Finland Star, Gary Revel Jr. Accused of Naked Pictures

Feb 4
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2005

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From News Stories in Finland:

One day before the 3rd semi final of Finnish Euroviisut (Eurovision Song Contest 2005) of the Finnish National Finals in Turku,Finland Star, Gary Revel Jr. Accused of Naked Pictures Articles Finland a major scandal is revealed. It has been rumoured that favourite Gary Revel JR (2002 Finland Star) has been acting as nude model for porn pictures.Today, the Finnish delegation is holding crisis meetings to deal with the fallout. The questions is if they will let Gary take part at all.

This years issue of Euroviisut seems to become a scandal year. One month ago we revealed that Anna Stenlunds song was disqualified as it was already recorded by Swedish group Friends. Anna got a new song, that has now managed to go to the final. And now next thing, Gary Revell Jr as nude model. According to Finish newspaper Ilta-Lehti he's posing completely nude. That strikes as a bomb right before he's to perform.

Gary Revel Jr said, "I have never been doing this professionally or got any money for this. Someone has put the pictures online to hurt my career." Gary explains. "I won't let the pictures stop me, and I am determined to sing "You Are A Star" to win everything and go to Kiev and proudly represent Finland." Gary adds, "We have done a lot of hard work and believe in our possibilities to succeed. I will not give up. They cannot disqualify me because of some old pictures."

YLE in crisis meeting EBU-member Kjell Ekholm is sad about what has happened and wish according to Ilta-Lehti that Gary will withdraw by himself. - EBU has no rulE that would prevent an artist to perform because of his past. It's only the performance and the lyrics that cannot be offensive, but now we have a problem that I right now cannot tell you more about. Everything is being case studied, and it's a stiff competition, says Ekholm.

Today Ekholm will hold a crisis meeting with YLE. Gylleneskor.se already been in contact with EBU's Svante Stockselius, and discussed if this could hurt the competition's image. But it looks like Gary can take part in Turku after all, says Ekholm.