Team EdwardXCarlisle

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Shirtless shots of Robert Pattinson filming The Twilight Saga: New Moon in Italy have surfaced and to quote a top EW editor who first sent me a link: “Um, wow.” If you haven’t read the second book in Stephenie Meyer’s series and intend to, stop reading now and just ogle the picture at left (if you are so inclined). Then click on our set gallery — which will soon feature nine photos from Italy, including a couple steamy ones of Pattinson and Kristen Stewart kissing, in which she secures herself a Maxim cover (if she is so inclined) — and repeat. We’ll let you know when those shots have been added.

We’re assuming these new paparazzi pics are from the scene in which Bella rushes to stop Edward — who believes she’s dead — from stepping into the sun and exposing his sparkling body to the masses so that the Volturi will be forced to kill him. The bad news: There’s no way my dream of this being the scene that Pattinson, Stewart, and Taylor Lautner unveil at Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards is coming true. (Presumably those dots on Pattinson’s body are for the “diamond” effect that the post-production team will take its sweet time creating. Hint, hint.) The good news: My faith in the wardrobe department, first established in the release of the Wolf Pack photo, remains steadfast. Pattinson’s hair looks under control (and somehow hotter than it did when they were shooting in Vancouver?). And I’m choosing to believe that no makeup artist was used in the development of those abs (but if there was, I do not even care).