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By Kate Torgovnick

As per usual, it looks like the Kates, Katies, Catherines, and Katys of the world have been mighty busy this week. Here, your weekly roundup of name-specific news.

• What? A scandalous Kate Upton magazine spread? You don’t say. This time, it’s in Contributor Magazine. [Huffington Post]
• And yes! Katie Taylor wins gold for Ireland in women’s boxing. [NY Times]
• Kate Bosworth and Michael Polish are engaged. Bosworth dropped the news very discretely this week. [SF Gate]
• Kate Moss continues to roll in the dough. While her company was worth $3.8 million last year, it’s now worth $7 million. [The Sun]
• Speaking of Moss, she apparently ruined husband Jamie Hince’s 20 years of veganism by cooking a bacon sandwich in her underwear. [The Gloss]
• Catherine Keener has started filming a new movie with Toni Collette. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Kate Beckinsale says that, since she had four brothers, she loved action movies growing up. “I was a huge Die Hard fan until it ate my husband for two years,” she says, of Len Wiseman’s remake. [SlashGear]
• Apparently, some folks on the set of “Total Recall” didn’t realize that she and director Wiseman were married. [Style Goes Strong]
• Beckinsale opted for dots at a special showing of “Total Recall” in New York. [Posh 24]
• Miss Beckinsale is reportedly a front-runner to play Anastasia in “50 Shades of Grey.” Only that doesn’t make sense at all because they are completely different ages. [Gather.com]
• Transgender writer Kate Bornstein talks about her experience as a Scientologist. [Windy City Media Group]

• It appears that Katy Perry and John Mayer are actually dating. The two were seen smooching at a party last weekend. [Mercury News]
• And headed out on Wednesday to the Chateau Marmont in LA. See photo above. [NY Daily News]
• And then Katy seen getting out of Mayer’s car the next morning. [NY Daily News]
• Meanwhile, Katy Perry thinks Rihanna should get Video of the Year for “We Found Love.” In other words, she doesn’t think her own video for “Wide Awake” should take the prize.
• Kate Middleton‘s close relationship with Prince Harry is awesome — he refers to her as the “sister I never had.” However, rumor has it that Middleton’s real sister, Pippa, is a little hurt about not being a part of the royal triumvirate. [Daily Mail]
• Meanwhile, Middleton makes the day of the US Olympic women’s gymnastics teams, when she requests to talk to them during yesterday’s vault finals. And says she likes their leotards. [E! Online]
• Yay! The Duchess of Cambridge likes synchronized swimming. Good, since there are three Katies on the British team. [USA Today]
• Katie Holmes has enrolled Suri Cruise in a chi-chi Manhattan private school. [NY Daily News]
• And took the girl to MOMA. [US Weekly]

Any Kate-related news this week that I missed? Add it in the comments, please!