It has come to our attention that the article posted yesterday on Carlos Bernard from hollywood.com may be sensationalistic and unreliable. We received this e-mail earlier tonight and wanted to make sure we posted both sides of the story.

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that the new article you linked to from hollywood.com about carlos’ prank is actually very inaccurate and twists the whole story. in reality, carlos planned the prank with mia, so she certainly wasn’t shaken up or any nonsense like that, and kiefer was told about it beforehand and found it hilarious. the story has been told in this Carlos interview and in this recent Kiefer interview.

someone posted on another board about hollywood.com’s sources, and it’s basically a tabloid - and tries to sensationalize everything. kinda annoying cause the article makes it seem like people were displeased with carlos, when in fact, everyone including kiefer found it hilarious and people are always retelling the story. i hope you take it off, hate for people to get the wrong impression.

To be honest, I have so much going on with the site that sometimes I simply don’t have time to read all the articles that come across my inbox thoroughly before I post them. It’s hard enough keeping everything up to date, and I often receive notice of new articles from third parties, which is the case with this one. The extensive article with Carlos refuting hollywood.com’s take that is referenced in the above e-mail, I actually already posted but again did not get a chance to read thoroughly. I have since read it, and it is excellent. I did read the hollywood.com article quickly before I posted it, and I have to admit that the tone and slant of the article did seem strange to me, but I mostly took it as rather tongue in cheek and trying to make something out of nothing. I doubted at the outset that producers or Kiefer Sutherland were actually pissed off at Carlos Bernard, the way the article makes it sound, because as most fans well know, he is a merry prankster. I had no doubt that the whole thing was a hilarious prank that a tabloidish celeb website twisted into their own melodramatic thing, since the style and tone of the article reeks of that. For awhile, I was reading lots of print rags at the gym and it’s easy to recognize the writing style. I guess I just wanted to say that I didn’t take the article that seriously, and I didn’t really think anyone else would either, just like you can never believe everything you read in “Life & Style” magazine.

The point is that until I got this e-mail, I never really considered anyone would misinterpret it, but I was wrong. And this website would never knowingly post inaccurate information as fact. It’s more a case of being way too behind on 24-related things I would love to do, as I simply hadn’t had time to read Carlos’ own account of the incident yet, and was thus unprepared to post my own clarification of the other article.

As such, I have removed the hollywood.com link and encourage you all to read the above linked interview with Carlos instead.

Tags: Kiefer Sutherland, Mia Kirshner