'Gossip Girl' star Blake Lively rocked by nude pics scandal

Blake Lively. Photo / AP

Has

Gossip Girl

star

Blake Lively

really joined the celebrity nude pics hall of shame?

It's an empathic hell-to-the-no from the actress' rep, who has labelled a series of nude self-portraits purportedly showing the actress as "100 per cent fake".

A spokesperson for the star told

People

magazine: "The photos of Blake Lively which have just surfaced on various websites including Perez Hilton and Zap2it.com are 100 percent FAKE.

"Blake has never taken nude photos of herself.

"Blake will pursue legal action against the publication which initially published these photographs and any other outlets that republish them in any manner."

Tell that to the 'hacker' who released the series of snaps in the first place. Whoever it is, they've come back for an encore.

TMZ reports

that a second batch of photos (17 pictures in total) has now emerged. And the hacker insists that the snaps are of Lively.

The gossip website, which posted two of the new snaps today, claims that the hacker released the images with a warning, "Oh, yes, Blake's rep. These are totally fake. We really, really believe you. Want moar?"

One of the new snaps shows a topless woman (with her face obscured), sporting a pair of star shaped tattoos, much like Lively's character in

The Town

. Incriminating detail? Not so fast. Those tatts she had in the movie were fake.

There's been no comment from her rep regarding the new set of snaps.

Catch me if you can!

Meanwhile, Lively is still overseas with her rumoured new beau,

Leonardo DiCaprio

.

The pair has sent the gossip mills churning after they were snapped holding hands in Monte Carlo over the weekend.

According to Us Weekly

, it's game on for the twosome as they spice up their stay in the French Riviera with some PDA.

The

Inception

star and his lady were snapped at twilight, holding hands as they made a dash for their hotel. Exhibit A

here

.

"He looked very in love," said a snitch.

And much later, while hobnobbing at a Grand Prix-viewing bash aboard a yacht, Lively's eyelids were all a flutter while checking out her new man. "Her face lit up when Leo was talking," says another source who supposedly witnessed the phenomenon.

"He had introduced Blake as his girlfriend," a further source tells

Us

. "I would say they're totally smitten!" adding, "I've never seen him like this with a girl."

DiCaprio recently split from his long-term girlfriend

Bar Refaeli

. Lively previously dated her

Gossip Girl

co-star

Penn Badgley

.

DiCaprio and Lively: Strange bedfellows?

"It's one of the most shocking couples we've seen in such a long time," says a reporter for

Us Weekly

.

"For Leo, to date this innocent actress is definitely different from his past resume of girls," she adds.

I beg to differ. We've seen far,

far stranger bedfellows

.

In other Lively news...

The actress says she'll never get down with the kids on Twitter. Why? She's sick of herself.

"People ask me why I don't tweet,"

she tells the latest issue

of

Glamour

magazine .

"Honestly, I'm so sick of myself."

Best not ask how she's feeling at the mo!

Amy's 'raring to go'

She wasn't mucking about when she sang "no, no, no!" Soul chanteuse

Amy Winehouse

has finished her latest stint in rehab.

Winehouse, who has long struggled with drink and drug abuse, checked herself into the Priory Clinic in southwest London last week for treatment.

Her spokesman says Winehouse will continue to be seen as an outpatient at the clinic.

"Amy Winehouse has completed her assessment at the Priory Clinic in London and will continue as an outpatient," the rep said.

"She is now looking forward to playing shows around Europe this summer and is raring to go.

"She would like to send a huge thanks to all her fans for the messages of support she has received over the last week and can't wait to see them."

Winehouse said last October she had been drug-free for three years.

According to

her website

, she's scheduled to play at music festivals in Serbia, Turkey, Greece, Spain over the coming months.

Woe for Whitney?

Is troubled warbler Whitney Houston really battling emphysema?

Scandal sheet the

National Enquirer

reports that the singer, 47, has been informed by doctors that she is suffering from early stages of the lung disease.

"She's developed emphysema - and her doctors are warning her she'll die a horrible death," a 'friend' told the tabloid.

Crikey!

But cool your jets, Whitney's rep Kristen Foster has since piped up,

telling E! News

the

Enquirer

's story is "completely untrue."

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