July 12, 2007

Miss NJ, Amy Polumbo releases the photos.

This is an update to this entry where someone was trying to blackmail her into relinquishing her crown.

Amy Polumbo spoke on the Today show this morning and decided to reveal the photos herself.
The photos were being used in an attempt to blackmail her, and give up her crown and title as Miss. New Jersey.

Miss New Jersey released about a dozen embarrassing photographs of her partying and drinking exclusively to TODAY on Thursday. The blonde beauty queen claims the images were sent to pageant officials in an effort to force her to give up her crown.

“I feel sick to my stomach. I really do,” Amy Polumbo told host Matt Lauer. “You know, they’re not that bad, but they were meant to be private. And it is making me feel very vulnerable that the entire country has to see them now because of this situation.”

The photos really aren’t that bad, by contemporary standards, but they aren’t necessarily good for the 22-year-old theater major’s public image, either.
One shows a smiling Polumbo with a man she identified as her boyfriend, his open mouth over her left breast. Polumbo is fully clothed in the photo, which appeared to be snapped at a nightclub.

“This was meant to be private,” Polumbo said.

The photos are in the extended entry, and not one of them is worthy of blackmail or having her crown stripped away in my opinion.