Glee's Dianna Agron Apologizes for GQ Photo Spread
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Glee's Mark Salling says The Parents Television Council needs to relax: The November issue of GQ - featuring a scantily clad Dianna Agron and Lea Michele - isn't that bad.
"Personally, I think it's not a big deal," he tells 102.7 KIIS FM's Jojo Wright. "... Lea has every right to do that."
The PTC said Wednesday that the magazine "borders on pedophilia" for the way it sexualizes Agron and Michele, both 24, "who play high school-aged characters on Glee ... it isn't good for families."
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Says Salling, 28, "I mean, come on! We're obviously not in high school. It's tongue-in-cheek that we're in high school, so whatevs ... There's more important things to worry about in the world."
Agron blogged about the controversy Wednesday night, apologizing to anyone who might be "hurt" or "uncomfortable" by the shot. She stressed, "We are not the first" public figures to pose provocatively.
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"Nobody is perfect, and these photos do not represent who I am," she wrote, adding that GQ "asked us to play very heightened versions of our school characters. A 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' version. At the time, it wasn't my favorite idea, but I did not walk away."
If parents are upset over the magazine, it is their job to keep it away from their children, not hers.
"If your 8-year-old has a copy of our GQ cover in hand, again I am sorry," she wrote. "But I would have to ask, how on earth did it get there?"
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17Parents should stop using the media as a Scape Goat and do the jobs themselves in keeping an eye of what their children are watching. Also talk to your children, they are young not Stupid.
If people cannot differentiate real people from characters on a tv show that is their problem. These women are both old enough that there is nothing creepy or gross about the picture. They are all grown up, not in high school, so get over yourselves!
I don't really see the big deal in this photo. People need to stop being so prude - these people are almost 30 years old. GET OVER IT !
Boo f.u.c.k.i.n.g hoo. This is nothing more than a tempest in a teapot. Moving on....
Those woman can "portray" themselves as whatever they want. You can't say that it doesn't matter that they're old enough, because that's the only thing that does matter. Taking that choice out of their hands is denying them the right to rule their own bodies.
I agree with John Thomas. These women are old enough to do as they please and if you don't want to see it DON'T BUY the magazine. Also, if you don't want to see it on TV TURN THE CHANNEL!!!
Oops, my mistake. I need my vision checked apparently...thought it was Rolling Stone, not GQ. Still think it was more on the inappropriate side of things either way. But I guess GQ isn't exactly aiming for the Teen Beat crowd anyway...
This is GQ, for crying out loud. Have these idiots ever *seen* GQ before? Do they know it's for grown-ups, for Gentlemen, for people who know very well that all 3 of these actors passed drinking age a while ago? (These are rhetorical questions, obviously, but I would love for the mewling nannies to answer them in truth.)
There have been WAAAAAY worse covers than this. There isn't even any nudity being portrayed, no cleavage, butt cracks, bellies, nothing! I still don't see the problem.
I think it's a shame that GLEE seems to be doing more of this type stuff. I'd like them to focus on what makes the show different-their talent. The whole "sex" angle is played out.
And let's not forget Lindsay Lohan's sister...she's also underage and dresses like this...worry about the REAL underage girls, NOT the pretend TV show ones.
"They are worried that adult men are going to be getting hot over pictures of girls dressed as teenagers."-mary smith Oh come on. This is beyond ridiculous. IF they feel the need to worry about things like this, how about whining about a REAL underage girl..Miley Cyrus...who will rub up and grind anything that moves. She's dressed A LOT worse than Lea Michelle is in this picture AND she is underage, unlike any of the cast of GLEE!
Exactly, Mary Smith! I don't see where this is so complicated. There are a lot of men out there who read Rolling Stone who DON'T watch Glee who are NOT going to make the distinction. It's like a porn moviemaker who technically follows the rules and uses an 18+ yr old "actress" who dresses like a junior high student. It feeds that fantasy for some sick people out there. These Glee people might be of age and beyond but it does fuel a certain stereotype that high school girls are just young nubile playthings. Then again, you have to consider the source: Rolling Stone, not exactly the pinnacle of all that is wholesome and normal. i.e. the spread with the cast of "True Blood".
Seems everything has to be made trashy. Women are the ones doing it. Exploiting themselves actually.
Adult men are looking at 24 year old WOMEN, same as if they are looking at other GQ, or Playboy, or Maxim magazines. You can't make men not fantasize about certain things. Their characters are just that, CHARACTERS. If people can't separate real life from tv then something is wrong. And I'm sorry, but have you seen the show?! They had 2 'teenage' girls in cheerleading outfits making out on a bed, they've had skimpy outfits, especially the Britney Spears one. The show itself is not a family show, so this should come as no surprise. And yet noone is getting pissy about the show itself?! Simple as this, these are grown women posing on a men's magazine as THEMSELVES, not their characters. If this was Halle Berry, or some other movie actress, and she played a high schooler in a movie and then posed on a men's magazine would be be having the same uproar? I doubt it.
Jeez people GET OVER IT! So what they are dressed like that. Does anyone remember the true blood cover?? They were way worse off!! And Mary Smith - are you not aware of how many porn videos there are of people PLAYING CHARACTERS like the whole catholic school girl with the little plaid skirt. Always trying to make something bigger than what it really is...
Dianna Agron is missing the point. I don't think they are worried that an 8 year old is going to get a ocpy of the mag. They are worried that adult men are going to be getting hot over pictures of girls dressed as teenagers. Doesn't matter that they are in their 20s. They are portraying themselves as teens in this photo.