After days of excruciating buildup, Miss Garden State has finally released those controversial photos of herself.

Vanessa Williams she’s not. In fact, the photos, which depict a clothed Miss NJ stretching and breast-feeding her boyfriend, are way lamer than most photos I see go up on Facebook everyday — including my friend Anthony’s 47 albums dedicated to his semester in Budapest.

So what’s the big deal? I can only conclude that Miss NJ is a big, fat attention whore, scheming to steal America’s heart and crown by overcoming this horrible media adversity with grace and politesse. She might have had something if the pics were of her shooting up in the slums of Trenton with a gaggle of trannies, but spreading your jean-clad legs for a photo is not exactly controversy. It’s called flash photography. (Photo Slideshow after the jump) Read More »

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. Read More »