Also, just to add another thought on this topic. From the start I found the "posed" shots of her, where she and her friend mug for the cameras, a bit incongruous. Usually, when riders pose for the cameras, it's in the park surrounded by other naked riders. I don't know the London area at all, but this looks like it's out on the street, away from the starting area. At any rate, I haven't seen any other posed shots here from any other riders. In addition, she seems way into the attention she's getting. Again, we've seen other riders do this, but it seems like every step she's stopping and throwing up a peace sign etc. It just sort of reminded me of a celebrity caught by the paps going into a restaurant or something, and they just milk every shot out of it they can.
Also, from the beginning I thought she looked like a model, so combined with the above I thought perhaps somehow this was set up as a publicity stunt for some product or something. There are so many attractive female riders, but she's beautiful in the classic sense, and with her perfect skin I thought maybe there was going to be some beauty product or something (think the nude ad from Elave, or the Lush soap girls on "Naked Day"). Of course, once a few days passed and we kept seeing pictures of her with no other info, I figured it was just one of those things, and she was just a regular beautiful naked girl and moved on.
Again, none of this means anything other than that if I found out it was indeed a minor UK celebrity using the event for publicity, I wouldn't be surprised.
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