Jennifer Lopez Confronted About Fur Use In Sweetface Line
Jennifer Lopez was interviewed by Austereo's Jackie O. last week and was quizzed by the radio host, who is anti-fur, about the use of fur in her Sweetface Fashion line.
"If someone would like to educate me and bring something to light that I don't know, that'd be great," Lopez explained to the host, who responded by asking her, "Would you like to be educated right now?" Jackie then went into brutal detail of how foxes are skinned alive and chinchillas are electrocuted. Lopez was silent on the other end of the phone, and apparently angry enough afterwards that she was able to prevent the interview from getting posted on the Kyle and Jackie O. show's website.
In a preview of the interview in the Sydney Morning Herald, Jackie simply said, "It seemed like she didn't know about the cruelty associated with it."
Jackie O and Kyle's show is the unfunniest radio show on air EVER. They have one joke per three hours of radio time and it's supposed a light hearted music top 40 count down program. I think Jackie O can be really nice, but once she gets a bee in her bonnett she won't let it go and that's what she's done with this fur issue. I think she took it too far.
After ACTUALLY hearing the radio interview, J-Lo was obviously trying to avoid answering questions on the fur issue, she didn't want anyone to enlighten her and Jackie O dived right in, but she was really nice about and explained it calmly, she wasn't ranting and raving and she only said about four sentences and then changed the topic.
So I retract my above statement, I don't think Jackie O took it too far, in fact I think she handled it perfectly.
It must've been hard for someone who is so passionate about animal rights to interview J-Lo when controversy on the subject dogs Jen all the time, but I think Jackie held herself in check well and handled the situation professionally.
Animal rights charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have accused Jennifer Lopez of bullying Billboard magazine into removing their full-page ad, which lambasted the singer/actress for wearing fur.
The music magazine had agreed to run PETA's ad, which features a gruesome photo of a skinned animal beside an open letter to Lopez, attacking her for glamorizing fur in her new Sweetface clothing line and encouraging the "sadistic slaughter" of rabbits, minks, foxes and chinchillas.
But on Monday, Billboard canceled the $5,000 ad, leading PETA Vice President Lisa Lange to conclude that the magazine "caved to pressure" from Lopez's record label Sony Corp's Epic Records and her publicist Nanci Ryder of Baker-Winokur-Ryder.
Ryder admits to the New York Daily News, "I'm doing my job, which is protecting my client. I don't understand why PETA wants to meet with Jennifer.
"In my opinion, there would be nothing worse than a meeting, unless in the meeting we could commit to not wearing fur and not using fur in fashion. Unless we could do that, I didn't quite understand where the meeting would go."
PETA has retaliated by e-mailing the banned ad to hundreds of radio stations nationwide.
The grisly ad features a photo of a skinned animal above an open letter to Lopez. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it has targeted the singer, 35, because her new clothing label Sweetface uses real fur.
WARNING = some of the images and text in PETA's letter is quite disturbing. I would recommend that any one who is easily squeamish not read the letter.
Jennifer Lopez's velour tracksuits from her J.Lo clothing line have won a new fan -- Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda.
Lopez and Fonda met last year on the set of the upcoming comedy "Monster-In-Law" as they played feuding in-laws.
But once the cameras stopped rolling, the pair unlocked their horns and 67-year-old Fonda picked up a few style tips.
Fonda says, "I normally would never wear velour, or whatever this is called. [Lopez] makes these things and they're so comfortable. She's helped me get hip."
Animal campaigners People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are continuing their campaign against Jennifer Lopez, after she had an "anti-J.Lo" advert removed from a music magazine.
According to the New York Daily News, Lopez's representatives arranged for the full-page PETA ad, criticizing the use of animal fur in the singer's fashion line Sweetface, to be pulled from Billboard magazine.
So the determined organization has taken out an ad in Radio and Records newspaper, in a bid to dent the promotional campaign for J.Lo's new single.
And it appears their campaign is working -- after staging a rally outside a Lopez record signing in New York and another at her California restaurant, her new single, "Hold You Down," sits at just 64th place in the American charts.
PETA spokesperson Dan Mathews says, "Lopez may not stop wearing fur out of concern for animals, but she may out of concern for her career."
I think that them claiming responsibility for her new single only being at 64 is a bit much. It's has ONLY JUST been released and I hear it's not as good as "Get Right" so it might just be a timing thing.
I don't know if this fur thing is really enough to ruin her musical career.
03-22-2005 04:16 AM
