In August 2013, The Sun's Republic of Ireland edition replaced topless Page 3 girls with clothed glamour models. The Sun's UK editions followed suit in January 2015, discontinuing Page 3 after more than 44 years. In April 2019, the Daily Star became the last print daily to move to a clothed glamour format, ending the Page 3 convention in Britain's mainstream tabloid press. As of 2023, the only British tabloid still publishing topless models is the niche Sunday Sport.
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After Rupert Murdoch relaunched the loss-making Sun newspaper in tabloid format on 17 November 1969, editor Larry Lamb began to publish photographs of clothed glamour models on its third page to compete with The Sun's principal rival, the Daily Mirror, which was then printing photos of models wearing lingerie or bikinis.[1] The Sun's first tabloid edition showed that month's Penthouse Pet, Ulla Lindstrom, wearing a suggestively unbuttoned shirt. Page 3 photographs over the following year were often provocative, but did not feature nudity until The Sun celebrated its first anniversary on 17 November 1970 by printing model Stephanie Khan in her "birthday suit" (i.e. in the nude).[2] Sitting in a field, with one of her breasts fully visible from the side, Khan was photographed by Beverley Goodway, who became The Sun's principal Page 3 photographer until he retired in 2003.[3][4] Alison Webster took over Goodway's role in 2005 and remained until the feature was phased out.
Page 3 was not a daily feature at the beginning of the 1970s,[5] and The Sun only gradually began to feature Page 3 models in more overtly topless poses. Believing that Page 3 should feature "nice girls," Lamb sought to avoid the image of top-shelf pornography titles,[6] and asked the Sun's female reporters to review Page 3 images to ensure women would not regard them as "dirty".[7] Regardless, the feature, and the paper's other sexual content, led to some public libraries banning The Sun. A then Conservative-controlled council in Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire took the first such decision, but reversed it after a series of local stunts organised by the newspaper and a change in the council's political orientation in 1971.[8][9]
Page 3 is partly credited with boosting The Sun's circulation.[10] In the year after it introduced Page 3, its daily sales doubled to over 2.5 million,[7] and it became the UK's bestselling newspaper by 1978.[11] Competing tabloids, including the Daily Mirror, the Sunday People, and the Daily Star, also began publishing topless models, although the Daily Mirror and the Sunday People discontinued the practice in the 1980s, calling the photographs demeaning to women. Page 3 launched the careers of many well-known British glamour models in the 1980s, including Debee Ashby, Donna Ewin, Samantha Fox, Kirsten Imrie, Kathy Lloyd, Gail McKenna, Suzanne Mizzi, and Maria Whittaker. A number of Page 3 girls were aged 16 or 17 when they started modeling for the feature. Fox, who began appearing on Page 3 as a 16-year-old in 1983, became one of the most-photographed British women of the 1980s, behind only Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher.[12] In 1986, David Sullivan launched the Sunday Sport, which featured numerous images of topless models throughout each edition.[13] In 1988, The Sun began a corresponding male feature called "Page 7 Fella" that featured images of barechested men. However, it did not gain popularity and was dropped in the 1990s.[14]
Lucy-Anne Holmes, a writer and actress from Brighton, began campaigning against Page 3 during the 2012 Summer Olympics, after noticing that the largest photograph of a woman in the nation's best-selling newspaper was not of an Olympic athlete but of "a young woman in her knickers".[33][34] Arguing that Page 3 perpetuated sexism, portrayed women as sex objects, negatively affected girls' and women's body image, and contributed to a culture of sexual violence, Holmes launched the No More Page 3 campaign in August of that year.[35] The campaign went on to collect over 240,000 signatures on an online petition and gained support from over 140 MPs, as well as a number of trade unions, universities, charities, and women's advocacy groups. It sponsored two women's soccer teams, Nottingham Forest Women F.C. and Cheltenham Town L.F.C., who played with the "No More Page 3" logo on their shirts.[36]
In February 2013, Rupert Murdoch suggested on Twitter that The Sun could transition to a "halfway house," featuring glamour photographs without showing nudity.[42] In August 2013, Paul Clarkson, editor of The Sun's Republic of Ireland edition, replaced topless Page 3 girls with clothed glamour models, citing cultural differences between the UK and Ireland.[43][44] Tho No More Page 3 campaign thanked Clarkson "for taking the lead in the dismantling of a sexist institution", called the decision "a huge step in the right direction," and asked Dinsmore to follow suit with the newspaper's UK editions.[45]
For several days after 16 January 2015, The Sun's third page featured images of women wearing lingerie and bikinis. On 20 January, The Times, another Murdoch title, reported that the tabloid was "quietly dropping one of the most controversial traditions of British journalism".[16][46][47] The decision to discontinue Page 3 received significant media attention. On 22 January, The Sun appeared to change course, publishing a Page 3 image of a winking model with her breasts fully exposed and a caption mocking those who had written about the end of the feature.[48] However, topless images did not appear on The Sun's third page thereafter.
Longtime campaigners celebrated the decision. Short called it "an important public victory for dignity",[49] while Nicky Morgan, then Minister for Women and Equalities, called it "a small but significant step towards improving the media portrayal of women and girls".[50] Lucas welcomed the decision to discontinue topless images but criticized the transition to clothed glamour, saying: "So long as The Sun reserves its right to print the odd topless shot, and reserves its infamous page for girls clad in bikinis, the conversation isn't over".[51]
Although The Sun had abolished the feature in its print editions, it continued to publish topless images on its official Page3.com website until 29 March 2017.[55] No new content appeared after that point. Page3.com was taken offline the following year and its URL redirected to The Sun's website. In April 2019, the Daily Star became the last mainstream print daily to discontinue topless images, when it also shifted to a clothed glamour format.[56][15] This ended the tradition in the mainstream British press, with only the niche Sunday Sport continuing to publish topless images in tabloid format as of 2023. The No More Page 3 campaign site, nomorepage3.org, was taken offline in early 2020.
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And we think about ending page 3 being quite a modern phenomena but actually it began back when the paper was still very new. An MP campaigned to have page 3 stopped because it was exploitation of women and yet it continued up until 2015, decades after it first began, and even that was met with uproar.
After working on a range of advertising campaigns for the likes of Renault Mégane and Walkers crisps, the brunette bombshell caught the attention of Daily Star, who were keen to employ her as a Page 3 girl.
Murdoch's editors at Britain's most widely circulated newspaper, The Sun, realized decades ago that plastering the page just inside each issue with a topless woman in a coy pose sold copies -- lots of them.
The so called "Page 3 girl" has since become a lightning rod for critics, who blast the tradition as a long-outdated bit of chauvinism. The paper, and some media critics, dismiss the chorus of opponents and insist the mostly-nude women inside The Sun are simply there as harmless and lighthearted entertainment for adults, who are free to choose not to purchase a copy.
And then she disappeared. On Wednesday, The Sun published an issue with no Page 3 model. As CBS News' Mark Phillips reported, the paper made no official comment about the lack of a topless woman in the usual spot. She just was just gone, replaced by a full-page ad for a grocery store.
Despite the royal request to refrain, Friday's edition of the cheekiest British tabloid of them all, home of the infamous Page 3 girls, will lead with the photos of the naked prince frolicking in Las Vegas.
The film, which speaks to the likes of models Samantha Fox and Hannah Clayd, as well as anti-Page Three campaigners, comes 50 years after the tabloid first splashed a scantily-clad woman across its third page.
He was an older bloke, probably about 70. The picture was black and white, full page. The girl in the photo was probably still in her teens, smiling- of course she was- bare-breasted, her thigh coyly covering her pubic hair, one hand on her hip.
It strikes me as woefully ironic that people who supported the no more page three campaign also supported the #jesuischarlie backlash which was, after all, a campaign for freedom of speech irrespective how insulting or offensive the material. Hypocrisy me thinks.
Many tabloid newspapers use a photo of a topless or a naked girl to improve their sales. Very often, this photo is placed on page three of the newspaper; that is where the name of this feature is from. For this reason, the feature is referred to as Page Three or Page 3. The newspaper The Sun, who introduced this in 1970, holds a copyright on the name. The Sun showed a picture of a topless girl on page three. Other newspapers, such as the Daily Star and Daily Mirror had pictures of naked women; The Mirror changed for models in swimsuits after a few years.[1] 2ff7e9595c
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