Sweeten-Shults: Sex tape scandals can be difficult to erase
If there were a celebrity handbook, this should probably make the Top 10: Whatever you do, don’t make a sex tape.
The latest celebrity in a sex tape pickle is Kendra Wilkinson, formerly of reality show “The Girls Next Door,” which featured her and two of Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriends.
Wilkinson is the subject of her own E! channel reality series “Kendra,” is married to professional football player Hank Baskett, and is a new mom, by the way.
She’s reportedly trying to block Vivid Entertainment, which owns the rights to the tape, from releasing it. She has said to the press that she’s “devastated” by the thought of it going public. Wilkinson admits she made the tape with a trusted ex-boyfriend but made it for private purposes only.
Considering the long list of other celebrities this has happened to, you would think Wilkinson should have known better.
Don’t trust anyone.
According to other reports on the Internet, however, Wilkinson might not be as devastated as she’s leading everyone to believe. It seems she was shopping the tape around a few months ago.
Wilkinson isn’t the first person, celebrity or otherwise, to find herself in this pickle.
Pamela Anderson became the infamous Pamela Anderson after a sex tape made with ex-husband Tommy Lee made the rounds. Heiress Paris Hilton, a celebrity who’s famous for being famous (and for a couple of reality shows), also found her star rising after a sex tape was leaked onto the Internet, and Kim Kardashian, yet another celebrity famous for being famous (and for a couple of reality shows), found herself exposed to the public in ways she didn’t want herself exposed.
Even former presidential nominee John Edwards can’t escape the sex tape scandal. A sex tape exists, according to aide Andrew Young.
Game over.
The same can’t be said for celebrities.
While a sex tape still is scandalous in political circles, in celebrity circles, this is the kind of thing that can make you even more famous.
Where would Pamela Anderson be without it? Possibly not the infamous Pam Anderson, scandal goddess. And what about Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian? Their celebrity owes its bright light, at least a little, to these sex tapes.
It’s gotten to the point now that celebrities figure if a tape like that is going to make it out into the public — and make a lot of money, by the way — well, they better get in on it and make a few bucks themselves.
Certain things you do will always come back to haunt you. A sex tape is one of those things.
How will Wilkinson explain something like that to her son when he’s older and hears about it from his friends or stumbles upon it himself?
The next time someone says, “Hey, honey, let’s make a sex tape,” maybe your answer should be: “Nah. I’m good. Let’s just go buy some shoes or something.”
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