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The Story behind the Photograph
As many of you will know, Kelly (the girl who came up with the original idea for the calendar, and our cover model), and Roy the photographer came to an arrangement with The Sun newspaper that they would let the newspaper have the story of how the calendar came into being and exclusive usage of photos from the calendar in exchange for the publicity the story would generate and enable them to raise as much money as possible for the Help for Heroes charity.
Unfortunately despite many promises of publication over many months, the story never actually appeared in the newspaper and we were left with a pallet load of unsold calendars, which ironically had only been printed on the strength of those promises! A Sun reporter did put the article together and it even made a brief appearance on the Sun's website in early September, but it never appeared in the paper.
At the beginning of December, Roy and Kelly went back into the studio again and shot some topless pictures of Kelly holding the calendar. Someone heard that Kelly had topless photos taken and an action group spontaneously sprung up on FACEBOOK whereby members formed a group and when membership of the group reached 5000 Kelly had to agree to put the photos out for publication in a national newspaper!
We again contacted The Sun and told them about the group (whose membership was increasing hour on hour and at a staggering rate!) and when they saw the photo, they loved it and said they would publish it in the paper anyway! BUT they again wanted it as an exclusive, so they asked us not to offer it to any other papers. Unfortunately, for reasons known only to The Sun's editors, neither the story nor the picture ever appeared in the paper!
However, Kelly being the lovely person she is, has decided that despite being let down by the paper, she's not going to let down her army of fans (group membership is now approaching 8,400) so anyone who buys a calendar NOW, at the original price, will get a FREE A4 poster size photograph of the topless image included with their calendar!
Not only that but Kelly has agreed to personally sign the photographs sent with the first 500 calendar orders!!! Now that's what I call a bargain!!
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