Kate Upton

[Prettyphile]

Dear God: Thank you!

Yours Sincerely . . . Humanity

Too hot for TV: Model Kate Upton's kinky bikini advert banned by censors - see what the fuss is about

Model Kate Upton left TV bosses hot under the collar when she stripped off for a sexy TV ad.

American Kate, 19, set temperatures soaring when she appeared in nothing more than a skimpy bikini to promote pay-tv firm DirecTV.

The advert features the blonde model rolling around on a hot, sandy beach.

She then advises customers to "plug in" to the satellite TV firm

But the ad left TV censors red-faced as they ruled the commercial is too hot for TV.

The latest drama follows her appearance in a commercial for a New York clothing line, which was also banned.

The 20 second advert for Zoo York shows Upton pulling some provocative poses in the park

The two confused cockroaches chat about what they can see - with one talking about Kate while the other describes a nearby skate park - leading to rather crude comments about the model.

The advert was later banned from major US TV networks including MTV because of its racy content

[Prettyphile]

Carl’s Jr. Claims Kate Upton Campaign a Success: 120,000 Additional Facebook Likes

Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s brands have long had a reputation for outputting some sexy, star-studded commercials to promote new menu offerings. Their latest promotional vehicle, Kate Upton, was no exception, netting both Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s Facebook Fan pages over 120,000 new Likes since the initial ad aired. Carl’s Jr’s Facebook page alone now sees over 1 million Likes.

The partnership between Kate and the CKE brands was part strategic, part serendipitous. When she was signed on as the spokeswoman, neither CKE nor Kate herself knew she would be chosen as the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model. That announcement, which was made less than two weeks after the commercials were shot, undoubtedly hep propel interest in all things related to Kate, including her Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s ads.

Hardees.com brand site reported a 104 percent increase in site visits (over the previous week) once their :60 Director’s cut video was posted. Carlsjr.com reported an 83 percent increase in visits in the same scenario. The brother-sister brands have also noted that more than 5,000 tweets have mentioned the product, Kate (@KateUpton), the ad, @CarlsJr and @Hardees. The campaign has also received parody from the likes of Hulk Hogan and Jay Leno.

The :60 Director’s cut video has garnered the better part of 4 million views on YouTube. There’s still no word on the sales of the Southwest Patty Melt, but it looks like there’s been some decent brand recognition resulting from the campaign.

[Prettyphile]

^ Everyone claims their girl is the next great "supermodel", but I've yet to see a woman in such a short time do anything remotely close to what Kate has done so far(except the original supers)

[Prettyphile]

Kate Upton victim of frosty reception, catty remarks from fellow Sports Illustrated models, report says

Rival models already have the knives out for the Sports Illustrated (SI) Swimsuit cover beauty Kate Upton. There was a frosty atmosphere during a launch event last month in front of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for this year's issue.

Sources said when the 18 SI models -- including Izabel Goulart, Irina Shayk, Chrissy Teigen, Anne V., Genevieve Morton and Julie Henderson -- lined up for a photo, Upton, standing on one side, was asked to move to the middle of the group by a producer.

At first she was hesitant, but moved after further prompting.

But some of the ladies at the shoot were not pleased at making space. An onlooker said one model rolled her eyes while another mumbled under her breath.

When Upton asked what she said, the model snapped, "Don't worry about me, honey, cause I'm not worrying about you!"

A rep for Upton did not respond to inquiries about the incident. An SI rep said, "If there were words exchanged, it's news to me. Kate was elegant and a complete force of spirit throughout the launch."

http://www.foxnews.com/

[SympathysSilhouette]

Models acting catty amongst each other, yeah that's news-worthy...

[Prettyphile]

(If the news is true) then it's only worthy if you know who Kate bumped out of the middle, and last time I checked she was friends with one of the girls in the middle, which leaves the other one as the offending naysayer, perhaps she's irked that she's been passed over for the cover a bazillion times?

[qisties]

Dear God: Thank you!

Yours Sincerely . . . Humanity

Too hot for TV: Model Kate Upton's kinky bikini advert banned by censors - see what the fuss is about

Model Kate Upton left TV bosses hot under the collar when she stripped off for a sexy TV ad.

American Kate, 19, set temperatures soaring when she appeared in nothing more than a skimpy bikini to promote pay-tv firm DirecTV.

The advert features the blonde model rolling around on a hot, sandy beach.

She then advises customers to "plug in" to the satellite TV firm

But the ad left TV censors red-faced as they ruled the commercial is too hot for TV.

The latest drama follows her appearance in a commercial for a New York clothing line, which was also banned.

The 20 second advert for Zoo York shows Upton pulling some provocative poses in the park

The two confused cockroaches chat about what they can see - with one talking about Kate while the other describes a nearby skate park - leading to rather crude comments about the model.

The advert was later banned from major US TV networks including MTV because of its racy content

I love the firth one but the second one is horrible. I hate insects

[frenchkiki]

^ Everyone claims their girl is the next great "supermodel", but I've yet to see a woman in such a short time do anything remotely close to what Kate has done so far(except the original supers)

Unfortunately the only things I see her doing is lame commercials

The one for DirectTV: Porn star wanna be. By her attitude she could say "Please do me on the beach" that will be the same thing. And I don't think she looks sexy/hot/whatever

for the burger: I won't even comment (again) on that one.

And the one for the clothing line: One of the most stupid commercial ever, not even Kate's fault

Supermodel? She is taking the wrong direction in her career if she wants to be one.

Be a good fashion model is not even in her horizon right now... too bad because a year ago she was having evrything to rule the fashion world.

[Carol PrinceSS]

Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition covergirl Kate Upton donned a blue bikini to promote DirecTV

Photo courtesy Dailymail and My Face Hunter

[Twinkle]

^ Everyone claims their girl is the next great "supermodel", but I've yet to see a woman in such a short time do anything remotely close to what Kate has done so far(except the original supers)

Unfortunately the only things I see her doing is lame commercials

The one for DirectTV: Porn star wanna be. By her attitude she could say "Please do me on the beach" that will be the same thing. And I don't think she looks sexy/hot/whatever

for the burger: I won't even comment (again) on that one.

And the one for the clothing line: One of the most stupid commercial ever, not even Kate's fault

Supermodel? She is taking the wrong direction in her career if she wants to be one.

Be a good fashion model is not even in her horizon right now... too bad because a year ago she was having evrything to rule the fashion world.

Totally agree

[Clauds]

It is true that the girls weren't happy with Kate getting the cover of SI. I know that least three of the girls were really mad & it kind of makes sense because they've all been working for SI longer than Kate but maybe next year it will be one of them, it's not Kate's fault anyway

I don't know if it went as far as "words exchange" though.

[jj3]

Kate Upton

BeachBunny - BRONZE

[Prettyphile]

^ Everyone claims their girl is the next great "supermodel", but I've yet to see a woman in such a short time do anything remotely close to what Kate has done so far(except the original supers)

Unfortunately the only things I see her doing is lame commercials

The one for DirectTV: Porn star wanna be. By her attitude she could say "Please do me on the beach" that will be the same thing. And I don't think she looks sexy/hot/whatever

for the burger: I won't even comment (again) on that one.

And the one for the clothing line: One of the most stupid commercial ever, not even Kate's fault

Supermodel? She is taking the wrong direction in her career if she wants to be one.

Be a good fashion model is not even in her horizon right now... too bad because a year ago she was having evrything to rule the fashion world.

The world does not care about fashion. . . so take supermodel and the fashion industry and separate them. The word Supermodel has been redesigned for the 21st century, but the overall jest of the meaning remains. Kate is branding herself so well that the world is taking notice and remembering her name with the word "model" tacked onto it.

She's selling products like it's no one's business. Causing controversy for just being hot, and people can't get enough of her. Screw the fashion part of it, she doesn't need it. If she stopped "modeling" right this very second and turned to acting she'd still be known as Model-Actress Kate Upton. It might take years for people top stop associating Kate as a model.

Adriana - That hot VS model

Alessandra - That hot VS model

Bar - That hot ex gf of Leo who was on the SI cover

Irina - That hot chick on the SI cover who's dating the super metro sexual football player

Anne V - The girl who was dating the singer guy and did SI

Izabel G - Who? ... isn't she a model?

Isabeli - Wut?

Petra - Tsunami (Ironically enough, she steps away from fashion, is still called a model and is bigger and well known then when she was a model)

Anna BB - Who?

^ These woman aren't branding themselves at all. They're counting on their image and the companies they work for to get them notoriety, and I'm sorry to say it's not working very well. It's taken some of these woman 6+ years to get "famous" and half the population still just refers to them as "that hot model or Oh yeah that blonde who works for VS.. what's her name?!". . . Now Kate totally different story. Kate is set to become a name that damn near everyone in North America knows and talks about, and she's barely started her "career". Hell she's nearly already there.

Now let's look at the original super model . . .

Cindy Crawford a name everyone knew not because of fashion or for the people she walked for . . . that was all secondary. People loved Cindy because she was gossip fodder, she was on everyone's lips for every reason you could come up with, her commercials, movies, music videos, who she was dating, what she was wearing, what she wasn't wearing . . . oh and for the occasional magazine cover (normally it was the mens magazines that got people interested) . . . Doesn't that sound like Kate? Does to me.

The supers were in a time when people really didn't give a shit about fashion till the movie Clueless came about. Everyone was pretty happy wearing flannels, jeans, Doc Martins/Combat Boots, ripped t-shirts and listening to Nirvana . . . The idea of looking at a Versace runway didn't appeal, and if it did most people didn't have access to see the shows lol The PC was very rare then, and people weren't streaming everything. The originals supers did NOT become popular because of "fashion"... they became famous because of everything else they did.

[Warhol]

I don't like this kind of stuffs she's doing too..

[frenchkiki]

^ Everyone claims their girl is the next great "supermodel", but I've yet to see a woman in such a short time do anything remotely close to what Kate has done so far(except the original supers)

Unfortunately the only things I see her doing is lame commercials

The one for DirectTV: Porn star wanna be. By her attitude she could say "Please do me on the beach" that will be the same thing. And I don't think she looks sexy/hot/whatever

for the burger: I won't even comment (again) on that one.

And the one for the clothing line: One of the most stupid commercial ever, not even Kate's fault

Supermodel? She is taking the wrong direction in her career if she wants to be one.

Be a good fashion model is not even in her horizon right now... too bad because a year ago she was having evrything to rule the fashion world.

The world does not care about fashion. . . so take supermodel and the fashion industry and separate them. The word Supermodel has been redesigned for the 21st century, but the overall jest of the meaning remains. Kate is branding herself so well that the world is taking notice and remembering her name with the word "model" tacked onto it.

She's selling products like it's no one's business. Causing controversy for just being hot, and people can't get enough of her. Screw the fashion part of it, she doesn't need it. If she stopped "modeling" right this very second and turned to acting she'd still be known as Model-Actress Kate Upton. It might take years for people top stop associating Kate as a model.

Adriana - That hot VS model

Alessandra - That hot VS model

Bar - That hot ex gf of Leo who was on the SI cover

Irina - That hot chick on the SI cover who's dating the super metro sexual football player

Anne V - The girl who was dating the singer guy and did SI

Izabel G - Who? ... isn't she a model?

Isabeli - Wut?

Petra - Tsunami (Ironically enough, she steps away from fashion, is still called a model and is bigger and well known then when she was a model)

Anna BB - Who?

^ These woman aren't branding themselves at all. They're counting on their image and the companies they work for to get them notoriety, and I'm sorry to say it's not working very well. It's taken some of these woman 6+ years to get "famous" and half the population still just refers to them as "that hot model or Oh yeah that blonde who works for VS.. what's her name?!". . . Now Kate totally different story. Kate is set to become a name that damn near everyone in North America knows and talks about, and she's barely started her "career". Hell she's nearly already there.

Now let's look at the original super model . . .

Cindy Crawford a name everyone knew not because of fashion or for the people she walked for . . . that was all secondary. People loved Cindy because she was gossip fodder, she was on everyone's lips for every reason you could come up with, her commercials, movies, music videos, who she was dating, what she was wearing, what she wasn't wearing . . . oh and for the occasional magazine cover (normally it was the mens magazines that got people interested) . . . Doesn't that sound like Kate? Does to me.

The supers were in a time when people really didn't give a shit about fashion till the movie Clueless came about. Everyone was pretty happy wearing flannels, jeans, Doc Martins/Combat Boots, ripped t-shirts and listening to Nirvana . . . The idea of looking at a Versace runway didn't appeal, and if it did most people didn't have access to see the shows lol The PC was very rare then, and people weren't streaming everything. The originals supers did NOT become popular because of "fashion"... they became famous because of everything else they did.

WTF is going on? i don't even have time to write and bam! it's posted!

someone (pretty?) please delete the double post below?

Anyway...

I am certainly not the exception but I loved models before the super models trend. I was already a fan of Cindy in 87/88 way before the poor mortals not interested in fashion(magazines) heard her name and knew who she was (same thing for about 80% of the models I used to like) Now if do not agree at all about what you said about Cindy C or what a super model is, I kind of agree with the rest... BUT! ( ) To me Kate is branding herself the wrong way. I am the first one who wants to see her in mens magazines half naked but what I see lately (the commercials in particular) is just all wrong. Now that's my opinion but she could do so much better than what she is doing now. What's next? Beer commercials? Condoms? To brand on her image is a good thing but to brand just to have her name next to any shitty produce is all wrong. Maybe she doesn't give a damn to be associate with cheesy commercials/brand as long as she is keeping working and I say good for her, why not? Or she just follow bad advices from her entourage? Or is it just me who want to see her doing more stuff like in "love" (was it Love?) magazine? She can buzz on her name by doing the commercial stuff (good ones if possible) but seeing her in beautiful (not even fashion) editorials wouldn't hurt? I am sure Kate can be more versatile than what we see now and North America will have even more to talk about... till next girl

damnit! half an hour for that shit to be posted!!

[SympathysSilhouette]

But does it really matter if some other SI girl was jealous of Kate and said one or two unkind words? Does this stuff not happen at nearly every runway show, photo-op, shoot or whatever where more than two models are together?

Why would models be different from any other profession in that regard? Any old office in the world has jealousy, hypocrisy, gossiping, ... So basically models are human. Big surprise there...

[phenobarbie]

I think in the case that it's a photo-op and in public that the professionalism of making a catty comment in that situation is room to talk in a gossip ridden society. It's also potentially damaging to future work with the company. Just saying, at some point the high school melodrama needs to go out the window and the professionalism needs to step in. It's one thing to say it behind closed doors, (it's acceptable and even to some extent expected as you say), but to say it in front of press is highly inappropriate.

[Maiya]

The world does not care about fashion. . . so take supermodel and the fashion industry and separate them. The word Supermodel has been redesigned for the 21st century, but the overall jest of the meaning remains. Kate is branding herself so well that the world is taking notice and remembering her name with the word "model" tacked onto it.

She's selling products like it's no one's business. Causing controversy for just being hot, and people can't get enough of her. Screw the fashion part of it, she doesn't need it. If she stopped "modeling" right this very second and turned to acting she'd still be known as Model-Actress Kate Upton. It might take years for people top stop associating Kate as a model.

Adriana - That hot VS model

Alessandra - That hot VS model

Bar - That hot ex gf of Leo who was on the SI cover

Irina - That hot chick on the SI cover who's dating the super metro sexual football player

Anne V - The girl who was dating the singer guy and did SI

Izabel G - Who? ... isn't she a model?

Isabeli - Wut?

Petra - Tsunami (Ironically enough, she steps away from fashion, is still called a model and is bigger and well known then when she was a model)

Anna BB - Who?

^ These woman aren't branding themselves at all. They're counting on their image and the companies they work for to get them notoriety, and I'm sorry to say it's not working very well. It's taken some of these woman 6+ years to get "famous" and half the population still just refers to them as "that hot model or Oh yeah that blonde who works for VS.. what's her name?!". . . Now Kate totally different story. Kate is set to become a name that damn near everyone in North America knows and talks about, and she's barely started her "career". Hell she's nearly already there.

Now let's look at the original super model . . .

Cindy Crawford a name everyone knew not because of fashion or for the people she walked for . . . that was all secondary. People loved Cindy because she was gossip fodder, she was on everyone's lips for every reason you could come up with, her commercials, movies, music videos, who she was dating, what she was wearing, what she wasn't wearing . . . oh and for the occasional magazine cover (normally it was the mens magazines that got people interested) . . . Doesn't that sound like Kate? Does to me.

The supers were in a time when people really didn't give a shit about fashion till the movie Clueless came about. Everyone was pretty happy wearing flannels, jeans, Doc Martins/Combat Boots, ripped t-shirts and listening to Nirvana . . . The idea of looking at a Versace runway didn't appeal, and if it did most people didn't have access to see the shows lol The PC was very rare then, and people weren't streaming everything. The originals supers did NOT become popular because of "fashion"... they became famous because of everything else they did.

you are so right, all this is so true.

[Twinkle]

All very good points, I'm just happy Kate is doing so well. Love seeing her get all the attention she is getting

[frenchkiki]

you are so right, all this is so true.

No all of this is not true.

All very good points, I'm just happy Kate is doing so well. Love seeing her get all the attention she is getting

if her objective is to be just famous for doing what she is doing now, well she is doing well.