Miss NJ, Show your damn photos already.

UPDATE 7.12.07: Click here to see the photos.

All I have to say is thank god I’m not Miss New Jersey, because who knows what people would say about my facebook pictures. For all of the publicity her facebook blackmail scandal has gotten, Amy Polumbo has managed to handle the situation with the gracefulness that apparently only a beauty queen can posses.

The first package of photos arrived last week and threatened Amy to turn in her crown or face having the photos published. The second package, containing actual prints of “scandalous” photos arrived sometime last weekend. Miss NJ won’t discuss the contents of the photos, but it has been said that they were from a drama department Cabaret bootcamp retreat. We all know that with drama comes a bit of eccentricity (and with cabaret, a bit of risqué clothing) but could there really be blackmail material from a school sponsored weekend away?

During her interview with the Today show, Amy said that there was nothing illegal happening in the pictures. And according to Polumbo’s lawyer, it isn’t the content of the photos but rather the fictitious captions that worry her a bit. And rightly so, I can’t imagine the things some people could assume from my pictures if they didn’t really understand the context.

What would disturb me more is the fact that Amy’s facebook profile was private. Which means either one of her “friends” (because really how many people are we genuinely friends with on our networking sites) is trying to ruin her recently crowned glory or someone did a nice little hacking job into her profile. Whoever it is, the situation is a bit disconcerting.

Honestly, I kind of hope she doesn’t turn in her crown and just allows those blackmailing assholes to publish the photos. I’m sure they’re much more tame than anything I, and probably every other college girl, has tagged.

I, for one, would like to see exactly what is so “bad” about Amy’s photos. Because that might prompt a bit of untagging of my own, granted one day I’m ever blackmailed.