Between divisive politics and the weather, there are a lot of people who would say that 2017, especially the summertime, has not been the finest, especially in the United States. Multiple countries seemingly being on the brink of war and North America suffering from the worst rainfall to hit North America since they’ve been measuring have dominated headlines for much of the summer months.
The trend for summer to be the best time of year for celebrity photo leaks has thankfully softened all of the other horrible news in the world, at least for us. We doubt any of the actresses, models, musicians, or athletes whose privacy was violated would agree with us, but we’ll repeat what we’ve said before: don’t take pictures of yourself naked if you don’t want the world to eventually see them.
Back in the early summer of 2014, there was a huge dump of celebrity nude photos — clearly stolen from computers and cell phones — that made their way onto the Internet. It was dubbed ‘The Fappening’ because, well, people are gross. It was a major deal, getting headlines across the world. Since then and despite the original leakers getting caught and seeing jail time, there’s been a half-dozen other major leaks. These days, you’ve got to be a major star to be mentioned in a leak scandal.
There are far more than the women listed here who were the victims of leaks this year, but we had to bump the D-list celebrities and the little-known models and women who we’re still not convinced aren’t actually leaking their own photos. Focus on the beauty that the summer of 2017 brought us with 20 Most Shocking Celebrity Photo Leak Scandals of the Past Summer.
Katharine McPhee
Considering her biggest claim to fame is still arguably her run deep into the 2005
season of American Idol, Katharine McPhee has carved out a decent career for herself, to the point that her name was mentioned among the much bigger stars of Miley Cyrus and Kristen Stewart when her photos got leaked as part of the biggest batch of the summer. The winner of her season, old-looking Taylor Hicks, could’ve walked naked through his local Wal-Mart, and he wouldn’t have had the buzz McPhee’s leak caused. The pictures weren’t super X-rated, so people who admire her beauty but don’t want to see anything graphic probably won’t be offended, or maybe they would be. We’re pretty liberal when it comes to that stuff. At least we weren’t any more offended than when she tried to do a version of Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever” on American Idol.
Sarah Hyland
While the Internet had plenty of lookalike European models getting leaked in June, it wasn’t until this Modern Family star’s mid-July leak that we realized it was going to be a good summer after all. Many have lusted after her co-star, Ariel Winter, for the last several years, but Hyland has always been on that elusive list of women who hadn’t done a nude scene on film, nor had a legit leak of photos up to this point. Most of the shots feature the actress in front of a giant mirror, giving little looks under her robe, but the leaked photos that intrigue us the most are the ones where she’s rolling topless with another female around somebody’s backyard in broad daylight. It’s too bad these leaks don’t always come along with an explanation of what was going on at the time the photos were taken.While the Internet had plenty of lookalike European models getting leaked in June, it wasn’t until this Modern Family star’s mid-July leak that we realized it was going to be a good summer after all. Many have lusted after her co-star, Ariel Winter, for the last several years, but Hyland has always been on that elusive list of women who hadn’t done a nude scene on film, nor had a legit leak of photos up to this point. Most of the shots feature the actress in front of a giant mirror, giving little looks under her robe, but the leaked photos that intrigue us the most are the ones where she’s rolling topless with another female around somebody’s backyard in broad daylight. It’s too bad these leaks don’t always come along with an explanation of what was going on at the time the photos were taken.
Dakota Johnson
Is it really that big a deal when the woman who made her name on those horrible 50 Shades movies shows her breasts while on vacation with her friends in a series of selfies, including some really sweet group-showering shots we’ll talk a little more about? With Addison Timlin’s entry, it’s a big deal. Why is it that even if pictures aren’t the best lit or not framed like a professional photographer would, there’s just something super sexy about a selfie? We just wonder if her even-more-famous-than-her parents, Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, ever took any selfies like that on their vacations. With the amount of nudity Griffith sported in her films, she certainly can’t lecture her daughter about her clothing-less decisions on the big screen or the iPhone screen.
Addison Timlin
If you’re one of the tens of people watching StartUp on Crackle, you’re probably familiar with Addison Timlin, or maybe you remember her from when she had a recurring bit part on Californication. Other than that, you’re really heading into obscure guest star and indie film listings when it comes to this brunette’s resume. The reason she makes this list and the reason she probably is considered to have been part of a leak has more to do with Dakota Johnson guest-starring in a lot of the photos. It probably also has to do with the fact the friends are showering together. We have no idea who took the photos (probably one of the unnamed women in some of Johnson’s photo batch) but that was one lucky person. We encourage the duo to take many more clothing-optional vacations together and to always make sure their phones are charged.
Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway has never seemed to have any issue with nudity when it comes to her roles in Hollywood, but when it comes to nudity in her private life, unauthorized photo leaks are an entirely different story. A group of Hathaway photos made their way to the Internet early in the summer, but before it could get too much attention, the bulk of the photos disappeared from those sites that specialize in leaks. It’s nearly impossible to find the pictures still floating around out there because her lawyers or others did a great job letting those sites know they’d be in trouble. By the time the other leaks started hitting a month or two later, almost everybody forgot Hathaway was even part of a photo leak during the summer of 2017.
Amy Willerton
If we were going to start a television show anywhere in this world and it needed a sexy woman as a host who has the potential to become a superstar, we would look no further than Great Britain’s Amy Willerton. While she’s a professional model, Willerton also has a presence that has attracted audiences to her through her many guest appearances on TV shows in the UK and as a former beauty queen. She finished in the Top 10 in the 2013 Miss Universe pageant and won plenty of other crowns along the way, although we think “Favorite British Photo Leak Victim 2017” is probably a title she doesn’t want to have. She’s well known in her native UK, but we have a feeling that although her biggest claim to fame in the US to this point is ranking No. 15 in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in 2015, she’s going to become an international celebrity soon enough.
Kristen Stewart
There are a lot of guys and gals who would kill to be with both Kristen Stewart and Miley Cyrus. Stella Maxwell can claim that honor, as she also shows up in the batch of photos leaked of Stewart that came out the same time as the Cyrus pics did in mid-August. That can’t just be a coincidence, and we’ve got to believe the source of the leak must be one of Maxwell’s devices. Stewart looks good in the pics, mostly just changing room shots, but the fact she recently did a couple of nude scenes in the indie film Personal Shopper brought down the excitement for these photos. Had they come out a few years ago when people were still coasting on Twilight fumes, it would’ve been a much bigger deal.
Stevi Perry
Sometimes, leaks aren’t the worst things for people’s careers, and while we don’t think former Miss Arkansas and Miss Teen USA 2008 Stevi Perry was looking for a celebrity nude-photo scandal, at least her name is being used in the same sentence as the word “celebrity,” right? We can’t think of any other reason we’d ever talk about Perry, who doesn’t have a big-deal credit to her name since making a cameo appearance in Hell’s Kitchen back in 2012. There are a couple of videos of her online teaching Zumba, but they’re several years old, and based on the way she looks in the leaked photos, it’s clear she’s had some plastic surgery. The 10 or so leaked photos in her batch are mostly the typical “standing in front of the bathroom mirror naked,” but there were a couple of close-ups that provide the kind of detail only a gynecologist should really be allowed.
Kaylyn Kyle
When you’ve spent the better part of your life, literally since you were a little kid, perfecting your skills in a specific sport and you finally hang up your cleats after a long career, what’s the best way to celebrate? We’re guessing that professional soccer player Kaylyn Kyle wasn’t planning on marking the end of her long career with a photo-leak scandal, but just a couple months after retiring from a 10-year professional career that included capturing the bronze medal with the Canadian National Team at the 2012 Olympics, intimate photos of the soccer star were leaked onto the Internet. In the case of someone like Kyle, we wonder if they think that they’re not famous enough, so it’s somehow safer to take naked photos. Considering how many millions of women who aren’t famous have photos posted out there, we’d suggest nobody is ever safe if they take photos of that variety.
Nicole Spiller
Nicole Spiller is an up-and-coming actress, model, entertainer, social media maven, pageant queen who’s probably best known for appearing on MTV’s Are You The One? Spiller is probably asking that question when it comes to who stole her intimate photos that made their way to the Internet in the Summer of 2017. Along with her MTV gig, she’s been featured on SI.com as their Lovely Lady of the Day. She didn’t get a lot of headlines with her leak, but we have a sneaking suspicion it will only help her career, not hurt it. If you want a look into what people are like before they get famous, Spiller still has a GoFundMe page out there from 2014, where she asks people to help her get $1,000 to get back onto the pageant circuit after a few years off. Proving that hard work pays off, she made her goal and is now knocking on the door of stardom.
Ashlee Figg
You may not realize it, but most football cheerleaders have other real jobs during the week. They don’t make enough money cheering at home games and get enough side gigs to make a real living, and in the case of Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleader Ashlee Figg, she’s a business development director for a construction company in the Tampa region. Her professional career has been looking up, as she was named to the board of directors of the Tampa Children’s Cancer Center. Just weeks later, nude pictures of her surfaced on the Internet. She’s one of the few women leaked who didn’t have her face in any of the questionable shots, so we think she should just deny the whole thing or just ignore it. She’s clearly not trying to parlay cheering into other entertainment jobs, so we’re guessing this won’t hurt her much in the long run.
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