Wondertrash & Wonderflash
If you're and up and coming professional celebrity attention is money in the bank, and if you don't get it you're out of business. So the $64 000 is "what's the easiest way to get a lot of attention fast?" There is an old saying in the business that "Sex sells". That means that if you're young, attractive, and of the female persuasion (Don't ask "who persuaded you?" because if you are female it won't be the last time you'll get talked into something!) there's one sure fire way to get everyone talking about you fast - flash your goodies, or come as close as you can get away with to that! With that in mind, and who doesn't have sex on the brain at least a little bit? - it shouldn't be any surprise that some up and coming eager beavers are giving people something to talk about. Our first case is a young lady whom we're gonna be hearing more about as her wedding to a certain high profile TV & radio personality approaches!Hassling the Hough
Julianne Hough (the chick who looks like Dexter's wife - Julie Benz from the show, not his on the show sister Jennifer Carpenter who's his real life soon to be ex) is a popular young country & western singer. She's also engaged to Simon Cowell's side kick Ryan Seacrest (Ryan is the Gracie Allen to Cowell's George Burns if you will). Now the couple have a big 3 million dollar wedding planned for Paris. However life ain't all wine and roses and April in Paris for the Hough. She's currently embroiled in a country music controversy that's got her on the wrong side of the Nashville establishment, and the CMT network. It all has to do with her video That's So Wrong.Now the video in question features Hough caterwauling about love, or something like it, while she takes of clothes and squirms around like she's got a bad case of bed bugs. So it's a soft core strip tease (& more tease than strip) act of the kind music video viewers are familiar with. It's nothing that isn't seen regularly on TV and in family viewing hours. However CMT ain't happy about it. CMT has banned the video from their network allegedly on the basis that it's too hot to handle. CMT likes to keep country traditional. Traditional means gals with big hair and bigger boobs wearing more grease paint than a circus clown and singing about cheating or getting cheated on. So Hough's skanky antics have no place on their airwaves! What's more Youtube and Truveo have followed suit and banned the video from their sites (BTW for all you aspiring Mark Zuckerberg's out there, the domain name Youtune is currently up for grabs!)!
Hough doesn't know what the brouhaha os about. For one thing she insists that she's a religious gal. She's probably as religious as any other country western chick who ever went out into a bar and got drunk while lookin' for temporary love, so I'll leave that alone. Anyway Hough says that she comes from a small town (Sandy, Utah) where takin' off your clothes for money is shameful. I guess that means she just gets sexy for attention. Attention she's getting too, though it should be said that CMT claims Hough's Miley Cyrus routine had nothing to do with banning the video. It was a contractual thing. Contractual thing in business is the equivalent of a celeb saying that they're suffering from exhaustion when they check into hospital from a booze overdose - a flimsy excuse.
Hough has been trying to shed the good girl image, along with her clothes, recently. She did something wear she appeared covered in gold paint. It was a mermaid shoot with Kristen Bell and Mena Suvari. She's also booked up to play Ariel, not a mermaid, in the new Footloose flick. Hough says that the Ariel character will be pretty wild - in a modest small town religious way I guess.
bottoms up to the bottom line
The upshot is that the sex act is paying off. So Hough can't be blamed too much for responding to encouragement. Country isn't cool if no one watches, right? Fans are right behind her too. She's getting tons of support on Internet message boards, where Hough Helpers point out that she wore less clothes on her Dancing With The Stars appearances. Now that's DWTS business and DWTS has flexible standards. For instance that's where Erin Peephole Andrews went to save face after her privacy was violated by some random pervert. You may recall that Andrews was video taped prancing around her hotel room naked. Andrews was so humiliated that she had to book on DWTS to get her esteem back, by wearing slinky clothes, flirting with her partner, and flashing herself around. Andrews wasn't being hypocritical but making a valid point, that her privacy is her's to violate! It's the working principle that pro attention whores live by!So this whole pseudo scandal is still up in the air: with CMT saying that they don't object to the video though the won't show Hough, and Hough saying that though she's outwardly defiant she's inwardly hurt and humiliated. There's no sign of a resolution either. That's okay though since Hough doesn't have to rely on CMT for her bread a butter. As said she's gettin' hitched up to Ryan Seacrest (take that everyone who thought he was gay!). Anyone who can afford to drop 3 mill on a Paris wedding in this economy can afford to keep Hough in snake skin cowboy boots and bedazzled Stetsons. besides, I hear that Seacrest has a few connections in the music biz! So y'all can look forward to seeing a lot more Hough!
Girl Power!
Speaking of music industry attention whores Katie Perry is no stranger to sex and attention. She outs out a pretty strong sex vibe in her act. That's got her a lot of fans and Booky Wooky author Russell Brand as her hubby. Russy's the guy who got kicked off of BBC Radio for having sex with Andrews Sachs (Manuel from Fawlty Towers) grand daughter. In Russy's defense Sach's grand daughter is some kind of a burlesque artist - or a palm reader. Judging by her out fits it might be either.Anyway marriage made Russel a changed man - he apologized to Manuel and started slapping around paparazzi like Sean Penn back in his Madonna days (Russ got out raged when a paparazzi tried to get a closer look at something Katey's shown everyone via TV, the Internet, and the Brit tabs. While Russ insisted that he was in his rights, most were left asking "what was the point?"
Sex has gotten Katie so much fan enthusiasm that when she recently mentioned that she wanted to play Wonder Woman about have the Internet said "Right on!" That's about half as many as when Megan Fox said that she didn't want to play Wonder Woman. Katie seems to be reinforcing that point in her public appearances too. For instance here's a recent pic of Perry prancing around the stage in a little red one piece outfit that's gonna look real familiar to comic book fetishists out there. Now here's Ms Perry:
... and here's where some of you might have seen that nifty little number before:
That's right - Katie's channel Diana Prince Jr, aka Wondergirl, also known as Wonder Woman Lite, Wonder Reduced, and the Economy Version. Even the sequins match the stars on Donna Troy's red catsuit. If the microphone had a line attached then it could've doubled for a magic lasso! As for myself, though I was doubtful about Perry as Wonder Woman, she might be a better Wondergirl. Besides, that was the role that gave Debra Winger her start!Socially acceptable bondage - in one form or another!
So there you have it: a couple of cases of young celebs who've found a short cut to top. Talent and performance aside they've made sex a bog part of the package. It's paying off too. So we can expect a lot more wonderflash from the wondertrash coming soon. Just be careful if you decide to try this at home. There's bound to be strings attached to these short cuts, and they won't be the magic lasso of truth, either! Those ties that bind can get awfully tight if those high profile celebrity fuck ups are any indication. It seems to happen more sooner than later too!
