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Date Posted: 10:17:14 06/14/10 Mon
'I don’t think it is fair at all'
By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun
The beauty queen contestant jilted by Miss Universe Canada says “it’s not fair” pageant organizers dumped her after seeing a nude ad she filmed for an infidelity website.
Vowing she has “nothing to hide,” Sophie Froment, 21, asked what’s wrong with her taking it all off for an Ashley Madison ad while contestants wear next to nothing in bikinis for the swimwear portion of the pageant.
“I don’t think it is fair at all,” Froment told the Sun in an interview Sunday. “They make us go on a stage wearing bikinis and that’s OK to them.
“I don’t think I did anything wrong ... I wasn’t doing porn.”
Froment was sent packing by the pageant Saturday, the same day the Sun ran a front page story about her steamy ad for AshleyMadison.com - a website that bills itself as a place where married people looking to have an affair can connect.
After they decided to send her packing, organizers drove her to the bus station in downtown Toronto. They left her with $100 for her ticket back home to Gatineau, Que. and meals, she said.
Rather than hitting the road, she called Ashley Madison.
In one of the versions of her ad filmed last fall, Froment strips naked and romps around in bed with a man.
A few months after that ad was filmed, she signed up for the Miss Universe Canada competition.
Because contestants sign a form saying they’ve never appeared nude, that ad - which an anonymous tipster pointed the Sun to online on Friday - was enough for Miss Universe Canada to give her the boot.
“I’m a woman, I’m not scared of my body and I love my body,” Froment said. “There’s nothing wrong with me showing skin.”
Froment said the naughtier version of the ad was shot for Playboy TV but it was never used and she simply forgot about it.
“I made a mistake basically,” she said. “I didn’t know that it existed ... I guess I forgot it, I guess I didn’t pay attention enough which is why I signed the contract.
“It wasn’t on purpose, I wasn’t trying to do anybody wrong or anything like that.”
Speaking for the first time since she was ditched, Froment said Ashley Madison has been really supportive of her since the pageant affair broke out. The company arranged media interviews for her inside their Yonge and Eglinton office on Sunday. The University of Ottawa law student said she is still mulling a job offer from the company as a translator made this weekend.
Despite the job offer and her work last year in the Ashley Madison TV commercial, Froment said getting kicked out of the pageant was not a marketing ploy.
“If people want to believe it’s a publicity stunt, it’s their choice, I mean I can’t be in everybody’s head and say, ‘No, that’s not what it is,’” she said.
Pageant organizers haven’t seen the last of Froment.
The former contestant vows she’ll be in the audience at the Miss Universe Canada finale Monday.
“I’ll be there (Monday) cheering for the girls,” she said. ”I’m going to wear my evening gown that I won’t get to wear for the pageant, but I’ll be there and have a blast.”
http://www.torontosun.com/news/2010/06/13/14375256.html#/news/torontoandgta/2010/06/13/pf-14374611.html
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