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| Bench billboards | Lei Alvis, GMA News |
Mandaluyong City Mayor Benhur Abalos told abs-cbnNEWS.com that top local brand, Bench, agreed to take down four of its EDSA billboards featuring seven members of the Philippine National Rugby Team, Philippine Volcanoes, wearing nothing but their Bench Body undies. (related article: Philippine Volcanoes Bare For Bench Body)
The mayor clarified that he didn't order the billboards' removal, he just requested the advertisers to have it removed. Abalos further said that the act is not a moral issue because he's not very conservative himself, but the road is the center of Metro Manila where a lot of people pass. His concern is its inappropriateness to the eyes of the children.
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After featuring the Philippine Volcanoes in sexy posters, Bench now releases a poster calendar of the rugby players to support the team.
The calendar costs only P69 but only includes the months of July 2011 up to February 2012.
Proceeds of the poster calendar sale goes to the Philippine Rugby Football Union, so if you're a fan, throw your support to the Volcanoes by buying Bench's Philippine Volcanoes Poster Calendar now!
After Bench released sexy photos and BTS video of the Philippine Rugby Team (Philippine Volcanoes) in their Bench Body undies, the top local brand posted in their Facebook page last Friday a sexy photo of the Philippine Azkals Team Captain Aly Borromeo also in a Bench Body underwear.
Aly Borromeo looks so sexy and confident showing his six packs (and more) clad in just a black Bench Body underwear.
It makes me wonder if the rest of the Azkals would also bare for the cameras. If that happens, will we have hunky athletes walking the runway in the next Bench denim and underwear show? Now, that sounds great!
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Members of the Philippine rugby team The Volcanoes were tapped by Bench, one of the country's leading brands, to model for the Bench Body line of underwear. Since most of them were raised in "more liberated" countries, I'm sure they didn't need more prodding to bare their bodies for the camera.
In other countries, it has become a trend for some time now for famous football players to pose naked for calendars. They even sometimes do that for the benefit of some charitable institutions.
With the booming popularity of football in the Philippines comes the trend of the athletes posing naked for the cameras. I actually wonder why it hasn't become a trend with basketball players, when basketball is considered as the top sports in the land.
This Bench pictorial, though, can actually be described as wholesome if we would compare it to something like Dieux du Stade where famous rugby players go all out.
One more screencap and the behind-the-scenes video clip of the Bench Body photoshoot after the jump.
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