Italian PM Employs A Former Topless Model

Mara Carfagna, a former topless model and beauty queen, has become a minister in the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s new cabinet.

The 33-year-old has posed topless and semi-naked but insisted none of the pictures were ‘erotic’.

She hit the headlines in Italy last year after Berlusconi told her that if he wasn’t married already, he would gladly marry her. The controversial politician was then forced to apologise to his wife after she sent a letter to a national newspaper demanding that her husband say sorry for embarrassing her.

I wonder how long it will take before we are reading the headlines that Berlusconi’s been caught with his trousers down. Remember, he’s not a shy man - take a look at his antics with a traffic warden a couple of years ago and you’ll get my drift.