Irish Farmer Tells Rihanna to Put Her Clothes Back On
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Rihanna may be perfectly good at being bad, but when a Northern Ireland farmer tells her to cover up, she listens.
The R&B singer caused a bit of controversy in the corn fields of Ireland Tuesday while filming a video for her new single, “We Found Love” with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris.
The 23-year-old pop star undressed from a flannel checked shirt into a stars-and-stripes bikini, a red bra, a mesh black top before, finally, going topless while shooting in the fields, located just east of Bangor.
At that point, Alan Graham, the 61-year-old farmer who lent Rihanna his land for the video, had enough and drove his tractor over to the shoot to tell the barely-dressed star to cover up.
“The state of undress was becoming inappropriate,” Graham told the UK’s The Telegraph. “I requested that they stop filming and they did.”
“I had a conversation with Rihanna,” said the father of four. “She understood where I was coming from. We shook hands and parted company on good terms.”
Admitting he had “never heard of Rihanna” until her team asked permission to use his fields, Graham explained, “If someone wants to borrow my field and things become inappropriate, then I say, ‘Enough is enough. You are not entitled to do that.’”
Rihanna’s wardrobe malfunction didn’t end with Graham’s ‘enough is enough,’ however.
The issue went as far as Ireland’s political stage when, during a debate in the Northern Ireland Assembly, one politician asked the country’s first minister Peter Robinson whether potential investors in entertainment industry projects might be deterred after seeing the pop star banned for nothing more than “wearing red, white and blue.”
Rihanna is in Ireland for a series of sold-out shows in Belfast this weekend. Filming for her video is reported to have resumed at a secret location there.
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Mr Alan Graham is a member of the DUP, which is a British only party. So Mr Alan Graham is not a Irish farmer, he is British so he is a British Farmer. Also Ireland’s political has nothing to do with the Northern Ireland Assembly, which the Northern Ireland Assembly only deals with political with Northern Ireland.
Posted by: UK(GB&NI) | September 27, 2011, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm
UK, I get you don’t want this guy getting Irish title, thats cool and understandable, but I gotta like the fact he told her to keep her clothes on.
Posted by: TNViewer | September 27, 2011, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm
Does Rihanna think she’s being original…?
Posted by: Christine | September 27, 2011, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm
The girl interviewed said “we’re the laughing stock of the world”. No actually, I think it’s sweet that some farmer has enough common sense and is down to earth enough to not be star struck by some girl using sex to sell music. Keep your clothes on Darl’n. The Beatles never to go buff to sell albums, now did they? Maybe, with your clothes on, you aren’t much ,eh? If so, how about you keep your top on and prove it.
Posted by: Johnnyboy | September 27, 2011, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
I’m glad that others are realizing how lame it is to try and shock by going au naturale. Does she really think she’s not talented enough that she needs to get attention by other means?
Posted by: Diane | September 27, 2011, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm
Good for the farmer!
Posted by: Kathy M. | September 27, 2011, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
Maybe, with your clothes on, you aren’t much ,eh?================Most female (and male as well ) “stars” today are pretty weak tea at best , particularly the pop singers . Even a lame group like the Bangles at least made up some original music , and could actually sing AND play musical instruments . Without a lip synch , most of them wouldn’t be able to sing London Bridge in key / on tempo .
Posted by: american_duh | September 27, 2011, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
i agree with johnny boy – the girl interviewed has her own morals mixed up – what should they care what people think for someone standing up for their moral values? after all, its his farm and he has property rights as to what he is willing to allow to happen on it – i think that young lady should reconsider… if she is willing to let complete strangers come in her home and film each other naked, that is HER perrogative but that doens’t mean her neighbor needs to put up with it in his home
Posted by: tom | September 27, 2011, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
It’s his property and his decision. No one is laughing at him, everyone with a modicum of respect (including Rihanna herself) understands that it’s his decision as he owns the property. Note that she was respectful and left without putting up a big fuss. She isn’t even quoted in this article. I’m not a fan of the girl, but I am impressed by how she handled something that she probably didn’t like.
Posted by: Faith | September 27, 2011, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
Weather reports had it in the low 60′s with a fairly stiff breeze blowing in northern Ireland this week. Seems to me kind of uncomfortable weather for going topless. And what the heck, if she wanted to go topless, why not go to France or Germany where that’s not considered a big deal?
Posted by: lomita Momcat | September 27, 2011, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm
I guess if I had to sceech, I mean sing to get attention, maybe I would take my clothes off too. LOL
Way to go Farmer.
Posted by: Kathleen | September 27, 2011, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm
Good for the farmer!
I’m so tired of celebrities showing/flaunting this, that and the other just to get attention. Use your talent or get off the stage.
Posted by: Wendy | September 27, 2011, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
GREAT JOB showing Rihanna smoking on GMA… are you guys sponsored by Marlboro?
Posted by: patrick | September 28, 2011, 8:09 am 8:09 am
Many celebrities assumes they are special people so they may behave whatever they like, and I think they should behave well. You can see women exposing their breast that,s mannerless. They should behave or else we stop buy their cds
Posted by: Njuguna Muigai | September 28, 2011, 8:22 am 8:22 am
Gosh finally someone broke the news to Rihanna that she shouldn’t walk around nude! I got fed up of her a long time ago and her rude videos and songs. Can she not act as a civilised human being. That farmer is absolutely a legend!
Posted by: Robin | April 10, 2012, 5:55 am 5:55 am