and Mrs Smith. And Brad’s wife at that time, Jennifer Aniston even wished Jolie well;

“Brad is so excited to be working with you,” Jennifer told her when Angie dropped by the set of NBC’s ‘Friends.’

…Two weeks later Brad and Angie posed for a  ‘W’ magazine photo-shoot entitled, ‘Domestic Bliss.’..And poor Jenn was no more.

Five years in the making, the new book also claims these two star-crossed lovers have fought like cat and dog since almost day one, “Over everything from politics to clothes the kids wear, and Brad’s atrocious habits,” says Halperin, who then says these habits include ‘drugs and booze.’

So what keeps them together?  Unbelievable sex!; “Brad never had such incredible sex,” Halperin claims. “My sources say the pair sometimes spend 18-20 hours a day in bed.”

But outside the bedroom tempers still flare, and the book says the couple’s close friends are all hoping they will soon choose to part ways; “Several people in Brad’s family wished they’d break up today,” Ian tells the Daily Telegraph. “They’re scared for his safety and well-being,” he reveals.

And such concern may have grounds – A driver who worked for the couple in 2007 saw Angie’s temper first-hand, “I was worried about his safety,” says the worker. “I can’t imagine how anyone would want to be with her – She has a temper like a cobra!”

Other sources told the author that Brad has cheated on Angie. And more than once. The prime candidate is a Sudanese model named Amma. They met at the Cannes Festival in 2007 and were spied together at least once after that. And Angie’s suspicions about Amma [and numerous others] are said to be the cause of most of their fights.

But it doesn’t stop there; The book also claims Angie is a 5-star control freak, “She won’t let him out of the house alone,” says Halperin. “I don’t think she’s evil, but she’s manipulative, deceiving and cunning. She even spread lies about Jennifer to make herself look better for the public,” he claims.

The alleged deceptions began when the pair were shooting, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Brad was still married to Jenn, but Angie wanted to steal him, so she started some rumors;

“Angelina came up with the whole story about Jennifer not wanting kids,” says a source at 20th Century Fox, which produced ‘Smith.’  “She thought the story would calm all those women who saw her as simply a man-stealing b****.”

Brad was ‘furious’ when he found out, and demanded she stop. Angie, so we’re told, very reluctantly complied.

[FYI - Jennifer was actually pregnant twice while married to Brad. Once in 2003, and again a year later. But both terms ended in the distress of miscarriage.]

The book gives the couple 18-months – at the most. Then they’ll split. “They’ll split amicably, work out an arrangement with the kids, and everything will be very civilized.” one source advises.  “Then you’ll see unidentified ‘leaks’ on how Angie couldn’t put up with Brad’s partying, drinking and pot, and she’ll look like a hero to women..again.”

The whole sordid story unfolds at great length in the new book, “Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie”, which debuts this week.

If you happen to read it, come and share what you think…

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(HMG) — The man behind NBC’s hugely popular sit-com, ‘The Office’ has now revealed he was the focus of a scam that would leave even Dunder Mifflin’s most incompetent drones on the floor in hysterics.

Ricky Gervais, who created the BBC’s original ‘Office’ back in 2001, told the UK’s Daily Mail that fraudsters lifted $330,000 from his personal account, then used it to order gold bullion. But their devious plans came unglued when they arrived at a bank and used a badly faked passport as ID to collect their rewards.

“The policeman told me these type of crooks normally get a passport from either a dead man or steal one and replace it with your details and picture,” Gervais told the scribes. “Then he showed me the passport.”

Rick, 48, says the crooks had simply cut his head off a DVD box and glued it in place. Once he saw the result, the next ten minutes was spent in unfettered laughter with the attending detective;

“Can you imagine what was in charge of getting the photo?” Rick asks, with a grin. “Dave, you’re doing this thing; Julie, you’re on the inside at the bank; Bert, can you get a picture?…Why are you going to Wal Mart??”

The intellectually untroubled robbers were easily captured, but despite their sick plot to remove all his cash Rick didn’t attend the court to see these incompetents jailed. The millionaire star got his money returned and is now moving on with his life…

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