Welcome to Naked News everyone! I'm Eila Adams!
And I'm Laura Desiree! We're getting ready to ring in a new year and we're thrilled you've joined the party!
Today we're looking back at some of the most memorable moments of 2018 and it begins with our pick for Person of the Year! Any thoughts on who it should be?
All worthy choices Eila, but let's see who the REAL winner is!
Here's Marina Valmont to bestow this year's honor!
Ladies even by Elon Musk's lofty standards, 2018 was a year to remember! For better and sometimes worse, the Space X and Tesla founder was a mainstay in the headlines all year long. In February, SpaceX made an unprecedented double-landing of two Falcon Heavy boosters. The event drew 2.3 million live viewers on YouTube - with hundreds more cheering along in person!
If that wasn't cool enough, the payload included a Tesla Roadster that could remain in orbit for hundreds of MILLIONS of years! Elon showed off his playful side again a few months later by releasing, of all things, a FLAMETHROWER!
All 20-thousand of them sold out, raising 10 million dollars for his OTHER project, The Boring Company. More on that in a minute. It wasn't just Elon's professional life under the microscope this year. His personal life was too! He was all over the tabloids, breaking up with Amber Heard and blowing up the Internet by getting together with pop star Grimes!
That was the good, now for the bad! This summer Musk got involved in the Thai cave rescue - or tried to - by saying he'd built a tiny submarine that could help. The idea was mocked by rescue divers and Elon made headlines by calling one of them a pedophile!
In August Musk caused shockwaves by tweeting he'd secured funding to take Tesla private... except he HADN'T. Oops! That triggered an SEC fraud investigation that wound up costing Musk and Tesla a combined 40 million in fines! Then there was THIS little incident on the Joe Rogan podcast!
Okay technically it's legal in California, but when you're the head of multiple billion dollar companies, smoking weed on camera doesn't inspire confidence! Elon's erratic behavior rattled investors, but after Tesla announced record profits last quarter I'm sure they're willing to tolerate his quirks!
Last but not least there's that OTHER project - The Boring Company! The company hit a major milestone in December by opening its first tunnel in LA to the public. When he's not revolutionizing space travel or the automotive industry, he's helping solve traffic gridlock! Never a dull moment with Mr. Musk is there? And that's why he's our 2018 Person of the Year! For Naked News, I'm Marina Valmont.
I'm Tia Larose. 2018 was quite the year for nudity and no one personified that more then Kim Kardashian. She broke the Internet once again, to promote her KKW Fragrance line. Kim teased us over and over with some of the sexiest shots ever posted to Instagram! Each of these pics garnered well over a million likes and left oh so little to the imagination. And then there's the actual perfume bottle, which was molded based on Kim's killer curves! Ahh, the sweet smell of success!
Scandal broke out in Italy in September when Miss Italy was nearly stripped of her title! That's because after winning the pageant, it came to light that Carlotta Maggiorana had stripped down for a nude photoshoot in 2015... a BIG no-no under Miss Italy's strict regulations. But after what I'm sure was a VERY thorough investigation, officials believed Carlotta's story that the pics had been taken by surprise! We're just happy to see this Italian queen keep her crown!
Marisa Papen's nudity made headlines all over the world! She courted controversy by posing nude in conservative Turkey. And this was AFTER she'd already been arrested for stripping down in front of the pyramids in Egypt. She was also called out by religious leaders for a stunt near Jerusalem's Western Wall! Best of all, the Belgian beauty promises there's more to come! Yet another reason why we can't wait for 2019! Stay tuned for MORE, New Years, Naked News!
Eila, what's your policy when you see your nudity is making someone uncomfortable: cover up, move away, or say “Screw them”?!
Well, if you're a celeb and you manage to create an international incident, you might end up in our 2019 Entertainment wrap-up!
Here's Frankie with a look at the celebs who rocked it or beefed it, in 2018!
One thing I know about celebrities is we love to watch them triumph... and also to watch them fail! These are our top winners and losers of 2018. Cardi B's 2018 was off the charts... by being ON the charts! She became the first female rapper to have THREE number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Cardi B crushing it!
Drake may be a winner, but he got PWNED by Pusha-T's dis track “The Story of Adidon”! Their feud dates back to 2011, but this ditty forced Drake to reveal that he had an illegitimate son!
WE always believed her, but Stormy Daniels' affair with Donald Trump was confirmed when attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to paying her hush money at Trump's behest! Just one reason her memoir Full Disclosure made the New York Times' bestseller list!
In a resurfaced interview, DJ Khaled said “a woman should praise the man” with oral sex... but that he would NOT reciprocate! Here's hoping the Twitter explosion made him put his tongue to better use!
Meghan Markle got off the B-list in the best way possible: she married a prince! Her May wedding to Prince Harry was must-see TV, and with a Royal Bun in the Regal Oven, her time in the spotlight is just beginning!
'Tis better to have loved and lost, but Pete Davidson still lost big! The Saturday Night Live comic stunned the world by getting engaged to Ariana Grande... and then unstunned the world when their engagement was called off!
John Legend earned his last name this year by joining the exclusive EGOT club! With an Emmy win as a producer on Jesus Christ Superstar, Legend became the second-youngest person to capture an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, AND a Tony! EGOTastic!
Solo: A Star Wars Story also lived up to its name, by going SO LOW! With worldwide grosses of under four hundred million dollars, it became the first of the recent Star Wars movies to LOSE MONEY! Guess they couldn't FORCE audiences to care! And finally, you're an Entertainment Winner... because you subscribe to Naked News! I'm Frankie Kennedy, and for 2018, that's Entertainment!
Okay, Eila, every December we try to decide who's going to be our Boob of the Year, and the list is always huge. 2018 was no exception.
So many people do so many STUPID things! It's shocking how people just never learn. But one name KEPT coming up in our discussions, so it was quite apparent who it would be.
Here's Madison to crown this year's, NAKED NEWS, BOOB of the year!
Rolling IN to 2018, Roseanne was looking forward to a second season of the revival of her hugely popular and influential namesake sitcom. The first season back had been a huge success, and everyone anticipated more big numbers - in viewership AND revenues.
But then Roseanne went rogue on Twitter. She described former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett - who is African-American - as "Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby". To nobody's surprise but Roseanne's, all hell broke loose.
She was branded a racist and responded mainly with anger and excuses. That only dug her hole deeper. ABC seemed to have enough and in no time at all, cancelled Roseanne, one of their most popular shows.
To her credit, Roseanne pleaded with ABC to let the show return without her, with a different title, and without her getting ANY credit or compensation moving forward. She did it so the rest of the cast and crew would still have jobs. we'll give her that.
The thing is, this was a self inflicted wound and didn't need to happen at all! Plenty of people act like idiots on Twitter, but when you have a platform like Roseanne, being an idiot has consequences.
And NO, it wasn't some grand conspiracy because she's a Donald Trump fan, like she claimed. I mean, she was an outspoken supporter when she GOT the show revival, so clearly that wasn't an issue.
The issue was that she couldn't resist making a wildly offensive racial dig at someone for basically NO reason at all. And it cost her her TV show, tons of money, and a whole lot of her fans.
It was by far one of the most stunning falls from grace in in the history of TV and for THAT, Roseanne Barr, we're bestowing the title of, our Boob of the Year. For Naked News, I'm Madison Banes.
For a guy whose last name is an article of clothing, Spencer Tunick sure loves nudity! In what is arguably the photographer's most impressive work yet, he got roughly FOUR HUNDRED models in Australia to bare all, with only sheer red fabric to cover them. All the more impressive, considering they were lying on the concrete of a Woolworths' parking lot in fifty degree weather. After first refusing to allow the shoot, it took an online petition to get Woolworths to change their mind. Oh, the things we do for nudity!
2018 was one for the record books, specifically the Guinness Book of World Records. Back in June, it had to update its entry for the world's largest skinny dipping when TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FIVE women took the plunge together into the Irish Sea! And though we're happy just to celebrate mass nudity, it was also for a good cause! The event, which drew women from every Irish county and twenty-two other countries, raised over A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND dollars for charity!
And finally, another skinny dip that was a highlight of the year in nudity... or possibly a lowlight! Either way, thirty-seven-year-old David Weaver certainly made a SPLASH when he decided to jump into the “Dangerous Lagoon” at Ripley's Aquarium in Toronto, home to SEVENTEEN SHARKS! In what will come as no surprise to anyone, Weaver was arrested, and as a condition of his bail, he can't go within three hundred feet of the aquarium and was also ordered to seek counselling for alcohol abuse. Still, grudging respect to anyone who risks entering a shark tank while dangling their bait! Happy NUDE year, everyone! For Naked News, I'm Tia Larose!
Okay, I'm pretty sure neither of us has ever done a SHARK TANK, but Eila, where's the scariest place you've ever gotten naked?
Well, getting naked can itself be a scary thing... which is why we're always happy to celebrate the actresses who take the plunge!
Let's have a look at a few of our favorites from 2018 who took it all off on screen for the very first time.
Here's Whitney St. John with Hollywood X-POSED!
2018 definitely had its ups and downs, but one thing that always got us UP was starlets getting nude for the first time! And while the 2018 class of nudecomers may not have had the biggest names, the view was impossible to beat! Here, with the help of Mr. Skin, are our Top Five nudecomers of 2018!
With all due respect to the best defencemen in the NHL, this year we're giving the Norris Trophy to JESSICA Norris! Outlawed is her first and to-date ONLY movie credit, and it might have to stay that way for awhile, 'cause any scene with less sex and nudity ought to be Outlawed!
Birgundi Baker made our dough rise this year with her pie in The Chi! In the pilot episode, she looks at home on both sides of the bed... top-side AND bottom-side! And thankfully, that's not the only top-side and bottom-side we see. You can keep your Fifty Shades of Grey, all we need is one shade of Birgundi!
Kate Miner gave us a MAJOR thrill with her nude debut in the ninth season of Shameless. Especially since she made us wait for it! Her character Tami had a skinless sex scene in the first episode of the season... and then returned to get topless in the seventh! If you need help remembering that episode number, just think “SEVENTH heaven!”
Allegra Masters, MASTERS the nude debut in the CBS All Access series Strange Angel! It's not exactly rocket science, but going straight from disrobing to a lesbian makeout should have you counting down to blastoff! Hopefully we'll see her in a straight sex scene next, because just like the legendary sex experts, Allegra is a Masters who'd go great with a Johnson!
And finally, we have Chloe Brooks, who BROOKS all the rules by being a nudecomer who gave us our favorite AND our funniest nudity of the year! In the second season premiere of Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here, she shows us why a champagne hot tub is better in theory than in practice! Okay, that hurt OUR vagina! But hopefully, she's fully recovered, because we can't wait for Round Two of Chloe getting Showy! Those were some fantastic nudecomers to our EXQUISITE Hollywood X-posed list! See you in 2019, happy new year everyone!
So we've looked at a few of the people and stories who shaped the news in 2018, and now it's time to put that focus on us!
That's right, we've been broadcasting now, going on 20 years, and every year seems to get better and better.
What are a few of your show highlights from 2018?
Well, here are a few MORE highlights, memories, and moments from 2018 that we won't soon forget! Roll it!
Okay, looks like the big moment is finally here. 2019 is upon us! Quick: do you have any resolutions?
Only one thing left to do now Eila: raise a glass and ring in the new year! On behalf of all of us here at Naked News, thanks for another great year!
Can't wait to see you in 2019! Cheers everyone!
