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Randy and Evi Quaid Booted from Free Lodgings Again; Evi Quaid Diagnosed

She's Canadian.

Oscar nominee Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have been released from a Canadian detention facility after she was declared a Canadian citizen.

In yet another odd twist on a story that’s been strange from the start, the Canada Border Services Agency confirmed Evi Quaid is a citizen of the country in which she and her husband were arrested last week.

“The Canada Border Services Agency can confirm that it has withdrawn a request for an admissibility hearing for Mrs. Quaid as she is a prima facie Canadian citizen,” the agency said in a statement.

“Mrs. Quaid has received an unconditional release and that she is no longer in detention.”

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In an interview with The Canadian Press, Catherine Sas, the Quaid’s new lawyer, said Evi Quaid is “one of us.”

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Quaid and his wife were charged after more than $5,000 in damage was found in a guest house of a Montecito, Calif., home they had previously owned.

Last week, Evi Quaid, 47, begged a Canadian immigration adjudicator to allow the couple to stay in Canada saying she feared for her 60-year-old husband’s life after some of their friends, like actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger, had been “murdered” under mysterious circumstances.

Ledger died in January 2008 from an accidental overdose. Carradine was found dead, hanging from a rope, in a suite at a luxury Bangkok hotel. Neither actor’s death was ruled suspicious.

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Randy Quaid is best-known for supporting roles in films such as “Independence Day” and “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”

He has said the couple came to Canada because he was being given an award by a film critics group. He added that they were considering moving to Vancouver, where he planned to jump-start his career.

I knew there had to be a simple explanation.

Fox's new series based on the true life story of the Quaids.

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Shocking! Canada To Drive Quaids Back Into Arms of Mysterious Canada-Avoiding “Star Wacker”?

Cruelty, thy name is Canada, eh?

"Where we are today is they are scheduled for an 'admissibility hearing' on Thursday," Melissa Anderson, spokeswoman for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada told E! News.

"The Canadian Border Services Agency, which is like your Homeland Security, believe the Quaids are not admissible to Canada. Possible reasons could be criminality outside of Canada or giving misinformation at the port of entry. If the BSA wins their case, they will get a removal order."

In other words, they could soon be somebody else's problem. Great.

Anderson added that the Quaids could even face the option of never being allowed into Canada again, pointing out that the Thursday hearing is not about refugee status, which is covered by privacy laws, but would not be addressed in a hearing of this kind, which will discuss the couple's ability to be in Canada at all. Anderson could not confirm whether they were in custody or had been released on the $20,000 combined bail.

However, an eyewitness at the hearing last Friday, tells E! News that the Quaids gave quite the performance in court.

"They wanted time to prepare for their hearing and said they left their evidence in their car," says the source. "It was interesting body language. He was mellow and subdued, while Evi, she was, like, vibrating. She burst into tears a few times and he put his arm around her."

Meanwhile, a Santa Barbara judge last Friday upped the couple's bail to $1 million for missing their last hearing with regard to the squatting case. When told of the news at the Canadian hearing, Evi insisted it was a typo, but there would be no problem getting the $20,000 wired from her mother while she and Randy were staying at the Sutton Place Hotel in Vancouver.

A woman who answered the phone at Sutton, though, said that no guests named Randy and Evi Quaid were booked there.

So, what do we know about the Star Wacker? (Or as prigs would have it, "Star Whacker"?)

* The Star Wacker has the capacity to make his murders appear to be deaths by misadventure.
* The Star Wacker preys mainly on stars who've had work recently, though not exclusively.
* The Star Wacker preys on celebrities whom the Quaids have met.
* The Star Wacker could travel to Thailand to murder David Carradine, but for some reason cannot operate in Canada.

Having followed somewhat closely the career of Randy and Evi Quaid, this blog no longer wonders why they don't just move to Old Blighty, where squatting is legal: obviously, the Star Wacker's territory extends to the UK.

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“Star Wackers”: An Editorial Note

I think that the Quaids are "wackers," but I was tempted to change Snaqwells' header to "Star Whackers," because we're talking about someone who whacks wacky stars, particularly by causing them to overdose on drugs or autoerotically asphyxiate themselves to death. This is why I can't:

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Star wackers 51 +301%
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hollywood star wackers 10 +44%
hollywood wackers 3 +122%

Please take our poll on the Quaids and hobos, too.

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