'Girls Gone Wild' Wants American Idol's Antonella Barba as Host

"Girls Gone Wild" founder and CEO Joe Francis said in a news release on Wednesday that he will offer American Idol contestant Antonella Barba $250,000 to become a host for his video company. "Girls Gone Wild" is famous for catching college girls exposing their breasts on film.

It provides Antonella Barba with another option if she doesn't last much longer on American Idol, if she chose to accept it. 

Barba has grabbed headlines for herself and created controversy for American Idol when a series of racy photos, allegedly of Antonella Barba performing a sex act on a man along with other racy poses, made it on the internet. The photos caused an uproar among many who called for the ousting of Barba from American Idol.

"Antonella Barba is an unbelievably sexy girl who obviously knows how to have a good time," Joe Francis, founder of Girls Gone Wild, said in a statement. "Why are people being ridiculed and punished for being sexual? It's ridiculous."

The producers of American Idol however said that they would not cut Barba, who denies that it is her in the photos. Barba's fans supported her by voting her into the next round of competition.

Girls Gone Wild owner Francis sees an opportunity for both Girls Gone Wild and American Idol contestant Antonella Barba. If Barba does get voted off of the American Idol program, which could happen as soon as Thursday night, Francis has offered Barba a $250,000 contract to appear as a Girls Gone Wild celebrity host.

"We have reached out to Antonella Barba through her family and are trying to reach her directly in order to offer her a hosting job for one of our upcoming video projects," said Francis. "Just like the American Idol judges, we at Girls Gone Wild are looking for a girl next door, with sexiness, attitude, a carefree spirit and a presence that will command the attention of the Nation. There's a little 'Girls Gone Wild' in every woman, and this should be embraced as a positive, not a negative."

Girls Gone Wild isn't the only X-rated company that wants Antonella Barba. SugarDVD, the largest renter of adult DVDs online, says that they have offered Barba $500,000 to become their new spokesperson.