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Miley Cyrus death hoax spreads after her YouTube account is allegedly hacked. Earlier this year, Cyrus’ racy photos scandal dominated the Internet headlines.

On Sunday, the teen star was the victim of a more malicious attack that claimed she had been killed by a drunk driver. This is also the second time this year the rumor of the "Hannah Montana" star death has publicized.

A two-minute video was featured on Cyrus’ "Miley and Mandy Show" YouTube page that opened with the sounds of Cyrus’ sentimental new ballad, "Goodbye," and a somber message from Mandy Jiroux early Sunday morning. The video has since been taken down, but it’s still available on Videogum.com.

The video features a note supposedly from Cyrus’ friend which says, "Hey, guys, this is Mandy and I have some very sad news :( …We’re very hurt to tell everyone this, but Miley died this morning after being hit by a drunk driver. Miley told us if anything ever happened to her, then we should let her fans know before the public…R.I.P. honey, we will miss you so much."

We will miss her. Indeed.

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The spectacular 2008 Beijing Olympic fireworks show broadcast to the world in the opening ceremony was prerecorded. It was altered and done digitally in 3D computer graphics, according to several news reports (view the reports here, here and here.)

Lin Miaoke, the lip syncher and Yang Peiyi (inset), the original singer

Meanwhile, the girl in the red dress with the pigtails, called Lin Miaoke, 9, and from a Beijing primary school has become the talk of town after she performed the anthem, a patriotic song called “Hymn to the Motherland”. But, the truth is she just lipped sync. The actual singer was Yang Peiyi, a 7-year-old girl who has buck teeth and is deemed unsuitable to go on air.

Faking it in the opening ceremony will surely bring us to other questions? What about their athletes?

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