GERMANY: FORMER BAYWATCH ACTOR/ MODEL WEARING "LETTICE BIKINI" HELPS TO PROMOTE BENEFITS OF VEGETARIANISM AND ANIMALS RIGHTS OUTSIDE RESTAURANT

Record ID: 647074

  • Title: GERMANY: FORMER BAYWATCH ACTOR/ MODEL WEARING "LETTICE BIKINI" HELPS TO PROMOTE BENEFITS OF VEGETARIANISM AND ANIMALS RIGHTS OUTSIDE RESTAURANT
  • Date: 18th July 2002
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (JULY 18, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS, TRACI BINGHAM WALKING AND DEMONSTRATING HER LETTUCE BIKINI AND CARRYING POSTER SAYING "GO VEGETARIAN" 0.15 2. SMV BINGHAM POSING FOR MEDIA 0.21 3. VARIOUS, BINGHAM UNVEILING A POSTER SHOWING HER NAKED BODY DEVIDED BY A BUTCHERS' DIAGRAM WITH VARIOUS 'MEAT SECTIONS' AND POSING BY POSTER (2 SHOTS) 0.31 4. SCU BINGHAM , PAN DOWN TO LETTICE BIKINI TOP 0.35 5. SMV PHOTOGRAPHERS AROUND BINGHAM 0.38 6. VARIOUS, PAN DOWN OF BINGHAM POSING IN LETTICE BIKINI (4 SHOTS) 0.54 7. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(English) TRACI BINGHAM SAYING "I love Berlin, I could live here, I just have to learn to speak the language better. And I love to talk about PETA (animal-rights group) and about animal rights and it is so important to have animals as your friends and not as your enemy and not to kill and eat them and I don't have to eat meat anymore and you could look like this". (pointing at her body). 1.19 8. SCU TEE SHIRT WITH PETA SLOGAN - FIGHTING ANIMAL ABUSE AROUND THE WORLD ,PAN TO POSTER AND LETTICE BIKINI 1.33 9. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) BINGHAM SAYING "I can breath, I can run, I can talk , I can have better sex, I can have great relationships with my family and my friends. I feel cleaner, my hair, my face, my nails. This is the way to go". 1.46 10. SMV EXTERIOR BLOCK HOUSE STEAKHOUSE WITH BINGHAM AND MEDIA 1.55 11. WIDE OF BINGHAM POSING NEXT TO DINERS AT THE STEAKHOUSE 1.59 12. SMV MEDIA 2.01 13. WIDE OF BINGHAM WITH MEN POSING INSIDE STEAK RESTAURANT 2.10 14. SMV BINGHAM WALKING OUT OF RESTAURANT 2.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd August 2002 13:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA68VJRFDC412S896N8X3JKLPUL
  • Story Text: Former Baywatch star and Playboy model Traci Bingham
    stopped traffic on Berlin's busiest shopping street on
    Thursday
    as she promoted vegetarianism wearing nothing but a bikini
    made of lettuce.



    For over half an hour the 34-year old actress famed for
    her life-saving exploits as Jordan in the hit TV show Baywatch,
    posed and wriggled for cameras on the sidewalk between a
    famous steak restaurant and Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm shopping
    street.

    Organised by the animal-rights group PETA, the event
    served to alert people of a new way of eating. Bingham sported
    a bikini made of fake lettuce leaves and held up a sign reading
    'Go Vegetarian.'
    Bingham stood in front of a poster of her own naked body
    divided up by a butchers' diagram into sections labelled
    as 'soup-meat', 'steak', and 'ribs'.

    "I love to talk about PETA (animal-rights group) and
    about animal rights and it is so important to have animals as
    your friends and not as your enemy and not to kill and eat
    them and I don't have to eat meat anymore and you could look
    like this". (pointing at her body)", Bingham said.

    As Jordan in Baywatch, Bingham generally wore nothing but
    the show's trademark red swimsuit.


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