Ayu appeared in the Nikkei Entertainment Magazine recently. Here's the cover:
http://ent.nikkeibp.co.jp/ent/
Thanks to taylayu for finding that link and image.
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/text/ Autotranslation:
Ms. Hamasaki has expanded the width of activity even for the actress greatly from the chairman of a variety program recently in addition to vocational artist activity. The episode in the real intention and spot was told at the beginning-of-a-book interview. In fact, the chairman of television was still weak, and "it was the work which thought would give up for the first time" etc. taught much backstage talk.