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"From one teen heartthrob to another: Don&amp;apos;t mess this up! Former &amp;apos;70s teen idol Leif Garrett spoke candidly with Fox News about his bad boy past in a recent interview, and the now 51-year-old singer and actor had a few key pieces of advice for current It boy Justin Bieber.\r\n&amp;quot;Do not believe your own publicity,&amp;quot; Garrett told FoxNews.com. &amp;quot;Sussing out who your real friends are is full-time work. Every scum bag, every drug dealer, every chicken hawk wants a piece of you.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAnd Garrett should know. At the young age of 8, the former child star hit it big in Bob &amp;amp; Carol &amp;amp; Ted &amp;amp; Alice, and went on to launch a top-10 single, &amp;quot;I Was Made for Dancin&amp;apos;,&amp;quot; in 1979. Though his professional star was on the rise, however, the actor&amp;apos;s substance abuse issues and run-ins with the law soon dominated headlines more than his actual projects.\r\n&amp;quot;When you&amp;apos;ve got that sort of power at that young age, and everything at your doorstep, you put out that bad boy image,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;At that age, testosterone, hormones, all of the money, you see what else you can get away with.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe parallels don&amp;apos;t end there. During Garrett&amp;apos;s hey day, the actor romanced former Desperate Housewives actress Nicolette Sheridan, and the pair often had a hot-and-cold relationship, not unlike Bieber&amp;apos;s on-again, off-again relationship with Selena Gomez.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;[Bieber] rented out the [L.A.] Staples Center for [Selena]. Fame, money is what tore us apart,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Nicolette just started modeling. My career was pretty much there. We would get along great or clear rooms. That&amp;apos;s the whole thing with Justin and me. There was no in between &amp;#x2026; really good or really naughty.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nIn their defense, however, Garrett pointed out that both he and the 19-year-old &amp;quot;Believe&amp;quot; singer do contribute their fair share to charities.\r\nEarlier this month, another Hollywood hunk similarly weighed in on Bieber&amp;apos;s apparent teenage angst. In a live webchat with U.K. newspaper The Sun, Mark Wahlberg also offered his words of advice for the &amp;quot;Beauty and a Beat&amp;quot; singer.\r\n&amp;quot;Justin, are you listening? Don&amp;apos;t be so naughty, yeah?&amp;quot; Wahlberg quipped in a faux British accent. &amp;quot;Be a nice boy, pull your trousers up, make your mum proud, yeah? Stop smoking all that weed, you little bastard.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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