Lara Bingle has added fuel to reports that she is romantically entangled with US singer, Jason Derulo.
It seems that serial ladies man Jason Derulo made more of an impression on Lara Bingle than we all thought if the bikini model's recent musical tribute to the US singer is anything to go by.
In a candid YouTube video uploaded by best friend, Hermione Underwood, the svelte bikini model is seen lip-synching to the R&B singer's hit song, 'Ridin' Solo'.
Derulo - later posted the video link on his Twitter.
Bingle's YouTube tribute to Derulo follows on from their reported romantic tryst after the pair met while co-hosting at the recent ARIA awards.
Enjoying several dates around Sydney, Derulo later invited Bingle to be a guest at one of his Brisbane show, with the pair reportedly spending the weekend together.
Despite the singer telling a Brisbane radio station that Bingle was "A very nice girl . . . just friends" a revealing tweet sent as he left the country says otherwise: "Why is it that 'Hello's' are so much easier than 'Goodbye's'?"
Bingle's lip-synching video comes at the same time as reports that she may be a contestant on the new season of Dancing with the Stars.
Channel 7 spokespeople have yet to confirm the casting but other possible contenders include Kate Ritchie and Terri Irwin.
She has previously appeared on Dancing On Ice.
Source: News.com.au
Date: 29th November 2010
LARA: YACHT FUN
Wearing: Ksubi Biker One Piece, Retro Superfuture Sunglasses
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Date: 29th November 2010
IS LARA BINGLE'S SPEEDO DEAL NOT SET IN STONE?
The next fortnight is crucial for Lara Bingle, as her Speedo contract hangs in the balance.
Insider has heard murmurs that the all-important spring/summer campaign deal is still unconfirmed.
The blonde, whose contract with the sportswear company expires next year, has shot both of her Speedo campaigns in late November and early December since she signed on in 2008.
But this year, there has been a delay, and representatives for the brand have been unable to confirm to Insider the model is definitely to star in next year's campaign.
The brand, which stood by Bingle during her highly-publicised nude photo scandal, is meeting on Monday to discuss the deal.
Bingle's manager Titus Day said the company tended to announce the shoot just before it went ahead.
"Lara normally gets the call for the shoot a week beforehand, so it's usually very last minute; that's just the way they [Speedo] like to work," he said.
Either way, Bingle has been a dedicated ambassador for the brand of late, spending time at the beach clad in their current summer swimwear pieces.
As for her fleeting romance with visiting singer Jason Derulo earlier this month, it seems the flame hasn't completely died for the smitten ARIA co-hosts.
Last week friend Hermione Underwood uploaded a candid video of herself and Bingle singing the R&B star's hit single Ridin' Solo onto YouTube, which Derulo later posted on his Twitter account.
Source: Herald Sun
Date: 28th November 2010
Insider has heard murmurs that the all-important spring/summer campaign deal is still unconfirmed.
The blonde, whose contract with the sportswear company expires next year, has shot both of her Speedo campaigns in late November and early December since she signed on in 2008.
But this year, there has been a delay, and representatives for the brand have been unable to confirm to Insider the model is definitely to star in next year's campaign.
The brand, which stood by Bingle during her highly-publicised nude photo scandal, is meeting on Monday to discuss the deal.
Bingle's manager Titus Day said the company tended to announce the shoot just before it went ahead.
"Lara normally gets the call for the shoot a week beforehand, so it's usually very last minute; that's just the way they [Speedo] like to work," he said.
Either way, Bingle has been a dedicated ambassador for the brand of late, spending time at the beach clad in their current summer swimwear pieces.
As for her fleeting romance with visiting singer Jason Derulo earlier this month, it seems the flame hasn't completely died for the smitten ARIA co-hosts.
Last week friend Hermione Underwood uploaded a candid video of herself and Bingle singing the R&B star's hit single Ridin' Solo onto YouTube, which Derulo later posted on his Twitter account.
Source: Herald Sun
Date: 28th November 2010
LARA BINGLE'S CRUISE OUTING
Lara Bingle converged on Sydney Harbour for a day out with friends yesterday, turning up for a boat cruise in a see-through outfit that left little to the imagination. Dressed in a sheer black corset, Bingle bared plenty of cleavage, and occasionally much more, in full view of the public.
At least it was the weather for it, as she basked on the bow of the boat while celebrating a friend's birthday.
Bingle and her cruise buddies sailed Sydney Harbour for most of the day, stopping off near Taronga Zoo and Manly.
She finally alighted at Rose Bay, before the wind whipped up and ruined a spectacular spring day.
Bingle has been working hard to resurrect her modelling career, which stalled during the beginning of the year.
Inside the next fortnight, Bingle is due to shoot a swimwear campaign for Speedo, one of her oldest clients.
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Date: 28th November 2010
LARA: WHO MAGAZINE SEXIEST PEOPLE 2010
Who embodies sexiness to you?Kate Moss. She doesn't care what anyone thinks. She also defies the odds--she continues to be successful despite eveything that happens around her.
What attracts you to a man?
Trust, honesty. And I love a man with tattoos!
Your sexy guy criteria?
Creative, sense of humour, independent, has direction and is loyal, through the good times and the bad.
Qualities you find sexy in a partner?
He has to cook!
What do you think men find sexy about you?
That I am an individual, and that I'm confident in who I am.
Who rocks your world?
My dad--forever.
Hottest item in your wardrobe?
An old, worn-out black sleeveless T-shirt I bought at the markets for $1.
What do you wear when you're dressing to impress?
Leather pants and fine gold chains.
When did you last feel really sexy?
This shoot. I love the simplicity of just stripping down to the bra I was wearing.
"There's a sexy innocence to her" - Designer Jason Brunsdon
Source: Who Magazine
2010 NEWSMAKERS: LARA BINGLE
Model Lara Bingle may have been through one of the most turbulent years of her young life, but she is determined to treat it as an opportunity to grow.
“It has been an amazing learning year for me,” she says. “I feel independent and more self-aware than I was in the beginning. I believe it has helped me grow as a person and that is the most important thing in my eyes.”
The 23-year-old endured a flurry of tabloid headlines in March, after the unauthorised publication of a nude photograph, followed by intense media scrutiny during the subsequent collapse of her relationship with former fiancé, Australian Test cricket vice-captain Michael Clarke.
“The headlines are what they are,” says Lara. “Although many have been inaccurate, I just take them in my stride and try to have a sense of humour about it all.
“People perceive me in the way the media chooses to paint me. I am just doing what I love and I feel blessed to be able to do that and be given extraordinary opportunities along the way.”
And she’s looking forward to a family Christmas. “I love giving presents,” says Lara, “especially to my family and friends. I am very particular about the wrapping. There’s nothing better than receiving a well-wrapped present.
“In a perfect world, I would love to have a white Christmas this year. I’d love to go away overseas with my mum and brother.”
Source: The Australian Womens Weekly
BEAUTY BY BINGLE
Ever wondered what Australian model, Lara Bingle uses on her skin?Heck, I know I have!
So, I asked her.
Lara told me she swears by La Mer Hydrating Infusion, $210 (www.cremedelamer.com.au). Her amazing make-up artist Max May also loves La Mer.
Get your mits on this little baby today to get glowing skin just like Lara's.
Happy Friday!
Source: Pretty Gritty
Date: 19th November 2010
LARA: DOUBLE BAY GIRL
According to sources reported in the Daily Telegraph, Lara Bingle and Jason Derulo got very friendly while up in Brisbane.
Derulo has now flown to New Zealand leaving Bingle to return to her dog in Sydney and to pick up some flowers.
Source: OMG News
Date: 17th November 2010
LARA BINGLE'S SUMMER PROJECTS
Insider reports say that although there were talks some months back, Bingle will not be filling in for radio presenter Jackie O, who goes on maternity leave shortly. She was called in at the last minute to replace O on Friday morning when O called in sick on Thursday night, with reports she had spent the night at the Mater Hospital.
"Lara is definitely not doing the show when Jackie goes," a well-informed radio insider says.
While Kyle Sandilands's manager Andrew Hawkins would not divulge any further information - "we can't say who it is" - word has it that Sophie Monk is definitely a frontrunner for keeping the 2DayFM seat warm.
Either way, Bingle has plenty to occupy her over summer. She is working on a make-up book with friend Max May and keeping fit with interior-designer buddy Jason Sullivan, as well as being involved in several overseas projects.
Source: Sun Herald
Date: 15th November 2010
LARA: "I KNOW I'VE MADE MISTAKES"
The secluded beach is shrouded in soft drizzle and storm clouds are brewing, dark and moody in the distance. Except for a lone fisherman on the rocks, the shore is empty as we wait for Australia’s most infamous ‘It’ girl, Lara Bingle – the quintessential beach babe whose life has, rightly or wrongly, been plagued with controversy since she first emerged as the face of Tourism Australia’s global advertising campaign in 2006.
Bingle’s coming to set the record straight after months of reading untrue stories about herself in the media.
The most recent was in Grazia magazine.
Having happily worked with the weekly fashion magazine on many occasions, the 23-year-old was surprised when it printed a bogus photo that showed her leaving an apartment with close friend Dion Anthony and falsely stated there was something more to their relationship.
In actual fact, two pictures had been taken at different times and doctored to look as if it was the same moment.
To make matters worse, Grazia went on to insinuate that Bingle had let herself go, which was completely untrue and a strange statement considering her lifelong passion for staying fit and healthy.
With all that front of mind, we’re expecting her to turn up for our interview and fashion shoot (which, for the record, involved no money whatsoever changing hands) as stormy as the clouds overhead.
It turns out, we needn’t have worried; she’s all smiles and small talk as she prepares to be photographed.
Petite and athletic, Bingle is the picture of health, and a good sport, too.
Is she bothered about the biting wind whipping around her tiny white dress, or the soft sand her towering heels are sinking into? Not a bit. She’s strong and has a surprising maturity about her.
"At 23, I feel like I’ve already lived 10 lives," she says, with a wry laugh.
Which isn’t surprising; this has been an undeniably tough year for her, ever since she split from her fiancé, cricketer Michael Clarke, amid a cloud of mystery, and her private life became front-page news.
Since then, her every move has been monitored or made up, including the latest suggestion she’s involved with radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands. Yet she remains philosophical.
"I appreciate that there’s interest and speculation about my personal life and I don’t begrudge that at all," she shrugs.
"I just value good company and I won’t let gossip interfere with having positive people in my life. I feel lucky to be me. But I'm honest enough to admit I'm still learning, and I've made a few mistakes along the way."
When she and Clarke paired up in 2007, they fast became the nation’s golden couple, but that world was shattered earlier this year, when Woman’s Day published a nude photo of Bingle in the shower, taken by serial bad-boy Brisbane Lions forward Brendan Fevola.
While some sought to criticise her, others saw her as a victim of a horrible breach of trust, a young woman taken advantage of.
"I felt very upset and as humiliated as any girl would feel if that happened to them," she says quietly.
She says she never wanted him to take the photo.
"I may be an easy target, but it doesn’t make it morally or legally acceptable."
She and Clarke split just a few days after the photo was made public in March, and the rumour mill went into overdrive, churning out stories of a ring flushed down the toilet (false), huge payouts (also false) and general damage-control from both camps.
Not knowing where to turn, a naïve Bingle sought the advice of Australian spin doctor Max Markson, who negotiated an exclusive tell-all with Woman’s Day – the very magazine that had played a part in humiliating her – and Bingle was criticised for taking a deal said to be worth more than $200,000.
"If my dad had been alive during any of the challenges I faced, I’d have handled everything differently," she says.
Her father, Graham, lost his battle with bowel cancer in May 2008, aged 55, when Bingle was just 20 years old.
They were extremely close and she was at his bedside when he passed away.
"So, I turned to someone without really understanding what was happening during a very confusing time."
Today, Bingle seems to have grown out of her naïvety, and while she feels she’s been badly treated at times, she has strategies in place to deal with the pressures of fame.
"It’s part of my job," she says.
"The best thing about the media spotlight is that it gives me the chance to give something back – including charities and supporting designers. But I feel blessed that it’s also given me extraordinary opportunities I wouldn’t have otherwise had."
And when the media gets a little tough?
"It makes me appreciate my family and friends more. By choosing this path, I have to learn to take whatever it brings – good or bad."
That acceptance means Bingle can admit to the errors of her youth ("If I’ve made any mistakes regarding my career, it’s allowing others to speak for me and not following my instincts"), but she’s adamant that her relationship with Clarke wasn’t one of them.
"We’re the best of friends," she says.
There are plenty of people who’d love to see them back together, reunited in a perfect life in their Bondi penthouse, and sparkling together at the A-list parties.
"Michael and I have amazing chemistry," she adds, blushing.
"If we seemed like a ‘golden couple’, it was because we were genuinely in love. I’ve known him for five years now and, despite everything we’ve been through, the dynamic is still there.
"We’ve both been through huge challenges, especially with our fathers and their health struggles," she says, making reference to Clarke’s dad, Les, who’s battled Hodgkin’s disease for years.
"How can you not be inspired to be a better person by someone like Michael?"
Bingle has never gone into detail about why the pair ultimately split, but blames separate lives: "It’s incredibly hard to keep a relationship going when you hardly see one another."
These days, Clarke still lives in the Bondi pad they shared, while Bingle has been settling into the modest apartment she recently bought in Sydney’s Darling Point.
It’s not a place she’s in a hurry to share. But it hasn’t deterred the romantic in her. She believes her instinct will tell her when the time is right to fall in love again.
"Right now, I’m single and happy. But I’m no wallflower and I won’t date one, either."
In the meantime, her number-one priority is work, such as her role as the face of Speedo, though she has TV projects and plans for her own fashion range in the pipeline.
Now set up with new management, she’s looking for other opportunities and taking her time to rebuild a solid, respectable career to rival that of some of our biggest modelling exports – though she maintains she’ll "never leave Australia".
"I take my profession more seriously than ever," she says.
"It's an exciting time; in the same way Elle Macpherson and Sarah Murdoch have paved the way, I’m ready to define my own path. What I can say, is that for the rest of my life I’ll be endeavouring to create and endorse products and causes that promote good health."
Whatever may come, she knows she has the support of her family, who have helped her through the roller-coaster of the past few years. She names her mum, Sharon, as her best friend.
"She’s taught me to believe women have the right to be respected."
Charity work will also remain a big focus, including her ongoing work with Bowel Cancer Australia.
"My father died from the disease because he was diagnosed too late," she explains.
"If he’d seen a doctor earlier, I believe he’d still be alive today.
"I want to be working with them for the rest of my life and, even if I don’t have a career in entertainment, I’ll still help out."
After all, something that’s become clear to her on this rocky path is how fickle fame can be.
"It can be taken away from you so quickly."
It’s a realisation that would be enough to stop a less resilient woman in her tracks.
But not Bingle. Ready to face the world again, and with a point to prove, she’s vowed to never quit striving for the happiness and satisfaction she deserves in life.
"My recent experiences – from my father’s death to the break-up with Michael – have shifted my understanding and focus," she says, her voice strong as she looks out across the water.
"Dreams don’t come true – you have to earn them. I feel back in control of that."
Source: Sunday Magazine
LARA BINGLE FOR SPEEDOS
Speedo Beach is the lifestyle sister to Speedo's performance swimwear. This season they've gone all out with their 2010/2011 campaign, presenting their bright prints, stylish swimmers and accouterments like sundresses, kaftans, and boardshorts in iconic Sydney style. The lookbook and campaign was shot on sunny social princess and Speedos Ambassador Lara Bingle by acclaimed photographer Simon Leikias.
Styled by Harper's Bazaar Fashion Editor Christine Centenera - who also moonlights as Bingle's personal stylist - and featuring hair and makeup from Max May, the look book shoot took place at a familiar haunt for Centenera and Bingle, iconic Sydney beach Tamarama (known to locals as Glamourama due to its tendency to draw a fashionable crowd).
Exaggerated aqua seas, sizzling sand and Bingle's dark, rich tan all contribute to the photoset's heatwave appeal, while the fashion forward palette and graphic prints of Speedos' Beach collection mark the brand as one that can compete in the style, as well as sports stakes.
Source: The Vine
Date: 3rd November 2010
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