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"Shia LaBeouf broke the hearts of precisely nobody today (January 10) when he stated via Twitter that he is &amp;quot;retiring from public life&amp;quot; following &amp;quot;recent attacks against [his] artistic integrity&amp;quot;.  Call us cynical, but we reckon this might be another bit of attention-seeking from Shia, who has in the past sent naked pictures in a bid to land a film role and hired a skywriter just to give a simple apology. While we wait to see how long Shia will stay a recluse, we look back at five more &amp;#039;fake&amp;#039; celebrity retirements... Justin Bieber   On Christmas Day last year teenage girls around the world were too distraught to open their presents, their parents desperately trying to lure them out of their rooms before the turkey got cold, cursing the name of the man who inflicted so much pain on their offspring - one Justin Bieber.  See, the &amp;#039;Baby&amp;#039; singer decided that Christmas morning would be an appropriate time to &amp;#039;confirm&amp;#039; rumours of his retirement on Twitter - rumours which we hasten to add were started by him just a week earlier. Pretty much from the off people doubted how genuine his claim was, with the radio DJ he dropped the bombshell on hilariously telling him: &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re going to quit music, but [you say] you&amp;#039;re going in a different music direction - you&amp;#039;ve got to know the continuity of your interviews.&amp;quot; When you take into account that Bieber&amp;#039;s team has denied his retirement, that he&amp;#039;s already been photographed back in a studio and the fact that a 19-year-old with the world at their feet probably isn&amp;#039;t gonna want to give it all up, it&amp;#039;s hard to believe that Justin will be spending the rest of his days just chillin&amp;#039; by the fire while eating fondue.  Joaquin Phoenix  OK, we probably should have seen this one coming. Moviegoers everywhere cocked an eyebrow in 2008 when two-time Oscar nominee (he bagged a third last year) Joaquin Phoenix declared he&amp;#039;d had enough of this whole movies lark and was going to become a rapper.  The Walk the Line star made his rapping debut the following January and a few months later, in a notoriously uncomfortable interview, announced to David Letterman from behind a full-blown hobo beard and drug store sunglasses that this was definitely, 100% in no way a joke. In the end, Joaquin&amp;#039;s acting break and rap career were revealed to be all made up for Casey Affleck&amp;#039;s 2010 mockumentary I&amp;#039;m Still Here. Funnily enough, Joaquin did end up doing a sort of mini-retirement after its release, not returning to acting until Paul Thomas Anderson&amp;#039;s The Master two years later. We wouldn&amp;#039;t mind seeing Joaquin give rapping a proper go though - he&amp;#039;s not great, but he&amp;#039;s not exactly the most musically challenged member of the Gladiator cast. Lily Allen  Lily Allen may claim that she never properly announced that she was retiring, but we reckon this might be a case of her saying something she truly meant and then backtracking when it became a bit awkward in retrospect - like when she did that song urging her brother, now a respected actor, to put down the bong and go get laid already. We say this because when you do things like play your &amp;quot;final gig&amp;quot; in 2010, pour all your energy into an entirely different vocation (in Lily&amp;#039;s case fashion) and make comments like &amp;quot;hopefully I can fade into oblivion&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m happiest in the kitchen&amp;quot;, it sounds very much like you&amp;#039;ve packed it in. But last year there were rumblings that Lily was starting to miss being a popstar and, after playing her first solo gig in years in February, the &amp;#039;Smile&amp;#039; singer was lured back to music proper by an adorable bear and a hare. After that came anti-twerking, pro-female song &amp;#039;Hard Out Here&amp;#039; - a piece that&amp;#039;s textbook Lily - and the star has announced this very afternoon that another single from her long-awaited third album is imminent. Family members and ex-lovers beware! Miley Cyrus   Back in 2010, when she was just an adorable 17-year-old Disney star, Miley Cyrus claimed that she had become disillusioned with the music industry and her third studio album, Can&amp;#039;t Be Tamed, would be her last.  &amp;quot;I just want to work in movies,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s what I like and that&amp;#039;s what I want to be doing.&amp;quot; And make movies she did - the problem was that she ended up starring in terrible titles like coming-of-age stinker The Last Song (which probably seems like an even worse decision to Miley now, given it&amp;#039;s where she met ex-fianc\u00C3\u00A9 Liam Hemsworth) and vapid Demi Moore teen fodder LOL. After a string of film flops, Miley returned to the recording studio and started moulding her number one album Bangerz. Now her music is more talked about than ever, thanks to tracks that reference MDMA and are accompanied by videos of her naked on construction equipment. We&amp;#039;re hoping she&amp;#039;ll be more sincere about her promise to retire her creepy tongue. Steven Soderbergh  When we think of retirement, we envision pottering around in allotments, heading over to the church hall to play draughts, that kind of thing, not making big screen blockbusters. But Steven Soderbergh has continued to release some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies of his career despite basically having one foot out the Hollywood door for years. Matt Damon, a frequent collaborator of the Ocean&amp;#039;s Eleven director, announced that Soderbergh was about to quit cinema in December 2010, saying that the moviemaker &amp;quot;wants to paint&amp;quot; and take the leap while he is &amp;quot;young enough to have another career&amp;quot;. Soderbergh seemingly confirmed his retirement a while after and said that he had been turning down projects for the last three years. But Soderbergh later rebranded his retirement as a &amp;quot;sabbatical&amp;quot;, probably because a &amp;#039;retired&amp;#039; director probably wouldn&amp;#039;t have had the motivation to turn out films as strong as Magic Mike, Side Effects and Behind the Candelabra. Soderbergh made it clear that he absolutely wanted to stop making stuff in January 2013, and had been planning to do so for the last five years - but was back in the director&amp;#039;s chair a few months later for Clive Owen mini-series The Knick. Do you think Shia LaBeouf will really retire? Will you miss him? Leave your comments below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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