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Wyclef Jean’s bid for Haiti’s presidency officially ended as Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council disqualified the musician from running in this year’s election.

The 40-year-old former Fugees frontman officially announced that he was running for the position in early August to help the earthquake ravaged country.

“It is with a heavy heart that I tell you today that the board of elections in Haiti has disqualified me from my run for the presidency of the country,” Wyclef said in a statement. “Though I disagree with the ruling, I respectfully accept the committee’s final decision, and I urge my supporters to do the same.”

Although the council hasn’t disclosed the reasons for the disqualification, it is speculated that it may be related to the requirement that a candidate must live in Haiti for the past 5 years.

Source: http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/08/21/wyclef-jean-out-from-haitis-presidential-race

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Wyclef Jean – Running For President Of Haiti!

Wyclef Jean has announced his intentions to run for the Haitian presidency.

The 37-year-old musician and social activist confirmed the news to Time, saying, “If not for the earthquake, I probably would have waited another 10 years before doing this….If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as President, then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything.”

“I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity,” Wyclef concluded, “one that thinks not just about charity but policy.”

Wyclef was born in Haiti and left with his family at the age of 9 to go to New York City.

Demi Lovato is finally opening up a bit on reconnecting with Joe Jonas.

The 17-year-old singer shared about her relationship with her now ex-boyfriend. She shared, “We thought about it when we first started dating, you know, to think about the consequences or what would happen if we weren’t dating when it came to tour. It’s definitely something we thought about before and we’re just dealing with now. It’s not bad, you know. We had a really great friendship before and now we just have to keep it going.”

And what about Demi’s upcoming album? “The new album so far it’s a little more pop, it’s more R&B. It’s a little more soulful. It has a different sound to it so I’m really excited to see how it turns out. I feel like I’m going to be doing that too so I might be incorporating rock and R&B,” she revealed.

ARE YOU EXCITED for Demi’s new music?

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- http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/08/04/wyclef-jean-running-for-president-of-haiti

- http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/08/04/demi-lovato-joe-and-i-keep-our-friendship-going

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Sophia Bush To Run Half-Marathon For The Gulf!

Sophia Bush just announced that she’s going to run a half-marathon (13.1 miles) to raise more funds for the victims of the Gulf Coast oil spill.

“I am going to run a half marathon this November,” the 27-year-old actress blogged. “Yup. Me. The asthmatic with a years-old knee injury, who hasn’t run a mile since Junior High. No seriously.”

Sophia continued, “I am going to work on video blogs for all of you, so you can meet the team members and our sponsors, you can see our runs, track our progress, and maybe even run with us, wherever you are! Imagine it. Hundreds, or even thousands of us, running all over the country, maybe all over the world! That would certainly show the powers that be that we will not back down. We will not be quiet. We will make our Little Voices heard!”

Read Sophia’s full blog at SophiaBush.com!

Follow Sophia and Just Jared on Twitter @SophiaBush and @JaredEng!

Get ready to run with Joe Jonas once again!

The 20-year-old musician/actor is hosting and running in a new iWin 5K Fun Run in Shoreline Park in Mountain View, California on Saturday, September 18th!

The 1k/5k run and walk is going to benefit the Special Olympics by donating money raised by participants and sponsors! The Special Olympics gives children and adults with developmental disabilities hands on sports training and allows them to compete in their favorite sports all for free!

To help raise even more money, the Jonas Brothers are giving away meet and greet opportunities and two VIP concert seats for their Shoreline Ampitheatre concert as prizes for the top fundraisers.

Want to register and run with Joe? Head on over to Kintera.org for more details!

More than a dozen of Hollywood’s young stars have joined together for a new PSA called “Change The Odds,” in support of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), an initiative raising funds for cancer research.

Some of the cast includes: Vanessa Hudgens, her boyfriend Zac Efron, the new Spider-Man Andrew Garfield, Dakota Fanning, Logan Lerman, Sofia Vassilieva, and William Moseley.

Zac and Vanessa’s scenes are so cute!

[pro-player] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwC87ZKF1dQ [/pro-player]

Source:

- http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/08/03/sophia-bush-half-marathon

- http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/08/03/joe-jonas-to-host-another-iwin-fun-run

- http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/08/03/vanessa-hudgens-stand-up-2-cancer-psa

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