Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair Photo Shoot

Miley Cyrus has apologized ahead of appearing semi-naked in the next issue of Vanity Fair magazine.


Pop star Miley Cyrus said she was "embarrassed" after seeing the images taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.









The Disney Channel said "a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines" but the US magazine defended the images and added that "everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley".

The photographs include images of the teenager wrapped in what appears to be a satin bed sheet, looking over her shoulder with her back exposed.

They will appear alongside an interview with Cyrus and her father, singer Billy Ray Cyrus.

"I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed," Miss Cyrus said.

"I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about."

But when the images were released by Vanity Fair last week, Cyrus said: "I think it's really artsy.

"It wasn't in a skanky way. Annie took, like, a beautiful shot, and I thought that was really cool. That's what she wanted me to do, and you can't say no to Annie."

A spokesman for The Disney Channel, which airs the Hannah Montana TV show, said: "Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines."

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Here you can see her previously taken pictures which caused even more controversy.

Father Confesses to Imprisoning Daughter

AP:
A man in Amstetten, Austria confessed about imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cell with soundproof door.
Josef Fritzl, now 73, held his daughter captive since 1984. The daughter Elisabeth Fritzl, who is now 42, was found by police on Saturday after police received a tip.

The cell had electronic entry system and was made of solid reinforced concrete. Rooms were at most 5 feet 6 inches feet high. The area had a TV and small hot plates for cooking.

Police say: "He admitted that he locked his daughter, who was 18 at the time, in the cellar, that he repeatedly had sex with her, and that he is the father of her seven children,".

Suspect's wife had no idea of these events and was devastated.

One of the neighbors said: "They appeared normal, just like any other family, I'm totally shocked, this was next door. It's terrible."

Elisabeth Fritzl told police that her father began sexually abusing her when she was 11. In 1984, he handcuffed her and locked her in the cellar.

Jonesville Church of God controversial sign "Obama, Osama — humm, are they brothers"

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Associated Press writes:
JONESVILLE, S.C. — A pastor from South Carolina says he is not trying to be political by posting a sign in front of his church in which he links Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Pastor Roger Byrd said he just wanted to make people think when he put up a sign reading "Obama, Osama — humm, are they brothers" in front of the Jonesville Church of God on Thursday. He doesn't believe that Obama is Christian.


Obama who is indeed a Christian, regularly attends Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Although 15 percent of respondents to a recent Associated Press-Yahoo News poll said they thought that the Illinois senator actually is Muslim.

WYFF-TV reported Monday that Byrd is not going to take the sign down. He insisted that it is a unanimous vote of his congregation to keep it.

This church is part of the Church of God, a Pentecostal denomination based in Cleveland, Tennessee.

Jonesville itself is a small town of about 1,000 people in northwestern South Carolina.

UPDATE:

The next day Byrd removed the sign because it received so much negative comments from throughout the country. Now the sign is aimed against smokers.

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