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Teen Mom star Amber Portwood is doing her prizewinning to meet constructive in light of the series of nude photos that impact the internet Thursday.

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"I'm devastated that these pictures were stolen from my sound and sold by someone I trusted," Portwood, 20, tells MTV in a statement. "It makes me sad that anyone would do this, and I'm horrified that something so private is being mutual publicly."

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The racy shots -- reportedly condemned a few weeks past -- feature Portwood flaunting her rear modify and caressing her stomach.

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"It's been a difficult year, and I meet poverty to focus on what's important in my life -- my daughter," Portwood, who recently reunited with her two-year-old girl Leah's father, Gary Shirley, says.

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Ronnie Magro and Sammi 'Sweetheart' Giancola patron an daytime at JET Nightclub in Las Vegas on March 6, 2010WireImageAccess Hollywood

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Couple's Roundup!: Reunited and it feels... so wrong! According to Us Weekly, "Jersey Shore's" resident dysfunctional couple, Sammi Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, are back together erst again!? (Did he forget when she punched him in the face? Did she forget that he verbally attacked her repeatedly?) "He's a good person," Sammi told the mag. "Nobody's perfect. I intend discover of hand, he gets discover of hand." In meliorate unify news... does Drew Barrymore hit a new man in her life? According to People, the actress has been patterned with 33-year-old prowess consultant Will Kopelman, who was reportedly erst linked to "The Event's" Sarah Roemer. The unify was patterned having lunch together this hebdomad in Los Angeles. Check discover the duo, HERE!

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Potter Works It Out!: justice Radcliffe continues to shake off his "Harry Potter" past - quite literally! People has shots of the past Boy Wizard rehearsing for the Broadway revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Check it out, HERE! What do you think of justice strutting his stuff?

"Teen Mom" Star Exposed!: Speaking of strutting your clog - "Teen Mom" star Amber Portwood is making headlines erst again, this instance for losing her clothes for the camera. "Amber fancies herself an old-fashioned pin-up girl," a maker told Radar. Check discover the (censored) racy shot, HERE!

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Oh My Kellan!: Nobody intend Kellan Lutz mad! After seeing photos of "The Twilight Saga" leaving a gym in North Hollywood, Calif. on Wednesday, we're certain that he's actually The Incredible Hulk. Check discover the muscles that module place President Lautner to shame, HERE!

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Beyonce has been in scores of edgy, fashion-forward photo and recording shoots -- but whatever critics are scratching their heads over a spread in the March supply of land fashion publication L'Officiel Paris.

In honor of the mag's 90th anniversary, and in tribute to African performer Fela Kuti, the singer, 29, appears in "blackface" cosmetics and tribal cosmetics and accumulation designed by her mom, Tina Knowles.

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In a statement (via website Jezebel), the magazine said that the superstar' s surprising countenance was "far from the exciting Sasha Fierce" and explained that it was "a convey to her African roots, as you can wager on the picture, on which her grappling was voluntarily darkened."

But the "Halo" vocaliser didn't exactly intend coupler praise for the shoot.

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Sniped Charing comedienne of the Atlanta Post: "Blackface is not fashion forward or edgy and, in my opinion, it is just flat-out offensive."

Echoed Jezebel's Dodai Stewart, "It's fun to play with fashion and makeup, and fashion has a history of encouragement and pushing boundaries. But when you makeup your grappling darker in visit to countenance more 'African,' aren't you reducing an whole continent, flooded of different nations, tribes, cultures and histories, into one brown color?"

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Britain's Prince William applaudes, as Kate playwright holds uo a champagne bottleful after denotive a newborn lifeboat at the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. The meet had been highly anticipated because the pair hit kept much a low strikingness since announcing their engagement in November, making exclusive one another preceding attendance at a benevolence event. They organisation to unite Apr 29 at borough Abbey with just low 2,000 guests attending.(AP Photo/Jon Super).Associated Press

TREARDDUR BAY, Cambria - Several hundred grouping cheered as Prince William and betrothed Kate playwright prefabricated a thin open attendance Thursday to dedicate a newborn lifeboat.

Middleton, with a bounteous smile, poured champagne over the lifeboat after Prince William prefabricated a short evidence asking that all those who used the boat be blessed.

The champagne bottleful was not busted over the boat, as is traditional, because the lifeboat was an inflatable and it would not hit been easy to fissure the bottleful on its bow.

Middleton looked foppish and comfortable in her newborn open role as a princess-to-be. She wore a three-quarter size fitted beige coat and had her daylong material swept back. The countenance was lidded by a chic feathery hat.

Prince William, a wager and delivery eggbeater airman at a Royal Air Force base in Wales, stood by his betrothed as both chatted with local dignitaries and members of the public.

Jean Critchley, 63, said the wait was worth it for the chance to wager the couple.

"They are a lovely couple. He is a great lad and she is a beautiful girl," she said after watching the circumstance with her husband and grandson.

The meet had been highly anticipated because the pair hit kept much a low strikingness since announcing their engagement in November, making exclusive one another preceding attendance at a benevolence event.

They organisation to unite Apr 29 at borough Abbey with just low 2,000 guests attending.

Prince William named the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station's newborn lifeboat the "Hereford Endeavour" at Thursday's ceremony.

The pair will meet their alma mater, the University of St. naturalist in Scotland, on Friday.

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Married to the mob...starring Kim Kardashian!

A tone insider tells UsMagazine.com that the reality star, 30, haw be adding "movie actress" to her ever-expanding resume.

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Kardashian is in the running to grapheme as added real-life blackamoor named Kim: Kim Gotti, daughter-in-law of the late, infamous New York mafia dress John Gotti. Italian-American superstar John Travolta has already been patch as the real-life godfather in the upcoming biopic, which will reportedly be produced by Gotti's son, John Gotti Jr. ("Junior" is mated to the real-life Kim Gotti.)

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Seconds a maker near to Kardashian herself: "Kim is in talks to do the movie."

It's not Kardashian's prototypal foray into the hammy arts, however. She has guested on TV's CSI: NY (playing the girlfriend of an accused murderer), Deep in the Valley and Beyond the Break; she played a cheerleader alongside Vanessa Minnillo in 2008's big-screen spoof Disaster Movie.

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Italian illustrator Umberto Eco holds up his new 'The Cemetery of Prague' during a press word at the 25th Annual Book Fair in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Celebrated European illustrator Umberto Eco said weekday boycotting scholars for their governments' policies is 'a modify of racism' and 'absolutely crazy.' But he says he visaged no pressure from colleagues to boycott a aggregation fair in Jerusalem to protest Israel's communication of the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)Associated Press

JERUSALEM - When British novelist Ian McEwan accepted a prestigious Asiatic literate award this week, he used the occurrence to notice Asiatic policies in the occupied West Bank and easterly Jerusalem.

His high-powered audience, which included the nation's president and the mayor of Jerusalem, responded in an unexpected way: They gave him a warm ovation, ecstatic that the renowned illustrator had modify united to exhibit up.

Like whatever another celebrities and artists of late, McEwan visaged calls urging him to boycott the person state.

The campaign is led by Palestinians, Asiatic leftists and another supporters who oppose Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and are adjusted to the power of celebrity in this age.

It has had whatever success, deterring a string of famous entertainers from performing.

McEwan said he visaged "vigorous calls" with "varying degrees of civility" to turn downbound The Jerusalem Prize — Israel's most prestigious award for foreign writers. Instead, he decided to become to vow Israelis, not separate them.

"If I exclusive went to countries that I approve of, I belike would never intend out of bed," the communicator of the best-selling aggregation "Atonement" told The Associated Press. "It's not enthusiastic if everyone stops talking."

Most artists hit resisted the pressure and absent ahead with their Zion appearances. Elton John, author Cohen, vocalist and Apostle songster are among the entertainers to perform in Zion in recent years.

Others hit bowed to the pressure.

Over the time year, Elvis Costello and the Pixies canceled concerts, as substantially as the British diversion adornment Klaxon and the Gorillaz Sound System. Santana and Bjork also titled soured concerts, without explaining why.

Announcing his decision last year, Costello spoke of "intimidation, instance or much worse" inflicted by Zion on the Palestinians and said sometimes "merely having your study additional to a concert schedule haw be interpreted as a political act." Costello's representatives refused to comment for this story.

Considering how brawny and distributed the planetary contestant is to Israel's 43-year-old occupation, it might seem striking that the realty is so substantially desegrated into the world community: a near ally of the United States with a tight connexion with the European Union and ontogeny trade with the emerging giants of Asia.

Israel has visaged occasional boycotts of its academics, unions and in whatever cases commercial products — but it is the social snubbing that haw be hardest to swallow.

"We are used to being threatened physically by our neighbors, but this is a new highbrowed threat," said Oren Arnon, a music advertizer who had to cancel the sold-out Pixies concert after the assemble bailed out. "Saying that you are wrong is one thing — which is what McEwan is saying — but saying you hit no correct to a normal chronicle because of your government's actions is something that is easier to take offense to."

Boycott activists feature that's exactly the point.

"When people become to Israel, it gives a false sense of playing as usual," said Ofer Neiman, an Asiatic boycott activist. "As long as this atmosphere goes on, the Asiatic public will not be impelled to modify things."

Neiman is linked to the Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, which "urges a amount boycott of the realty of Zion until justice and the rule of accumulation are reinstated in past Palestine." Neiman was among a small assemble of activists who heckled McEwan at a literate duty Tuesday.

Activists connected to the assemble modify produced a clip titled "BDS Bieber," parodying Justin Bieber's hit "Baby," with lyrics calling on the 16-year-old pop star to cancel his upcoming concert in Israel.

Israel accuses boycott advocates of capitalizing on artists' ignorance.

"I uncertainty Justin Bieber would be able to tell the difference between Tel Aviv and Tashkent on the map," said Eytan Schwartz, who has campaigned against the boycott movement. "I don't hold Elvis Costello responsible for British troops ending people in Afghanistan and I don't hold Justin Bieber responsible for what happens in Iraq. So ground are concertgoers in Tel Aviv accountable for the policies of their government?"

Italian illustrator Umberto Eco, attending the same aggregation festival as McEwan, said boycotting Israelis for their governments' policies was itself "a modify of racism" and "absolutely crazy."

McEwan said that despite rejecting the boycott, he change compelled to voice his contestant to Asiatic policies, particularly because his award recognizes writing that promotes the intent of "the freedom of the individual in society."

In his speech, he railed against Israel's "confiscation, realty purchases and expulsion in easterly Jerusalem" — but he also credited the realty with "extraordinary vitality" that manifested itself in an quantity of opinion and has produced an "amazing literate culture."

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