What’s all the hoopla over this "American Idol" Antonella Barba? Have you all heard about this? I usually don’t get into American Idol until its been narrowed down a bit, however, it seems Antonella Barba has the net in a frenzy.
Allegedly, a sour ex-beau posted some rather provocative photos of the Idol when she broke up with him just before the show started. The anonymously posted Internet images include those of a young woman lying on her back covered in rose petals, posing in her underwear, sitting on a toilet and sitting among a group of topless women on a beach, hands over their breasts. Others show a woman performing oral sex on a man.
Though all are purported to be pictures of Barba, none of the subjects of the photos has been positively identified.
Fox, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has declined to comment on the latest scandal. But judge Simon Cowell and fellow producer Nigel Lythgoe said in separate media interviews this week that Barba's fate is up to fans who vote on the contestants.
Barba, who hails from New Jersey, has kept mum about the photos.
But her friend Amanda Coluccio, a fellow "American Idol" hopeful eliminated from the contest earlier this season, said that only the least graphic photos in question are authentic. “Those, including the rose-petal shot, were taken for a calendar the former architecture student made for her boyfriend,” Coluccio told the New Jersey Star-Ledger. The more provocative photos on the Internet are of someone else, she said.
"I've studied them. It's not her nose. She's never had (acrylic nail) tips in her life. She's the least slutty person I know," Coluccio was quoted as saying.
So far Barba, 20, hasemerged as one of 16 finalists to make the cut on Thursday night.
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