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Book collects photos of hundreds of celebrities with their dogs

By Harriet RyanStaff Writer 
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Is there an overlap between dog lovers and tabloid magazine junkies?

The authors of newly released ‘Hollywoof!’ ($9.95, DK Publishing) sure hope so.

Subtitled ‘Celebrity Dogs Bite Back,’ the 156-page toy-poodle-sized book features paparazzi shots of pooches with their star owners, including Rachel Bilson, Elton John, Blake Lively and Simon Cowell. Humorous captions in the dog’s voice dot each photo, in comic bubbles.

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The cover girl? Paris Hilton’s Chihuahua Tinkerbell, natch.

‘It seems like a kind of phenomenon that so many of these celebrities are clutching furry friends. They are like security blankets,’ said co-author Nasim Mawji.

(We at the L.A. Times indulge as well. Here’s our own photo gallery of celebs with dogs, as well as one about controversies with pets and their famous people too.)

-- Harriet Ryan

L.A. Unleashed
Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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