Ok, bad puns aside I do feel for the girl. Her ex-boyfriend or friends really SUCK for leaking these pictures - just a really cruel and horrible thing to do. Someday, karma will come around to you, ex boyfriend, and bite you on that little blur of yours.On the other hand, Antonella isn't a completely innocent victim here. I don't judge her for the sexual act because human beings have been enjoying that one for eons, but I do judge her for the moronic and repeated lack of common sense. JMO, but doing things around cameras that you don't want your parents, your future husband, your employers, and your future kids to see someday crosses a line. Don't assume for one minute that the guy you love or you at least think you know won't show those pictures to his horny friends at the very least or use them vindictively against you at the very worst.
When did girls get so stupid? At least pornstars get paid for their naughty pics but Antonella is only being paid in public humiliation now. Maxim is probably calling her though, so she could turn this into a win-win situation. I guess....
I don't know the girl; she could be basically nice and fairly smart but made a bad mistake that will forever label her as the "girl from American Idol who ___________ . I wouldn't wish that on anyone, but there are more and more pictures coming out that seem to indicate that this isn't a one-time lapse in judgment here. It will be interesting to see how not only American Idol handles this, but Antonella herself.
EDIT: Word now is that Antonella has denied that the BJ pics are her and it seems that the evidence backs her up. American Idol isn't commenting on the pictures and Antonella isn't available for interviews.
I guess she is staying. Has Frenchie Davis been reached for comment? I would love to hear her take on this.
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I don't judge her for the sex photos, because as you said, there's nothing wrong with that, except that she was incredibly naive to let her boyfriend take those pictures. The photos at the WWII memorial, on the other hand I think are pretty gross and are obviously posed for a portfolio. Since Frenchie Davis, who was a much better singer, was DQed for having topless pics on the internet, I'm inclined to think Antonella should be too. Frenchie even has the excuse that she badly needed the money, Antonella has no such excuse, I think.
Her ex is absolute scum for leaking those pictures but he's already had his punishment, namely that the whole internet has now seen his "shortcomings". :P
Have you seen the EW panel article that Anthony, Kim Locke, and Ace Young did? It was interesting to read their comments, and two of them are two of my favorite Idols ever, so I was excited to see them being interviewed. (Hint: The one I'm not so crazy about has a name that rhymes with Face.)
I really don't know how Idol is going to handle this whole "Antonella what were you THINKING" debacle. I'm more inclined to think that Antonella will bow out on her own due to embarrassment to her and possibly her family. Although she obviously doesn't embarrass easily considering she posed for those photos in the first place. Idiot. Idiot with crappy friends.
I just find it hysterical and ironic how these pictures leak at about the same time as the People Mag profiles come out on the top 24. Under Antonella she is described as a student at Catholic University and someone who will bring intelligence and class to a show that is in need of that. Apparently what consitutes intelligence and class in New Jersey is very different than here in the midwest.
miss k I did see the Idol panel and I was so happy to see Anthony included. It was great that he didn't shy away from giving his honest opinion but even in print the others on the panel seemed to hog the spotlight.
Yep, any pity I felt for her pretty much left after seeing the WW2 memorial cooch shots. Kick this moron off already. After what happened with Frenchie for much less, its only fair.
Her ex is absolute scum for leaking those pictures but he's already had his punishment, namely that the whole internet has now seen his "shortcomings". :P
This guy will be lucky if he sees any action anytime soon. Girls don't want jerks with shortcomings. hee!
Oh, and Anthony said the EW column is a weekly thing. YAY! He does need to get more of the spotlight from the others though.
I have not seen the WWII memorial shots nor do I have any desire to (ew! Just ew!) but just hearing about that makes me think that this girl has no class (how disrespectful can you be?!)...or intelligence for that matter and really should be removed from the show especially since like miss k and spork said, a previous contestant (and yes, a much more talented one) was removed from the show for much less.
The WWII memorial cooch shots is really EEWWW!!! That alone deserves her disqualification. Although I find it funny that Nigel is going around saying they don't have any idea about the photos and that they do really good extensive background checks on their contestants. Well, you gotta do your job better, Nigel!
At first I thought she just has really crappy friends, and the sex act and being a willing participant in the photos was just a "heat in the moment" thing. Heh. But the WWII photos just proved Antonella's ambition might not really be to become an AI Stah! but a future centerfold for Playboy.
Well I looked at some of the pictures (DAMN my wandering eyes) and ewww you silly girl.
Like you guys, I don't care that she took part in the whole show and tell pictures with her ex because well, that's her business but she must have been stupid not to think these wouldn't come out! Men can be jerks as all of us here will probably know and so he probably jumped a the chance to leak these out.
Idol will have to do something, and I don't think they believe she is worth glossing over it, I think they could just get rid and Ryan will just make a quick announcement and that will be it. If they keep her then she'll be gone very soon anyway.
There is a lesson to be learned here; If you let your skanky boyfriend take sex pictures, when you break up DESTROY them all. If that fails, claim you have a slutty twin sister who has fallen from her Catholic ways.
Anyway, she'll probably become the most famous of the idols who don't make the top 12. (ha ha)
I love how people are getting all CSI about those pictures.
http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/pictures/20070224/antonella%20barba%20proof/AntonellaStudy1.html
These people have a lot of time on their hands. LOL
UPDATE (because I know you all are dying to hear it!): Those sexual photos may not be Antonella. Supposedly, other photos of the BJ girl from a different angle have surfaced and its not Antonella.
I still hope she leaves this week because she still sucks at singing.
Well, aside from her singing, she still deserves the boot from Idol because of her WWII cooch shots, which undeniably, is Antonella.
I agree that she should be removed because her pics are so much worse than Frenchie's. We haven't heard anything from AI yet so that makes me think that she is staying.
Maybe its because she didn't get paid for them? That doesn't make her a saint though, just stupid.
Maybe its because she didn't get paid for them? That doesn't make her a saint though, just stupid..
I don't know why, but that made me laugh.
I agree. Even if she wasn't photographed performing sexual favors, she WAS photographed straddling a war memorial with her girl parts exposed.
I think I just heard that E! News was going to be talking about it on their show tomorrow. So maybe we'll find out what the plan is.
Article on Yahoo News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070226/ap_en_tv/american_idol_nj_8
Barba's best friend, Amanda Coluccio of Holmdel, with whom she auditioned and won a trip to Hollywood for the second round before being eliminated, told The Star-Ledger of Newark that the less graphic photos are of Barba, but denied she is pictured in the pornographic ones.
"The really bad ones aren't her. I've studied them," Coluccio told The Star-Ledger for Monday's newspapers. "It's not her nose. She's never had (acrylic nail) tips (like the woman in the photo) in her life. She's the least slutty person I know."
Well there you have it then. Note how her friend doesn't say that Antonella is not a slut...just the LEAST slutty.
Another gem from the article:
"It's the way this town is: Everybody knows everything about their friends," said Mark Dillon, 17. "At least half the people in this town have pictures of their friends on the toilet. I've personally seen at least 20.
I really don't know what to say to that.
"She's the least slutty person I know."
LOL! So I wonder how the rest of her friends rank on the slut-o-meter.
This is why I love AI. You can't make this stuff up!
Go best friend! That is probably the weirdest compliment I've ever heard coming from a "best" friend. Jeez, if Antonella is the least slutty, and this is already with the girlie parts posing on the WWII Memorial, I wonder what their other friends are actually doing, to be "more slutty" than both of them.
My advice to Antonella is to stop letting this friend Amanda be your spokesperson. She's...not...helping!
First she calls you classy someone who will bring intelligence to Idol and now you are just the LEAST slutty person she knows.
Where can I find me some friends like that?
I think this girl will be staying a while. She already has the tonedeaf vote, will have the horny teen boys voting for her and the ever popular sympathy vote.
At least half the people in this town have pictures of their friends on the toilet.
What God forsaken town do these people live in!!!
I'm sorry but none of my friends have pictures of me on the toilet and that is quite normal from around these parts. But obviously in their town, they carry these pictures of each other around to show people because it's just the way the town is...
She should be DQ'ed, no questions asked. If she's not, AI is setting a double standard on who to punish and not. What, just because she's a hot, skinny girl, she gets a pass, and Frenchie does not, because she doesn't look like an Antonella, when in the first place, AI being the so-called singing competition that it is, Frenchie is inarguably the better singer? And not just for Frenchie. Obviously, there were other better girls who got passed over because Antonella was chosen in the top 24. Some of these girls probably sings better than her and has no "scandalous" past.
At least Frenchie did it for food. What is Antonella's excuse?
She's the least slutty person I know Give me a break! Anyone who leaves it open to flap in the wind is bound to be referred to as nothing less. But I honestly don't see her going home any time soon unless she's removed by AI officials because she now scored every horny teenage boys vote in America. Ah...the age of the internet.
Frenchie vs Antonella
Frenchie weighs in on the controversy:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_tv/tv_idol_frenchie_flap;_ylt=AjjmkURwD7lc62VijiujW65Y24cA
Here is a little of what she had to say:
"I'm not bashing `Idol' or Antonella. She's a beautiful girl and she's young. I think it's great that she didn't have to go through what I went through," said Davis, 27, who suggested that the show's producers might have learned from how they treated her.
Davis would welcome a public apology from them as "a great start." But she said she is owed more for "the manner in which I was humiliated and the manner in which Antonella was defended and protected by the same people who humiliated me."
Let's see if the entire link shows this time. If not, the article is under Yahoo news and it is titled: 'American Idol' flap: Barba vs. Frenchie
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_tv/tv_id
ol_frenchie_flap;_ylt=AjjmkURwD7lc62VijiujW65Y24cA
I have to agree with Frenchie. Its a little disturbing and kind of says a lot about AI that she was dropped and humiliated while Antonella's stuff was excused.
If Antonella turns in another sucky performance this week, she could very well be gone. The hubub over the pictures has died down, the producers aren't going to kick her off so there is no reason to feel sorry for her any longer.
Antonella finally gets to talk to the media about "what she has learned" and what she plans to do.
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070310:american_idol_nj__ER:1
Most interesting quote to me:
She said she will reject any prurient career offers that come her way. Nor, she added, would she pose nude, or in partial clothing, for any reason.
I guess no need. Been ther done that. It's so...yesterday.
"That is not the way I want to present myself," she said. "I keep getting told no publicity is bad publicity. Yes, it's true my name is more well-known because of it. But I'm not known for the things I want to be known for. I'd rather present myself in a more classy way."
Apparrently that wasn't a priority before now.
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