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Parents Name Baby Girl Hashtag
5 months ago
As unusual baby names go, this one’s certainly up there.
This past Saturday around 10 p.m., a precious little girl weighing an even eight pounds was given the name Hashtag by her Twitter-loving parents … seriously.
We’re guessing her parents spent much of the previous nine months on their iPhones. Think she’ll be teased a lot on the playground? Or on her friends’ Twitter accounts?
In about 18 years, Hashtag totally needs to date Facebook, the name given to a baby boy in Egypt last winter in honor of the role played by the site in the country’s revolution.
That’s not baby
More >Lara Logan Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
1 year ago
CBS News’ Lara Logan has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after the horrific sexual assault she survived at the hands of a mob in Cairo, Egypt.
The journalist revealed she has PTSD and that memories of the incident continue to haunt her nearly a year following the attack on February 11 of a year ago.
“People don’t really know that much about [post-traumatic stress disorder],” she told the New York Daily News. “There’s something called latent PTSD.”
“It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I’m not.”
The 40-year-old
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Lara Logan Speaks on Egyptian Assault
2 years ago
For the first time since she was assaulted by a mob in Egypt, Lara Logan is telling her story.
“There was a moment that everything went wrong,” the CBS reporter said to 60 Minutes, adding that her clothes were “torn to pieces” by a group of protesters.
The long-time journalist feared for her life during the attack.
“There was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying. I thought not only am I going to die, but it’s going to be just a torturous death that’s going to go on forever,” she explained to correspondent Scott Pelley.
The interview will air this Sunday, after which
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New Details Emerge on Lara Logan Beating; Flag Poles Used in Attack
2 years ago
Lara Logan is resting at home and sources say the CBS reporter is in good spirits, following a savage attack at the hands of Egypt protesters.
But a new report details just how brutal of a beating Logan suffered at the hands of these rioters on February 11.
Sources tell The Sunday Times of London that attackers used fists and flag poles against Logan, while wounds that remained hours later were the result of “”aggressive pinching.” It all began around 1 a.m. local time, as a crowd of approximately 200 people shouted “Spy!” and “Israeli!,” surrounding Logan and her co-workers in the wake of
More >CBS reporter, Lara Logan assaulted by Egyptian mob – hopes to be back at work soon
2 years ago
[HMG Celebrity News] – The events in Egypt last Friday were a triumph for the people, but CBS reporter Lara Logan may remember it as the worst night of her life.
The 39-year old South African native and her crew were covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square for 60 Minutes when they were surrounded by a mob of over 200 people who had been ‘whipped into a frenzy’ by the day’s events, according to a CBS statement. It goes on to say;
“In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women
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Lara Logan, CBS News Correspondent, Sexually Assaulted in Egypt
2 years ago
This is simply horrific:
CBS News reports that Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan, covering the political uprising in Egypt, was attacked on Friday, moments after President Hosni Mubarak resigned his post.
According to the network, Logan was “separated from her crew” during the frenzy of Mubarak’s resignation and “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.”
Reunited with her team, Logan returned to her hotel and was flown to the United States Saturday
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Anderson Cooper: Attacked in Egypt!
2 years ago
Anderson Cooper got up close and personal with the political upheaval in Egypt this week. A bit too up close and personal, it turns out.
While reporting from Cairo – where demonstrators loyal to embattled President Hosni Mubarak were protesting – Cooper and his camera crew were “pushed and shoved and punched in the head” by attackers, CNN reports.
Luckily, no one was hurt.
Says Anderson, who was reportedly bludgeoned 10 times: “The instinct is try to punch back… but in a situation like that you really can’t because that just inflames the crowd all the more…
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Jersey Shore’s Deena Nicole: The Rundown
2 years ago
Jersey Shore’s second season premieres tonight on MTV.
You will not be seeing Deena Nicole on it.
Still with Angelina Pivarnick out for Season 3 (she was apparently back for Season 2 after being out for Season 1), there’s room in the Seaside Heights enclave for a hot new guidette, and they’ve apparently found one in Snooki’s friend.
Deena Nicole, real name Deena Nicole Cortese, is reportedly filming the reality show’s third season in N.J. Here’s the brief rundown on her …
Watch out, Jersey Shore. Deena Nicole has arrived.
Real Jersey girl. Unlike The Situation, Snooki, Ronnie, Vinny and
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Deena Nicole: Jersey Shore’s Newest Guidette
2 years ago
Tomorrow on MTV … It. Is. On. Jersey Shore returns for Season 2.
The entire cast is intact and now filming Season 3, to boot … and then some. Deena Nicole, a self-proclaimed “Bad Ass Brunette,” will play a big role.
Where did the new star come from? Sources say she was already BFFs with Snooki and seems like she’s going to fit in well with the rest of the cast.
Deena, real name is Deena Nicole Cortese, and is good friends with Snooki, who helped get her cast. She was also hangin’ with J-Woww on Saturday.
The 23-year-old is a former cheerleader who was on the squad at Brookdale Community
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New Couple Alert: Paris Hilton and Cy Waits
2 years ago
For the second straight weekend, ho-tel heiress Paris Hilton flew 4,000 miles from overseas to visit … Las Vegas. Which is just a few hours from her L.A. home.
The reason? Cy Waits. She’s dating the businessman and nightclub entrepreneur based in Sin City – and going to great lengths to keep the new romance hot!
A week ago, Paris Hilton came in via a flight from Egypt, and over this past weekend, on a flight straight from Brazil. Says a source close to Cy Waits …
“It sure looks as if the new matchup is picking up steam on their fourth weekend of togetherness. They are inseparable while
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