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America's sweetheart is returning to TV!

Life & Style can reveal that Emily Maynard will be the next star of The Bachelorette -- and ABC is coming to her.

"It's official, Emily is the new Bachelorette," an insider close to Emily tells Life & Style. "ABC is even going to move filming to Charlotte [North Carolina, Emily's hometown]. It won't be in LA at all."

Life & Style first reported that ABC approached the blond beauty to star in the next season of the series.

But she had fans convinced she wasn't interested. Just last summer she tweeted: "I don't want to be the Bachelorette."

Since splitting with The Bachelor's Brad Womack in May after becoming engaged to him in March, the North Carolina mom has been linked to Carolina Panthers tight end Jeremy Shockey and Most Eligible Dallas star Matt Nordgren, whom Emily has denied dating.

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After news of Khloé Kardashian's husband, Lamar Odom, visiting the strip club Stadium in Washington, D.C., got out, reports quickly spread -- even alleging that Lamar had disappeared with a stripper into one of the club's private rooms.

The Dallas Mavericks player insists that he never went into a private room at all, and now the woman who gave Lamar a dance that night tells Life & Style exclusively that he's telling the truth.

"Lamar was at the club with a couple of friends, and he ordered a bottle of champagne and chicken wings," the dancer -- who goes by the name Monae -- reveals in the new issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now. "He was here for a few hours and stayed in the open VIP area the whole time. He was very generous!"

Monae tells Life & Style she gave the baller a $20 private table dance, but in the nation's capital, dancers must keep a distance of three feet between themselves and the clients, and there's no touching allowed.

Lamar, who went to the club with fellow Mavericks Shawn Marion and Delonte West, told Khloé he was just trying to bond with his new teammates. "He wanted to get to know the guys better and do a typical guy thing," a friend of the couple tells Life & Style.

"Khloé and Lamar had a conversation about it, and he told her that he didn't go into a private room," the friend explains. "He told her there's nothing to be worried about." Still, "I can't imagine she's happy about it."