Girls Gone Wild founder and CEO Joe Francis said in a news release on Wednesday that he will offer American Idol contestant Antonella Barba $250,000 to become a host for his video company. Girls Gone Wild is famous for catching college girls exposing their breasts on film.
It provides Antonella Barba with another option if she doesn t last much longer on American Idol, if she chose to accept it.
Barba has grabbed headlines for herself and created controversy for American Idol when a series of racy photos, allegedly of Antonella Barba performing a sex act on a man along with other racy poses, made it on the internet. The photos caused an uproar among many who called for the ousting of Barba from American Idol.
Antonella Barba is an unbelievably sexy girl who obviously knows how to have a good time, Joe Francis, founder of Girls Gone Wild, said in a statement.
Why are people being ridiculed and punished for being sexual? It s ridiculous.
The producers of American Idol however said that they would not cut Barba, who denies that it is her in the photos.
Barba s fans supported her by voting her into the next round of competition.
Girls Gone Wild owner Francis sees an opportunity for both Girls Gone Wild and American Idol contestant Antonella Barba. If Barba does get voted off of the American Idol program, which could happen as soon as Thursday night, Francis has offered Barba a $250,000 contract to appear as a Girls Gone Wild celebrity host.
We have reached out to Antonella Barba through her family and are trying to reach her directly in order to offer her a hosting job for one of our upcoming video projects, said Francis. Just like the American Idol judges, we at Girls Gone Wild are looking for a girl next door, with sexiness, attitude, a carefree spirit and a presence that will command the attention of the Nation. There s a little Girls Gone Wild in every woman, and this should be embraced as a positive, not a negative.
Girls Gone Wild isn t the only X-rated company that wants Antonella Barba. SugarDVD, the largest renter of adult DVDs online, says that they have offered Barba $500,000 to become their new spokesperson.
SugarDVD made headlines recently for offering Kim Kardashian $1 million for the same position as spokesperson.
Kardashian turned them down.
There is no word yet as to whether Barba would even consider either of the offers.
Antonella Barba nude in Playboy magazine? Could be.
Laura Saltman of Access Hollywood was at the Playboy Mansion for the party celebrating the season three premiere of the E! channel s The Girls Next Door , and asked for the Playboy boss s take on the Antonella Barba racy photographs online controversy. After showing Hugh Hefner the photos, he remarked, She really looks sexy here.
Asked if he would consider making Antonella an offer to pose for Playboy should she be voted off Idol early, Hef answered, Very real possibility. Yes, absolutely.
But all of that is going to have to wait at least another week as Antonella was not voted off of American idol despite predictions of her demise.
The New Jersey babe is safe and survived the week two cuts.
In high school Antonella was one of the nicest girls I knew. She never had bad things to say about anybody and she was always there for her friends, says a classmate.
She was a sweet genuine Jersey girl who knows exactly what she needs out of life, and that is to become the next American Idol, not to be the next Playmate of the Year.
That said, she is the least talented singer left on the female side. We ll see what happens once she gets cut.
Never one to hold his tongue, American Idol judge Simon Cowell has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the scandalous photos of Idol contestant Antonella Barba circulating on the Web.
I think it s disgraceful that so-called friends would sell these pictures, he told PEOPLE at a Playboy Mansion party for the E! show The Girls Next Door and the launch of the new Ryan Seacrest-produced reality series Paradise City.
It s private property. I really, really have a problem with that – big problem. (Barba pal – and fellow auditioner – Amanda Coluccio has insisted that the most X-rated of the bunch aren t her friend.
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And Cowell has equally fiery feelings about this year s batch of competitors. If you want to do as well as someone like Jennifer Hudson you ve got to be great, and we re not seeing enough great, but they re getting better, he says. We re going to weed out the bad ones.
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