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Susanna Barrett Defends Daughter, Pageant Industry, Lawsuit Against Media

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

No mom wants her 5-year-old daughter being called a “prosti-tot” or other such things. Even if she’s partially or wholly responsible for that happening. According to Susanna Barrett and her lawyer, the bad reputation that her daughter, Isabella Barrett, has gotten since a video of her singing along to LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It” and Rihanna’s “We Found Love” is why she’s suing for $30 million. Barrett’s problem isn’t that TMZ posted the video. She gave them the footage, in fact. It’s that she was under the impression TMZ was going to write a “fluff story,” but ended up making a “brazen attempt to sexualize” her child. Allegedly. First off, Barrett says, her daughter was not performing in a nightclub, as reported, but rather in an impromptu sing-along at a pet-charity dinner. “It was kind of a spontaneous thing,” the elder Barrett recalls. “You can see other people had their camera and cell phones out. You know Isabella is on a reality show so it’s not uncommon for people to be taking pictures of her.” “There was a red carpet there, so we were taking pictures, as well.” As for the songs, Barrett maintains that Isabella was only in the spotlight for about 30 seconds of LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It” before Rihanna kicked in. “She didn’t know all the words, and the sensationalism of it was actually more exciting then actually what you’re watching – that’s where the problem lies.”

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AnnaLynne McCord Laughs Off Topless Twitpic Faux Pas

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘I am going to tweet myself naked all the time,’ the ‘90210’ actress jokes to MTV News at Sundance. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Annalynne McCord Photo: MTV News Much like a plot right out of her soapy CW show, “90210,” AnnaLynne McCord made headlines when she inadvertently tweeted out a NSFW photo of herself on January 10. It quickly became clear that she took the photo at the wrong angle, exposing a bit more of herself than she had expected to. After realizing her Twitter faux pas, she laughed off the incident. “This is for you, @meganraee You Rock! Xxx,” she initially tweeted, including the nipple-baring photo. She later added, “Hahaha! Megan, you feel like sharing? Very funny I actually LOL-ed xxxA.” When MTV News had the chance to speak to McCord during her trip to the Sundance Film Festival , she had a very amusing response to the tweet. “I am going to tweet myself naked all the time. I mean I am going to be a press whore from here on out. This is awesome,” she joked about the headline-making incident. “You know what’s so crazy to me, it’s the sensationalism. I mean so disappointing, I’m sorry for everybody who thought I was going to be naked. You see more of me naked as Pauline in [‘Excision’]. “Anyone with half of a brain knows it was an accident,” she continued. “I have a very small areola and I have to get a magnifying glass to make sure that it’s not in pictures in the future. That’s the moral of the story.” McCord had a few more laughs at her own expense, adding, “The moral of the story is not to stop taking pictures of yourself naked. We all like being naked. Just make sure that the little bit of your areola isn’t in the picture before you send it to a hundred billion people.” How did AnnaLynne McCord handle her Twitter photo faux pas? Leave your comments below! Related Videos Sundance 2012: Interviews From Park City

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