The publicist for a lesbian actress and musician who says she was escorted off a flight for “one modest kiss” of her partner says the encounter was not a stunt for her band’s upcoming breast cancer awareness tour.

Leisha Hailey, best known for playing Alice Pieszecki in the now defunct Showtime lesbian life drama “The L Word,” asked her Twitter followers to boycott Southwest Airlines after the encounter Monday.

The airline responded that Hailey’s display of affection was excessive and drew customer complaints.

The actress and her partner, Camila Grey, denied in a statement released Tuesday that the affection they showed toward each other was inappropriate.

“We want to make it clear we were not making out or creating any kind of spectacle of ourselves, it was one modest kiss,” the written statement said. “We are responsible adult women who walk through the world with dignity. We were simply being affectionate like any normal couple.”

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By PERRY STEIN

The Miami Beach Police Department confirmed Monday that it was investigating allegations that an officer pulled a weapon on Solange Knowles, the younger sister of pop-superstar Beyonce Knowles.

The incident, according to police, transpired after Knowles became hostile after she was not let into a Miami Beach club with a five-foot tall inflatable banana.

It is unclear whether a weapon was actually drawn, but Juan Sanchez, spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department, described the event as “really outrageous.”

The younger Knowles took to Twitter on Sunday to express her anger over the incident, which she claimed was the result of “discrimination.”

“I have literally had my last leg with discriminating police! Miami police department will be notified,” she first tweeted. “A police officer just pulled a weapon on me…. I have done NOTHING illegal, against the law, or anything of the sort.”
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Vinny Guadagnino works out -- reports say the 'Jersey Shore' cast member has left the show for good after an argument. (Storms Media Group)

Several entertainment news services are reporting that Vinny Guadagnino, one of the original cast members of MTV’s Jersey Shore, has left the show for good following an argument.

TMZ was one of the first to report Guadagnino’s departure, along with a video showing the cast member quickly ducking into a taxi and leaving the area.

Guadagnino, the least flashy of the cast members, left over the weekend after a reported argument in Seaside Heights, returning to his home in Staten Island.

Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, in his upcoming book The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring, said he was sexually abused by a “prominent Olympic boxing coach” when he was 15-years-old.

According to the New York Times, the 55-year-old boxing champ said the incident took place after the coach (who he did not name) took him, and another teen boxer, to a match in New York in 1971.

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Leonard said the man had him take a bath with the boy and watched from afar, and they knew “something a bit inappropriate’’ was happening.

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