Her initial tweet concerned her upcoming interview with kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard on ABC TV. Sawyer announced her intention to tweet live during the two hour special program with this message:

“Diane Sawyer Firing up my thumbs… Thanks all for the welcome. Looking forward to live tweeting w you during #JayceeABC special. Sun 9-11p/E.”

Sawyer then followed up her first tweet with this as the interview began on ABC:

“Big TV night @ABC : almost time for #JayceeABC special. Big night for me: first time live tweeting. Here goes!”

Another tweet, sent out during the interview on ABC went as follows:

“This is tough. Book detailed. Important for me that J be comfortable with what she says out loud #JayceeABC”

Sawyer then went on to send forty more tweets during the course of her interview with Ms. Dugard. Sawyer sent mostly original tweets but she also interacted with users by answering several of their tweets during the interview.

Jaycee Dugard is the 31 year old woman who was kidnapped from her home in South Lake Tahoe, California in 1991 as an 11 year old child. Ms. Dugard was held captive by convicted rapist Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy until she was finally discovered in August, 2009. After managing to avoid detection despite several visits from authorities over the years, the Garridos were finally arrested on August 26, 2009. Garrido and his wife were taken into custody by the FBI and Jaycee was reunited with her family after 18 long years. On April 28, 2011, the Garridos pled guilty to kidnapping and rape and on June 2, 2011, Philip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years. Nancy Garrido received 36 years to life.

Jaycee Dugard gave birth two two daughters as the result of the repeated rapes by Garrido. According to Jaycee Dugard’s aunt, Tina Dugard, “They are clever, articulate, curious girls who have a bright future ahead of them.” Jaycee and her daughters are now living in a secret location in California after receiving a $20 million dollar settlement  to compensate her for “various lapses by the Corrections Department [which contributed to] Dugard’s continued captivity, ongoing sexual assault and mental and/or physical abuse.” According to Judge Daniel Weinstein, who negotiated for the State of California, the settlement was reached to avoid a lawsuit which would be a “greater invasion of privacy and greater publicity for the state.”

Since her rescue from Gerrido. Ms Dugard has begun to rebuild her life and has written a best selling book about her ordeal, “A Stolen Life.” Released on Tuesday June, 11, 2011, the book hit #1 on Amazon shortly after the Diane Sawyer Interview. Much of discussion between Ms. Sawyer and Jaycee Dugard was centered around the content of her gripping memoir.

Ms. Sawyer has received an enthusiastic response to her joining the Twitter universe and as a result, she has already managed to amass 11,000 followers of her twitter account.

VIA and VIA

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Via Gawker comes this funny clip from Jay-Z on BBC One’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

Wherein Hova discusses Valentine’s Day, Skype sex and how he actually invented the hand-shaking “put a ring on it” dance. He also casually busts out, “yeah, I’m not gonna tell you that” at least once, and declines the presenter’s offer to “freestyle” with him.

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People surprised us with a “Kevin Federline Breaks His Silence” Exclusive report, and it really doesn’t sound like K-Fed at all. He was either coached beautifully or he’s been growing up on his own, but we like this side of him.

Kevin might deserve that “Father of the Year” award after all. Not only did he say that “my kids are always most important,” but he admitted that “”My first question to [my lawyer] was, “Am I ever going to be able to see my children?” I told him that I would spend every last dime that I had to make sure that my children are okay.”

Detailing his divorce from Comeback Queen Britney Spears, Kevin said that she surprised him when they were trying to work out problems. “I didn’t give her an ultimatum,” he said, “but I was trying to work stuff out with her, and she didn’t even talk to me or anything and went behind my back and filed [for divorce]. [I was] completely blindsided.”

After making it clear that his kids were his top priority, Kevin said that Britney’s really been improving, claiming that “I’m definitely rooting for her. There’s nothing more that I want than for her to be in the best health and doing what she loves to do.”

Is this a publicity stunt, or is it coming from the heart?

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You can’t help feeling for celebs when they’ve been foisted off into the public eye after a particularly tragic something has happened. Cameron Diaz has been making the rounds for What Happens in Vegas and she’s been choking down tears along the way after her father’s unexpected death. Since the extra slimmed-down starlet made her first appearance since his death at the film’s premiere on May 1st, the press rounds have continued at their usual fervent pace.

Cameron may have showed signs of the pressure of being “up” all the time during an emotional Good Morning America interview today, where she smiled and simultaneously looked close to an emotional meltdown, stating “Well you know, it’s one of things you don’t really sum it up in a few words. I just think we’re so fortunate as a family to have the family that we have and my father, he was dad.” After reading that little gem a few times, it doesn’t really make much sense. Clearly Cameron has other things on her mind, but the show must gone on, mustn’t it?

Think it comes with the territory? It certainly does. But it also reminds us of something else– life just doesn’t stop.

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