You douldn't make it up dept. vol2. no.5: is this the most hypocritical public statement ever?

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Lady Isabella Hervey has gone from It girl to Bunny Girl after signing up as the new face of Playboy UK.

The Celebrity Love Island star has posed for the magazine's centrefold. And as befits her upper-class credentials, she insisted the shoot be tasteful.

"It's very classy," said the 23-year-old. "Playboy UK wanted somebody who had an innocence about them but could look sexy at the same time. I want to show people it can be upmarket. It's not just all about boobs and stuff like that."

Besides the magazine, Isabella will promote Playboy UK's website and TV channels.

Fellow Celebrity Love Island contestant Abi Titmuss has also fronted an adult channel, Television X, but aristocratic Isabella is adamant there is no comparison.

"We are totally different. I've never flashed my boobs in my life and I never would," she said.

"I'm very innocent, I don't drink and I only have long-term relationships. You can't compare us."

Comments

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I think you have gone a bit out of the picture here. First, this woman is offering herself as the public face of a pornographer who has exploited women for fifty years. Second, whatever the public/private morality of this or that corporate body, that has absolutely nothing to do with all the women in this world who manage to find excuses to be whores. Or, as Mummy used to tell us all when we were children, one wrong does not justify another.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

Hey, I didn't say she wasn't a Skank on a Stick(tm). She's still remarkably stupid and lacking in foresight. You say all this stuff as though you're surprised that a young woman who once appeared to have a veneer of decency now utilises ye olde casting couch. Nobility isn't as alluring as it once was.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Crikey, it's one in the morning and I'm still awake!... well, I'll sleep come daylight, on the plane to Rome - where I have to spend a couple of days. And well, what got me was not so much a nob being a whore - actually, the English upper classes have always produced the most accomplished and desirable pros in Europe - as her pretence that there was any difference between her and Abi Titmuss, who is an out-and-out whore.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

Like the battle between Jordan and Jodi Marsh and how they always say they're less of a whore than the other?

May Britain never cease turning out skanky page three celebrities for my own personal enjoyment.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Not in the foreseeable future, anyway. But I insist that there is nobody in Britain as hilarious as Paris Hilton and her sister.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

Haha. Did you hear about her letter to the Queen begging to be allowed to be married in Westminster Abbey because she's "practically American royalty"?

As The Superficial pointed out, she only thinks she's royalty because she walks drunkenly around the streets with a tiara on her head. And as it so happens, wearing a tiara while drunk pretty much makes you the opposite of royalty.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Paris Hilton. My favourite celebrity-bashing target. Why is she famous? What does she do? What is she for? Is she really that dumb, or is that all part of the act? Would she still be popular if her IQ exceeded her shoe size? Ahh, the mysteries of the universe.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Another question: is she beautiful? I don't think so. She is tanned, bleached, and exercised within an inch of her life, but look at her face - just her face, her features. Not up to much, would you say?

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Definitely not. She looks... kinda plastic. Well, a lot of these useless celebrities aren't particularly beautiful. They meet the modern criteria for "beauty" - such arbitrary factors as being tanned and thin. But she's not beautiful. No, I'll even go a step further: she's not interesting. The people I personally find most beautiful/attractive often don't meet the modern beauty criteria, but they have something about them that makes me look at them and want to draw them, or just want to look at them! And it might be something like the way their eyes crinkle when they smile, or just the fact that they do smile and it doesn't look painted on. Paris Hilton and other such people have been manufactured to look a certain way, and society in general accepts that as being "beautiful". But I think individually, we all see beauty somewhat differently.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I do have a definite idea of beauty, and I actually published a couple of instances a few entries ago - Trine Michelsen and Nicola Cowper. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fpb/103395.html) One common fact is strong, well-defined, expressive features - which is something Paris' face simply does not have.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

I dunno, my best friend and I have often had the "What's your type?" discussion. I've never been able to give a definite answer. I mean, sure, I can say that I like thin guys who aren't too muscly or hairy, but if you asked me about facial features I'd be at a loss. And the person I find most attractive in the world doesn't really fit any of the descriptions I might've given - unless of course I admit to the fact that secretly, my "type" are short nerdy guys with glasses and open smiles. :) "Beauty" is in many ways such a personal thing - we all have our own prefernces, and in the end, the most beautiful people we know are beautiful because of who they are and what they mean to us rather than what they look like.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

A giant hybrid between a stick insect and a vagina. I wouldn't tap it.

Now Naomie Harris - there's a real woman. I would desperately love to put her in a ring with Paris Hilton, if only because one is guaranteed to see Paris go down in every single respect: looks, talent, intellect, charisma, etc.