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Madelyn Cline has a hot new boo in her life -- social media star Henry Smith ... they met online and have been seeing each other for about a month now, TMZ has learned.

Sources close to the couple tell TMZ ... Madelyn and Henry are officially an item, confirming rumors the two have been quietly seeing each other.

Our sources say the two met through their shared presence in the online space and quickly hit it off ... and things are already going strong. In fact, they recently spent Easter together and were both spotted at Coachella this past weekend.

Alex Cooper isn’t playing coy anymore … she’s calling out Alix Earle by name and demanding answers.

Cooper hit TikTok on Monday and made it clear she’s been seeing everything about their rumored beef -- the tags, the likes, the comments -- and she’s over what she calls “passive-aggressive” behavior, putting Earle on blast and daring her to stop the hints and say it outright.

“You’re gonna need to get specific and just say what you gotta say about me,” she said, calling out the indirect shots she believes Earle’s been taking.

Justin Bieber's a main draw for fans at Coachella this year ... and Chanel West Coast and Lexy Panterra really want people to go to the bathroom at a port-a-potty before the show -- not on the ground during it!

We caught up with the stars at the Grow & Glow festival by Victoria Jancke near the main festival grounds Friday ... and we had to know what they were most excited to see at this year's event.

Chanel immediately says the Biebs ... remembering him from when he showed up at Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory more than a decade ago -- and complimenting him on the direction his career's gone.

Teddi Mellencamp ain't ditching the dating world just because she's battling cancer -- in fact, she's revealed she's dating an "older" man!

The 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' alum dropped the dating news on her "Two Ts in a Pod" podcast with Tamra Judge this week and dished the deets while keeping her lips sealed about his identity.

She says he's been really great through her journey with cancer, describing him as a "positive and logical person" who always makes her laugh. But, it's not all sunshine and rainbows ...

Beloved bald eagles Jackie and Shadow -- who've called Big Bear Lake, California their home for years -- are now forced to potentially relocate due to developers inhabiting a shoreline near their nest, TMZ has learned.

A rep for Friends of Big Bear Valley tells TMZ … "We are working hard to raise $10 million dollars to purchase land near to Jackie and Shadow's nest currently earmarked for luxury development. Right now we are at nearly 20% of our goal."

FOBBV runs a 24/7 live stream that sits atop a tall tree in Big Bear -- about two hours east of L.A. -- which monitors Jackie and Shadow's daily shenanigans, and even captures heartfelt moments like when the feathered couple welcomes new eggs and raises their babies. Here's the sitch ...

Everyone always wants an in to Coachella, but this year some last-minute changes ahead of the opening weekend are causing chaos ... 'cause some influencers claim they're being uninvited just a day or two before the big festival opens, and regular folks are crying foul at escalating costs.

Entertainment and lifestyle influencer Tiahra Nelson -- who boasts 4.7 million followers on the app -- hopped on TikTok Thursday and said she was all ready and even got her hair done for the big show in Indio, California ... but she says her ticket was abruptly taken away from her.

Yazmin Marziali, who has more than 280,000 fans on TikTok, said in an 8-minute rant that her brand trip was canceled 2 days before she was supposed to get to the California desert. That's just 2 examples of heartbroken creators who say their plans and deals were axed ... there are plenty more.

This ain’t a drill -- we’ve got a seriously hot firefighter on our hands, and the internet is already going up in flames over him!

The Laguna Beach Fire Department in Orange County, CA dropped a few pics of Billy Senecal while naming him their 2025 Firefighter of the Year -- pretty standard -- until everyone got a look at him ... and suddenly it wasn't about the award anymore.

Billy is out there looking more like a model -- muscles on full display, rocking a true fireman's mustache, saving lives ... even posing with a little dog. Yeah, he’s got the full package.

A young woman in Mexico had a heart-stopping brush with disaster ... dramatically caught by a man on the ground below after she slipped off a malfunctioning carnival ride.

The whole thing played out on camera at an Easter fair in Ometepec, where "The Hammer" suddenly started jerking big time, causing the woman to slip out of the capsule she was in ... before one man sprinted in and caught her just before she hit the ground.

The incident was provoking pure panic last week -- the ride was still moving, people screaming ... and she somehow managed to walk away alive, shaken and clearly distressed.

This bravehearted Irishman was nice enough to chat it up with us when we caught him at LAX in 2012 ... can you guess who he is?

That year, the iconic character actor was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and less than 28 days later, we caught him hightailing it out of L.A.

A Detroit bakery had the Internet doing a double-take after dropping what might be the most unhinged Easter dessert of all time ... a lamb cake that looked straight out of a horror movie.

Homestead Kitchen Artisan Cakery went viral after posting an April Fools' Day "special" ... an A.I.-generated lamb cake with bulging eyes, crooked teeth and droopy frosting that had people seriously concerned.

The bakery told customers to "order your lamb cake for Easter," listing flavors like chocolate and lemon, but the visual had folks thinking more "haunted house" than holiday dessert.

Viral Internet singer Harry Daniels is all for Clavicular getting with his friend, Woah Vicky ... and gives us his NSFW explanation for how the duo could make it work!

We ran into Harry at Sunset Tower this week ... and he tells TMZ it was definitely "interesting to see" Clavicular hit it off with Vicky over a week ago when he showed up to Clav's pad to sing for him ... and brought Vicky as a surprise.

Sparks flew so much, Vicky and Clav went on to participate in a live stream speed date ... and we're told they kept flirting after cameras stopped rolling, plus planned on seeing each other again.

Brazilian influencer Rita Ephrem died last week ... according to an announcement on her Instagram account.

The social media star had amassed over 300K followers on the platform and had been documenting her experience living with a rare auto-inflammatory disease.

The touching tribute to the content creator roughly translates to say "her story does not end here," noting ... "It lives on in everything she planted within each of us. We carry on with a sense of longing, but also with gratitude for having walked alongside her."

A completely naked man got into a street fight outside a Kanye West concert ... and it's all on video.

TMZ obtained footage showing a guy throwing hands in his birthday suit Wednesday night at an intersection outside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, where Kanye was performing inside.

The guy was letting it all hang out as he unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks on another man ... as people watched, and a man in a yellow vest even tried to intervene.

Joe Biden turned a commercial flight into a full-on meet-and-greet ... bopping around the cabin, greeting passengers, and even penning a sweet note for a young girl.

A TikTok making the rounds on social media shows a girl, Cailyn, stunned the former prez is sitting just three rows behind her ... where he's seen casually posted up reading the paper.

Looks like Joey B and Dr. Jill looked to be flying in biz class, and Cailyn couldn't believe she found herself chatting with 46.

They even snapped a selfie in which the former prez flashed a wide grin.

Brandy is finally confirming the old rumor that she dated Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men fame when she was just 16 years old, and he was 22.

The singer and actress admitted to the romance in her new memoir, 'Phases' ... revealing the pair started dating around 1995, about a year after they met.

Brandy says she admired Wanya, who served as her music mentor, during the early days ... but, she says he quickly "weaponized" that admiration.

Wanya called himself Brandy's "boyfriend" in private, she says ... and, though he wouldn't publicly state they were together, Brandy says she was "under the impression that we were madly in love -- or at least what I believed love to be at sixteen."