Katie Green fired by Ultimo for showing her assets
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MP Lembit defends
‘publicity hungry’
model Katie Green
sacked by bra firm
for going topless
By Laura Collins
October 11th, 2009
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
Bra maker Ultimo has been
attacked by Lembit Opik for
sacking his
‘very, very good friend’,
model Katie Green.
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The Liberal Democrat MP
has accused Ultimo’s founder,
Michelle Mone,
of double standards for
dropping Katie after topless
pictures of her appeared in
a tabloid newspaper.
Ms Mone had claimed the
21-year-old lingerie model
was ‘publicity hungry’.
Mr Opik, 44, said:
‘Katie is neither a gold-digger
nor a publicity junkie.
Frankly, she’s never betrayed
a confidence and when we’ve
been out somewhere she’s
more interested in the food
than photos.
‘She hasn’t once said anything
about Michelle or the Ultimo
business,
so I’m quite surprised by
what’s happened.
It’s a bit ironic if an industry
which is entirely dependent
on women’s breasts turns
out to be embarrassed by a
woman’s breasts.’
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Miss Green was dropped by
email for breaking the company’s
strict no nudity clause after she
was pictured frolicking topless
on a beach in Portugal.
She was signed by Ms Mone
last summer after quitting a
similar role at Wonderbra.
Ms Mone said:
‘I’m trying to run a global brand
here and I’m not going to worry
about wee girls like her.’
Last night,
a friend of Katie’s insisted:
‘The pictures that appeared
weren’t posed for.
She was on a beach when
somebody photographed her.
‘She’s done topless modelling
before and Ultimo knew that
when they signed her.
‘Look at the other girls who
are still working for Ultimo.
Melinda Messenger is a face
of the same range,
Jordan has worked for them
and Rachel Hunter has posed
naked for Playboy.
‘Katie’s really disappointed
and she’ll be very touched
that Lembit’s come out in
support of her.’
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Mr Opik and Miss Green
were first linked during the
summer when she joined
forces with the MP for
Montgomeryshire to launch a
‘Say No to Size Zero’ campaign.
The pair met at a cocktail party
and claimed to have enjoyed
a string of dinners
‘at little wine bars’.
Speaking at the time,
Katie described her summer
with Lembit as
‘a real whirlwind’.
In August, they both posed
in front of the Houses of
Parliament at the launch of
their online petition against
designers’ promotion of an
unrealistic and unhealthy
body ‘ideal’.
At the time they would
say only that they were
‘very, very good friends’.
Last night, Mr Opik said:
‘As far as any saucy
photos are concerned,
these were hardly a secret.
What did they think she was
doing as a model?
Covering herself up
in a bin bag?’
Miss Green
declined to comment.
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