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Seventeen-year-old James Charles broke ground last October when he was named CoverGirl's first male spokesperson. Since then, Charles has been experiencing all of the blessings of sudden fame, appearing on 。 Ellen 。Ellen。

, starring in commercials with Katy Perry, and expanding his already extensive group of loyal Twitter followers.。

Those followers were in for an unfortunate surprise today however, when Charles tweeted and deleted an extremely insensitive tweet about the often deadly virus, Ebola.。

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With criticism quickly amounting on Charles' timeline, the famous teen issued a short apology.。

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After many users pointed out the model's error calling the continent of Africa, containing 54 countries, a "country," (woof pt. 2), he resurfaced on Twitter to fix his mistake.。

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