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Date Posted: 14:49:40 06/12/10 Sat
News Toronto & GTA
Beauty contestant too hot for pageant
Star of sexy commercials gets boot from Miss Universe Canada
By TAMARA CHERRY AND DON PEAT, TORONTO SUN
Last Updated: June 12, 2010 1:39pm
A Miss Universe Canada hopeful who starred in commercials for an infidelity website is out of the running, a pageant spokesman said Saturday.
The news comes the same day the Sun published a story about a series of racy AshleyMadison.com ads starring 20-year-old Sophie Froment.
Pageant spokesman Andrew Lopez said an official statement outlining the reasons for Froment's removal from the pageant would be released Saturday afternoon.
Reached on her cell phone Saturday, Froment declined comment.
"No, not right now, thank-you. I'll speak tomorrow," she said.
The pageant wraps up Monday in Toronto. One of the judges is Sun columnist Mike Strobel.
A U.S. spokesman for Miss Universe had “no comment” Friday on the brewing controversy.
While at first Miss Universe Canada said the pageant also had “no comment,” later Friday, Denis Davila, national director of Miss Universe Canada, told the Sun he was shocked to see the Ashley Madison videos.
“We stand for the opposite of what this website, Ashley Madison, stands for,” Davila said. “We do not support, endorse or agree for anything that they (Ashley Madison) stand for.”
Davila said he still had to speak with Froment and questioned the affair, involving a contestant, as an “easy way” for Ashley Madison to pretend to be associated or link themselves to the pageant.
“Class is elegance is something we always maintain,” Davila said. “I am a little disappointed to see what is happening right now. I wish (Miss Universe Canada) could be a vehicle for people to promote humanitarian causes that are important to them.”
Under the rules, all contestants have to sign a waiver when they enter the pageant confirming they have never appeared nude and won’t do anything to harm the reputation of Miss Universe Canada. Women are told from day one that there are three reasons for automatic dismissal — nudity, drugs and eating disorders.
“I will be talking to her later (Friday) evening,” Davila said. “She never told us anything we should be aware of in this regard.
“I don’t know if somebody used her image or her body or when this was done.”
Froment’s biography on the Miss Universe Canada site describes the Gatineau, Que., woman as “not just your ordinary girl; she is the girl next door.”
She is studying law at the University of Ottawa, has two jobs and is an actress and model in her spare time, the biography stated.
“Sophie is a hard worker, and especially if she likes what she’s doing, she’ll put all her efforts into it and never give up,” the biography states. “She’s not perfect, but she is a promising woman and always tries her best!”
There are a few versions of the TV commercial.
One featured Froment and a man being caught in bed by his overweight wife, a second, which Ashley Madison tried to submit to be used during the Oscars broadcast, featured a blue-tinged Froment, a nod to the blue-coloured characters of Avatar.
A third video, entitled the sexy commercial, showed Froment in just her panties and a man’s shirt.
Steph Davidson, a spokesman for Ashley Madison, said another video, found online by the Sun, that includes more shots of the couple shedding their clothes, was not used in any ad campaign.
Davidson couldn’t explain why that video was available online.
Ashley Madison president Noel Biderman said Froment had asked him about a possible sponsorship in the lead up to the contest.
“I actually told her that it probably wouldn’t be in her best interest,” Biderman said. “I don’t know who drew the lines together ... I don’t want it to ruin her chances.
“She’s a great girl, she’s super bright, she’s very attractive and she’d probably do a great job representing Canada ... regardless she’s always welcome in my universe.”
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/06/11/14356216.html
don.peat@sunmedia.ca
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