PETA Media Center > Recent News Releases : Aretha Franklin Crowned Queen--on PETA's 2008 Worst-Dressed Celebrities List

Longoria, Lohan, Moss, Manson, and Minogue Are Ladies-in-Waiting in Online Poll of Celebrities Whose Penchant for Animal Skins Makes the Red Carpet Blood Red

For Immediate Release:
February 19, 2008

Contact:
Michael McGraw 757-622-7382

Los Angeles - Attention celebrities: If you do not remove the unsightly hair from your back--in other words, fur coats--and recognize that animals need their skins more than you do, be prepared for PETA's poison pen. Voters on FurIsDead.com made the following compassion-deficient celebs with affinities for fur and leather the "biggest losers" on PETA's 2008 "Worst-Dressed" List:

Aretha Franklin
How 'bout some R-E-S-P-E-C-T for animals? Aretha, when you waddled into the Grammys in yet another vulgar fur, you looked as if you were going to perform "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles. You might be a queen, but you don't know jack about compassion.

Marilyn Manson
Always draped in leather from head to toe, Manson has enough skeletons in his closet to fill a pet cemetery. As if wearing dead animals isn't foul enough, Manson says that he wears his cow-skin pants 24/7--only peeling the smelly things off to have sex. That alone should be enough to tarnish leather's dated sex appeal. Manson might only be the shock-rocker's stage name, but his wardrobe is a real-life tale of blood and guts.

Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria is short on compassion. In her trashy furs, she looks like the streetwalker of Wisteria Lane. Eva is one "desperate housewife" in need of a quickie divorce--from her stylist.

Lindsay Lohan
I Know Who Killed Me isn't just the title of Lindsay Lohan's latest bomb but also the cry of the animals snuffed out so that this "mean girl" can pose in their pelts. Lindsay, there's no road to recovery for the foxes who are anally electrocuted so that you can look skanky.

Kate Moss
Nothing completes the transition from supermodel to super-tramp like a fur coat. If Kate could see clearly through those bleary eyes, maybe she'd clear her closet of those furs.

Kylie Minogue
What does Kylie Minogue have in common with her python purse? They are both cold-blooded. Come on Kylie, it's not cool to clutch an accessory made by nailing snakes to a tree and skinning them alive.

For more information and to see a complete list of celebrities who were in the running, please visit PETA's Web site FurIsDead.com.

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