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Actress Rachelle Lefevre, who played the role of Victoria in two movies of the Twilight Saga (Twilight and New Moon) to be replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard (photos here) in the third movie Eclipse, is the star of a new Best Friends Animal Society campaign.

Just like Twilight hunk Kellan Lutz did for PeTA (Kellan and his rescued dog Kola PeTA ad here), Rachelle urges people to adopt instead of buying their new pet and save a poor puppy’s life. Adopt! Don’t Buy!!

Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart are on the cover of Entertainment Weekly’s Fall Movie Preview issue. As it turns out, Stewart was Lautner’s biggest supporter, way back when it was possible Taylor could get the boot by Summit - just as what happened with Rachelle Lefevre recently.

“It’s completely understandable why they wanted to make sure he was right,” says the actress. “He was so young, 16, so I got it. But I knew he had [to do] it. Just because of how I felt around him.” And how did the Bella-Jacob best-friend chemistry play out on set? “We have that relationship,” she says. “It’s lamely cute.”

More outtakes, photos and quotes will be coming from the article.

Glamour Magazine has four of the actresses from ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ in their upcoming September issue and gives you tips on how to look as beautiful and alluring as they do. Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Rachelle Lefevre and Noot Seear (who plays Heidi in New Moon,) are given sultry nighttime looks for the photo shoot. Read the article and get beauty tips here.

A brief segment referrencing the photo shoot from E!Online is in the video below. Enjoy!

‘Twilight’ stars Peter Facinelli and Jackson Rathbone were in Dallas over the weekend at the superfan convention known as ‘TwiCon.’ MTV got both ‘New Moon’ actors to respond to the controversy surrounding the Rachelle Lefevre replacement as vampire Victoria in the supernatural movies. Clearly the two actors want to keep their jobs (Hello Summit!) and try to say as little as possible that might get the execs upset again. Bryce Dallas Howard may be the new baddie for ‘Eclipse’ but obviously the actors will miss Lefevre.

Surprising news today as Summit Entertainment announced it will replace Rachelle Lefevre as the meanie Victoria in the third film ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse.’ In comes Bryce Dallas Howard as the newest redhead to menace damsel in distress Bella, played by Kristen Stewart. Adding fuel to the gossip fire is the reason Summit has publicly announced – conflict of schedules. Lefevre is stunned by that response and had this to say:

“I am hurt deeply by Summit’s surprising decision to move on without me,” she says.

Summit said the actress was leaving because of a scheduling conflict with her upcoming film Barney’s Version, which begins filming the same day as Eclipse.

But Lefevre says her commitment to the indie film was only less than two weeks. “Given the length of filming for Eclipse, never did I fathom I would lose the role over a 10 day overlap.”

No contract disputes that anyone is owning up to, this makes this recasting of the role very suspect. I find it hard to believe that Lefevre and Summit couldn’t have worked this out – I believe Jackson Rathbone was working on ‘The Last Airbender’ with M. Night Shyamalan while ‘New Moon’ filmed.

Now, note the connection – six degrees of Hollywood – Rachelle Lefevre stars with Jackson Rathbone (in ‘Twilight’ and ‘New Moon’) who worked with M. Night Shyamalan in ‘The Last Airbender’ who directed Bryce Dallas Howard in ‘The Village’ who replaces Lefevre in ‘Eclipse.’

Taylor Lautner - good thing you got muscular quick – Summit appears to have no problem with continuity of actors between films. Robert Pattinson will have another actress to snarl at when ‘Eclipse’ starts filming in August.

“Twilight” stars Rachelle Lefevre, Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene stop by Kitson in LA to promote the films DVD and apparel launch. Access catches up with them to talk fans, Kellans snuggie party and their excitement to work with Dakota Fanning.

[video: AccessHollywood; images: Backseat Cuddler]