Celebrities would not be celebrities if they expected to be treated like the rest of us. Being famous, ‘adored’, sought after, rich and successful means giving up any sort of privacy at all.

If celebrities think that they can have privacy when it suits them, they need to get out of the limelight, including that which they revel in because it helps them.

If they think that their privacy has been invaded unnecessarily, they all have sufficient money to sue. Let’s not have any more laws to protect spoiled brats.

The public interest is as plain as the ratings and clicks on internet news sites. It's the story of the year.

The Lara interest is as plain as the $200k cheque, the sated craving for attention and successfully satisfied objective of self promotion. Max Markson take a bow. Mission accomplished Lara Bingle; unless of course she under-estimated the spine of her fiancée.

If she was so concerned about privacy, she wouldn't have given an interview to continue the momentum of the story, especially to the same magazine that published the photo. I'm sure if she really cared for her partner, she wouldn't have dragged him into her whole sordid saga for $200k, and would've rather quietly proceed with legal proceedings if that was all she was interested in. The public should be rightly suspicious that so many years after the picture was taken, and after many news organisations have had access to the picture, why now? Who convinced the magazine to show the picture?

In fact, if she'd gone about things differently, the PR would have been better in the longer term. She would stay the victim (which she rightly was after the photo that was distributed), she would stay a the brave feminist standing up to this sort of behaviour, and she'd keep her fiancée.

Now she's the Yoko Ono of cricket and a media whore. Though much richer and in the media spotlight. What is it they say about any publicity...

BTW: Obviously she wasn't too concerned about Fevola's partner and kids in all this, bringing up the infidelity again so publicly.

The only extenuating factor for Lara is that she's only 22, and patently not too bright.

Celebrity or not, one must not take and publish photoshoot from the scene in the shower or bed or otherwise private situation. Celebrity might have money to sue for breach of privacy, but average person does not have funds to spend on legal procedures in that regard. Do you think that published private photos would hurt only celebrity?

'one must not take and publish photoshoot from the scene in the shower or bed or otherwise private situation. '

That's not disputed Tatiana. Nice name BTW.

But what if a celebrity simultaneously wants sympathy while perpetuating the advancement of the photo and making money from the situation? Also what if the photo was taken in the midst of an extra-marital affair, and the profit from the exposure of this photo is at the expense of the wife and child of the person involved?

I'd be right behind Lara if she quietly went about legal proceedings.

Houellebecq:"the Yoko Ono of cricket "

Beautiful...

100% agree with Leigh on this one.

At the risk of being accused of envy, I'd go a little further and say what the bloody hell does Lara actually do to get her cars, rings and lifestyle. That wealth patently belongs to the more unassuming in society who actually go to work every day and do the hard yards.