(News) Anchor Bares All In Wet T-Shirt Contest, Gets Fired

WTAE ^ | January 13, 2004

[martin_fierro]

Anchor Bares All In Wet T-Shirt Contest, Gets Fired Catherine Bosley Says She Was Celebrating Life

UPDATED: 11:56 a.m. EST January 13, 2004

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Members of the media are expected to represent the community with the utmost class and respect, Cleveland TV station WEWS reported.

But one northeast Ohio news anchor went to an extreme she never thought would catch up to her -- until she made national news -- on the wrong side of the camera.

Catherine Bosley, a news anchor for 10 years at WKBN in Youngstown, Ohio, was used to having her picture taken.

However, someone took pictures of her after she stripped naked during a wet T-shirt contest while she was vacationing in Key West, Fla., last year with her husband.

"It was just a spur of the moment, silly, irresponsible thing to do that I regretted a great deal the next morning," Bosley said.

She lived with the secret for 10 months until the pictures showed up on the Internet about a week ago. Now she's out of a job.

Did anchorwoman deserve to lose her job for participating in a wet T-shirt contest?YesNo"I felt like I disappointed myself. I felt like I disappointed God. And should anything like this get out, I disappointed this entire community," Bosley said.

She claims she had just recovered from a deadly lung disease and wanted to celebrate life.

"It was 20 to 30 minutes of my life. It didn't hurt anybody. I didn't do anything obscene. It was funny at the time," Bosley said.

"I know that I have to set a standard and I'm a bit of a role model so I take responsibility for what I'm supposed to be held up to," she said. "This definitely goes down in one of those categories of what was I thinking? What was I thinking?"

Bosley said she asked bouncers at the bar where the contest was held if the contest would be a part of the "Girls Gone Wild" video, or if anything would make it to the national level. They said no.

Bosley is working with a lawyer to determine if any action can be taken against the bar.

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[Mulder]

This thread is worthless without pics.

[martin_fierro]

Guffaw.

[Restorer]

Did anchorwoman deserve to lose her job for participating in a wet T-shirt contest?

Sounds like the issue was more that it was a non-T-shirt event.

[rwfromkansas]

I realize tv news stations are pretty darn strict about this stuff (several years ago, an anchor was fired for being a spokesman on a car dealership's commercials).

But, she seems repentant, even saying she disappointed God. She should not have been fired.

[John Beresford Tipton]

The site with pictures seems to be:
http://www.themoradioshow.net/

But can't access it
"OVER BANDWIDTH LIMIT"

[Johnny_Cipher]

Not bad, not bad.

(note to self - pick up tangerines at grocery store tomorrow)

[AFreeBird]

Looks like more than T-Shirts were missing. I did notice that her cuffs matched the collar if you catch my drift. :-))

Also noticed the boob job.

[annyokie]

Plastic boobies alert.

[Central Scrutiniser]

This thread is worthless without pics.

Yep, kinda like a real good looking nun...

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Gee, thanks for the ping. LOL

MANY years ago, I walked into a club where I was playing on the road on my off night, and was shocked to find this little fat greasy creepy guy who traveled with my bandleader emceeing one of these things. The place was jammed, and he had everyone in the place chanting (I won't say what they were chanting, but it wouldn't be hard to guess). That's the first and last one I ever saw. It was a total surprise to me.

Maybe I should go back and sue the bar for pain, suffering, and mental anguish. Or I suppose I could just scrub my brain with a Brillo™ pad.

[Mulder]

Yep, kinda like a real good looking nun...

Dammit. Looks like the pics were pulled before I made it back here.

[Johnny_Cipher]

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[OSHA]

I NEED visual confirmation!

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[Poser]

Bump for later viewing (when the web site has enough bandwidth)