The cast of "Jersey Shore"
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The cast promised there'd be lots of drama on the second season of "Jersey Shore", and ex-Danity Kane singer and former "Making the Band" star Aubrey O'Day tuned in Thursday night as Snooki, The Situation and the rest of the crew took a trip to Miami to party away the winter months. So what was O'Day's assessment of the drama?

"It looks like a lot of drama went down!" she laughed. "I think it's toward the top of the highest level of fun, watchable entertainment."

While she loved the drama, she also loved Snooki's antics as she and JWoww drove to Florida to meet up with their pals. "Snooki and the fried pickles!" she exclaimed when asked about her favorite moments. "Snooki and that guy fist-pumping, that was hilarious. I thought he was so cute! He was trying to relate!"

It wasn't just the crew who were navigating their way to Miami, Ronnie and Sammi were trying to figure out they'd live together now that they've broken up but must still live together. "I think they really like each other," she said. "I think they're just going through all the typical relationship drama. They're their own breed so they're going in — in a very dramatic way."

Speaking of drama, Angelina came back to try and settle the score with her "Jersey Shore" pals and O'Day admitted that she wants to wait it out and see what happens with her. "I'm not quite sure what to think about Angelina yet, I don't know exactly. I think it'll be interesting to hear the bigger reasons why they don't get along," she said. "They were all screaming so loud over each other I didn't know what was happening!"

How will the gang fit in Miami? O'Day isn't sure, but she's eager to find out.

"I haven't seen a lot of reaction with them and the city of Miami yet so I don't know how that will play out," she said. "But it looks like this season there's a lot of drama within themselves."

"Jersey Shore" airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MTV. Be there!

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Aubrey O'day
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These days, Aubrey O'Day is known as a sexy pop singer who, among other things, has appeared in a Vegas stage show nearly nude. But back in high school, the Playboy model thought sex was kind of gross. On this week's episode of "When I Was 17," O'Day admits that having sex was not her number-one goal in life.

"When I was 17, contrary to popular opinion, I was a virgin," the onetime Danity Kane singer confesses on the show, which also features former baseball captain Donald Trump and Nick Cannon. "I was very scared of boys. I was very insecure about my body and I thought anything sexual was disgusting."

While it may be hard for fans to believe that O'Day, who regularly poses wearing very little in photo shoots and very openly discusses her bisexual love life, was a prude in high school, her friend Melissa confirms that she was in fact kind of a sexual wallflower, explaining, "I think the idea of sex just kind of freaked her out."

O'Day was apparently so scared of boys that her friends weren't even sure if she liked them at all. And forget about having a discussion with O'Day about sex — that was even weirder for her. "I'd get, like, creeped out if I even heard my friends talking about it, and all my friends were having sex," she explained. "And I was just the one that didn't ever have a boyfriend. People probably thought I was a lesbian."

"When I Was 17" — this week featuring Donald Trump, Nick Cannon and Aubrey O'Day — airs Saturday at 11 a.m. on MTV.

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The ladies of Danity Kane have been lying low since the drama of their highly publicized breakup. Now D. Woods, who was kicked out of Danity Kane by the group's former boss, Diddy, is ready to return to the music industry.

Woods stopped by "The Mo'Nique Show" to perform "Legalize Me" off her new album, The Gray Area, due out later this year. And she admitted that as things were getting bleak for the future of Danity Kane, she knew that she wouldn't be in the group for much longer.

"I had to suck it up and just bow out gracefully," she explained. "You put the pieces together. You know when you're not gonna be there much longer, so that's kind of how [I dealt with it]. And my mother, she set a wonderful example. I'm glad I had a really great teacher, and she was very proud of how I handled myself."

She said what she learned from the experience was watching Diddy mold Danity Kane into a chart-topping success. "He's an incredible business mind, great marketing, visionary. So I took a lot of those things for myself," she said. "And of course I'm remixing them and now I have my own label imprint, and guess who the first artist is: me!"

With a new label of her own and a new album ready to go, Woods says that making The Gray Area was the best way to vent about her experiences. "The Gray Area is a collection of songs that I made through this transition period," she said. "And instead of being depressed or down on myself or unproductive, I got in my studio and did what I do. That's been my therapy. I have a lot that I haven't even shown the world."

What do you think of D. Woods' new song? Are you looking forward to what she does next? Tell us in the comments below!

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Aubrey O'Day performs in "Peepshow" on September 14
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Former Danity Kane member Aubrey O'Day has pulled out of the Wednesday (September 23) performance of her Las Vegas revue "Peepshow," citing her disgust over nude photos hitting the Internet.

"Hey, everyone, Aubrey here," she began a two-and-a-half-minute video that ends with her stripping nearly naked to show off her body on her own terms. "I'm making a video for you guys, because instead of being onstage at 'Peepshow' tonight, where I usually am, I decided to call [off] tonight because of some nude photos that were illegally obtained last night at the show."

In the video message, posted on her Web site, the 25-year-old O'Day said that following last night's debut performance in "Peepshow" — a semi-nude stage extravaganza billed on the Planet Hollywood Web site as "a strip show you can take your wife to" — she was disturbed to learn that an audience member had taken photos of her and posted them on the Web. Of course, some outlets have pointed out that O'Day recently appeared nude in the March issue of Playboy, but she denies any claims of hypocrisy.

"Last night was my opening night, and it was such an amazing feeling, and I've been told by everyone that the performance that I gave was absolutely amazing, one of the best they've seen," O'Day explained. "[But the photos] made me feel like crap. It made me feel bad. It made me feel insecure about my body, and unfortunately, this is not the first time I felt this way in this industry."

Judging by the look of the clip, O'Day shot the video in a hotel room, leaning against a wall. Explaining that she was "up screaming at attorneys, internationally and domestically, trying to get all these photos off the Internet last night," the tired-looking O'Day rants about recent issues concerning her weight fluctuations, online judgments on her appearance and even calls out Perez Hilton, saying, "This is what I look like without makeup."

"A lot of people may not understand what it feels like for women to be judged like that, but as you can see, I'm not performing, which is the one thing I love doing most. ... I'm not going to let anyone like Perez Hilton say that Aubrey looks ugly un-Photoshopped," she fumed, promising, "I am going to be back onstage at 'Peepshow' every night [following tonight's cancellation]."

O'Day ended the video by stripping off her shirt, exposing a see-through bra, while exclaiming, "This is what my body looks like, naturally.

"This is what I look like with my natural hair, uncombed — I just got out of bed, and this is what my body looks like naturally," she said. "There you go, everyone, you can look at all the photos you like — yes, any cover that any celebrity has ever done has been retouched. But this is what I look like without my top on, and any photo that you see, especially the one from 'Peepshow' [on the Internet, which] was an hour and a half [into me] performing while I was hitting a high note onstage.

"I guess my message is be comfortable with who you are, don't let anybody tear you down, don't let anyone make you feel not proud of your body," said O'Day, who stars in "Peepshow" with "Girls Next Door" alum Holly Madison. "I'm sure every celebrity has battled with this throughout their career, feeling bad about themselves because of the bad that other people say about them. And I really hope that this inspires somebody to just say f--- it.

"For me," she concluded, "I would just like to say, 'F--- you!' to all the haters."

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Aubrey O'Day
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Aubrey O'Day has released a statement about a clip of her appearance Monday night (August 31) on the Fox News program, "Hannity," in which the former Danity Kane singer calls Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler "brilliant."

In the statement released to MTV News, the singer reasserts what she said on the show, emphasizing that just because she thinks they were smart doesn't mean she condones the notorious leaders' "evil behavior."

"Murderers and dictators generally are some of the smartest people out there — they just use their brain power for evil purposes," O'Day said. "I don't condone any of their evil behavior, but I was asked about their intellectual firepower ... and in my opinion you can't have a low IQ and wreak that much havoc on the world. What Hitler succeeded in doing was deplorable. And I hope we never see such an abusive use of power again."

In the interview, O'Day also mentioned that she had met Castro and "worked with him" when she was in Cuba. In the statement she goes into greater depth about that encounter.

"I was a college student on a program called Semester at Sea. Through that program, chosen political-science students attended a half-day seminar of Fidel Castro and his thoughts on basically everything except Cuba's relationship with the U.S.," she recalled. "It was very interesting."

O'Day was ostensibly invited to "Hannity" share her opinion on a recent U.N. report on international sex-education guidelines, which recommends that children be taught about masturbation. The Playboy model said she agreed with the recommendation, citing the lack of information on HIV and AIDS she witnessed when visiting places in Africa.

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Aubrey O'day appears on Fox News' "Hannity" on Monday
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Aubrey O'Day made an appearance on Monday night on the Fox News show "Hannity," where the former Danity Kane singer eventually found herself in a theoretical conversation about Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler.

The singer appeared on the show as a guest on Hannity's "Great American Panel," where she was invited to share her opinion on a recent U.N. report on international sex-education guidelines, which recommends that children be taught about masturbation. The Playboy model said she agreed with the recommendation, citing the lack of information on HIV and AIDS she witnessed when visiting places in Africa. O'Day also talked about her experiences through her charity, FAN (Fight AIDS Now).

The conversation later turned to U.S. Representative Diane Watson's recent comments about health care, in which she praised Cuban leader Fidel Castro as a "brilliant leader." O'Day jumped into this debate, too, and sided with Watson.

"I met him and worked with him when I was in Cuba," she said. "I'm not defending his behavior in many instances, but I do have to say that I will 100 percent agree he's an incredibly brilliant man."

When Sean Hannity pointed out to the singer that Castro is a "murderer," she responded, "I'm sure I've met a lot of murderers in life. I'm not condoning [his actions]. [The United States has] supported a lot of murderers. I'm specifically addressing [Watson's] comment suggesting that he is a brilliant man. I'm sure many murderers are brilliant people."

When it was suggested that next O'Day might tell the panel that she thinks that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was also brilliant, she said, "Listen, I don't condone Hitler one ounce, but yes, he was a brilliant man. Can you guys say that he wasn't? He ran a country and convinced everyone of horrible things."

At press time, reps for O'Day had not responded to MTV News' request for comment.

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Aubrey O'Day
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These days Aubrey O'Day is busy trying to get her reality show off the ground, getting ready to make her debut in "Peepshow" in Las Vegas and even recording a few tracks here and there, but she knows that there's still the possibility that she won't make it as a solo act.

"[Being] on my own and [taking] total control of my career," is what intimidates O'Day about a career without the four other Danity Kane girls to back her up, she told MTV News.

She knows it's not going to be easy, but she's still motivated enough to try to make it all on her own. "It's scary," she said. "Every day, I'm scared [and] I'm nervous. I feel like I'm going to fail. I let the haters get the best of me some days. Some days I feel like I'm on top of the world, like I can't be stopped."

But compared to the "traumatic" experience O'Day described of recording an album while also taping "Making the Band," maybe things will go more smoothly than she expects.

O'Day said that her life has been like "a roller coaster of emotion," and she's riding it wherever it leads. "I live for the good days," she said. "I try to move through the bad days and at the end of the day the one thing I continually remind myself of [is] at least I'm trying to do it the way I believe it should be done. If I fail, then I fail, but at least I tried to do it the way I believe."

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Aubrey O'Day
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Just because her time on "Making the Band" has come to an end doesn't mean Aubrey O'Day is through with documenting her life on TV. The reality star is actually readying a new show that revolves around just her, but she's realizing that telling the truth while the cameras are rolling isn't as easy as it seemed the first time around.

"There's a lot of problems I'm having doing it, in the sense that everyone's really used to making 15-minutes-of-fame-type shows, shows that have train wrecks," she told MTV News about her show, which has yet to find a premiere date. "I don't want to play a role to get ratings."

This time around, O'Day wants to make a show on her own terms. "I don't want to make up story lines," she said. "We've made up enough story lines for 'Making the Band.' I want to make a reality show. I want to tell people the truth. I'm doing some gritty things."

O'Day, who is also hard at work prepping for her Las Vegas debut in "Peepshow," said she's already filmed some of the series and that the focus thus far has been on that new career path.

"My reality show just filmed the first few episodes when I went out to Vegas to announce my arrival at 'Peepshow,' and wow," she said. "It was quite an experience. Doing it on my own is a whole 'nother ballgame. It's about coming off that very public breakup, processing that and then moving on, and can I make it or is my 15 minutes up?"

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Aubrey O'Day
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Aubrey O'Day is no stranger to the stage. In addition to performing with her former Danity Kane bandmates, she also clocked some time on Broadway in "Hairspray." O'Day can't wait to return to the stage when she makes her Las Vegas debut in "Peepshow" next month.

"I'm so excited to head back to the stage," she told MTV News. "I'm more excited to be doing 'Peepshow,' because it's a million-dollar production. It's hard to have these big-budget productions, so I'm so excited to be a part of this huge, brilliant production."

O'Day also knows a lot about the show's aesthetic, since she's spent a good part of her career working on being as sexy as the show itself. "It's sexy," she said about the show, which includes burlesque and reimagines several famous fairy tales. "It's Broadway-caliber dancing and singing."

O'Day got involved in the project after Jerry Mitchell, who worked with O'Day on "Hairspray," asked her to audition for the role of Peep Diva. "I came out and auditioned with a few other big starlets, and I got the role," she recalled. "I'm the storyteller of the show, and I take you through all the different fairy tales."

Although Aubrey didn't say how much skin she'd be baring for the part, she did say there is plenty of it going around. "The show is fairy tales meets burlesque, big-budget Vegas, so there's tons of beautiful dancers with amazing bodies," she said. "There's little peeps here and there. The clothes are very sexy. It's a beautiful production."

She has yet to speak to the Spice Girls' Mel B about taking over her role as Peep Diva. "I haven't spoken to Mel about the show," she said. "So the advice I think she would probably give me is just to go give it my all."

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Aubrey O'Day
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It's been almost a year since Danity Kane were disassembled. And, in that time period, the ladies have moved on to separate projects and have reflected on their time together.

"I've spoken and kept in touch with Aundrea [Fimbres], Shannon [Bex] and D. Woods," she said. "I think everybody's kind of getting back to who they were before processing what happened. Sometimes I get random calls of apologies or I'll call and apologize for things we are processing from the past."

O'Day said Bex is hard at work on a country album, while D. Woods is recording music and Fimbres is taking some time with her family and is looking to get back into the studio. "We all just wanted to be entertainers in life," she said. "All of a sudden, we got swept up in this huge mess of a situation that basically all we really were was dolls, a big mass production moved around in order to make money and have power. We were just dolls.

"Here we thought we really believed in it all," she continued. "But at the end of the day, that's what you really are. We only saw the music. We only saw each other, and then there were cameras all the time. I think a lot of internalizing has been going on with the three girls that I mentioned."

As for the music Dawn Richard is making with Diddy for his Last Train to Paris album, she's cool with that. "I haven't heard any of that, but I wish them the best of luck," she said. "They're both very talented people. ... I wish everybody the best, all four of those women. I wish them the most success. I think all of us should and could and hopefully will be great at what we love to do best."

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