Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner Defends Antonella Barba

Hugh Hefner, who knows a thing or two about nudity in photos, says calls for ‘American Idol’ to remove Antonella Barba for the 20-year-old’s racy pictures “hypocritical and dumb.” At a party Tuesday night at his Playboy Mansion to celebrate the third-season premiere of his E! reality show, ‘The Girls Next Door’, Hefner told USA Today, “I think in America we have a very strange attitude toward sexuality and nudity, and it makes no real sense.” Read more.