According to her agent, Max Markson:
"Lara Bingle will not be commenting on her personal life,"
Thank fuck for that is all I have to say about that. Please, please stick to this promise Lara.
How stupid is it that the lead story on the news the last couple of days has been the apparent breaking off of the engagement between Lara Bingle and Australian cricketer Michael Clarke. Media has even camped outside their Bondi apartment doing live crosses during news programs.
However, I’ve got a feeling that she will eventually talk, once the price offered by one of the media outlets is right. She’s just too much of a famewhore to resist another moment in the spotlight.
It would seem that Bingle’s career and life had become just too much of a circus for Clarke to tolerate. The straw that broke the camel’s back looks to have been her decision to sell her story in response to the publication of a nude photo taken of her allegedly by former lover, AFL player Brendan Fevola, in the Womans Day magazine. While the wise decision would have been for her to lay low, and say very little about it, her decision was to give an exclusive tell all interview about what she felt, how she planned to sue Fevola etc. She would have enjoyed privacy, come across as the victim of a dickhead like Fevola having taken a nude photo of her and then circulated it around his mates. End of story – Bingle comes out of it sympathetically, Fevola pathetically. But being a famewhore desperate to remain in the public eye she had to sell her story to the highest bidder. Stupid woman!
Actually, I’m suspicious that the nude photos being made available to the magazine and the subsequent interview with the same magazine were all orchestrated by Bingle and her management to gain publicity and hopefully open up some commercial/career opportunities for her. Hopefully its backfired badly, and she fades quickly into obscurity. But I don’t hold out much hope of that … someone will figure that they can make money out of her.
Speaking of careers, what actually is she famous for? Modelling, well yes marginally, but more so isn’t it just for the people she’s been screwing – she seems to have a taste for prominent sportsmen – Michael Clarke, Brendan Fevola, supposedly also footballers Craig Wing, Benji Marshall and Greg Bird (although she denies at least some of them). She also is said to be friends with some interesting characters – colourful Kings Cross identities (usually code for criminal) and the sons of a deceased alleged Sydney major crime figure.
Wouldn’t surprise also if Clarke’s decision came about because Cricket Australia dropped a few hints about his circus sideshow of a girlfriend not being the sort of image that an Australian captain would want to be presenting (and by inference, ditch her or forget being the next captain).
