Teen quest promoter says no consent yet from sexy, saucy Sophie
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 11:38:00
In a Facebook chat last night, Sophie - whose rise to "stardom" revolves around a girl her age having sex, drinking alcohol and a body full of tattoos, piercings and permanent make-up - denied any connection with a local events firm promoting the online Miss Teen Malaysia beauty pageant.
She said she had no idea that the firm, TeensInAsia.com, was using her as a "role model" to lure girls below age 18 to enter the contest.
"I have no idea .... no connection at all (with anybody in Malaysia)," she said in response to yesterday's Being Frank column that exposed TeensInAsia.com of using her riotous image luring young Malaysian girls to join the teen quest.
In an immediate response, the local partner of TeensInAsia.com, Alan Chow, told The Malay Mail this morning they had been planning to contact Sophie to get her consent.
Asked if he viewed his events firm's scheme was tantamount to sexualisation of innocent girls, Chow said: "I have pulled out of the partnership (with Australian Khaled Aban) .... I made a mistake and am very sorry."
On whether Khaled would go ahead with the pageant, Chow said: "What do you think after your newspaper carried the article yesterday?"
Pressed further, Chow said Khaled could not be contacted since yesterday and that potential sponsors - whom he declined to name - had all pulled out after the story broke.
The Malay Mail reported yesterday that the unregistered events firm, headed by Australian Khaled, was planning the pageant using Sophie, who holds 22 teen beauty pageant titles, as the showpiece lure.
Young girls are told to streak ahead of their friends and live their dreams in the world of acting and modelling.
Khaled and his pals have taken to Facebook to create a buzz about the quest and his website originating from the UK shows photos of 30 Asian teenagers, including supposedly Malaysians, with 12 of the girls pictured said to be under the age of 16.
The report launched a debate about sexualisation of young girls with readers urging the authorities to take action against the events firm.
Sophie, when asked if she viewed the move as an attempt to sexualise teenage girls here, said: "I'm not doing interviews for newspapers anymore."
She said she would alert her manager to get the matter sorted out.
Several readers noted that Sophie was a tragic consequence of bad parenting and agreed with The Malay Mail that such a pageant would erode good, respectable values and diminish well meant religious belief.
Criticisms were also heaped on Sophie and her 39-year-old mother who gave the little girl her blessings to sleep with four boys in six months in their house.
The mother was also ridiculed for allowing Sophie to have piercings in her ear, nose and belly button, flowers inscribed on her tummy, her name written on her wrist and inked-on eyeliner, lip liner, a fake beauty mark and her eyebrows tattooed with makeup.
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