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January 28, 2015 by  
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His team may have been playing host to India in a one day test.

But Michael Clarke took time out of his day on Monday to meet another tourist – visiting German supermodel Heidi Klum.

The cricketer and his wife Kyly were among a slew of guests braving the grim Australia Day forecast to attend the former Victoria’s Secret angel’s lingerie collection launch in Sydney.

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Cricket WAG: Kyly Clarke shows off a sliver of her toned torso in cropped white top and matching skirt at Heidi Klum Intimates collection launch in Bondi, Sydney on Monday

Cricket WAG: Kyly Clarke shows off a sliver of her toned torso in cropped white top and matching skirt at Heidi Klum Intimates collection launch in Bondi, Sydney on Monday

Scrubbing up nicely for the event, the injured player, 33, looked sharp in a crisp white shirt and denim-look blazer.

It was his wife of two years Kyly however, who stole the show in a racer front crop top that showed off a sliver of her toned torso. 

The 33-year-old teamed the belly baring number with a matching midi-length skirt featuring a racy slit across the front by Australian label Manning Cartel.

The former Dancing With The Stars contestant and WAG smoothed her brunette locks into a sleek and straight style and completed her beauty look with a pop of nude lipstick.

Say cheese! The loved up duo made room for guest of honour Heidi Klum

Say cheese! The loved up duo made room for guest of honour Heidi Klum

While the loved-up couple were inseparable as they posed for the flashbulbs at the entrance to Icebergrs restaurant in Bondi, Sydney, they managed to tear themselves apart for the sake of guest of honour Heidi.

In an image shared on Instagram, Kyly and Michael stand on either side of the 41-year-old stunner and look perfectly co-ordinated as they smile to camera. 

‘Was great meeting Heidi Klum today #bendonlingerie,’ Michael captioned the snap

His leading lady meanwhile, posted a shot sans supermodel to her account writing: ‘The love of my life! Adorable’.

The first lady of cricket was joined by the likes of Jessica Gomes, Jesinta Campbell and Kate Peck for the event that debuted the Heidi Klum Intimates collection.

'The love of my life': The couple were looking cosy as they posed for a cute selfie at the event

‘The love of my life’: The couple were looking cosy as they posed for a cute selfie at the event

Reality stars Tim Robards and Anna Heinrich were also among the high profile guests as well as Home And Away star Tai Hara and his new fiancee Fely Irvine and Balinese princess Lindy Klim. 

Telling Daily Mail Australia what her favourite lingerie was, Heidi said: ‘I do love a lot of the soft bras, not a lot of the big push up bras. I like it when it’s a little more soft and a little bit more of a natural shape.

‘I love it when it’s flirty, I love when there’s a lot of lace. I do love colour too,’ she explained.

But for the mum-of-four, choosing intimates is all about her mood.

‘It really depends on my mood. Sometimes you feel more girly… sometimes sexy. That’s probably more black and garter belts,’ she laughed.

While Heidi says her range will also cater to women of all sizes because she thinks that have been ‘neglected’ in the past. 

Collection launch: Heidi, 41, is Down Under to promote her lingerie collection

Collection launch: Heidi, 41, is Down Under to promote her lingerie collection

Good turn out: Models Samantha Harris and Jesinta Campbell were among the high profile guests Good turn out: Models Samantha Harris and Jesinta Campbell were among the high profile guests

Good turn out: Models Samantha Harris and Jesinta Campbell were among the high profile guests

 


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The departure (and return) of “Page 3″: the media’s conflicted relationship …

January 27, 2015 by  
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The Sun recently announced (via fellow Murdoch organ the Times) that Page 3 – the daily appearance of a topless model in the paper – was to be scrapped. Two days later, the Sun itself announced that after the briefest of hiatuses, it was to return. The press coverage of the whole affair was, according to Heather Savigny, poor – missing the opportunity to shine a real light on other pressing issues such as revenge porn.  

Credit: World Economic Forum, CC BY NC SA 2.0

Credit: World Economic Forum, CC BY NC SA 2.0

On Tuesday last week, the Today programme headlined with the historic announcement that we were witnessing the end of Page 3.  While not directly reported in The Sun itself they noted, The Times had surreptitiously told us that no longer were we to be subject to Page 3 ‘lovelies’. On Thursday, however, the Daily Mail reported that Page 3 was in fact back.

The media play a central role in our democracy. According to liberal theory the media functions to hold power to account – to act as a ‘fourth estate’ on behalf of us, the citizenry. All very well and good. Except this arrangement is not quite a neutral as might be suggested. Nancy Fraser reminds us that a failure to acknowledge gender (gender blindness) does not necessarily equate to gender neutrality. Liberal theories of the media are blind in terms of gender and the types of power to which they refer; this was reinforced by the coverage of the Page 3 story. Indeed the consequences of gender blindness have been mapped by a wider literature: The WACC project maps the uneven descriptive representation of women across news media globally.  Research by Ros Gill, Karen Ross, Liesbet Van Zoonen (among others) reminds us that women are often objectified and sexualised in media representations, and subject to Laura Mulvey’s (heternormative) male gaze.

The BBC claims neutrality. However, consistent with Fraser’s argument, this is not a neutrality which extends to gender.  The agenda setting Today programme chose to ask the views of former Page 3 models on The Sun’s ‘bold’ move; which brought to mind the question of whether turkeys would really vote for Christmas? This ‘neutrality’ was reinforced by the former glamour model interviewed on The World Tonight.  Here again, the discussion was framed around the ‘choice’ of young women to exploit their attributes. A pervasive neoliberal discourse emphasises the ‘choice’ and ‘empowerment’ agenda of these individual young, thin, and predominantly white women; telling us that women are sexually liberated, mistresses of their own destiny (Although a range of experiences ranging from internet trolling and glass ceilings, to unfathomable levels of sexual violence remind us woe betide women who seek to make different ‘choices’).

However, the marketised, sexualised ‘choice’ agenda for women was complemented by the male ‘choice’ agenda as shown on the BBC 6 pm news. Although we saw Lucy-Anne Holmes interviewed (the founder of the No More Page 3 campaign) her airtime was minimal compared to the construction workers who the journalist chose to interview to gauge the ‘public response’ to the demise of topless women in the biggest selling national newspaper.  While one young white man said he was no longer going to buy The Sun, another agreed Page 3 was the very reason he had bought the paper ( which raises questions as to whether page 3’s return a victory for market forces, with the potential for sales to be harmed). The final vox pop quoted a  man saying that had a girlfriend at home, and questioning why he’d want to look at Page 3? In response, the female journalist smirked.

On the 6pm news on the day of the announcement, we discovered that Page 3 was not going to be replaced with Sport, Weather or Why is my cat sad pictures and tweets. Instead, it was replaced with covered nipples. Women were still to be objectified, but covered in lingerie or bikinis. Raunchy Rupert isn’t daft. He was the first to introduce a paywall for his online papers, and it doesn’t really come as a surprise that Page 3 was still accessible in a pay per view online form. So “slender Rupert” – if we find it difficult to see men described by their attributes, why do we not have this problem with women – may have sought to neutralise and seek to diffuse the No More Page 3 campaign, because surely their aims had been achieved?

The media could have chosen to cover this story in a different way. They could have discussed the ways in which the objectification and narrowing of choice for women to behave in sexualised way is incredibly damaging for women. The internet has spawned ‘revenge porn’ where intimate shots of women are posted by revengeful ex-boyfriends in order to humiliate women. Laura Bates’ Everyday Sexism  site points us to the ways in which women experience daily harassment and abuse on the basis of their gender. Page 3 on its own clearly is not the cause of this. But it is part of a wider culture which positions women as objects and adjuncts of men, rather than people in their own right.  The media could also have chosen to interview real women on the street rather than men on building sites in response to this decision. The media could have chosen to explore the links between sexualising women and sexual violence.

Academic debates rage over the extent to which media has an effect or not on their audiences; the intention here is not to seek to prove or disprove this particular point. Rather the aim is to draw attention to the way in which pictures in isolation may or may not be offensive, but when they are situated as part of a wider discourse where women are continually positioned as objects of straight male desire rather than subjects of their own destiny, it becomes easier to see how Page 3 becomes symbolic of a wider structural problem about the way in which we as a society view women and the way in which the media become complicit in the failure to challenge dominate power structures. In choosing to treat this as a light-hearted story affecting only glamour models and building site workers, the BBC demonstrated its neutrality does not extend to gender; it chose not to hold patriarchal power to account.  The real cover up in this story wasn’t about women’s nipples at all; it was about the media’s complicity in the reproduction of patriarchy.

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Dr Heather Savigny is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Media School, Bournemouth University.

 

 

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