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A video promoting tourism in Denmark has been removed from YouTube after complaints it promoted promiscuity.
The three-minute clip shows a young blonde woman, trying to find a man whom she had a one night stand with, who fathered her child "August".
VisitDenmark's manager, Dorte Kiilerich said the film was supposed to be a "nice and sweet story of a woman".
But Denmark's Economy Minister, Lene Espersen, said it "was not a very well-thought-out picture of the country".
In the advert, the woman says - in English - that she was "trying to find August's father".
"We met one night a year and a half ago when you were on vacation here in Denmark.
"We met... and then decided to have a drink and, yeah, it's really embarrassing but it's more or less what I remember.
"I don't remember where you're from or even your name."
'Tasteless'
Critics says the video implied that along with traditional tourism, Denmark was a place to go to have unprotected sex with strangers.
One Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, labelled it "grotesque" and a "waste of taxpayers' money".
The video also prompted a slew of angry comments, with one user saying it was a "tasteless, tactless way of attracting attention".
Ms Kiilerich said she regretted any offence the video may have caused, but the intent had been to tell "a nice and sweet story about a grown-up woman who lives in a free society and accepts the consequences of her actions".
The YouTube clip received more than 800,000 hits and although the official video has been removed, copies have been spreading across YouTube.
It has also spawned numerous parodies, with men from across the world saying they were "not bimbos" and trying to find the mother of their child.
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The 46 year-old admitted to the chat show queen that she took crack cocaine and marijuana despite denying using the drug after uttering the now-famous phrase: "Crack is wack”.
After a long absence from music, Houston is staging a career comeback with a new album I Look to You", which has entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at No. 1, and a two-part appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In the wide-ranging interview, aired on national television in America on Monday, Houston described how her life fell apart in the early 1990’s not long after she married Brown.
She admitted her drug use became "heavy" after her 1992 movie The Bodyguard when she would take marijuana combined with cocaine.
Houston, one of the best-selling artists of all time, said by the time she made the movie The Preacher's Wife in 1996 she was taking drugs on a daily basis.
"You put your marijuana, you lace it, you roll it up and you smoke it," Houston said.
"I had so much money and so much access to what I wanted.
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Houston, who has sold more than 140 million albums worldwide, has grappled with drug problems for most of her career.
During their marriage, Brown was arrested on drug and alcohol charges while Houston twice entered drug rehabilitation programs.
Houston said she stuck with Brown for as long as she did because she took her marriage vows seriously.
The couple married in 1992, split in 2006 and were divorced in 2007.
She has custody of their teenage daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 16.
Houston told Winfrey that Brown wasn't physically abusive but "he slapped me once but he got hit on the head three times by me”.
She described an episode after a birthday party for Brown, who was also “emotionally abusive”, that left her "horrified”.
“He spat on me and he had hate, such a hate in his eyes for me,” she said.
“I was angry. I was very hurt. I knew something was going to blow.”
She said their daughter witnessed the incident, which left Houston "very hurt, very angry”.
Winfrey said her addiction got so bad that her mother, soul singer Cissy Houston, arrived at her home with police armed with a court injunction in a desperate bid to get her into rehab.
"She said, 'I'm not losing you to the world. I'm not losing you to Satan. ... I want my daughter back’,” Houston said.
"She said 'either you do it my way or we'll go on TV and (say) you're gonna retire’."
During a 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer, Houston admitted dabbling in drugs but denied ever taking crack, even adding: “crack is whack”.
She denied she had lied during that interview.
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