Becoming an anchor for Naked News — the Toronto-based online news and entertainment program that has featured news anchors in the buff since 1999 — isn’t as easy as you’d think. Just being hot alone won’t cut it. You also have to be able to read.
“You’d think it would be an easy skill, but not a lot of girls know how to read nowadays, unfortunately,” says Eila Adams, the foremost anchor of Naked News. “You may be really attractive and have a great personality, but if you can’t read, then it’s not the job for you. We’ve lost a few girls who are great, but they just couldn’t hack the teleprompter.”
Adams has always been an avid reader and proud exhibitionist, so when she auditioned for the position in 2009 right out of college, she passed the teleprompter test with flying colors. More than 15 years later, Adams, who’s also an adult content creator and “public flasher,” sits at the top of the anchors’ seniority ladder. In addition to presenting the news disrobed (the word “strip” is banned at the Naked News office), she writes her own fitness segment, “Flex Appeal,” about working out — naked, of course.
Over the years, Naked News has shown everything but signs of wavering — even as digital media and local news outlets have suffered a tremendous decline. The Toronto office now hosts 10 on-site anchors and the program has grown to include naked correspondents from around the world, including those in Europe, China and Los Angeles. Currently, Adams says, there are 15 active anchors globally, and the site is always looking for new talent.
Adams thinks the show’s success has largely to do with the unsexualized and fun nudity it promotes (the price for Naked News — $20 a month, or $8 if billed annually — is comparable to that of an average streaming service subscription). “If you take one activity and then you add nudity to it, it just makes it that much more silly,” she tells me. “We even have a naked cooking segment — just silly, fun things that aren’t sexualized.”
That said, the production team has had to change its rules to adapt to more progressive times. For example, buttholes weren’t allowed on camera before, while now they’re “on the table.” Because many fans of the show are nudists themselves, it felt in keeping with their ethos to free the butthole. “I’m glad that we’ve added butthole to the show,” she says. “It’s only if you make nudity something taboo that it becomes sexualized.”
On the flip side, to comply with Instagram’s nudity ban, Naked News recently started an Instagram-friendly version of its news segment dubbed “The Bikini Report,” in which the anchors present the news in skimpy swimsuits, rather than fully nude.
Naked News has also adapted to changing audience news consumption habits. Back in the day, Adams says they would cover hard-hitting news — including the Iraq War — but that shifted when the team realized the Naked News audience craved more lighthearted stories.
Obviously, being naked at work isn’t always glamorous, and sometimes the price to pay for job security takes the form of a rather embarrassing moment. “During that time of the month, there can be issues,” says Adams, noting that subbing each other out isn’t really an option when one of them is on their period. “We’ve had numerous reshoots with strings showing or leakage,” she laughs. “It happens — being a woman sucks!”
Plus, every time an anchor sits somewhere, whether it’s a couch or a chair, they have to preemptively place a little paper towel between their genitals and the seat. Yes, for hygienic reasons — but also so that no “snail trail,” as Adams calls it, is left behind.
But as long as Naked News continues to find its audience and adapts with the times, Adams says she’ll be there doing the same. “The plan is to just ride it out for as long as possible — as long as they still want me on camera, why not?” she says. “I’ll be doing the news when I’m 80 — naked!”
The Most Insane Ways Breast Implants Have Popped
Reality TV has a lot to answer for
Published 1 day ago in Wow
It’s impossible to pinpoint what makes a “hot” body, especially considering our notions of what is “hot” are ever evolving. But huge boobs have had a long and lengthy reign as the prevailing sexy norm, and breast augmentation in America is still extremely popular. And when enough people start upping the size of their cups, eventually some will experience unexpected mishaps.
Breast implant ruptures are incredibly rare — we’re talking less than 1 percent per year, according to Daniel Y. Maman, M.D. — but they do happen. And they also come with some truly wild stories.
Mia Khalifa
It’s well-known that Mia Khalifa is a die-hard hockey fan — the 2018 video of her crying with joy as she meets Alex Ovechkin recently resurfaced, following his history-making goal record — but she actually credits a rogue hockey puck with saving her life.
In 2018, Khalifa posted an Instagram photo clutching her left boob. “I got hit in the boob with a puck during the [Washington Capitals] game, and I’m 80% sure it ruptured an implant,” she wrote. “But the good news is, I got a game-used puck from Capitals Stanley Cup play-off game. Worth it.”
She later told The Daily Star, “I grabbed my chest and didn’t want to let go, because I felt like if I did let go, blood was going to be everywhere.”
Khalifa had reconstructive surgery, and all ended well, which means her adorable dog still has its beloved titty shelf.
Chyna
The late Chyna — aka Joanie Laurer — popped her breast implant during a wrestling match. “Wrestling with implants is not so easy,” she laughed in an episode of Botched. “The chain wrapped around somebody’s fist went straight across the new boobies, and pop!” Laurer writes more about the incident in her hilarious autobiography, If They Only Knew. In the days after the contact, she explains, “I swear my left tit was as flat as a glass of day-old beer.”
The in-ring pop led her on a quest to find implants that fit her muscular frame. Her initial teardrop implants “looked like I was wearing a couple of gourds on my chest because they sat on top of all that muscle,” so she had to have implants custom-made. They called them the “Chyna 2000s.”
Shauvon Torres
Reality TV stars have done some pretty wild and dangerous shit on-screen for a paycheck. One of the most viral examples? When Shauvon Torres competed in MTV’s The Challenge, braving a rope swing and plunging into the ocean way, way below. “Fuck,” she screamed as she hit the water. “Fuck! I need an X-ray on my boob. I’m not kidding, it’s fucking burning. I think I might have popped my implant.”
The other contestants seemingly found her potentially life-threatening injury pretty hilarious, and host T.J. Lavin quipped: “Sorry about your titties.” What’s even wilder is that this happened again to a different contestant, Olivia Kaiser, although this time the rupture wasn’t televised. “I broke three ribs and popped my implant, or ripped it, ruptured it, so now I have to get my boobs redone,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “I was in so much pain.”
Denise Richards
In another cautionary tale of “celebrities doing dangerous shit on reality TV,” Denise Richards popped her implants while jumping off a bridge as part of the military-inspired Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. “I ruptured my implants off of that thing,” she later told radio host Jeff Lewis.
It’s pretty wild that a gig that includes throwing yourself out of helicopters doesn’t come with health insurance, but Richards added, “I still have to get them redone. I was supposed to a month ago, but couldn’t because we were filming, so I still have to get them redone. I think we pretty much signed our life away doing that show, it’s dangerous.”
Take note: Breast implants and extreme sports do not mesh well.
Cynthia Hedgecock
It’s rare, but even a pesky sidewalk fall can potentially pop an implant. In 2015, Cynthia Hedgecock — married to Roger Hedgecock, former mayor of San Diego — sued the city for a nasty fall that she said ruptured her breast implant, causing chest pain and breast deformities.
In court, Hedgecock said she had been carrying important papers and her phone. She held onto these while she fell, causing “heavy impact to [her] chest.” Hedgecock’s legal team even played an animation of her tit popping during the hearing. Hedgecock won her lawsuit, receiving $85,000 for medical bills, as well as “physical pain and mental suffering.”
