After months of anticipation, the cast of Twilight finally came out for the long-awaited premiere of New Moon, the next chapter in the Twilight saga.

Fans from across the country queued up as early as Thursday of last week to secure their chance for a place on the red carpet. Robert Pattinson wore Gucci to the premiere, while Kristen Stewart donned an Oscar de la Renta gown.

None of the reporters either asked or noticed what Taylor Lautner was wearing beyond “a blue suit,” presumably because they were just glad he had a shirt on. Lautner’s promotional photos from the movie have made female fans swooning since they were released, prompting Lautner to vow never to appear topless in a film again.

Lautner reportedly put on 30 pounds of pure muscle for the role in order to give his werewolf character, Jacob Black, eight-pack abs. It’s a look most guys can’t achieve in their wildest dreams, so much so that the Internet is filled with scam Web sites on the subject. However, if you don’t have the metabolism of a 19 year old, you can still get the look.

Abdominal etching liposuction is on the rise, but you can’t expect to get perfect abs with no work. “The best candidate for this plastic surgery has naturally athletic-looking underlying muscles that can be accentuated with abdominal etching. People who are liposuction candidates, with very localized, exercise-resistant fat deposits, can obtain additional improvements through abdominal etching,” says Dr. Munish K. Batra, a plastic surgeon in San Diego.

New Moon opens nationwide November 20.

Taylor Lautner may really be a werewolf – after reporters at a New Moon press conference asked the actor about his love life, he nearly growled in response.

“What about us?” Lautner countered. “The very funny thing is that all of you have seen every single move I have made so I guess I can leave that up to you to decide.”

It could be that Lautner is especially sensitive to the issue after seeing what Twilight co-stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have dealt with from the media concerning their alleged relationship. The pair have done press conferences separately to avoid the inevitable relationship questions.

A source told the New York Daily News, “They’ve requested to do press separately for the movie. They really are good friends – and that’s all –  but they want to avoid being seen together. Any time they’re photographed in the same place, the rumor mill just starts all over again, and that makes the paparazzi hound them even more. They requested to do things apart so the scrutiny around them will be a little less intense.”

For her part, Taylor Swift made light of the rumors in her monologue song on Saturday Night Live, singing to the audience, “If you’re wondering if I might/ Be dating the werewolf from ‘Twilight’/ I’m not gonna comment on that/ In my monologue,” after which Swift blew a kiss into the camera and mouthed “Hi Taylor.”

The pair became rumor mill fodder after taping kissing scenes for the upcoming movie Valentine’s Day, in which the pair plays a high-school couple.

Swift, who turns 20 this year, may be handling fame a little better than Lautner due to the fact that she has been a signed musical artist since age 13. Lautner recently rose to fame as his character took on a leading role in New Moon, the sequel to Twilight.

Lautner caused a fan frenzy after promotional photos for the movie were released showing Lautner’s six-pack abs. The actor confirmed that he had put on 30 pounds for the role and had not had ab-sculpting or ab-shaping liposuction to get the sought-after look. He also said he would not be taking more shirtless movie roles. “If I had to choose, I would never take my shirt off again in a movie,” Lautner told AceShowbiz.com. “But I guess that’s not very realistic. I certainly won’t be asking to do it, though.”

After smooching on the set of Valentine’s Day, Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner are now getting some quality time away from work.

The couple has been spotted around each other but not obviously together, such as at Swift’s October 9 concert in Chicago, where Lautner was spotted on the front row.

This past Sunday, the pair was spotted at a hockey game at L.A.’s Staples center, and Us Weekly reports that the couple checked into a hotel afterward.

Still, the L.A. Times contends it’s all a publicity stunt to get people talking about their new movie, Valentine’s Day.

People are also talking about the couple because of their too-perfect looks. After Lautner finished filming New Moon, set to release November 20, there was talk of plastic surgery hijinks to get his body in superhuman shape for the werewolf role. Later Lautner revealed he put on 30 pounds of muscle for the role, and had not had a liposuction procedure known as ab shaping done.

Valentine’s Day releases Feb 14.

New Moon‘s wolf pack, and even vampire Edward, showed their amazing abs to a tickled-pink VMA audience at Radio City Music Hall and viewers at home this weekend with the debut of a new trailer designed to titillate fans eagerly awaiting the November 20, 2009 release date.

While stars Rob Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and the ripped stars of New Moon achieved their definition through serious exercise, some work-a-day guys in the “real world” have discovered they just can’t get the sculpted look they’re after.

Enter “liposculpture” or “ab etching.” These procedures are essentially liposuction, with the intent to sculpt the appearance of muscle definition by removing fat very selectively.

Interestingly, this procedure isn’t really a shortcut to getting sculpted abs. In fact, it only works well on people who truly already have the muscle base on their abs, but because of genetics, they aren’t able to diminish enough of the layer of fat just below the dermis (that’s the inner layer of skin) to show evidence of their hard work.

The young bucks on New Moon obviously don’t suffer from this problem. Their abs are the work of, well, work outs, as Kellan Lutz recently told Seventeen magazine.

“I love to swim. I’m a fish, I have a pool in my backyard so every morning I will go swimming, even when it’s colder I’ll try to,” he said.

Kellan also wears a pedometer as a motivator, using it to track how far he walks each day and how many calories he burns, and even recommends doing push-ups and crunches while watching television.

Lutz also claims that his co-stars abs are 100 percent real.

“Taylor been training Rob a lot, and that’s why he’s got such ripped abs,” Lutz told New York Daily News of Lautner’s effort to shape his body. “Rob’s been working hard. He’s trying to be the best he can be.”