While a sex tape might be a right of passage to celebrityhood for some, New York (
Tiffany Pollard) earned her fame the old-fashioned way: by vying for love via a reality series. She built her audience one catfight, curse-out and rambunctious make-out session at a time via
I Love New York and its predecessor,
Flavor of Love.
So when rumors of a sex tape and some indistinct footage emerged earlier this month, she was quick to set the record straight. It's not her, she says, and her denial is both a quintessentially New York moment and perhaps the most entertaining scandal denial ever.
The I Love New York star told the New York Post that the tape was not hers, and then backed this up by demanding, “"Do I strike you as the kind of woman who would have a sex tape floating around out there and not be standing by that tape?
"I'm nobody's role model," she said to the Post. "I have a trash-talking potty mouth, I do what I want to do, that's who I am as a person."
"I'm a strong black woman,” she continued, “and if I did something like this I would 'fess up. If I had a sex tape, I'd say when I did it and who I did it with - I have nothing to hide. Nobody runs my world other than myself and whatever I do in this lifetime, good or bad, I will own it and I will not own that tape because it's not me."
The I Love New York star pointed out that the star of the sex tape does not have the “Princess tattoo” that she does on her chest, and, she sniffed, was nearly nowhere as creative as she is in the boudoir.
In addition to her brazen attitude, she says that nowadays, a sex tape who be no scandal to shy away from anyway. "Look at Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian, they have sex tapes and it catapulted them into the limelight…A sex tape today does not equal disaster. If I did have a sex tape, I wouldn't deny it."
- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: New York Post
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