Talk:Rebekah Wade

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[edit] Usual tabloid hypocrisy #263: paedophilia

A few years ago Wade's paper carried a nude (with breasts in full show) picture of a girl who was 16 on the day of publishing. The text basically commented on how she was celebrating the fact that she could now do such photo shoots as she was now "legal". It took another non-newspaper publication to point out that if she was 16 on the day of publishing, she was 15 at the time of the photo shoot. Therefore under UK law the newspaper and the photographer had engaged in the production and circulation of child pornography. That story never hit the front page......or any page. I'll try and find some references to this story so it can be added to the appropriate Wiki pages.

I think you have this a little wrong. The episode in question referred to The Sport, which is owned by David Sullivan. The paper featured many pictures of partially undressed ladies every day, a feature extended to The Star when that was under Sullivan's control. For several days they ran a daily "clothed" picture of a young lass particularly notable in the pneumatic chest department even in such distinguished company. The running tag was "she's fifteen, but as soon as she is sixteen, and therefore of legal age, we will have a topless picture". The pic was published supposedly on her sixteenth birthday, with the implication as you say, either it was not really her sixteenth birthday or else she was underage (it could have been both). I forget her name of the top of my head, but she did appear quite regularly for a while in top-shelf mags. Nowadays, of course, glamour models have to be eighteen, in print, on video and on the internet.

An interesting adjunct to the article is in Footnote [4][1]. The model Rebekah (Rebekah Parmar) was voted Page 3 Girl for all time (ahead of the likes of Samantha Fox, Linda Lusardi, Jilly Johnson, etc, Jo Guest even) at the height of her career as a hardcore porn model, one has to wonder whether this astonishing result was due to dubious votes on her behalf.

Guy 23:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)