An American Idol Train Wreck Developing?

Photos of Barba topless, hands covering her breasts, and on the toilet, appeared on the Internet just as she emerged as a semifinalist on television's top-rated show earlier this month. Over the weekend, racier photos materialized, including several shots of a beautiful brunette performing a sex act on a man who is not identified.

Her best friend and fellow "Idol" auditioner, Amanda Coluccio, said the tamer shots are of Barba, including a full-length shot of Barba naked, covered with rose petals, taken for a calendar she made for her boyfriend of several years. But the lewdest of the bunch, she is certain, are not Barba, a Red Bank Catholic High School graduate who had been studying architecture until she got her break on "Idol."

"They were meant to be seen by one person and one person only," Coluccio said at her Holmdel home. "The really bad ones aren't her. I've studied them. It's not her nose. She's never had (acrylic nail) tips in her life. She's the least slutty person I know."

"Idol" producers won't make Barba, or any of the semifinalists, available for interviews until after they are ousted. But Coluccio, who speaks with Barba daily, says they believe someone from Catholic University broke into her computer and posted the pictures.

The show is going to have to address the issues surrounding the photos of Antonella Barba since they had previously booted a contestant from the show for her involvement with a sexually explicit website.

Even if the sexually explicit and most definitely NSFW photos are not of her engaged in sexual acts, the existence of the other photos is going to hurt the show which is trying to create what they believe are wholesome and popular acts.

This may end up creating a bunch of support just to watch a train wreck develop.