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Timberlake Sympathises With Victim Cyrus

 

 

Pop star JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE has waded into the debate over MILEY CYRUS' controversial photo shoot in Vanity Fair magazine - urging people to stop "picking" on the teenager.

 

The candid snaps - which show 15-year-old Cyrus posing bare-backed, wrapped in a satin sheet - have caused outrage in her native U.S., forcing the singer/actress to apologise, and claim she was duped into the shots, which were taken by controversial photographer Annie Leibovitz.

 

But the SexyBack singer - whose first taste of fame was in Disney's Mickey Mouse Club when he was a child - is convinced the media deliberately target "wholesome" teen stars and attempt to create scandal around them.

 

Timberlake insists that although this practice has been going on for a long time, it doesn't make it right.

 

He tells MTV.com, "Of course they're going to pick (on) a wholesome, American, young female (for) the first sign of anything.

 

"Unfortunately, there's a picture of her that's published with her in just a blanket. And that's the photo, that's the catalyst. But that's also the age we live in. People want to take a photo, and that's who you are for a year's time. We've all become victims of that."

 

And the pop hunk admits he feels so sorry for Cyrus, he would love to defend her by making a fashion statement, joking: "I'm gonna make 'Leave Miley Alone' T-shirts."

 

Source: contactmusic

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Justin Timberlake to Produce Reality Show

 

Justin Timberlake: singer, actor and now — executive producer!

 

The “SexyBack” crooner is helming a reality series for MTV billed as a "real life Bourne Identity” called The Phone, the network announced Friday.

 

Each episode beings with two hidden cell phones ringing on opposite ends of a major city. Once picked up, a "mysterious guide gives contestants five seconds to concede whether or not they wish to play the game for a chance of winning a huge cash prize," MTV said in a statement.

 

Afterwards, the players work against each other on various missions while keeping in touch with the guide via cell phone, and being followed by a helicopter hovering above.

 

The show, which is based off a Dutch series of the same name, is slated to premiere this fall.

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Boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman sentenced to 25 years in federal prison

(JOHN RAOUX, ASSOCIATED PRESS / October 27, 2006)

 

Willoughby Mariano | Sentinel Staff Writer

May 21, 2008

 

Boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman was sentenced this morning to 25 years in federal prison for running a lengthy, systematic con that artificially inflated his net worth and cheated people out of $300 million.

 

During Pearlman's sentencing in U.S. District Court this morning, Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp offered Pearlman an incentive to pay back his investors: For every $1 million he puts back in investors' pockets, he gets one month off of his sentence.

 

Since Pearlman's sentence is for 300 months, he can avoid prison altogether if he forks up the cash.

 

"I'm most concerned for the investors, even more so than the institutions," Sharp said.

 

Pearlman, 53, was once the toast of Orlando. His financial empire once included popular musical acts the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync; an airplane-charter business; and Church Street Station, an iconic piece of real estate in Orlando's downtown.

 

The boy-band impresario admitted in a March plea hearing to running the scam. He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy, one count of money laundering and one count of making a false claim in a bankruptcy during that hearing -- charges worth a maximum 25-year prison sentence.

 

Investors' claims in a bankruptcy case have approached a half-billion dollars.

 

Pearlman, wearing leg shackles and an Orange County Jail jumpsuit, slouched in his chair during much of the hearing, which took place before a packed courtroom filled with angry investors. Investors who could not get a seat waited outside for news of the sentencing.

 

"I'm truly sorry, your honor, to all the people who have been hurt by my actions," Pearlman said in a brief statement.

 

Investors laughed bitterly in response, and one gasped out loud in disgust when Pearlman's lawyer, Fletcher Peacock, argued for a more lenient sentence by saying that his client wanted to pay the money back.

 

"I think truly, in Mr. Pearlman's mind, he always meant to make good on his obligations," Peacock said.

 

Peacock also argued that Pearlman's opulent lifestyle was a business requirement.

 

"Mr. Pearlman did live large, if you will, but judge, he was in the entertainment business," Peacock said.

 

Sharp was sympathetic to investors, and held up a book filled with letters from investors detailing how the fraud has hurt their lives.

 

"It turns out they're all his family, close friends and people in their 80s who have lost their life savings," Sharp said.

 

The sentence brings to a close at least 13 years of legal disputes and government inquiries involving for one of Orlando's most well-known figures.

 

It also brings Pearlman's rags-to-riches career to an ignominious end. Born in Queens, N.Y., the first-cousin of singer Art Garfunkel founded Transcontinental Airlines Travel Services Inc., a blimp advertising company. He began to move his businesses to Orlando in the mid-1980s.

 

Pearlman became intrigued with the boy-band concept during a chance meeting with New Kids on the Block on one of his charter flights, and he borrowed that band's formula to create the Backstreet Boys in 1993. He changed the focus of his business from aviation to music.

 

His successful launch of 'N Sync three years later buttressed his reputation as a music mogul, and helped Orlando become synonymous with boy bands: all-male vocal groups whose dance moves, pop songs and public personas were carefully calculated to make teenage girls swoon.

 

It also brought him credibility with local leaders. Pearlman received a key to the city in 1998, and in 2003 he arranged a deal to buy and revitalize the Church Street Station entertainment district in downtown Orlando.

 

But as Pearlman's reputation grew, so did complaints about his financial dealings. Complaints first arose in 1995 about Trans Continental Airlines' so-called "employee investment savings program," which he promised was a safe investment insured by the FDIC and others. He admitted in March that the program was a Ponzi scheme.

 

Members of the bands he formed sued him throughout the late 1990s, saying he cheated them out of money. In 2002, state regulators investigated Pearlman's modeling company, Trans Continental Talent, after allegations that the company reneged on promises to give clients modeling work in return for spending money on an online listing service. He was later cleared.

 

But new investigations began, and his luck ran out in December 2006, when the state Office of Financial Regulation sued Pearlman and forced him to close his airline's "employee investment savings program," which had been open to the public.

 

One month later, he fled the country and was soon forced into bankruptcy. Auctioneers sold off his furniture, artwork and music memorabilia to raise money for his bankruptcy estate.

 

On June 14, federal investigators tracked Pearlman down in the lush resort town of Bali, Indonesia, registered at a hotel under the name A. Incognito Johnson. He was expelled and handed over to U.S. authorities to face arrest and was indicted by a federal grand jury in Orlando on five counts of bank, mail and wire fraud.

 

Pearlman told a judge he was broke. He was appointed a public defender. On March 7 he stood in federal court in leg shackles and pleaded guilty. Much of his empire was built on fraud, he said: a Ponzi scheme involving phony stock and the sale of "employee investment savings accounts," a bank-fraud scam involving bogus financial statements, and a plot to siphon frozen assets from a bankruptcy case.

 

Pearlman falsified bank accounts, corporate and personal income-tax return documents, and an accounting firm, among other things. He said Trans Continental Airlines had just two planes -- instead of the more than 40 that he had once claimed.

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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel move in

 

Justin Timberlake can no longer call his house a bachelor pad — he’s asked his girlfriend, Jessica Biel, to move in! “Jessica is preparing to live in Justin’s Hollywood Hills home,” an insider tells In Touch. “They’re both really excited.” But the 26-year-old actress is also hanging on to her own Brentwood, Calif., digs. “Jessica’s giving the house to her parents and brother because she doesn’t want to sell it,” the insider adds. It’s a big deal for Justin, 27, who has never taken this relationship step before, but the insider insists that he’s ready. “They’re definitely headed for marriage,” the insider says. “Moving in is just the beginning.” So how does the couple — who have been together since January 2007 — make it work? “They avoid the spotlight as much as possible,” the insider adds. The couple has been apart while Jessica’s been filming in South Carolina. There’s plenty of room for Jess in Justin’s six-bedroom mansion.

Edited by ElleDriver

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Britney, Justin to Reunite at Madonna Show Tonight

Thursday November 6, 2008

 

 

 

Britney Spears and ex Justin Timberlake are reuniting.

 

The two are rumored to perform in L.A.'s Dodger Stadium tonight alongside Madonna on her Sticky & Sweet tour, reports Ryan Seacrest.

 

"They are going to be onstage performing with Madonna," Seacrest said on KIIS-FM host DJ BoyToy Jesse's Wednesday-afternoon show.

 

The exes have both collaborated individually with Madonna.

 

Added Seacrest, "If Justin and Britney end up on that stage with her ... I don't know if I've ever seen anything quite like that before."

 

In the mid-1990s, Timberlake dated Spears, his Mickey Mouse Club costar, but split in 2002 after he accused her of cheating on him. (He shot the video "Cry Me a River" in response to her affair.)

 

Can you believe these couples hooked up?

 

"I haven't spoken to her in years," he told Oprah Winfrey in 2007. "I mean, there's no ill will – I have nothing but love for her.

 

"It's funny because we dated each other at a time...," he added. "Wow, I haven't talked about this in a long time. It's interesting."

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Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel Celebrate Her B-Day — With "George Bush"

 

Justin Timberlake helped Jessica Biel celebrate the big 2-7 Tuesday with some laughs.

 

 

Dressed in matching pea coats, the two took in an evening performance of Will Ferrell's one-man Broadway show, You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush.

 

 

 

Biel and Timberlake are in Big Apple mode after having snapped up a new NYC pad together.

 

"The apartment is great," the singer's mother, Lynn Harless, recently told Usmagazine.com. "He's loving it!"

 

Source: Us Weekly

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http://www.celebitchy.com/72945/us_weekly_...el_a_month_ago/

 

Sep 29 '09

Us Weekly: Justin Timberlake dumped Jessica Biel a month ago

 

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Last Friday, we talked about a report from Star Magazine claiming that Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake were having big problems, and were probably close to a split. The reasons given were anything from Justin’s flirtation with Rihanna, to Jessica’s work schedule, to the idea that they’d just grown apart. I tended to believe parts of the report - after all, we’ve been hearing some of the same stuff over and over. Stuff like Justin’s friends find Jessica clingy, needy and annoying, and Justin simply isn’t invested in the relationship whatsoever.

 

Now it looks like this week’s print edition of Us Weekly is coming close to confirming Justin and Jessica’s split…last month! This is according to LaineyGossip - Lainey got an advanced copy of this week’s Us Weekly, and here’s her summation:

 

The new issue of Us Magazine comes out tomorrow but etalk received an advance copy and their report is putting Shelfy in the sh-ts. I just read my voice over for our piece about 15 minutes ago. According to the publication, they say Pip ditched her. LIKE A MONTH AGO. And that the reason she flew back to LA was to try to get him back. He however apparently won’t have it and has been living it up on the single circuit. We’ll have more details on the show for you tonight and of course in the magazine Wednesday. This isn’t the first time they’re been reported to have split.

 

But consider the ramifications. Jessica Biel without Justin Timberlake?

 

IF true…Dancing With The Stars.

[From LaineyGossip]

 

Yes, of course this could just be some tabloid shenanigans. It’s perfectly possible that Jessica and Justin have just been really low-key for the past month, and that’s why they haven’t been photographed out together. Or maybe they’re busy with separate projects. Or… it could be true. I tend to believe it. I think that if they’re not already broken up, they’re just about to be. So… will Justin’s next girlfriend be Rihanna?

 

Justin and Jessica are shown at the Costume Institute Gala on 5/4/09. Credit: Fame Pictures

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Nooooooooo

They are so perfect together, a gigantic mass of bland.

Ughhh, now they will go on infect others and there will be double the yawn :(

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Justin & Rihanna: It's On!

September 30, 2009

 

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While Justin Timberlake’s relationship with Jessica Biel cools, he’s not wasting any time turning up the heat with Rihanna!

 

After a hot grinding session on Sept. 13 at 1Oak’s MTV Video Music Awards bash in NYC, RiRi and JT moved to her hotel room, where they had a steamy, private after party! “They tried to keep it a secret, but Jessica found out within days,” a source says. Justin’s three-year relationship with Jessica seems to have reached a critical point. “She must be a wreck.”

 

“Rihanna and Justin have been talking and texting on the phone nonstop since the VMAs,” a source tells Star. But before Rihanna totally gives in to the attraction, she wants to make sure she’s not his lady on the side. A friend reveals: “She asked him on the phone, ‘Are you still with Jessica?’ And he hinted that things were cooling off between them.”

 

Star was first to break the news that Justin and RiRi were hooking up in last week’s issue, but now things are getting hotter — the passion even moving to the studio where the two are working on Rihanna’s new album. “One time, Justin was joking about strippers. He said she needed to entertain him like that.” So Rihanna gave him an impromptu lap dance! “She likes to test the boundaries.”

 

Justin has made it clear he is 100 percent into Rihanna, and she equally feels the magnetic attraction, says a source. “She is a total tease and loves flirting with him. She digs him and wants to date him too

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Justin Timberlake's Mom Beats Him at Golf

 

Justin Timberlake has golfed with professionals, friends and fellow celebrities, but there is one loss on the links that he won't soon forget – he was outdone by his mother!

 

"I have, on occasion, actually beaten him straight up," Timberlake's mother Lynn Harless told PEOPLE Thursday as she hosted the Wives Luncheon, an event she coordinated for the better halves of professional golfers as part of the week-long Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.

 

"He took my husband [Paul Harless] and me on a golf trip one time and they were surprised at the end when they added up the scores and I was one up on them," Harless said. "I have bragging rights for life."

 

 

The mom-and-son duo joined forces to plan the Thursday afternoon event for the spouses of 150 PGA players because "we realized that none of the other tournaments really do anything for the wives," said Harless. Like them, "We live on the road. We live out of a suitcase. We're all long distance. I understand what it's like being a traveling support system like our family is."

 

Timberlake echoed his mom's respect for the women, telling the PGA Wives Association who gathered for lunch at Vegas's Design Center inside the World Market Center, "We want to make this one of the biggest parts of the week."

 

Timberlake is in the second year of a five-year deal he inked to host the golf tournament in Vegas. The tournament features a golf clinic for children, celebrity pro-am tournament, and is capped off by the JT and Friends Concert Saturday at Mandalay Bay.

 

Source People

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Justin Timberlake’s Friends Want Him Back With Biel

 

 

Justin Timberlake could soon be back in the arms of former flame Jessica Biel — if the pop star’s pals get their way!

According to Fox News, Justin’s friends are rather “disappointed” that the star dumped the Easy Virtue actress.

 

“Justin’s friends are usually all about anything he wants, but in this case, his boys are totally disappointed in him,” a source said.

 

“They think he’s making a big mistake by dumping Jess. Justin and Jess have their problems, but all in all, his friends think she is one of the best things that ever happened to him.”

 

The source claims that Justin’s pals are now refusing to party on down with the newly-single superstar.

 

“They really thought he got past all of that,” the source says, “But it’s all beginning all over again. They think if they don’t give in he may come to his senses and get back together with Jessica. That’s what they really want to see happen.

 

“It’s a shame his friends can’t just be there for him, but they have their opinions, and they disagree with his choice to dump Jess.”

 

Source showbizspy.com

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Timberlake Ordered to Court Over Obsessive Fan

 

Justin Timberlake has been ordered to court on Monday (09Nov09) so he can permanently keep a woman accused of stalking him at a distance legally.

 

A judge in Los Angeles wants the pop star to personally testify against Karen McNeil, the woman he has accused of harassing him if he is to make a temporary restraining order permanent.

 

Timberlake's aides have claimed McNeil has showed up at his property uninvited several times - but the singer has yet to submit a sworn declaration about his alleged obsessed fan, who insists she's a long time friend of the star.

 

Unhappy with the judge's decision to call Timberlake to court, the singer's attorney filed legal papers on Friday (06Nov09) to disqualify the judge, according to Tmz.com.

 

Source femalefirst

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Justin Timberlake's Special Friend

 

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are reportedly just "friends with benefits".

 

The 'SexyBack' singer - who is rumoured to have split from the stunning actress in September after two-and-a-half years together - has decided he still wants Jessica involved in his life so makes sure they meet regularly.

 

A source said: "Justin was very clear with Jessica that he didn't want to be in a serious relationship with her anymore where he wasn't able to date other people. Jessica took the news very hard, but once she calmed down and they started talking again, he convinced her to stay friends who hook up, without all the pressure of a relationship."

 

"Justin gets the best of both worlds. He doesn't have to lose Jess as a lover or a friend, but he's free to explore other relationships."

 

It was reported the couple split because Justin was not ready to make a commitment and settle down.

 

Meanwhile, Justin has been granted a three year restraining order against an obsessed fan.

 

Karen McNeil was found on the star's Los Angeles property on October 22, along with her belongings, and refused to leave.

 

Now a judge has ruled she must stay 100 yards away from Justin, his home and his vehicle, and is prohibited from contacting him in any way.

 

Source monstersandcritics.com

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Timberlake 'Wishes He Supported Jackson'

 

Justin Timberlake has reportedly admitted that he could have been more supportive of Janet Jackson in the aftermath of her famed wardrobe malfunction.

 

Timberlake was performing on stage with Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show when he ripped open her jacket to reveal her naked breast.

 

The incident resulted in the exposure of Jackson's nipple to an estimated 140m TV viewers of the CBS show.

 

Timberlake said at the time that he had no idea that Jackson was topless and distanced himself from the furore.

 

According to Entertainment Weekly, the 28-year-old said that he regrets the way that he handled the situation. "I wish I had supported Janet more. I am not sorry I apologised, but I wish I had been there more for Janet," he said.

 

Source digitalspy.co.uk

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Justin Timberlake's Flirty Evening

 

Justin Timberlake has been seen flirting with a string of women during a night out in New York.

 

The 'SexyBack' singer, who has denied rumours of a split with his actress girlfriend Jessica Biel, reportedly looked like a single man as he enjoyed the attention of a group of women at Timbaland's album release party at Hudson Terrace.

 

A source said: "The girls were all over him, fighting to give him their numbers. He certainly didn't look like a man with a girlfriend.

 

"There was one model-type blonde he chatted to for a while."

 

Justin later invited the group to continue the evening with him, best friend Trace Ayala and 'X-Men: The Last Stand' director Brett Ratner, at a different nightspot.

 

The source added to the New York Post newspaper: "Around 1:30am, Justin left along with Trace, Brett and a group of girls, including the model blonde, and headed to the Boom Boom Room."

 

Last month, Jessica rubbished rumours that the pair had split after three years, saying: "You have to have a sense of humour about the whole thing."

 

 

Source monstersandcritics.com

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Timberlake Shuts Down Golf Course

 

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is shutting down his Tennessee golf course for six months to make improvements - shortly after opening it.

 

Mirimichi golf course in the SexyBack singer's native Memphis will close from 15 January to 17 July (09) while its greens, bunkers and drainage are improved and its wetlands, wildflowers and native grasses are expanded, according to the local Commercial Appeal newspaper.

 

Timberlake originally planned to make gradual improvements over three years while the course stayed open but changed his mind to speed its completion.

 

Timberlake and his family bought the former Big Creek Golf Course in 2007 and have already spent $16 million (£10 million) renovating the 18 holes.

 

Source contactmusic

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Timberlake Named Top Charity Earner

 

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Justin Timberlake has beaten tireless campaigners Bono and Madonna to top a new list of celebrity philanthropists.

 

The "SexyBack" singer's continued work for the Shriners Hospital for Children has an annual impact of more than $9 million, a figure that dwarfs Madonna's $5.5 million for Raising Malawi and Pamela Anderson's $4.8 million for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

 

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey's work for her personal charity, Oprah's Angel Network, netted almost $4 million, while U2 frontman Bono's annual impact on the ONE Foundation was estimated at $3.6 million.

 

Angelina Jolie, Rihanna, George Clooney, Salma Hayek and Shakira also made it into the top 10.

 

 

 

source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate...7#ixzz0aM5UHHOy

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Shoot! I tested it before i posted it but the link has since been blocked. Sorry. In any case, it's the photo of JT back in the day, with his dyed curly blonde hair, holding a marionette puppet that is supposed to look like him. Hahahahaha. HahahahaHA!

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Justin Timberlake's rep dismisses latest break-up rumors

 

 

A representative for Justin Timberlake has moved to silence ongoing rumors of a split from Jessica Biel after the pop star was spotted with another woman in Las Vegas.

 

The couple's relationship has come under scrutiny in recent months, with online gossips speculating a split is imminent.

 

Timberlake and Biel have shrugged off the rumors with a string of public appearances, as well as a romantic trip to Switzerland to celebrate the actress' recent 28th birthday.

 

But reports of trouble in the relationship resurfaced again this week after the "SexyBack" hitmaker was photographed partying with a scantily-clad dancer at Tao nightclub in Sin City.

 

However, a spokesperson for Timberlake is adamant there's no truth to rumors the romance is coming to an end. The rep tells Hollyscoop.com, "They're not breaking up."

 

 

source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate...7#ixzz0i125y6lY

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From Ted C:

Here we go again. Word, from yet another highly reliable source, is that the notorious together, not-together couple Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are supposedly calling it quits, again.

 

This is not a new decision, as we've been reporting the beautiful couple's on-off relationship for some time. Plus, the fact that Justin and Jessica barely interacted with each other at the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty doesn't help their severe case of relationship denial.

 

So are these two dunzo for real this time?

 

A very good source says that the two have def split and that it was Justin who did the breaking up. The source adds Jessica is "devastated" over the reportedly final decision.

 

Reps for both stars could not be reached.

 

But a good friend to Jessica wasn't so mum:

 

"Jessica is not devastated," piped the pal. "That's just crap. She's a very independent, proud woman with her own career, she's fine." Good to hear, honey!

 

The multitalent and his pretty other half have been fighting breakup reports since 2009. His career is red-hot. Hers, much less so.

 

Seems to us, now that J.T. is trying to break through in the movie Industry, he's becoming less and less interested in playing the paparazzi game of always having a gorgeous babe on his arm, whatever the reason. Also, he did seem pretty convincing in the Friends With Benefits trailer as a single guy, no? Coincidence? Perhaps.

 

Regardless, we're sorry the two are experiencing the pain of splitting, which is never fun, even when it's for the best.

 

Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_...l#ixzz1GGabd3Ba

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