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glad I'm not doing publicity now. Between celebrity magazines and websites, there's so much out there to be filled up, so much information that has to be put out there simply because those publications exist... People are desperate to fill the space they've got; they'll print anything, go with anything, pursue rumours, and even create them. It's not what I call publicity."
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