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I got a frantic voice-mail Saturday from someone at the New York Post asking to speak to the entertainment reporter covering the Jay-Z's "Heart of the City" tour with Mary J. Blige at the Coliseum that night. I wasn't there and got the message too late. We didn't staff the concert, either, darn it.

Turns out we missed a big story.

Here's the report from TMZ: Mary J. Blige basically just blabbed to a sold-out crowd of thousands in North Carolina that Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles got married, by congratulating "my man Jay-Z" and "my girl B" and dedicating a song to them. The couple haven't officially acknowledged their nups.

Jigga teased the masses with a couple notes from "Crazy in Love," his duet with B, but didn't say anything about the wedding.

This is a better version, but whenever I can refer to Jay-Z as "Jigga" without sounding like an idiot, I want to do it.

Beyonce's photo at the airport here.

I actually knew Jay-Z was here; I just hadn't tuned into the reports that he might have secretly gotten married to Beyonce the day before so I didn't put the two together. In retrospect, I'd have rather been at the concert than doing what I was doing.

Wednesday update: The AP posts this video report raising a question about the nuptials, but the only support is a comment from alleged wedding guest Gwyneth Paltrow saying she doesn't know what anyone is talking about in that way that you might deny knowing anything, wink, wink.