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NBC's Today Show is rumored to be courting Pippa Middleton, sister of the Duchess of Cambridge (who has been demoted to simply "The Royal Uterus" since that's all anyone will see when they look at Kate until Due-Day), for an international correspondence role. The job will supposedly pay $600,000, and, like her party-planning book, cover largely ceremonial events that Americans don't fully understand. [Jezebel]