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Amanda Beard got naked, again, this time for a cause. But the dirty Commie Chinese tried to keep her down.
 Olympic swimming gold medalist Amanda Beard had to launch her naked, anti-fur campaign poster outside the Athletes’ Village on Wednesday after Chinese authorities canceled a planned unveiling, citing safety concerns.
In a poster for the animal rights group PETA, the reigning 200-meter breaststroke champion appears naked in front of the U.S. flag and the slogan “Be comfortable in your own skin. Don’t wear fur.”
Jason Baker, an Asia-Pacific spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the launch was “a bit more dramatic than we had planned” after Chinese security officials visited a hotel where an official news conference had been scheduled and shut it down. “From what I’ve been told from the hotel, the public security bureau showed up at midnight and told them our specific event had to be canceled for safety reasons, without going into any specifics,” Baker said. “When I arrived at 8 a.m., there were public security officials in the press conference room we had booked. “Amanda didn’t want her voice to be silenced, so we went ahead and arranged something else — we never knew if we were going to be stopped at any point.”
Baker said the protest was not against China and did not interfere with the Olympics. Police and security saw the launch going ahead outside the south gate of the Athletes’ Village but did not interfere.
“It was a sexy ad really designed for the U.S. market. It was positive and it was (supposed) to be done in a private function room,” Baker said. “I’m surprised they were so concerned, given we’ve done similar (things) with Asian celebrities in the past.”
Beard, 26, who has posed nude in men’s magazines, said she decided to participate in the PETA campaign because she loved animals and was horrified to see how fur was produced for fashion in some places.
She said the Olympics was the perfect forum to get out a positive message, but now she was concentrating entirely on competition. “It’s an important issue — I’m proud to be part of this,” she said. “The more I’ve heard about what happens to the animals … fur ripped off them when they’re still alive — it’s heart breaking.” “I have seen a lot of the videos, and (it) brings me to tears,” the four-time Olympian said in a PETA statement. “What (some people) think is pretty is actually something that’s very gruesome and gross.”
Amanda Beard, though, is awesome and not at all gross. PETA had this to say:
Swimmer Amanda Beard might be the sexiest and most compassionate U.S. Olympic athlete of all time. Need proof? Check out the anti-fur ad that she did—naked—for PETA.
Even with her busy and demanding training schedule, Amanda took the time to bare her skin to help save animals’ skins. With the tagline “Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin. Don’t Wear Fur,” Amanda posed nude to help raise awareness of the cruelty inherent in the fur industry.
There’s also a video interview with Amanda about the making of the poster.
Source: Olympic swimmer’s ‘naked protest shutdown’ [AP]
 Nearly four years after my OTB post on Teri Polo’s Playboy appearance, we’re still getting search traffic looking for the blonde hottie’s naked pics.
Not able to post NSFW photos on that site, I posted links to all the pictures of Teri Polo’s awesome nude body. Unfortunately, the old links have all died. That’s the Internets for you, I guess.
Fortunately, though, I saved copies of them — purely for archival purposes, naturally. Freed from the shackles of a family political blog, I can just post them right here for you to see.
The NSFW ones below the fold, of course, just in case you’re sensitive.
Jessica Cutler, who blogged for about five minutes and turned it into an awesome nude Playboy photo spread and a book deal, is back with a new HBO comedy series.
Jessica Cutler, a former congressional staff assistant fired in 2004 for “unacceptable use of Senate computers” after she posted her Capitol Hill sex memoirs on a blog, is making headlines yet again.
Cutler’s not-so-secret sexual escapades with government officials, one of them described as a “married man who pays me for sex” who happens to be “chief of staff at one of the gov agencies, appointed by Bush,” is now going to be made into an HBO series, entitled Washingtonienne, after her famed blog.
The HBO series is based on Cutler’s life on the Hill, taking money from Washington power players for sex. Inspiration for the show stemmed from her highly controversial and publicized book, also entitled Washingtonienne. According to Variety, Sarah Jessica Parker is serving as the new series’ executive producer. So expect Sex in the City set on Capitol Hill.
Only in America could a modestly talented, decent looking gal turn screwing old dudes for money into such fame and fortune. Still, all in all, I’d hit it.
The famed Jessica Cutler Playboy nudes? Under the fold, naturally.
A new biography of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner reveals that the soft porn magnate nearly died in 1977 choking on a sex toy.
“Hefner divulges he almost died doing what he loves best while he was dating ‘Playboy’ Playmate Sondra Theodore,” said a publishing source familiar with the book.
The incident happened when Hef and Sondra, the July 1977 Playmate, were in bed making love with a small sex toy. Somehow, the toy became lodged in Hef’s throat, said the source.
Somehow?
Source: Hugh Hefner almost died after a sex toy got lodged in his throat [Celebitchy] via WeSmirch
Hugh Hefner almost died after a sex toy got lodged in his throat (Cele|bitchy)
 If you’re naked and your neighbor is looking at you through your open window, you shouldn’t call the Seattle police to bitch about it.
A Seattle man accused of peering at his young female neighbors with binoculars couldn’t help it because the women’s blinds were up, his wife says.
Police reported the man acknowledged watching the neighbor women through their uncovered windows, but the man’s wife defended him, saying the women left their blinds up and were “putting on a show” by walking around naked, the Seattle Times reported Wednesday.
Officers didn’t cite the man and told the neighbor women, whose ages were not provided, to get their blinds fixed, the newspaper said. The report noted that the women said the blinds were broken but that they would ask their landlord to make repairs.
Sounds like a plan. The good news is that the women were apparently worth looking at naked. If these were some ugly bitches, he could probably sue.
The photo is not, unless it’s a really uncanny coincidence, of the actual neighbors who called the cops. She’s just some hottie named Pamela Spice (I’m guessing: not her real name) that I found when I did a Google image search. But, hey, people need pictures to help visualize these things.
Source: “Peeping tom victims told to fix blinds” [UPI]
Dara Torres is smokin’ hot for a 41-year-old chick.
The above photo of Torres showing her six pack and a whole lot more is from a New York Times Magazine profile from over the weekend that J.A. Adonde can’t stop talking about on PTI. I finally had to take a lot for myself and I have to admit that I’d hit it, even if she is old enough to be a grandma.
Okay, she’d have had to have her first kid at twenty and that kid would have had to follow suit, but she could be a grandma at 41.
As it is, she’s just a mother of a 2-year-old todder, Tess Grace. I guess that just makes her a MILF.
She gets what Elizabeth Weil terms “a breathtaking body” honestly.
She broke her first of three world records in 1982, at 14, and she has retired from swimming and come back three times, her latest effort built on an obsessive attention to her aging body.
Torres’s retinue includes a head coach, a sprint coach, a strength coach, two stretchers, two masseuses, a chiropractor and a nanny, at the cost of at least $100,000 per year. At the Olympic trials, this week, in Omaha, Neb., she’s expected to swim fast enough to make her fifth Olympic team. If she does, she’ll be the first American swimmer to compete in five Olympics (despite sitting out 1996 and 2004). She’ll also be oldest female swimmer in the history of the Olympic games.
I hope she makes it. And then retires to do a nude shoot for Playboy before it’s too late.
Source: A Swimmer of a Certain Age [NYT Magazine]
If you were married to Christie Brinkley and had $3000 in extra cash every month, would you spend it on porn?
Christie Brinkley’s estranged husband spent about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites, the model’s lawyer said at the start of the couple’s nasty divorce trial.
“That is the man who’s come before this court and asked for custody of his 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter,” attorney Robert Stephan Cohen said of Peter Cook. The couple’s daughter, Sailor, had her birthday on Wednesday.
“It was wrong and he said it was wrong,” Cook’s lawyer, Norman Sheresky, said of the porn.
But the main focus of the trial is Cook’s affair with an 18-year-old, which set off a frenzy in the tabloids. Cohen said Brinkley found out about it from the teenager’s stepfather; the fashion model got the bad news moments before she was to speak at the Southampton High School graduation.
The teenager, Diana Bianchi, is expected to testify. She claims Cook seduced her shortly after hiring her to work at his Hamptons architectural firm.
“He did it and it was wrong. And we said so. And there is no way to make that right,” Sheresky said. “Peter has apologized. He’s cried his eyes out. He’s lost his marriage.”
The lawyer said Brinkley is partly to blame for the public spectacle.
“For goodness sake: She’s on her fourth husband,” Sheresky told the court. “Your honor, we’re here because of the self-indulgent wrath of a woman scorned.”
Oh, snap!
Look, Christie isn’t as hot as she was in the days when teenage boys had posters of her on their walls and using her for the same purposes Peter Cook presumably employed his porn to. But, dude, she’s still pretty hot!
And, to add insult to injury, he was also screwing some 18-year-old. I don’t have any pictures of her but if he was willing to risk losing Christie Brinkley to sleep with her, she had to be at least halfway decent looking.
So, he’s having sex with Christie Brinkley, shagging a hot teenager on the side, and still needs $3000 a month for porn?! The greedy bastard! You have to admire the dude’s stamina, if nothing else.
Source: Brinkley’s lawyer: Husband spent money on porn [AP]
If you ever wanted to see Mini Me having sex, a judge says it’s okay:
 The woman in a sex tape featuring Verne Troyer — best known for his role in the “Austin Powers” movies — says she allowed celebrity Web site TMZ to broadcast snippets of the tape. Troyer’s ex-girlfriend, Ranae Shrider, signed a declaration filed in federal court in Los Angeles stating the tape was created with her video camera. Her statement prompted a judge to allow TMZ to reinstate a post featuring snippets of the tape.
The judge had temporarily barred TMZ from showing or broadcasting any portion of the tape on its Web site or TV show. The post was restored by Tuesday evening.
The judge has still barred a porn distributor named in a $20 million lawsuit filed by Troyer from distributing or taking orders for the 50-minute tape.
Troyer starred as Mini Me in two “Austin Powers” movies. His lawsuit alleged the tape was stolen. Shrider’s statement says she believes she also owns the tape, but so far has only given permission to TMZ to air it.
This gives more credibility to Justice Potter Stewart’s famous line about pornography (actually, obscenity, if you want to be technical about it): “I know it when I see it.” Still, there are some things I don’t want to see. This may just top the list.
For more, see Mini-Me Sex Chick Whoring Out the Tape! and Mini-Me Sex Tape: Avert Your Eyes!
The latter, the June 25th report that launched the suit in question, makes light of the whole matter,
Yes, that’s Mini-Me Verne Troyer in a sex tape shot with his former live-in girlfriend at the couple’s apartment. A third party has snatched up the tape and although no deal has been made, we hear dealer Kevin Blatt, who brokered the deal for Paris’ video, is entertaining a $100k offer from SugarDVD to distribute the nastiness. We would have thought the tape was worth at least ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
You can also view the actual video there, if you must. Gone Hollywood wouldn’t do that to you!
Source: TMZ allowed to repost portion of actor’s sex tape [YahooNews]
Uma Thurman recently wore a black dress that, when exposed to flash photography, showed off her boobage.
Uma Thurman stopped by the “Late Show with Dave Letterman” Wednesday when talk turned to her nipple. As Dave showed pictures of Uma’s past and she told about them (like a photo of her at the Nobel ceremony), Uma let out a yelp when a photo from last October’s Fashion Rocks event in London came out. Uma’s black dress had gone sheer, leaving her right breast clearly visible. She told Dave how it happened, blaming her lack of a “flash test” on the gaffe, and referred to the outfit as a “nipple-icious disaster,” saying, “it was humiliating.”
Hardly a disaster, Uma! We at Gone Hollywood would like to encourage more of this!
 She’s also in good company. John Kerry’s daughter, Alexandra, committed the same fashion faux pas a few years back. We think Uma pulls it off a little better but, hey, if you’ve got the body for it, we endorse this look!
Sources: “Uma Thurman’s Naked Nightmare: Tells Letterman Of ‘Nipplicious Disaster’” [Huffington Post] and “Alexandra Kerry Overexposed” [Outside the Beltway]
Click “more” to see Uma Thurman’s nipples in all their sheer glory.
Hayden Panettiere would rather stay home than get mobbed by fans.
Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere has confessed becoming a mega-star has turned her into a virtual recluse.
‘I don’t ever go out,’ she says, of her life in Hollywood, where she drives everywhere to avoid being recognised on the street. ‘I stay at home. I go from garage to garage, and keep myself out of sight.’ The 18-year-old, who has been catapulted into the A-list since taking on the role of cheerleader Claire Bennet in the top-rated US drama, admits she finds being famous ‘a pain in the ass’.
‘I love where I live and that I have wonderful friends there and I love what I do, but it really has a major impact on your life. This business is very intrusive. People want to know what you’re doing every day, and it becomes less about your craft and your art, and your love for acting, than it is about when you put food in your mouth, or when you’re walking your dog.’
Hayden has been in the industry since she was a mere 11 months old, when her mother Lesley – a former soap actress – got her cast in the first of more than 50 adverts. Hayden herself starred in the US daytime soap One Life To Live from ages four to eight, and, now that Heroes has made her a Hollywood A-lister, her next move is to set the big screen alight, having just filmed Fireflies In The Garden with Julia Roberts.
And it seems the teenage star is in no danger of following the likes of Lindsay Lohan into being more famous for misdemeanours than movies – in fact, she is scathing of Hollywood stars who are more concerned with being celebrities than they are with being actors. ‘The interesting thing to me is, if you think about it, the glamour of Hollywood has been dimmed down by people that don’t necessarily love what they do or their craft,’ she says. ‘I think people who are mainly in the public eye and deal with this [attention], a lot of them like it and enjoy it. I don’t really enjoy going out, it’s a nightmare in my opinion.’
On That cheerleader’s body…
‘I don’t have a model’s body. I’m not obsessed like some girls who go crazy. I’m happy with what I’ve got, it suits me fine. I have a personal trainer or I’d never get my ass into the gym, I’d probably be asleep instead. I have to pass as a superhero and you have to be careful of those widescreen TVs, too.’
What she wants in a man
‘I like somebody who is confident and independent, and obviously it helps if they’re secure in themselves. Because sometimes in my job, I obviously have to make out with hot men, so a good sense of humour helps to deal with this!’
I’d dog her for whining about the down side of celebrity, or going on and on about her “craft,” because that kind of thing generally annoys the crap out of me. But she seems like a sweet girl, so I’ll let her off with a warning this time.
And, no, that photo of Hayden in a bikini really doesn’t have anything to do with the story. What’s your point?
Source: “Hayden Panettiere: Hollywood success has made me a recluse” [Sunday Mirror] via WeSmirch
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