We're being made fools of. We're being duped by crafty PR gone smutty — at least that's our take all the celebrity sexting "scandals" that have been blowing up the blogosphere lately.

From Oscar winners to sports stars to, now, "baddest chick" rappers, many celebs have been embroiled in some kind of sexting scandal with their bare nether regions on full display.  But is it all a scam? Could they really be that stupid or are they just cleverly seeking attention?

Social networking, whether texting, twittering, facebooking or whatever, has been like a freight train with no brakes for a very long time, now and it's no secret as to how viral it is. Since that's the case, why would these celebrities and sports figures with so much to lose — or maybe not — choose to bare all for the "small" screen? Gadgets and Web sites get hacked every single day, so to post naked photos on the Web or to leave them on a cell phone is, well, stupid — unless it's intentional. Don't they know their celebrity automatically creates a revolving door for relationships and leaving images of body parts in the hands of trysts is risky? Of course they do.

What it amounts to is that celebs are either at a pivotal point in their careers or are simply looking for ways to expose themselves due to exhibitionist tendencies. Let's categorize them together.

Career Movers

Rapper Trina: images of a graphic nature were leaked to the Internet Sunday morning. She has a new album coming out.

Singer (loosely) and Diddy protégé' Cassie: computer was hacked and nude photos were leaked. She acknowledged that the photos are of her both in her twitter account and her official fan Web site and made this statement: "The recent personal pictures that have been leaked on the internet of me were hacked and stolen out of my computer. These photos were obviously never intended for the world to see and it’s sad that people would really take time to steal and post them" ... yada, yada, yada.

She can't sing, was exposed for it, and needed a career jolt. Sorry ... no, continue to cling to Diddy's ankles for dear life.

3LW's Adrienne Bailon: nude photographs were circulating over the Internet, taken from a laptop computer, which she said was stolen while she was coming off a flight. The pictures were at first reported to be held for ransom as part of an extortion plot for $1,000, and were later leaked out.

Obscurity is your fate ... embrace it Adrienne.

Ex-Day26er, Willie:  Willie had shots of him in 'pole position' plastered all over the net, but denied they were him. Here's his statement: “It is very unfortunate that someone would try to degrade my name by posting a fake photoshop image of myself on the internet holding what is alleged to be my penis. The alleged picture is my face, but the holding the penis part is not. I am a man that has a family and have a tremendous amount of respect for myself, my son, my group and all of my fans across the world and I would never put them through such a predicament. So, in a nut shell, that picture is not me.”  

Remember, he was fresh off being unceremoniously dimissed from the group. "Please, don't forget about me!" Forgotten.

Spurs player, George Hill: Full frontal photos of this athlete taken by him showed up on TheDirty.com, despite a lawyer for the San Antonio Spurs issuing a take-down notice. His statement: “A year ago I made a mistake and take full responsibility for my actions. I have matured and learned from this episode.”
He's not that popular and needed his name to begin circulating ... sorry, George, didn't work for long.

Disney's Vanessa Hudgens: photos of Hudgens appeared online, one showing her posing in lingerie and another showing her nude. A statement from her publicist claims that the photo was taken privately and it was unfortunate that they were released on the Internet. Hudgens later apologized, saying that she was "embarrassed over the situation" and regretted having "taken [those] photos."

Gotcha ... making the transition from girl to woman, perhaps?

Exhibitionists


Oscar Winner Jamie Foxx:  A full frontal of Jamie showed up on several blogs and he made this statement: "yes, I took pictures of my naked self on a cell phone and somehow they got out." The picture was taken down after Foxx's rep wrote in, claiming that the photos were the actor's "property" and that they were taken for an upcoming movie role.

Yeah, uh huh ... you're just full of yourself, Jamie.

Music's enigma, Rihanna: A series of candid nude photos of Chris Brown's ex hit the Internet. The photos, seven in total, showed Rihanna in various stages of undress, topless and bottomless, and appear to have been taken by herself on her cell phone.

She simply wanted to show us what she's working with and to gain an indentity apart from the beat down. Since then, it's been nothing but a sexual revolution in her world.

Portland Trail Blazers' Greg Oden: Pictures of Oden began circulating on the Web that he had taken with his cell phone and sent to a former girlfriend.  He said:  “I would like to apologize to everybody: Portland, the fans, the organization. It was very embarrassing.”

Sure ... this guy isn't known for making an impression in the looks department, so he wanted to make a different and more lasting one.

Jersey Shore's Snooki: A photo anonymously posted at nakedSnooki.com shows the 'Jersey Shore' star naked and on all fours. She tweeted: "There are no nude pictures nor will there ever be. The tabloids just love snook gossip ;]"

She's completely full of herself and she's just trying to squeeze everything into her 15 minutes that she possibly can. Give it a rest, Snooks.

There are more, but these come to mind immediately. There's intrigue over the stunts, because that's the kind of bloggish world we're living in right now, but do they really want us to believe these weren't intentional attempts at grabbing attention? –gerald radford blog comments powered by Disqus