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The Sun denies claim it knowingly published fake child Botox story
Woman claims she was paid to make up story about injecting her eight-year-old daughter with Botox
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David Batty
guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 May 2011 01.42 BST
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The Sun has denied provoking a woman to make up a story about injecting her daughter with Botox. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian
The Sun has denied claims that it knowingly published a false story about a woman who claimed she injected her eight-year-old daughter with Botox.
In a sworn declaration to a California court, Sheena Upton said the tabloid newspaper gave her $200 to pose as "Kerry Campbell" - a mother who injected her daughter Britney with Botox for beauty pageants, TMZ.com reports.
The part-time beautician from San Francisco said she then appeared on US TV shows Good Morning America and Inside Edition for an additional fee. Appearing as Campbell, Upton told viewers that she gave her daughter Botox and waxed her bikini line so she would become famous as a teenager.
Her deposition came after her daughter was taken into care earlier this week by US child protection officials.
"The truth is that I have never given my daughter Botox, nor allowed her to get any type of waxing, nor is she a beauty pageant contestant," she wrote.
Upton said her daughter was examined by a doctor at UCLA who confirmed that the girl had never been injected.
NEW YORK (AP) - Katie Couric will make her exit from the "CBS Evening News" next Thursday.
The network on Friday announced her exit date. She'll be leaving short of five years as CBS' top anchor, and shy of the June 4 expiration date of her contract. Scott Pelley will take over as the new "CBS Evening News" anchor on June 6.
Couric hasn't announced her next move, but has been looking at a daytime talk show and discussing her future with ABC News.
Couric's executive producer at the evening news for the past four years, Rick Kaplan, this week took a new job overseeing political coverage at ABC News and producing Christiane Amanpour's Sunday morning political show.
