(CNN) – – The one really big question hanging over President Obama’s weekend vacation to Panama City, Florida, now has an answer.

Will he or won’t he dive into the water to send a message that the Gulf Coast is back?

The answer: He will, and sooner than expected.

“I think we’re going to go tomorrow and as I just said Ed, I’m not going to let you guys take a picture of me with my shirt off,” Obama jokingly told CNN Saturday. “You guys will tease me just like last time. I was on the front page … People commenting.”

But just hours later, a photo was published on the White House Flickr page showing a smiling President Obama and his daughter Sasha taking a dip in the Gulf waters off Alligator Point in Panama City Beach, Florida.

No reporters or press cameras were present for the swim, but the image will nonetheless send a message that the White House has sought to convey with the first family’s trip: the Gulf Coast is open for business.

Obama caused a bit of a tabloid stir when he took off his shirt to reveal a muscular physique during trips to Hawaii during the 2008 presidential campaign and subsequent presidential transition. But some are less concerned about Obama ending up on magazine covers, and more worried about the White House sending the right message.

“Absolutely, I want him to take his shirt off and get in the water and show it’s clean and safe,” said Stephen Leatherman, a professor at Florida International University in Miami who puts together an annual list of America’s best beaches.

Leatherman rates the beach there as one of the top 10 in the country, and he said Obama has a unique opportunity to showcase the fact that the Gulf Coast is still open for business despite the worst oil spill in American history.

“It’s got lily-white sand, and frankly the oil didn’t really make it there – it was pretty well spared,” said Leatherman, who noted that the water is 87 or 88 degrees because of the steamy Florida weather, making it conducive to at least a quick presidential plunge.

“There is no better symbol than the president of the United States showing us the way,” Leatherman said.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was cagey Friday when reporters asked whether the president will take a swim during the first family’s 27-hour mini-vacation.

“Stay tuned,” said Gibbs, who grew slightly impatient and a bit bemused about getting so many queries about something as seemingly minor as a presidential swim.

“Look, he’s going to have some fun,” Gibbs said. “Whether or not he gets in the water is up for clearly some debate. But, look, he will have an opportunity to enjoy … the physical beauty of the Gulf and do some work at the same time.”

Gibbs turned it around on reporters and wondered whether they would bare their midriffs this weekend.

“Are you bringing your suits?” Gibbs said with a smile.

But Leatherman suggested it’s no joking matter because the president’s decision to swim or not to swim will carry tremendous symbolic weight.

“I think it’s very important that he gets into the water because I think there’s this feeling that if you get in, you’re going to get contaminated or get all kinds of diseases,” he said.

This is the president’s fifth trip to the Gulf region since the April 20 explosion that sparked the horrific oil disaster. The trip is generating criticism over whether Obama is giving the region short shrift by spending only parts of Saturday and Sunday in Panama City.

White House officials announced the trip earlier this summer after critics wondered why the president and first lady had urged Americans to vacation in the Gulf but originally chose Bar Harbor, Maine, and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, as the only locations for their own sojourns.

Now, the criticism has shifted to whether 27 hours in Panama City is too quick of a jaunt, and the Republican National Committee released a statement Friday that also said Obama has included Florida in only a couple of his trips to the region in recent months.

“It’s nice to see the president take the time out of his busy schedule of golf games and campaign fundraisers to clear his conscience and visit Florida for only the second time since the oil crisis began,” RNC spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said. “As he meets with business owners in the Panhandle, it seems like the perfect opportunity for him to explain how his reckless spending, tax increases, and government takeover of health care are supposed to help the Gulf’s devastated economy. Not even the Sunshine State can put a positive light on the president’s failed liberal policies that have sunk his approval ratings to an all-time low.”

The president is accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama and their younger daughter Sasha – big sister Malia is still away at camp and will not be in Florida. Also making the trip is Gulf Coast recovery chief, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, to try to show the administration is committed to a long-term turnaround.

Gibbs largely deflected questions about whether the trip was too short, saying the president is focused on promoting the “health of the region” with the vacation.

“Tourism in Florida and along the Gulf Coast is the economy,” Gibbs told reporters Friday. “This is an opportunity to highlight the notion that this important region of the country is still doing well and open for business.”

While Leatherman said he does think the trip seems too short, Obama should be applauded for carving out some time to help the region.

“I think it’s basically a photo-op, isn’t it?” said Leatherman. “But I still think it’s a good thing for the president to come down and show the world that it’s clean and safe. That will go a long way to helping the Gulf Coast.”

Leatherman added: “The best thing that could happen is the president saying, ‘I’m going in!’ And I don’t mean damn the torpedoes. I mean him saying, ‘It’s clean and safe, and I’m going in the water!’ “

He concluded that it’s a good thing the president is visiting one of the nation’s best beaches in the summer instead of earlier in the year.

“It’s also one of the best spring break beaches, but I don’t recommend going then,” Leatherman said. “I went once, and there were 500,000 people there. I don’t know if it was actually 500,000 all at once, but it felt like it.”

Saturday night, a tweet appeared then quickly vanished on Bieber’s Tweeter Account: “everyone call me 248-XXX-XXXX or text”. The number belonged to a teen in Detroit, and Justin apparently tweeted it out of revenge.

A little before midnight on Saturday, Justin tweeted this:

The tweet disappeared a few minutes later, . But not before thousands—if not hundreds of thousands—of Justin’s followers retweeted it with expressions of multi-exclamated astonishment. Was that actually Justin’s number!?

The number actually belongs to a Detroit teenager named Kevin Kristopik. At around 1am Sunday morning Kristopik tweeted “Thanks for giving out my # @justinbieber.” (Kristopik has since deleted his twitter account.) Two hours, and over 10,000 text messages later, he posted this video to YouTube of his phone blowing up with calls and texts from Bieber’s 4.5 million Twitter followers:

We called one of the numbers visible in the video, and the girl who answered confirmed she called Kristopik’s number Saturday night after seeing Justin Bieber’s tweet. “I thought it was some kind of prank number,” she said. “I didn’t think Justin Bieber would be stupid enough to post his own number.”

It’s unclear exactly what Kristopik did that caused Justin Bieber to sic the equivalent of Greater Boston’s population on him. But it appears to be payback on some level for Kristopik hacking the Twitter account of a childhood friend of Justin’s named Ryan Butler, and using it to get Justin’s phone number. On July 27th, Kristopik tweeted “im the one who hacked ryan and got justins #.” When asked today on Twitter, “You hacked ryan, and now jb wants payback so he tweeted your number?” Kristopik replied, “Kinda.”

It’s possible that Justin’s own account was hacked. But he’s made no mention of it and has been blithely tweeting stuff about Kanye West all morning. Kristopik, however, is fuming: “I never asked for it, @justinbieber is a dick,” he tweeted. “i still like him, but this was so low.”

We’ve tried to reach Kristopik multiple times this afternoon, but calling his number brings up only an automated message: “The mailbox belonging to 248-[redacted] is full and cannot accept new messages at this time.”

Univision.com Héctor “Macho” Camacho considerado por sus seguidoras y él: “Un tremendo macho y un tremendo hombre” se despojó por segunda ocasión de sus ropas y posó desnudo para la publicación Playgirl como lo hizo 25 años atrás. En entrevista con el diario puertorriqueño El Nuevo Día el ex campeón de boxeo señaló que: “En enero se me aparecieron de la revista Playgirl y me hicieron el ofrecimiento para que hiciera un shooting para ellos…” y sin pensarlo dos veces aceptó. A sus 48 años Héctor “Macho” Camacho sabe que no es lo mismo los tres mosqueteros que veinte años después, pero la idea era mostrar su madurez y su alma joven. “Obviamente ya no estoy como cuando tenía 21 años, pero tampoco estaba entrenando para una próxima pelea, por lo que no estaba en condiciones”, dijo el puertorriqueño tras las críticas que ha recibido por posar muy sugestivo. Aunque el boxeador no dio detalles sobre cuánto le ofrecieron para posar muy sexi, sí dejó en claro que le llegaron al precio: “Me ofrecieron muy buen dinero. Lo metí en el banco y ahí está”. “Todo el mundo sabe que yo soy un charlatán, pero con caché. Soy tremendo macho, tremendo hombre… y nací sin ropa, como todo el mundo”, finalizó. ¿Comprarías la revista para ver a Macho Camacho?

(Huffpost) A day after People reported Jennifer Lopez is out of the running for a seat at the ‘American Idol’ judges table, the supposed diva tweeted a photo which seemed to poke fun at the situation. According to People, “Her demands got out of hand,” and, “Fox had just had enough,” and she was no longer in consideration to replace Ellen Degeneres as a judge. But, even JLo has a sense of humor. Along with the caption, ‘Hmmm… what should I wear today?’ Lopez tweeted a photo of overflowing diamond jewelry, feathered hats and multiple makeup cases.

People- For the first time since the news broke of her alleged affair, Fantasia Barrino and Antwaun Cook, the man whose marriage she has been accused of breaking up, were seen together Friday near her Charlotte, N.C., home.The two were spotted visiting a local park and appeared to be in deep conversation – all while cameras, presumably for her VH1 reality show,Fantasia for Real, captured the conversation.

They say it takes patience to achieve greatness. This certainly applies to Radha, who spent five tediously long years watching his ear hair expand from a mere 13.2 cm to a whopping 28 cm. He initially achieved a record in 2005 for his 13.2-centimeter long ear hair. However, competitor Anthony Victor (also from India) ousted him in 2007 by claiming ear hair as long as 18.1 cm long. Upset by the loss, Radha once again went to work by carefully tracking his ear hair growth. Instead of chiming in once it hit 20 cm, however, he patiently pushed forward until it reached a whopping 28 cm. “At first the society used to taunt him that why he is growing his ear hair; he won’t receive any record for this,” explained his relative, Shiv Shakti Pandey. “But then by God’s grace, Bajpai made a record and the same people today say that he has really achieved something in his life.”