Hell hath no fury like a model made to look foolish on a billboard

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Leave it to a model to sue a marketer because her facial expression on a billboard is “foolish, unnatural and undignified.” Carla Collins, 24, a Botswana-born model, blew the camera a kiss after a photo shoot in South Africa last year. The image eventually made it onto a Spamalot ad on the side of the Schubert Theatre in New York, allegedly without Collins’ permission, and now she’s suing. “Defendants’ use of Carla’s likeness depicts [her] in a foolish, unnatural and undignified manner, and tends to hold her up to public ridicule and contempt,” the suit states, according to the New York Post.

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