Playgirl Gets Their Nude Celebrity: Ronnie Kroell
Playgirl has finally gotten a celebrity to show it all off! He's Ronnie Kroell, the runner-up from the first season of Bravo's Make Me a Super Model. Of course readers of this blog (and followers of the Bravo show) recall that Ronnie was the very popular and handsome, sweet & sexy openly gay contestant who had a "bromance" with fellow contestant Ben. Ronnie almost won the competition (determined by audience votes), coming in a close second to Hollie. Ronnie was talented to be sure but you can't discount a huge gay voting block that almost provided Ronnie Kroell with the win. We venture to say that this block probably was one of the reasons why Bravo did away with the audience voting angle.
In spite of coming in second Ronnie Kroell still obtained a modeling contract and moved to New York to continue pursuing his career as well as remaining politically active. His popularity certainly hasn't waned either given the fact that his personal Facebook page reached the limit of followers so he had to create a fan page version. So, congratulations go out to one of our own who has the balls to reveal all for the camera.
This story is pretty ironic all around when you think about it.
Here you have a gay man coming to the rescue of Playgirl, billed as "Entertainment For Women" even though we all know that it had a huge gay following as a print magazine. After the magazine killed its print edition early in 2009 it still maintained its online edition--which continues to this day. Then late last year Playgirl got a big boost when it announced it had signed Sarah Palin's favorite ex-future son-in-law Levi Johnston to do a celebrity centerfold. There was lots of anticipation for this and the public interest was such that Playgirl hinted that they might put out a special print edition of the magazine and if this did well they might go to a quarterly.
Well we all know how THAT turned out. Levi didn't show everything and though he's still enjoying a few extra time on his "fifteen minutes of fame" s Sarah's foil his gay appeal certainly has diminished. This little saga did provide some inspiration for a gay porn parody, Jet Set's March flick Getting Levi's Johnson.
In spite of this minor debacle Playgirl didn't give up and sought out another celebrity to do a centerfold and this time would feature full frontal nudity. The names that were thrown out there were infamous if nothing else. There was ex-football player & "dog-lover" Michael Vick and reality show lothario Jon Gosselin. Even though neither was signed it's likely that the magazine got a fair share of negative comments over the prospects of these two.
So, here we go again. Will Ronnie Kroell boost Playgirl? Will it help HIS career? Time will tell.
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