Model Catherine McNeil displayed disturbing cuts on her forearms at a media event for a teen magazine last week.

The model was photographed with more than a dozen cuts on her arms at a function for Girlfriend magazine at Ivy pool on Wednesday – her first public appearance in months.

The 20-year-old has been on a five-month break from modelling for the world’s top designers, among them Chanel, Hermes, MaxMara and Christian Dior.

Instead, she has made headlines over her romance with MTV star Ruby Rose, whom she was snapped kissing at a Sydney pub last month.

McNeil wore a sleeveless top and made no attempt to hide her arms when she posed for the cameras at the Girlfriend Model Search function.

The troubling trend has raised concerns among psychologists, who said self-harm was now considered fashionable in some circles.

But McNeil’s agent denied that the model had cut her own arms, saying she had simply fallen off a skateboard.

“Catherine has nothing to cover up or hide – she fell off her skateboard into some bushes,” agent Kathy Ward told The Sunday Telegraph.

Monash University professor of psychiatry Louise Newman, who did not comment specifically about McNeil, said self-harm had become fashionable.

“Self-harm is, sadly, very common and is becoming a bit of a trend,” Professor Newman said.

“In some groups of young people, it’s even considered virtually a fashionable thing to do or a way of expressing unhappiness or distress.”

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I saw it on Friday, I’ll post my review this afternoon!

The Twilight Saga: New Moon has had the third-biggest opening weekend in film history.

According to box office totals released Sunday, the vampire romance starring Rob Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart grossed a stellar $140.7 million during its first weekend in theaters, earning $72.7 million on its Friday opening day alone.

“I dare say in all the office pools, I don’t think anyone had near this top gross,” Summit Entertainment distribution president Richie Fay said.
New Moon, the second installment in Summit’s Twilight Saga, also holds the record for most advance ticket sales. A reported 80% of all ticket buyers were women.

Heath Ledger’s The Dark Knight remains the top-grossing weekend box office earner, taking in $158.4 million during its first outing in 2008. Spider-Man 3 stays in second place, earning $151.1 million out of the gate in 2007.

New Moon’s opening weekend even trounced its predecessor’s box office totals.
Twilight earned $36 million on Nov. 21, 2008 and posted a three-day weekend take of $69.6 million.

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This January, 90210 will embark on a major same-sex storyline that will pair the show’s token lesbian, Gia, played by Rumer Willis, with Jessica Lowndes’ character, Adrianna.

“This isn’t a fling,” insists executive producer Rebecca Sinclair. “We’re coming at this [relationship] from a genuine place and not going, ‘Let’s do a titillating story that will grab some promotion.’ This is a real aspect of teenager life that’s interesting… And there’s been a real void in the 90210 universe in terms of gay and bisexual characters.”

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Here is Jennifer Lopez’s new music video, Fresh Out The Oven, as her new alter ego ‘Lola’. The song features rapper Pitbull and will appear on Jennifer’s/Lola’s new album “Love?” in stores, Jan. 26, 2010.

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Adam Lambert is making no apologies for his racy performance during Sunday’s American Music Awards.

While closing the show with his new single “For Your Entertainment,” the American Idol alum, 27, simulated fellatio with a male dancer, kissed male keyboardist Tommy Ratliff, grabbed his crotch and flipped off the crowd. (According to Rolling Stone, Lambert didn’t clear the kiss with anyone in advance; he told CNN the smooch happened “in the moment.”)

His performance was edited for the west coast feed of the awards show.

“You know honestly, if I offended some people… it’s apples and oranges. I’m not an artist that does things for every single person,” he told Access Hollywood. “I believe in artistic freedom and expression, I believe in honoring the lyrics of a song, and those lyrics aren’t really for everybody either.”

He also said he considered editing his performance “discrimination.”

“There’s a big double standard, female pop artists have been doing things provocative like that for years, and the fact that I’m a male, and I’ll be edited and discriminated against could be a problem,” he explained.

Added Lambert, “People are scared and it’s really sad, I just wish people could open their minds up and enjoy things, it’s all for a laugh, it’s really not that big of a deal.”

Still, some fans and celebs don’t agree.

“Did Adam Lambert just grind some dude’s head in his crotch… TO MY NIECE… GO TO BED NOW!” The View’s Sherri Shepherd Twittered. “And did Adam Lambert slip the tongue to one of his dancers???? Whoa… Celibate woman here… turning off TV now…”

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Twilight star Robert Pattinson says he worries about being infected with HIV when adoring fans approach him with open wounds and ask him to suck their blood.

Pattinson, who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the series, has revealed he genuinely fears for his life when fans mob him in the street.

The 23-year-old actor laid out his concerns to promote a new biography ahead of the next Twilight film, New Moon, which premieres this week.

“People ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair,” Pattinson told the News Of The World.

“I just don’t want someone to have a needle and give me HIV and I don’t want to get shot or stabbed.”

Pattinson recalled one time where a group of girls approached him bleeding from scratches they had just opened up on their necks.

“They were like, ‘We did this for you’ … I didn’t know what to say — ‘Thank you, guys?’”

Pattinson said he feels vulnerable at big film events such as premieres, where he could be the target of an overly obsessive fan or even a terror attack.

He admits struggling to come to terms with fame since the release of the first movie, which grossed more than $350m worldwide.

He has difficulty coping with so many people trying to “ambush” him in public and at home.

He said he has come to accept the attention, but would be prepared to give away acting away for his first passion — music — if the fans ever became too much.

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