July 12, 2007
Miss NJ Shows "Racy" Pictures On Today Show
Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo made a repeat appearance on the Today Show this morning to share her "racy" photographs with Matt Lauer. This is how the Today Show website describes the photographs, which are apparently the ones someone took from Polumbo's Facebook profile and mailed to pageant officials:
The photos really aren’t that bad, by contemporary standards, but they aren’t necessarily good for the 22-year-old theater major’s public image, either.Polumbo is clothed in every photograph; she says she was 21 in the photographs where she's drinking and she says she was posing with the little Halloween gourds because a friend said she was flat-chested. Polumbo says she wanted to make the pictures public because there's been so much speculation. And while she's "sick" to her stomach about revealing them, Polumbo did admit that her behavior in some was not "ladylike. But I’m not a robot. I’m also a theater major. It was a mistake with my friends, acting silly ... What I think is OK, someone else’s eyebrows could be raised.”One shows a smiling Polumbo with a man she identified as her boyfriend, his open mouth over her left breast. Polumbo is fully clothed in the photo, which appeared to be snapped at a nightclub...
Another photo shows Polumbo, wearing blue jeans, spreading her legs high in the air. She said the photo was taken in a limousine during a birthday celebration for a friend. Two men are smiling in the background.
“We were tumbling around and someone took a photograph,” Polumbo said.
She also made a point of saying the supposed photographs of her in today's Daily News are not of her. And a fashion note: Polumbo was wearing a yellow outfit - it looked like a dress with a matching cardigan - today, which seems much more demure than her red tank top and black skirt from Monday.
Polumbo and her lawyer allege that the packages (a second one was sent later) were sent to her and pageant officials in an attempt to get Polumbo to step down. NJ pageant officials will be deciding her fate today; one told the Daily News, "They sound like Halloween dressup pictures. I mean, you see a lot more skin - a lot more skin - in our bathing suit competition." Her friends and family have been standing by her, as are her classmates at Wagner College on Staten Island.
Do you think the photographs are bad? They probably aren't great for aspiring pageant queens, but they're pretty tame - we were expecting much worse.
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Lovely, I have a feeling they took some that's far worse and those will be coming out soon to prove what a hypocrite she is.
Can we get the Irish back to running this area back?
Utterly harmless pictures. If the Miss NJ officials force her to step down, they'll be complete schmucks.
Ew ew and ew- yet not surprising. I think beauty contests (and contestants) are lame and wrong and objectifying, but if you're going to give a 'title' to someone, please, give it to someone who doesn't act like a common bar-room whore. Give it to someone who can be a good role model- for whatever that's worth. Oh New Jersey.
What a non-issue. Those shots are completely goofy and harmless.
This poor girl. We've reached a point where people can't have harmless fun with their friends? Please. Leave this girl alone!
#3: you can't expect any 22 year old girl these days to not have taken ANY goofy photos. the "role model" you are looking to give this "title" to does not exist. what's wrong with this or any girl having a little bit of fun? who do you expect pagent contestants to be? some people are ridiculous.
These look like basically every single other pic on Facebook.
Yeah definitely Harmless. I was expecting more nudity, but I give her props for coming forward and airing her dirty laundry before the blackmailer did anyway.
Ongoing quagmire in Iraq? 46 Million Americans without healthcare? Miss NJ got drunk and let people take lame-ass photos of her... OMG! What is this world coming to?
It's insane that anyone would even consider stripping this girl of her title over these ridiculous, silly, and inoffensive photographs. She's fully clothed, she's in a couple of mildly sexually suggestive positions, and she's hanging out at clubs.
So she's ... any twenty-one-year-old in any city in the US. Big deal.
I'm ashamed to be Italian-American, what's next, posing for that Mob magazine?
white trash.
Gothamist..
Stop graying out guests ( people who don't want gothamist to sell their e-mail addresses ) comments
thank you
THOSE are the pictures? Holy crap, Big Freaking DEAL.
well she is DEF not at new vic now is she?
Thats crap! I was hoping for some at least a nip. bor-ing!
No class bimbo.
sperm receptacle. will sell out her hatchet job to the highest bidder.
Still no word from Al Sharpton.
If anything, this is just another reminder to not post anything online that you wouldn't want your boss (in this case the pageant) to see.
If Miss America lets the blakmailer win, they're opening the doors to more stuff like this. It'll be like Colombia in no time.
if 22 year olds don't behave like this, i do not know what this world is coming to.
These are perfectly harmless photographs, un-ladylike, but certainly nothing for a 22 year old to be blackmailed for. I can't believe so many of you would call her a whore for having fun with her drama friends!
What a pathetically chaste, and small minded society we live in. Big fucking deal. I sincerely doubt that all those raising their eyebrows have not engaged in similar, if not "worse" behaviour.
That's it? I was expecting some toplessness at least. Lame.
It's completely hypocritical for "pageant officials" to get upset about Miss NJ's sexually suggestive photos when they're the acting officials of an event that continues to promote the sexualization of women.
they should have legs spread out to show your camel toe as an event in the pageant.
show that cooch, spread em wide. yeah, that's lovely for a girl to do. that photo says it all.
throw in a titty suck from a frattie and what do you get? Your HR person.
hahaha 25. totally
This is nuts, who cares about this stuff?
Amy.....You look like a lot of fun. Call me!
Wait - a beauty pagent contestant has photos of herself that bring attention to her breasts?!? Say it ain't so!!!
does anyone think she made this up as a publicity stunt? she does aspire to be an actress in hollywood.
@30. True. I had never heard of her before this.
I hope you all saw the pictures.
She has meatheads as friends. New Jersey is a shithole ever since bensonhurst/staten island moved in.
this incident is just as bad as yoko ono's driver threatening to blackmail her by releasing photos of her in her pajamas...as if the art world hadn't already seen her vagina in public! tsk tsk, shouldn't we be caring about who died today in iraq more?
So what if she did take nude pic's . Like those criticizing are perfect ! It's sad that this world is full of haters who just can't get pass their own shortcomings . This is just pathetic, Someone here is trying so hard to bring-down someone else doing something that probably comes natural . Haters never succeed, They just prosper and pay for there sins throughout life . Posted by; "Still Not Amused"
I'm not criticizing her cause I'm perfect but that she's so stupid, did you hear her talk.
look at that weird shaped head, did you see her grandmother? that's what she's gonna look like and have that salty mouth like her grandmother.
the apple does not fall far from the tree. that means check if they have any "mob" ties.
She looks like a total airhead in the photos. But then again, nobody expects beauty pageant contestants to be rocket scientists.
You got to be kidding me. This is what all the fuss is over? These pictures are absolutely harmless. Unlady like yes but harmless. And i think its ridiculous that anyone sees these as anything other than an adult on a night out with friends. And i would even venture to say that all the people that have posted negative things have done the same if not worse.
Typical NJ/Staten Island trash.
the pageant should look into any mob ties before it bites them in the ass.
good grief - those photos are nothing.
I still remember the nude photos of Vanessa Williams...now those were SOMETHING.
To: Poster #35 . "READ" the previous post by Ur's truly . It explains almost exactly what you posted in Ur comment ! By the way , By commenting on her looks You are criticizing her ! You Hater ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"
check if her parents has ties to the mob, I hope miss america contestants go through a background check. this story ain't over, more will come out.
this only makes the blackmailers stronger because she's a hypocrite.
if you guys want to see some REALLY risque pictures that got a beauty queen dethroned (though it wasn't nearly as big a public spectacle..which is strange considering the pictures).. look no further than former Miss Nevada, Katie Rees.
http://www.katiereesphotos.org/
(nsfw)
Though imagine if she wins Miss America, and they post those photos around the world: "This is the woman that Americans say is the best woman in their country."
Would love to hear Bushie try to talk his way around that: "Well, here in America, we admire a woman who...."