Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/24/britney_goes_underground/
Japanese do u-turn over naked Britney
Pregnant chanteuse will grace Tokyo metro
Posted in Entertainment, 24th August 2006 13:15 GMT
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(http://www.harpersbazaar.com/)Officials from the Tokyo subway system have reversed an earlier decision not to display a "overly stimulating" poster of highly-talented and highly-pregnant US chanteuse Britney Spears in her birthday suit on the cover of Harper's Bazaar (http://www.harpersbazaar.com/).
The powers that be originally ordered the image, which graced the cover of the magazine's US August issue, to be blacked out below Britney's waist, thereby allowing a tantalising glimpse of her pre-maternity mams but obscuring the swelling in which her and Kevin Federline's second sprog is currently wallowing in a-list amniotic fluid awaiting an autumn release.
The censored area would have contained the statement: "We apologise for hiding part of a beautiful image of a mother-to-be."
Tokyo commuters will, however, now be exposed to the full Spears, the BBC confirms. Tokyo subway spokesman Tatsuya Edakubo explained: "Our earlier request to cover the photo from the waist down was because of nudity, not because we had anything against pregnant women." ®