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.

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.

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.”

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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By Jen Chung in News on July 12, 2007 11:18 AM

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guest

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...."

Nick S

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)

guest

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.

guest

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"

guest

good grief - those photos are nothing.

I still remember the nude photos of Vanessa Williams...now those were SOMETHING.

guest

Typical NJ/Staten Island trash.

the pageant should look into any mob ties before it bites them in the ass.

guest

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.

Spirit of 76

She looks like a total airhead in the photos. But then again, nobody expects beauty pageant contestants to be rocket scientists.

guest

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.

guest

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"

jammer

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?

guest

I hope you all saw the pictures.

She has meatheads as friends. New Jersey is a shithole ever since bensonhurst/staten island moved in.

guest

@30. True. I had never heard of her before this.

guest

does anyone think she made this up as a publicity stunt? she does aspire to be an actress in hollywood.

CR

Wait - a beauty pagent contestant has photos of herself that bring attention to her breasts?!? Say it ain't so!!!

Ace

Amy.....You look like a lot of fun. Call me!

guest

This is nuts, who cares about this stuff?

guest

hahaha 25. totally

guest

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.

guest

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.