Regrets over nude photograph

Press, 28 December 1987, Page 11

Regrets over nude photograph

I’m not one to gossip but ... luscious Victoria Principal’s not sorry she’s quit the TV super-hit soapie "Dallas,’’ but she is still smarting over her one big showbiz mistake — posing nude for "Playboy” magazine to promote a picture. “Mind you, there’s nothing wrong with the naked body,” says an older-and-wiser Victoria. "I just felt it was something I never wanted to do. And it was something I couldn’t forgive myself for doing.” Victoria’s shameful goof happened in 1972, when she was picked for her first leading role in the movie "Naked Ape.”

Bruce Willis has made a mint of money over the past years doing TV commercials for a wine cooler. But now that he is a married man, and his new wife is a health freak, she has banned him doing any P.R. for booze. So that means Bruce cannot pick up his $4 million contract for

1988 from the wine-cooler company. Mr Rock ’n’ Roll, Mick Jagger, is looking at bringing out his own line of men's fashions. He said it will be a very upmarket range, all designer labels, and nothing will be under about $2OOO.

The hottest couple in Hollywood are “Miami Vice” star Don Johnson and Scottish singer Sheena Easton, who were recently married on the show. Since working • together the two have been inseparable. There is even talk of them visiting her folk back in Scotland. The 10 sexy men of Hollywood for 1987 have just been named. They are (from one to 10): Tom Selleck, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Don Johnson, Bruce Willis, Mark Harmon, Jon Bon Jovi, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Rob Lowe. The hottest women are: Cybill Shepherd, Jaclyn Smith, Kathleen Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Heather Locklear, Donna Mills,

Linda Evans, Jane Seymour, Vanna White. Do you want to buy Elizabeth Taylor’s house? It’s the house she and Richard Burton bought back in the 1960 s in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallerta. Elizabeth seldom goes down to Mexico, so she’s put the house on the market. Actually it’s two houses

which are connected by a bridge. The asking price is $3 million. The house has seven bedrooms, one

iwth a specially designed pink sunken bath and Elizabeth is too busy to even take out most of the furniture, so it’s all going with the house. Actor Michael Caine still has one professional ambition, and that is to win a Best Actor Oscar. So now he’s- given himself five years to do it, Michael won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in “Hannah and Her Sisters,” but points out, “I am not a supporting actor.” When funny lady Phyllis Diller was in New Zealand she wanted to see some real-life sheep. On the way back from opening the beautiful Private Lifecare Retirement Village at the Hibiscus Coast, Phyllis spotted a field full of sheep. She popped out of the limo and over to the fence, moving very slowly, and got herself posed as close to the sheep as possible for the picture. All was looking great through the lens of my camera, Phyllis looking a million dollars —

sheep all looking towards the camera — when Phyllis let out one of her ear-shattering laughs, I’m here to tell you that every sheep for miles around took off. Now Phyllis is the owner of a picture of a field full of sheep all stampeding into the sunset. Patrick Duffy was doing some shopping at a centre in L.A. when he ran into a violent domestic spat in a parking garage. He was appalled to see a man slapping a. woman and shouting obscenities at her. When the “Dallas” star tried to intervene, the woman turned on him and yelled; “He’s my husband. He cair hit me if he wants to.” Patrick is going to keep himself to himself from now on. "Dynasty” star Diahann Carroll and husband Vic Damone have been married for 11 months, and now they are writing a book about being happily married and staying that way. Diahann, 59,

and Vic, 59 have been a hot item around Hollywood for many years, and have worked together in a nightclub act for the last 10 years. I guess getting married cuts the cost of their road show ... but my lips are sealed!