Anna Nicole Smith

Tourists and television news crews gather at the entrance to the ocean-side home of the late Anna Nicole Smith in Nassau, Bahamas February 25, 2007. Visitors to the Bahamas can sunbathe, snorkel, golf, gamble and shop. Now there is a ghoulish new tourist attraction: touring the sites connected to deceased former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith. REUTERS/Hans Deryk

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Anna Nicole tour is new Bahamas attraction

By Matthew Bigg

NASSAU (Reuters) - Visitors to the Bahamas can sunbathe, snorkel, golf, gamble and shop. Now there is a ghoulish new tourist attraction: touring the sites connected to deceased former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith.

Since the larger-than-life Smith died on February 8, many of the tourists who disembark from cruise liners at Nassau each day have been asking for the "Anna Nicole tour" as part of their day on New Providence island, according to taxi drivers.

"It's sad that she died but we don't look at the negative. There are persons in the taxi industry who are making money because people come here asking to go to the house, the cemetery and the hospital," said Burcil Anderson, a taxi driver waiting in a line of minivans at the port. More...

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Anna Nicole Smith's mother visits her granddaughter Dannnielynn

Anna Nicole Smith's mother Virgie Arthur finally got what she’s been wishing for, for weeks… a visit with her granddaughter. Virgie was granted permission to visit 5-month-old Dannielynn in the Bahamas on last night. She visited Dannielynn from 8-9 pm last night at Horizons, Howard K. Stern's current accommodations. More...

Antonella Barba on 'American Idol' - What Will Happen?

Interesting Week Ahead on American Idol

Here's one prediction for this week's "American Idol" that I'm absolutely sure of: no one will so much as slip off their shoe to rub a foot.

I mean, seriously, did Paul's whole my-lucky-bare-feet thing go thoroughly awry or what? I'm not just talking how he got the "AI" pink slip before other more deserving comrades. I'm also referring to the fact that he was the only one who didn't get so much as a one-sentence courtesy summary from Ryan about what the judges thought of him before being ousted. Sure, Ryan had probably gotten a signal that they were out of time, but what's with being kicked off a show without the rest of us getting to hear why? More...

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Friends Come To Antonella Barba's Defence

By WAYNE PARRY
The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 27, 2007; 4:09 AM

POINT PLEASANT, N.J. -- A close friend of "American Idol" semi-finalist Antonella Barba says that the aspiring singer is not the subject of some graphically sexual pictures purported to be of her that were posted on the Internet last week.

The pictures include one of four women posing topless at the beach, their hands covering their breasts, and others of a woman engaged in a sexual act. The postings were anonymous.

Barba's best friend, Amanda Coluccio of Holmdel, with whom she auditioned and won a trip to Hollywood for the second round before being eliminated, told The Star-Ledger of Newark that the less graphic photos are of Barba, but denied she is pictured in the pornographic ones.

"The really bad ones aren't her. I've studied them," Coluccio told The Star-Ledger for Monday's newspapers. "It's not her nose. She's never had (acrylic nail) tips (like the woman in the photo) in her life. She's the least slutty person I know."

Coluccio did not return phone messages from The Associated Press left at her home.

Meanwhile, here in the 20-year-old's hometown, where signs abound wishing her good luck, friends and strangers alike are supporting Barba, saving their condemnation for whomever posted the pictures online. More...

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Pringles Tryout for American Idol

DAN SEWELL
Associated Press

CINCINNATI - Procter & Gamble Co.'s effort to make its Pringles brand a bigger star is getting a tryout with "American Idol."

The consumer products company has launched a partnership with the television ratings blockbuster in TV commercials, special American Idol Pringles cans and contests including a video jingles competition that can lead to tickets to the talent show's finale.

It's the biggest promotion in the potato chips brand's 37-year history, P&G said. Financial terms weren't disclosed.

"The 'American Idol' tie-in is sort of a bold new step," said Paul Tepfenhart, Pringles brand manager.

Pringles, with more than $1 billion a year in annual sales, has been growing about 5 percent a year, P&G has said. The company has said it wants to heat up the growth, recently extending the brand of chips stacked in cans into packages with a "Select" line of flavors such as sun-dried tomato, cinnamon sweet potato and Szechuan barbecue. More...

Antonella Barba

American Idol Responds | Fake Antonella Photos

Breaking News, Antonella Barba Sex Pictures Are NOT Her

Antonella Barba may have posed in front of the World War II memorial in revealing clothing, but it looks like the sex pictures AREN'T of her. These are more pictures of the girl who looks like Antonella giving a blow job.






''American Idol'' producer Nigel Lythgoe comments on the emergence of provocative photos of Antonella Barba

Is Antonella Barba this season's Frenchie? The American Idol contestant and New Jersey native has been under fire lately due to some rather compromising photos that have popped up recently on the Internet, including one of her on the toilet and one that allegedly shows the singer performing a sex act.

Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe says he has not seen any of the Internet pictures, and only learned of the sexually explicit shots from EW. ''We have really good background checks on everybody, and we deal with that every season,'' he says. ''It's sad, isn't it, that your best friends are the ones that come forward with information that will go to Smoking Gun or put your photographs on the web?''

The naughty photos of the 20-year-old contestant began circulating around the Internet earlier this week. Despite less-than-stellar reviews from the judges for her off-key rendition of ''I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'' this week, Barbara somehow squeaked through to next round of the competition on Thursday's show.

In 2003, Frenchie Davis was booted from Idol's Season 2 when producers discovered she had worked for a porn website. The revelation came after the Smoking Gun reported that Davis posed topless for a website to earn college tuition money. More...

Antonella Barba - The Pics - American Idol

Antonella Barba




Is sex on film (or at least on a memory card) enough to get American idol contestant Antonella Barba unceremoniously dumped from the popular Reality TV show? Now that photos showing Miss Barbara in various stages of undress and a woman that is identified as her servicing an unidentified male what exactly does American idol do? Do they pull a Miss USA and boot the contestant? More...





"American Idol" hopeful Antonella Barba is once again in the news and again it involves pics - but this time they are very NSFW pics. If you're so inclined, you can take a peek over at I Dont Like You In That Way to have a look (be warned this is not what you'd call "idol" behavior, so if your 12 year old daughter looks up to her, maybe you should direct her to another role model - just sayin').

This is the second time questionable pics of Antonella have hit the internet. The first pics were of her sitting on a toilet, as well as a few topless candids at the beach with friends. More...





Whoever has those photos is unloading them a few at a time and with each passing day it seems like another few trickle out. And that means she has received more press than any American idol contestant. It's not like idol needs the boost, but something tells me there numbers will be a bit higher this week as folks tune in to see the girl that is being slammed into search engines across the world wide web.