MTV News profiled how behavior that would have shocked the music world less than a decade ago is almost becoming a requirement to achieve fame today. “To some degree, the threshold of what shocks the American public has been lowered a little bit,” said Michael Slezak, a senior writer for Entertainment Weekly. “Paris Hilton had a sex tape before she had a record deal. We’ve now seen parts of Britney Spears that we wouldn’t have expected to see. So the fact that those things have happened have made us less shocked about Antonella [Barba] in a bikini bottom and a wet T-shirt, even if it is in front of one of the WWII memorials.” Read more.

Frenchie Davis’ manager Belinda tells EUR that Antonella Barba’s departure from ‘American Idol’ last week doesn’t make a bit of difference when it comes to producers making things right with the plus sized singer who was ousted in the second season of ‘Idol’ for porn pictures. “If anything, it raises the suspicion in that Fox is not only not wanting to speak to us and address our concerns in terms of Frenchie, but suddenly Antonella’s off the show,” Foster remarked. “We’re getting many calls, [including] from other media sources, saying something is strange. Was it her actually being booted off by the public, or was it something on a political side to see if they could squash our request to take a meeting?”

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