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Miley Cyrus, pop sensation and star of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana, says she’s embarrassed about provocative photos taken by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair. Here’s one of the photos Miley is obviously referring to, which shows her topless with a sheet covering her chest. We certainly wouldn’t be too thrilled with our 15-year-old daughter posing for a photo like that… Better keep an eye on that one, Billy Ray!

“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,” Cyrus said in a statement her publicist released. “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans, who I care so deeply about.”

The 15-year-old Cyrus, daughter of country music star Billy Ray Cyrus, stars as an ordinary teenager with a double life as a rock star on the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana.” The channel says “Hannah Montana” is the top-rated cable television show for children aged 6 to 14, reaching more than 164 million viewers around the world.

Nice damage control there, Hannah!

The word “memoir” was just downgraded. We’re not quite sure what a 15-year-old has really had enough life experience to write an engaging autobiography, but we’re in our 30s and are probably not exactly the target audience. No word on if all the i’s in the book will have little hearts over them.

The multi-hyphenate teen star has signed a book deal to tell the story of her young life, it was announced Tuesday. The memoir by Cyrus, who stars in the Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana,” is planned for release next spring.

Disney said the book will focus particularly on the guidance of Cyrus’ mother, Leticia.

“I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me,” the 15-year-old singer-actress said in a statement. “I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.”

See if you can follow this one: Miley Cyrus, whose real name is Destiny Hope Cyrus, plays the character Hannah Montana, who is really Miley Stewart — also played by Cyrus — in disguise.

Well, Ms. Cyrus is taking one part out of that confusing equation — she has filed papers in a Los Angeles court legally changing her name to Miley Ray Cyrus. (OK, also changing her middle name to match her dad’s is creeping us out a little.)

The 15-year-old singer and TV star is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, who filed the papers last Friday with wife Leticia. Her father writes in the filing that the request was “to make her commonly used name the same as her legal name.”

The name-change request was reported by the celebrity Web site TMZ.com.

Miley Cyrus has said her father gave her the nickname “Smiley Miley” as a baby because of her sunny disposition. On the Disney Channel tween hit “Hannah Montana,” she plays a teen who hides her singing stardom.

Wow, the press is really reaching to dig up dirt on Miley Cyrus now. Apparently Ms. Cyrus and her father, Billy Ray, are seen riding in the back seat of a Range Rover in her Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert movie. And get this — they weren’t wearing seat belts!! For shame! Forty lashes for the Cyrus family. While of course we are strong advocates for wearing seat belts, but is this really something to freak out about? Does anyone think the screaming tweens in the audience even noticed?

Billy Ray Cyrus says he and his daughter, the “Hannah Montana” actress Miley Cyrus, simply forgot to buckle up for one of their scenes in their new hit movie.

“We got caught up in the moment of filming, and we made a mistake and forgot to buckle our seat belts,” the country music star said Wednesday on People magazine’s Web site. “Seat belt safety is extremely important.”

Don Mays, the director of product safety at Consumers Union, which publishes Yonkers-based Consumer Reports, said Wednesday, “We applaud the Cyrus family for recognizing that wearing seat belts in rear seats is essential.”

Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus is bigger than Jesus.

She is taking over the world, one tween at a time and wearing parents pocketbooks out.

We saw the concert movie over the weekend and we have to say, that is one savvy 15 year old. She knows how to work it. We also used to think her father, Billy Ray Cyrus was a dumb lug, but now we think he’s some sort of Svengali or something!

On Friday, theaters nationwide premiered “Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert,” a 3-D film version of the sellout tour. Tickets for the film remain in short supply. (In fact, the film was originally supposed to run for just one week, but demand — the film debuted No. 1 at the box office despite premiering in just one-third the theaters as No. 2 “The Eye” — has prompted theaters to keep it for a second week, through Valentine’s Day.)

Clearly the “Hannah Montana” brand — which started as a Disney TV series but has branched out into multiplatinum albums and stage shows — hasn’t reached saturation point.

Shock! Dismay! Scandal!

To help speed the transition from Hannah to Miley, there is a production element during the performance of “We Got the Party” incorporating a body double for Miley. After Hannah has completed the featured verse on the duet with the Jonas Brothers, a body double appears approximately 1 - 2 minutes prior to the end of the song in order to allow Miley to remove the Hannah wig and costume and transform into Miley for her solo set. Other than during this very brief transitional moment in the show, Miley performs live during the entirety of both the Hannah and Miley segments of the concert.

A 10 year old girl scout decides, on her own, to give up her coveted Hannah Montana concert tickets to a sick girl she heard her mother talking about.

Her mother should be so proud. Amongst all the horrible news, it’s nice to hear of such charitable offerings, especially from a young person.

10-year-old Emily, a Girl Scout, has learned very good values. She overheard a conversation that her mom was having about a little girl who has been through a lot due to her heart condition and really wanted to attend the Hannah Montana concert. Emily, without any thought, decided to give Meghan her tickets to the popular concert.

Emily Fromhold, Gave tickets to girl she didn’t know: “I mean her music is really good, but she is not the whole world.”

Nice lesson to teach your kid. A 6-year-old girl in Garland, Texas entered an essay contest at Club Libby Lu, penning a tear jerker about her father dying in Iraq, in the hopes of winning four tickets to an ultra-sold-out Hannah Montana tickets. Now, we’ve certainly pulled similar boneheaded stunts when we were kids, but the bad part of this tale was that the girl’s mother was in on it:

The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.

“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”

She had identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq. Caulfield said the mother has admitted to the deception.

Club Libby Lu is apparently mulling over whether or not to take away her tickets. What’s there to think about? They need to rip the tickets right out of her hands, give them to a more deserving kid right in front of her face and send her home crying to her mommy.

UPDATE: Club Libby Lu has decided to take away the tickets from Ceballos’ daughter — YOINK!

Miley Cyrus, AKA “Hannah Montana” turns 15 and the only thing she wants is family time, in Nashville. (Why do I get the feeling that wish was rehearsed by her handlers?)

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Miley Cyrus celebrated turning 15 Friday with more than 15,000 hometown friends, who serenaded her with “Happy Birthday” toward the end of her concert, complete with pyrotechnic displays and a cake delivered onstage.

“I’ll tell you guys that my main wish when my parents asked me, ‘Miley, what do you want for your 15th birthday?’, the only thing that I had to say was, ‘I want to be here at home with Nashville and all of you guys,’ ” the star of the hit Disney TV show “Hannah Montana” told the crowd, according to People.com.

Those of us wistfully gazing at eBay and Craigslist as the price for Hannah Montana tickets soar into the hundreds — if not thousands — can on one hand feel sympathy for this group of parents. A class action lawsuit has been filed against Interactive Media Marketing, Inc. and Smiley Miley, Inc., owners of the Hannah Montana Fan Club website, alleging that the site misled people to register with the hope that their $29.95 annual fee would get them higher priority to buy tour tickets.

On the other hand, the phrase caveat emptor comes to mind. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that the number of members could easily surpass the total number of tickets available (membership was also provided to those who purchased the latest Hannah Montana CD), and the site did say in their fine print that there were no ticket guarantees. So it does sound like a bit of sour grapes:

“Thousands of people joined the club based on the understanding that by joining they would be able to purchase Hannah Montana concert tickets before they were offered for sale to the general public,” said Peirce. “In reality the vast majority were unable to obtain concert tickets.”

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Kerry Inman, a New Jersey woman who joined the Hannah Montana fan club.

She was shut out when she tried to purchase tickets to the Hannah Montana concert in Atlantic City, N.J. through the web site.

“The scenario that the Inman family went through — paying for a membership, then logging on to purchase tickets as soon as possible-this scenario has been replayed thousands, if not tens of thousands of times over the past few months,” said Peirce.

Hey, don’t know if you’ve heard, but Hannah Montana seems to be a bit popular right now. Can you believe it? Good thing we have some hard hitting journalism from the Dallas Morning News letting us in on the “Hannahmania” and why Ms. Cyrus is so popular, even though anyone that’s watched more than 5 minutes of the show with their kids can figure that one out.

So what is going on here? Why, pray tell, have little girls (and by extension their parents) gone nuts over a rhyming-named character with a raspy voice? Here are 10 reasons, thanks to statistical data, professional insight and, most importantly, the wise words of second-grade girls.

1. “She sings really good” was the first answer from most of the second-graders as they ate their sandwiches at Bluebonnet Elementary in Fort Worth. They also like her “sparkly” clothes, her funny TV show and the fact that she has her priorities in order. (OK, they didn’t put it like that.) Her TV brother wants to be popular, “but she really doesn’t care about that,” says student Skyla Fisher. “If she gets a chance to, she’ll probably go for it, but usually she doesn’t care.” As her pal Maddy Waite put it, “She’s a nice girl.” Which brings us to the next reason.

2. To parents, she’s as pure as the Disney-manufactured snow. This explains why Mom and Dad aren’t opposed to treating their kids to her concert, even if it means taking out a bank loan. (A recent check on stubhub.com showed 67 tickets available for the Fort Worth show, ranging from $145 to $1,600 each.) Hey, in a world full of fallen pop sweethearts (oh, Britney!) and other assorted tawdriness, we’re apparently willing to pay for a night of good, clean fun.

3. That “superhero in disguise” thing gets them every time. Just as no one ever clued into the fact that Clark Kent was the Man of Steel, Miley-Hannah also has her friends on the show fooled. How can this be? Second-grader Bailey Strother has a logical answer: “Because she has a ton of makeup on and has a wig on.” Ah, yes. Just like Clark’s clever glasses.

Read the rest of this painfully obvious list if you have nothing better to do.

Shenanigans!

Broken hearts aren’t as lucrative as broker deals apparently. Looks like the scorned tweens will have to join the official Miley fan club if they want to see Hannah/Miley live next time…

The City Council is looking into why the “Hannah Montana” concert at the Sprint Center sold out minutes after the tickets went on sale.

City leaders want Ticketmaster and the Sprint Center to explain how some brokers were selling tickets at higher prices and were advertising the tickets before they went on sale.