Antonella Barba - Naked Pictures?
Monday, February 26, 2007
Well. It appears Antonella Barba, the 20-year old New Jersey native whom we first met during audition week as she walked the beach in a bikini with best friend Amanda has pulled a Frenchie. According to EW Online:
The naughty photos of the 20-year-old contestant began circulating around
the Internet earlier this week. Despite less-than-stellar reviews from the
judges for her off-key rendition of ''I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'' this week,
Barbara somehow squeaked through to next round of the competition on Thursday's show.
--snip--
Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe says he has not seen any of the Internet
pictures, and only learned of the sexually explicit shots from EW. ''We have
really good background checks on everybody, and we deal with that every
season,'' he says. ''It's sad, isn't it, that your best friends are the ones
that come forward with information that will go to Smoking Gun or put your
photographs on the web?''
Sad or not, Idol established the precedent with Frenchie that naked pictures of contestants is a no-no. Added to that negative is the fact that her first live performance was simply frightful - off-key, weak, and bad. Yet her appearance (imo) is what saved her from elimination. Could it be that the appearance is more than what Idol bargained for, and will they boot her? I hope so if all of this proves to be true. Fair is fair.
Labels: American Idol, Miscellaneous
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