Hey, Tony Blair, got any pictures of your wife naked? Want some?
In yet another example of the “Law of Everything George W. Bush Touches Goes to Shit,” the crappy year of British Prime Minister Tony Blair just got crappier, as the UK press has jumped on the story that his wife, Cherie, spent some time as a nude model back when she was hot, which was in the early ’70s, reportedly.
From The Australian:
The wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair posed naked for the British artist Euan Uglow when she was an unknown trainee barrister in her mid-20s.
For more than a year, Cherie Blair earned pound stg. 5 an hour modelling for the 1.5m painting Striding Nude, Blue Dress, wearing a sleeveless dress open at the front.
Will Darby, of the Browse and Darby gallery in Mayfair, who was Uglow’s close friend and dealer for 25 years, said: “He wasn’t pleased with the painting because it wasn’t finished. We exhibited it in 1983 alongside the finished one, but after that he just didn’t want to show it.
“He was friends with the Blairs and it was his wish that it would never be shown after they entered public life.”
Mr Darby said it was difficult to put a value on the work.
“I don’t think anybody would want it because there is not enough of it there,” he said. “Perhaps someone with an interest in politics might.”
Blair, who has seen his political career crash like Sputnik since he ever-so-gently placed Bush’s manhood in his mouth lo those many years ago, had no comment on the story.
Rumors that Laura Bush once posed for an artist have proved to be created by angry partisan-minded opponents of the President. However, it has long been well-known that Barbara Bush did a photo layout for Hustler back in the 1930s, before the Bush family made mad bank from the Nazis.
Striding Blue, starring a semi-nude Cherie Blair
–WKW