This week, Brynwood Partners, the owners of Stella D'oro pastries, announced that it is closing the company's only factory.

While some of the brand's products will continue to be produced in other facilities, the loss of Stella D'oro's Bronx bakery represents another way that big companys are taking over our hometown gems.

In 2006, Kraft sold Stella D'Oro to a private equity firm, Brynwood Partners. Soon after, the firm attempted to cut benefits from its workers, prompting them to go on strike. While a federal judge ordered Brynwood to re-hire and re-benefit its employees, it almost immediately announced the factory's closing.

Stella D'Oro will be open until October.

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Some people want to upchuck. Some people want to uproar. Whatever the case, they secretly love a few-and-far between update on Heidi Pratt (sans Spencer please!).

And regardless of whether you love her or hate her, she does have a very fit and toned body (minus the fake breasts).

"Staying fit is something I'm really passionate about," Pratt, who changed her last name from Montag after marrying Spencer Pratt, tells PEOPLE. "I work out with a strength-and-conditioning coach 90 minutes a day, five days a week."

Now she's planning to share the details of her routine which includes "full-body, intense resistance exercises" in a new downloadable workout series developed with trainer Chad Waterbury.

Click here for the full dish on The Heidi Workout!

If you're an avid celeb-news follower, you will have heard a hundred times over about Gwyneth Paltrow's juice detox diet that she recently followed for three weeks.

"I feel pure and happy and much lighter," the actress writes in her GOOP newsletter. "I dropped the extra pounds that I had gained during a majorly fun and delicious 'relax and enjoy life phase' about a month ago."

New York-based cardiologist Dr. Alejandro Junger explains the "Clean" detox works by cutting out most food and "reducing digestive work so detox can occur in full mode. The Clean Program eases digestion by providing two liquid meals a day and a solid one in between, eliminating allergenic and mucus-forming food, which frees up even more energy," the doctor writes.

"This program allowed I followed it to the letter and I can report that it worked wonders," Paltrow says. "This thing is amazing."

Let's note that Gwyneth had a "trained professional" to work with here - although it doesn't sound like a professional would allot someone such a limited amount of food per day.

What's your opinion on the cleanse?

Just when the media was easing up on Miss Britney...

A family insider says Britney Spears was caught popping over-the-counter diet pills and washing them down with Red Bull by her dad, Jamie Spears, before a performance on her Circus tour, reports gossip site Betty Confidential.

"Britney was definitely trying to get high by taking too many diet pills and energy drinks," the source told the site. "Jamie thinks the combination of the two is making her whacked-out and, causing her to lash out in weird angry rampages."

You'd think speculation would stop there but low and behold, it doesn't.

The insider said “Britney uses green-tea supplements, [Lab 88’s herbal ephedra-free] Metabo Speed XXX, Dexatrim and apple cider vinegar to control her weight and energy levels. She also pours those 5-Hour energy drinks into her Red Bulls," according to the site.

What do you think the verdict is? Were people bored and decided to make up a story or is Britney really into diet pills?

GASP. She did not go there! Her fellow celebutants will be falling to their knees in distress!

In the latest issue of UK's Harper's Bazaar, Rachel Weisz put an extra emphasis on the negatives of botox.

"It should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen," the 39-year-old British actress says of Botox. "Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?"

What do you think of botox? Yay or nay?

That's the latest explanation for Mischa Barton's weight gain. And why care? Normally, I don't waste five seconds of my time on petty stories like this. Celebs are people just like us and we should leave them alone with this stuff.

Mischa, however, is a different case. After she returned from a trip to India last year, she claimed it to have changed her life and to have made her a healthier person all around - yet she continued to party and smoke cigarettes up the wahzoo.

Reports are claiming the cause for her weight gain are a result of these two celebrity leisures in addition to failed relationships.

A source told Britain's Closer magazine, "When her love life is out of sorts she just lets herself go and hits the party scene.

"Her friends try to tell her to stop but she doesn't listen. Drinking bloats her terribly.

"After clubbing she'll usually tuck into greasy fast food. She'll starve herself all day then binge on junk. It wreaks havoc with her system."

We also have to keep in mind that Mischa was only 17 when she started The O.C.. She still had a lot of maturing to do body-wise!