Daily Archives: September 11, 2007

Naked celebrities

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I know, I know, this is just a shameless attempt to attract visitors via search engines, but previous reviews of my site statistics show that sex, nudity and celebrities are key drawcards, so I thought I’d cover them all in a single post.

3 stories about celebrities involved in varying degrees of nakedness caught my attention lately.

First, Jenna Jameson, probably the most famous porn movie actress in the world, is set to visit Australia.

Jenna Jameson / File

The reason for her visit is nothing to do with her “acting”, but the fact that she has fallen for the fashions of Perth designer, Aurelio Costarella. Jameson said she fell for the designs six months ago while doing a magazine shoot in an Aurelio Costarella gown. I’m assuming she needs the clothes for her social, rather than professional, life, given the latter generally involves little in the way of clothes at all …unless you count high heels and stockings (do they still always wear shoes in porn movies by the way – its been ages since I’ve seen one?)

Second, Vanessa Hudgens, star of the High School Musical movies, has had some nude photos of herself find their way onto the internet. She obviously did not take heed of the motto that you don’t take photos or videos of yourself in action unless you’re willing to share them on the web.

Hudgens, 18, has been the subject of speculation about whether the appearance of the photos would affect her future employment with Disney, makers of the High School Musical movies …which I’m sure anyone with children will have seen several times – I know, my kids must have seen it a dozen times at least. Anyway, she has been forced to apologise for her indiscretion in having the nude photos taken (or more accurately, was the indiscretion actually in having them leaked?) Her statement said:

“I want to apologise to my fans, whose support and trust means the world to me,”

“I am embarrassed and regret having ever taken these photos.”

“It is a personal matter and it is unfortunate that this has become public,”

Disney has stuck by her so far, but said in a statement it hoped she had learned a lesson.

Personally, I can’t see what she’s got to apologise for. She took some nude photos for her boyfriend. The photos are nothing scandalous, rather very harmless. Apart from revealing that an 18 year old girl has boobs and pubes (shocking isn’t it?), she is doing nothing but standing there, wearing nothing but a smile. As with the Melissa Scannell case, the real villain is the person who got hold of the photos and leaked them.

And in later news, there are now supposedly photos of her engaged in “lesbian kissing”. Judge for yourself – more like fart-arsing around with her friends if you ask me. Desperate attempt to keep the issue going, maybe?

Finally, and most pathetically, Britney Spears.who has been absolutely savaged about her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Kicking off the show with her new single, Gimme More, Spears looked bleary and unprepared. She walked through her dance moves with little enthusiasm. It appeared she had forgotten the entire art of lip-synching. She’ s also been bagged out for being fat and out of shape – thats a bit unfair I think.

Update: Britney Spears Breaks Down Over Comeback Performance

The rubbishing for lip-synching badly (lipsynching at all deserves rubbishing, let alone doing it badly) is deserved. Not to mention, criticism of a shit song and performance … but I’d hardly say Britney’s looking porky. Skanky trailer trash with extremely limited talent, yes …fat, no, thats just being cruel! In other Britney news, she’s been photographed out in public having forgotten to wear knickers … again.

Its time to go …. John Howard

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The announcement yesterday that Queensland premier Peter Beattie will retire from politics this week throws into stark contrast the dogged refusal of PM John Howard to retire, but rather hang onto office right till the bitter end.

Actually, it would seem rather an empty gesture if Howard were to retire now, and hand over the reigns of the Liberal party, and the prime ministership, to Peter Costello.  The die is cast electorally, and the government is heading for a big loss at the election later this year, regardless of who is in charge.  The time for change is not in desperate times at the 11th hour, but should have happened a couple of years ago, to give his successor time to put his stamp on things, and the party to reinvigorate itself.  This did not happen, and it is now way too late for the government.  Anyway, even if Howard did hand over to Costello, or anyone else, its not going to make a difference …so tarnished electorally are the lot of them.

Howard has signalled again his determination to hang on. He has warned his Liberal colleagues to expect a battle if they try to remove him before the election. Mr Howard ruled out stepping down, saying he had never run away from a fight and did not intend to do so now.  I suspect he is right in saying he represents the government’s best chance of winning the election …I can’t see it has any viable alternative leaders.  Thats not a great position to be in, and reflects selfishness and lack of forethought on Howard’s and the party’s part over the last few years.

The likes of Peter Beattie, Steve Bracks, Bob Carr and Geoff Gallop all left politics at the time of their own choosing, from positions of strength and left their parties in good shape (and in the last 2 cases, able to win the next state election).  John Howard is heading towards a big loss, and leaving his party in a rabble … not the sort of legacy he would have wished, at least I would have thought.   The Liberal party will be in pretty desperate straits then, its already a rabble in just about every state, and chances are the Federal party is about to join them.