Author: McCarton Ackerman

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Demi Lovato reveals she was pressured as a teenager by Disney to change her physical appearance. The singer and actress makes the bold new claim in an interview for the February cover of Allure.

When asked about the worst beauty advice she has ever gotten, Lovato admits it came when she rose to fame as the star of Camp Rock in 2008. Recalling when she was just 15 years old, Lovato says, “I had a gap between my two front teeth. They were like, ‘Would you be willing to fix it?’” Although she agreed to it back then, the actress and singer feels, “I wish today that I hadn’t because my gap was really cute.”

At 23, Lovato now notes that she’s able to stand up for herself better. Just the night before the interview, she says she called out a fan who dissed her outside her hotel for not taking a photo with her.

Following some verbal jabs, Lovato told her bodyguard, “Go get that girl. Bring her in here.” She then explained to the rude fan, “I never want you to feel like I take you for granted. But I cannot stop every single time and that gives you no excuse to disrespect me… because I have too much respect for myself.” In the end, however, Lovato says she relented and took a photo with the young girl.

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Zayn Malik turns 23 on Wednesday, and to celebrate his birthday, Gossip Cop is looking back at five really wrong rumors about the former One Direction singer that we “blew out.”

In September 2015, Gossip Cop corrected a report from The Sun alleging that Malik was “moving on” from former fiancée Perrie Edwards with Zendaya. HollywoodLife jumped on the bogus story and ran it without any fact-checking, but Zendaya helped correct the report herself by tweeting that she has “literally NEVER met” Malik.

That same month, Gossip Cop exclusively busted a Daily Mail story suggesting that Malik was dating Gage Golightly. The singer posted a photo of himself with a blonde woman and the Daily Mail was one of several outlets to misidentify her as Golightly. But a rep for the actress told us that “the girl in the photo is not Gage.”

Gossip Cop also debunked a Twitter trend in July 2015 suggesting that Malik was returning to One Direction. The hashtag “#ZaynIsComingBackOnJuly26” became one of the top searches on Twitter for July 24, but a rep exclusively assured us that the claim was false. Indeed, July 26 came and went without Malik making the rumored in-concert return.

In April 2015, Perez Hilton published a completely inaccurate report that Malik would be presenting at the MTV Movie Awards. The questionable blogger claimed that a “source close to production” told him that Malik would be at the event, but a source close to the singer told Gossip Cop that Hilton’s information “isn’t true.” And, nope, he wasn’t there.

And finally, Gossip Cop exclusively busted a February 2015 HollywoodLife story that claimed Malik was embarking on a rap career. A member of One Direction’s camp told us that the rumor was not true. And while the British star is now working on a solo album, there’s been no indication that it will include rap.

Gossip Cop now wishes Malik a happy and rumor-free birthday!

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Ryan Phillippe is not begging Reese Witherspoon for a reunion, despite a ridiculous new webloid report. Gossip Cop can exclusively debunk this story. We’re told the claims are “completely untrue.”

According to Celeb Dirty Laundry, Phillippe has never fully recovered from his eight-year marriage to Witherspoon coming to an end in 2007. A so-called source tells the highly untrustworthy gossip blog that he saw an opening for reconciliation after published reports claimed her current marriage to Jim Toth is coming to an end. The webloid’s clueless source goes on to suggest that Phillippe may have brought up a reunion with Witherspoon while visiting with their two children, Ava and Deacon.

First off, Gossip Cop exclusively discredited the claim that Witherspoon and Toth were headed for divorce when equally unreliable Star first wrongly reported that two weeks ago in a cover story. More importantly, Phillippe and Witherspoon are never ever getting back together. A source close to Phillippe assures Gossip Cop the webloid’s story is “completely untrue.”

Somehow or another, CDL missed that Philippe and Witherspoon are in long-term relationships. Contrary to other poorly reported stories, the Oscar winning actress remains happily married to Toth, while Phillippe has been in a loving relationship with Paulina Slagter since 2011. Once again, the webloid, which has virtually no credibility, has cobbled together an entirely inaccurate story.