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NEWSFLASH! TMZ has fired Van Lathan after an argument with another TMZ staffer reportedly escalated to verbal threats.
Lathan, a veteran reporter known to casual TMZ watchers as “the black guy on TMZ” was given the boot after he got into a nasty confrontation with fellow reporter, Michael Babcock on air.
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