So what if Miley Cyrus is only 16? She says she’s found her voice as a musician and it shows on her new EP, The Times of Our Lives. “I think I’ve been able to give myself more say. I think at first I was a little more afraid of what I could and what I could not say,” the singer and actress told the Associated Press prior to her performance at the VH1 Divas concert last night in NYC.

Not only has Miley grown as a musician, she says she’s grown as a woman as well.

“I think about it any time I write a song. I’m like, “Why can’t I say that? Why can’t you say what you feel?” asks Miley. “There shouldn’t be an age or a certain kind of cookie-cutter way of doing things. You can say what you want to. It’s about being an artist. That’s what an artist is.”

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A judge overseeing the trial of Miley Cyrus’ alleged stalker has refused to reduce his $55,200 bond – because he considers him “a danger” to society.

Mark McLeod, 53, was arrested twice for hounding the Disney star on the set of her latest movie The Last Song.

He was taken into custody in August, just weeks after he was cautioned by cops in June for making “inappropriate comments” to young Cyrus fans. McLeod had also told officers he was engaged to the young star and that she sent him secret messages through her TV show, Hannah Montana.

In his preliminary hearing on Tuesday, investigators told Judge Steven Scheer that McLeod had told security personnel he would be returning to the set and “finishing things,” which he saw as a threat to Cyrus.

Judge Scheer agreed MCLeod was a threat to himself and others, telling the court, “I can’t deny him bond, but if I could I would because I do feel he’s a danger.”

He then refused to lower the bail amount, and decided there was enough evidence for the case to go to Chatham County State Court, Georgia.

The 16-year-old Hannah Montana star was granted a temporary restraining order against McLeod earlier this month.

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Miley Cyrus has fueled speculation she’s dating Liam Hemsworth after she was spotted kissing the actor at an airport this week.

The Hannah Montana actress has repeatedly denied she is romancing the Australian star, her love interest in upcoming movie The Last Song, which has been shooting in Savannah, Georgia this summer.

But rumors about their relationship are heating up after the 16 year old was seen kissing Hemsworth after dropping him off at Nashville International Airport in Tennessee on Wednesday, reports the New York Daily News.

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Here’s a bunch of celebs that turned out for last night’s Teen Choice Awards.

Don’t forget the Teen Choice Awards will air TONIGHT on FOX at 8:00PM!

Pictured: Hayden Panettiere, Kristen Bell,  Audrina Patridge, Rumer Willis, Amanda Bynes, Kim Kardashian, Ashley Tisdale, Miley Cyrus, Fergie, Jonas Brothers, Vanessa Hudgens, Jordin Sparks, Zac Efron, Hugh Jackman, Alexis Bledel and Cameron Diaz.

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Chatham County Sheriff Al St Lawrence says his office did nothing wrong in the case of a man who is a reported stalker of Miley Cyrus. He says the man, 53 year old Mark McLeod was arrested by Tybee Island Police last month and booked on two misdemeanor charges. St Lawrence says the man was released the day after his arrest. “If we had heard something about this guy supposedly being a stalker or he had been charged with a felony he wouldn’t have been released,“ St Lawrence tells us.

St Lawrence was reacting to a story in Wednesday’s Savannah Morning News, which indicates that McLeod often shows up at events involving Cyrus, including a book signing in March in New York and that police in Los Angeles, California say McLeod’s arrest on Tybee violated a court order in Los Angeles County and they wanted to have McLeod taken into custody on their behalf. Los Angeles police tell us they they “became aware that McLeod was arrested on June 22, but would not tell how how they found out that information. A spokesperson from LAPD says a detective “then requested the police report from Tybee Island so he could have the information and be prepared in case McLeod tried to contact Cyrus in our jurisdiction.“ The spokesperson would not tell me if has arrested McLeod in the past for stalking or any other charge.
A police report from Tybee Island Police says on June 22 McLeod was arrested as he stood with a crowd watching the filming of Cyrus’s movie “The Last Song.“ They say McLeod was making “inappropriate comments” to some of the young females present and that when approached, McLeod became beligerant, started screaming and fought officers who tried to arrest him.

The report also goes on to outline comments Tybee Island police say McLeod made to them saying he was “great friends with Cyrus and she had asked him to come and see her.“

The report indicates that McLeod said he had “been camping at Tybee for three or four days and that he had observed Cyrus on her balcony, that he sent her special presents and that he was going to marry Cyrus and even invited the police officer to the wedding.“

St Lawrence says no one at his office was given the incident report from Tybee Police which he says is standard procedure and that most municipalities don’t provide those reports to the jail and if they do it is often “days after the arrest.“

Sheriff St Lawrence says “if this man really is a stalker, yes this would be a concern, but again we were told nothing about any of the comments that McLeod made to Tybee Island arresting officers. And even if we had been told, it wouldn’t have mattered because he was charged with two non-violent misdemeanors and we acted accordingly.“

Tybee Island Police would not comment to us about any of this. St Lawrence did tell us that if “the arresting officer feels someone is unbalanced or in need of mental health attention, that officer can take them to Memorial Health for an evaluation or set things in motion to have them evaluated at Georgia Regional. “We had no indication of any problems on the morning he was released,“ St Lawrence told us.

Tybee Island’s police report does indicate that when McLeod was arrested he stated to booking personnel that he was “Miley Cyrus’s boyfriend and they should contact her before we waste all this time.“

St Lawrence does acknowlege that jail overcrowding was one factor in McLeod’s release on the morning of June 23. “We have to look at who is charged with violent offenses and every day, figure out who we can let out. We aren’t doing anything different than any other county in Georgia, we’re all having to make these kinds of decisions.“

St Lawrence told us that while overcrowding played some role that “if this guy had had $148 dollars he could have bonded out that day regardless of how many people had been housed in the jail that morning.“

McLeod was released on what St Lawrence called a subpoena signature with the promise to appear in court on September first. His whereabouts are now unknown.

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Demi Lovato may have recently split with Trace Cyrus, but she finds time to chat to her best friend – his sister, Miley – every day.

And what does the 16-year-old call Miley in those chats? “Dragon.” She tells the September issue of Sugar magazine (her first cover shoot in the U.K.) the nickname comes from “our fave film, Step Brothers.” She adds the megastar has “given me so much advice” to help her cope with fame.

“Recently she sent me this four-page text message encouraging me and telling me she has faith in me. It was so inspiring and made me feel great – because I do get a bit overwhelmed by the paps sometimes.”

As for her other celebrity pals, the Jonas Brothers, Lovato says, “Everyone asks me if I fancy them but I totally don’t!”

She can afford a joke now about the attention she gets, but it wasn’t so easy a few years ago. She says the bullying she endured at school stemmed from her new-found fame. “I opened a show for JoJo once and the next day my class passed round a petition to ‘Get Demi Out,’ and then handed it to me. It was pretty devastating.”

“But the final straw was when I was chased into the toilets by girls threatening to punch me. I was so scared I called Mom – we decided I’d stay at home after that. But it made me more focused on writing my music and spurred me on to want success.”

She has been home-schooled since then, but she adds that she would like to go to college one day.

Lovato’s first steps on the road to fame were at a school talent show when she sang Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On from Titanic. “[It was] a pretty daring choice, I’m sure you’ll agree! Mom still describes that performance as ‘sweet’ – so I’m pretty sure she means I was awful!”

She still gets plenty of support from her family. “I get really emotional every time I have to leave them to go on tour, but luckily Mom and Dad take it in turns to go with me. I miss my sisters so much.”

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Awwwww, puppy love!

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s 14-year-old son fell hard for Miley Cyrus while he was on the set of her hit Disney show Hannah Montana. Connor, who played Will Smith as a boy in last year’s Seven Pounds, wants to be an actor.

“Tom thought it would be a good experience for him to see how other performers around his age work,” an insider tells Star. “It started as business — but Miley was so sweet, Connor couldn’t help having feelings for her!”

While Miley, 16, told Elle magazine that she thinks Connor is “really cute,” the younger man shouldn’t get his hopes up. After dumping 20-year-old boyfriend Justin Gaston, Miley hooked back up with ex Nick Jonas, 16!

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