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Lara and Michael: The nude photo, the footballer ex and the public meltdown

Monday, March 1, 2010
Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke
The Aussie cricket star is left red-faced after nude photos of his fiancée surface, just days after an embarrassing public spat at the SCG.

As the partner of Australian cricket team captain-in-waiting Michael Clarke, Lara Bingle worked hard to shed the title of home-wrecker she earned after a sordid affair with rogue AFL star Brendan Fevola.

But that scandalous past continues to haunt the model and is again threatening to bring down her high-profile engagement to the cricket superstar.

Woman’s Day can reveal exclusively how an explosive nude photo scandal is engulfing the often volatile union between Lara and Michael – just days after her public meltdown at the Twenty20 match against the West Indies at the Sydney Cricket Ground on February 23.

As Lara lost her cool with Michael in front of hundreds of SCG members, the Speedo model was also dealing with the embarrassing reality that a raunchy naked photo of her was being distributed to our elite sportsmen.

The revealing image, taken on a phone camera, was allegedly snapped by Brendan during their affair more than three years ago, according to one AFL player who spoke to us on the condition of anonymity.

It has been confirmed to Woman’s Day that the steamy image of Lara in the shower has become the electronic equivalent of a chain letter, being willingly sent via text message to and from AFL players, across multiple clubs.

“The image is on a lot of people’s phones,” confirms the footballer, who admits he received it from a third party.

The latest controversy engulfing Lara, 22, puts more pressure on her relationship with Michael. The couple have already delayed wedding plans as they spend less time with each other because of their respective careers.

Michael, 28, is understood to have stayed at Quay West apartments in Circular Quay with his team-mates last week, instead of travelling the 10 kilometres home to Bondi Beach, and Lara.

Certainly tempers were fraying at the SCG when a clearly distressed Lara lashed out at Michael in the Members Stand, while dozens of cricket fans watched and took photos of the couple on their mobile phones. Photographs showing the couple fighting were published in News Limited papers last week. “Michael was clearly embarrassed and tried to shield Lara from everyone who was craning their necks to see what they were fighting about,” confirms one onlooker.

“They went at it for about 10 minutes and Michael kept turning around to see who was watching. I felt really sorry for him.”

User reviews
Lara needs to get out of the public eye and get back some self respect. It's quite obvious by the public's reaction, in print, oneline and radio talkback that the majority of us do not care about her or have sympathy for her. Lara does not contribute anything to Australia and I hope the media stops shoving her in our faces. We don't need an Australian Paris Hilton and unfortunately that's all Lara is.
OMG ova it! Honestly who really cares! For someone who has already posed half naked in magazines already. Oh what she didn't get paid for this one in the shower. So she has to do interviews now like this one to get paid!!! Anything to get her so called profile up. Girl get a real job. Everyone else talk about some real NEWS.
I am so glad that WD published the interview with Lara telling her side of the story, everyone should remember that she was only 19 at the time and was obviously influenced by the older Fevola who lied to her and then did the lowest of things betrayed her trust, obviously trying to make a big fella of himself with all the other boys by sending her nude photo around, how would he feel if someone did that to his own daughters in a few years time not nice Fev. I was a Carlton member until this year just so sick of football and all the boozy behaviour of so called professional sportsmen, where is the AFL in all of this not brave enough to make a stand.
Hey Jason how much clothing do you wear when you shower? When your in a relationship you don't automatically assume you have to lock the bathroom door to keep your partner out. Clearly Fevola is someone you shouldn't even let in through the front door. Lara's only fault is an appalling taste in a boyfriend, but given she was only a teenager at the time, that's hardly surprising.
If you dont want photos circulating of yourself nude - dont get nude infront of the camera. Simple. Sounds like she wanted this to happen.
When is this country going to realise this Fevola is nothing but the lowest of the low? He is just plain vile and doesn't deserve to be breathing the same air as other Aussies. So he took the photo, OK, why did he have to forward it on the every footballer in the country? Simple, he's a low life and a looser and has a major ego problem. And as long as these clubs keep paying him big money and telling him how great he is he will continue to act like gutter tripe. It also doesn't say much for his wife if this is the type of man she could possibly be attracted to. Maybe she should check to see how many of these types of photos of her are also out there, because he would have no problem putting them around. As for Lara Bingle she should have had more sense then to get involved with vermin in the first place. At least she learnt by her mistake. I hope she & Michael work things out. You know all the money in the world does NOT breed class Fevola.

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