Spectacular Nude Photo Offer — Gay Magazine Offers $100,00 For Spectacular Nudes
And the “Grind Off” Fallout continues.
FlavaMen Magazine, the quarterly magazine owned by gay adult film studio Flava Works, is offering Pretty Ricky lead singer Spectacular $100,000 to pose nude on the pages of their next issue.
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The offer was set in motion in last month, when, in an attempt to drum up buzz for the group’s upcoming single “Tipsy,” Spectacular posted on YouTube a video of him grinding to the tune — wearing barely-there red briefs. The video, entitled “Strip with Spectacular,” also challenged other young R&B artists including Trey Songz, Day26, Chris Brown, and Omarion to get in on the action. All the clip really managed to do was prompt questions about Spect’s sexuality.
The singer has since denied rumors that he is gayer than Pottery Barn on a Saturday morning, adding that the video was “just for the ladies.”
“The company has secured and confirmed private investors to provide [Spectacular] with $100,000 in compensation for a photo spread featuring him as the magazine’s cover model,” a FlavaMen statement Friday.
“FlavaMen magazine made the offer due to the company believing that even straight men can pose for FlavaMen magazine,” the company noted. “The magazine’s target audience is gay ethnic men of color, but many of its models do not engage in [same-sex] sexual acts or practice a homosexual lifestyle.”
Flava Works Chief Executive Officer Phillip Bleicher added, “I would love to have Spectacular do a spread. He would be the first male celebrity to do so. That would be history.”
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On June 15th 2009, tshepiso wrote:
its for the money, he shoud do it. we wont think he’s any gayer than the already is.
he he he
On February 13th 2010, K-twist wrote:
I think its kind of gay—————————————— anyway its not the kind of thing a man would want to do (its gay).
On October 21st 2010, Jeffrey Fichtelberg wrote:
If pretty Ricky elects to take it off for money he deserves to receive it.
Having worked with Bleicher my advice get cash first before you open 1 button. He bounces more checks the Serena does tennis balls. Don’t dare let him pay you later, not even your estate will collect.
If you do it, he prints so few copies of Flava men for nation wide distribution, exposure limited