Eye Candy: Cleansing the palette with Scarlett Johansson

Because it’s been a while since I posted any eye candy:

In my role as a sophisticated media critic, I am forced to wade through celebrity gossip sites. It’s a cross I bear on behalf of my readers. It’s been one sad and distasteful story after another recently. If it’s not Britney Spears losing her kids, its photos of Anna Nicole Smith, allegedly on her death bed. Here’s some news and and photos to wipe the taste out of britney-lindsay-annanicole of your mouth.

It seems that the lovely Scarlett Johansson is not only NOT one of those young actresses who pop in and out of rehab and court, she also is not one of those actresses who diets so much her ribs are showing. Naturally, some members of the press are carping about it:

The star’s sweet tooth and her love of British pubs caused her to pile on so many pounds that a number of scenes had to be reshot for the movie, which features Star Wars actress Natalie Portman as King Henry VIII’s second wife Anne Boleyn and Scarlett as her sister Mary.

“There was some reshooting,” says a source. “The problem was that Scarlett piled on weight during filming and there was concern that she looked thin in some scenes and heavier in others.”

The 22-year-old American … was recently voted the sexiest woman in Hollywood.

She developed a weakness for British fare during filming in Cambridgeshire this summer.

“Scarlett looks sensational in the movie, but the problem has been that her weight has gone up and down like a yo-yo because she likes her food.

“She’s a fan of British pubs and she really tucks in so it was a case of tightening the corset stays.”

I tried to find pics of Scarlett in a corset, but these are all I could find. I bring them to you in the spirit of full disclosure: