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From The Associated Press

Mr. Blackwell put Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham at the top of his 48th annual worst-dressed list released Tuesday.

“Forget the fashion spice, wearing a skirt would suffice! In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty Posh can really wreck-em,” he said in a statement.

An e-mail message to Beckham’s publicist, Cheryl Maisel, wasn’t immediately answered.

The top 10 roll-call of fashion dishonors also includes:

No. 2: Amy Winehouse — “Exploding beehives above, tacky polka-dots below, she’s part ‘50s carhop horror.”

No. 3: Mary-Kate Olsen — “She resembles a tattered toothpick — trapped in a hurricane.”

No. 4: Fergie — “Yes, when it comes to couture chaos, guess it’s all in a name!”

His top 10 also includes Kelly Clarkson, Eva Green, Avril Lavigne, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan and Alison Arngrim.

Eminem, 35, is recovering from a bout with pneumonia that sent him to a hospital.

“Over the holidays, Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, was under doctor’s care at a Detroit-area hospital for complications due to pneumonia,” the rapper’s publicist, Dennis Dennehy, said Tuesday. “He has since been released and is doing well recovering at home.”

Madonna visited a crowded slum in Mumbai, India, slum Tuesday, where impoverished residents showered her with rose and marigold petals.

Madonna didn’t speak to journalists, and a New York-based spokeswoman for the 49-year-old singer wasn’t immediately available for comment.

She was accompanied by her husband, Guy Ritchie, and Australian author Gregory David Roberts, who made the Mumbai slum his home in the early 1980s.

Senior U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges said the motion was meaningless because the change of venue request applied only to some counts and not all.