At this point, everybody involved with the Middleton family is now completely famous. Kate’s sister Pippa has had her cute booty flashed all over the internet, and now it’s The Forgotten Middleton’s turn. The Forgotten Middleton is James Middleton, the youngest Middleton sibling. He’s 23 years old, and you may remember his halting, askew-tie’d performance at the wedding:
Yeah, his accent is lovely, but he seems a bit “off”. Also, he makes cakes. That’s his job. Cake-maker. He actually formulates cake mixes to sell in conjunction with his parents’ Party Pieces company, but he makes little cakes all by himself too.
Anyway, I’ve always kind of thought James was probably the Middleton sibling who was least interested in leveraging any kind of royal connection. He seems a bit rowdy, a bit fun, a bit of a drunken hooligan. The tabloids got photos of him drunkenly taking a piss outside of a pub once. That was one of his big scandals, along with some hilarious photos taken several years ago, photos that made the rounds in Britain and have now washed up on our shores, like a shiny, new, naked penny. You can see the NSFW photos here at Fleshbot – BEWARE, that site is extremely NSFW!! It’s worth having a glance through the photos, though. Especially the one where’s blow-drying his dong. Oh, and the one where he’s wearing a French maid’s uniform. And the one where he’s sitting naked by a fireplace in the middle of the day. Hell, all of them are worth it.
So, all of the photos have re-emerged, and now Us Weekly has an official story about it:
Queen Elizabeth would not approve! James Middleton, Duchess Catherine’s handsome younger brother who read from the Bible at her Friday wedding to Prince William in Westminster Abbey, has a scandal on his hands — and other places too.
Semi-nude pics of James, 23, have resurfaced online following his sister’s historic nuptials. A slew of candid snapshots, reportedly taken some time ago, show James joking around with pals: revealing his bare torso and reaching into his boxer shorts; showing off his bare backside; sitting nude and cross-legged, covering up his genitals; wearing a French maid’s uniform, and simulating gay sex with a buddy.
The semi-nude and maid pics of James made headlines in the British press before, and James has often called himself the “wild child” sibling of Catherine, 29, and Pippa, 27.
“James is just a typical lad who likes to mess around with his friends and do silly things for laughs,” a source explains to Us Weekly. “These photos were not for the public, they were on his private Facebook profile and someone managed to get in and take them. He’d rather they weren’t out there.”
Plus, the insider points out, “most of the photos were from his first year at university. Just a teenager. You know how it gets, a lot of silly parties and a lot of alcohol. He’s grown up a lot since then and would never behave like this now. He’s a good guy. Party days are well behind him.”
Indeed, although James dropped out of university after one year at age 20, he’s certainly no gaddabout: He’s now a successful entrepreneur who runs his own upscale bakery, the Cake Kit Company, which provided customized treats for the guests at Catherine and William’s evening wedding reception at Buckingham Palace.
[From Us Weekly]
Yeah, my first reaction seeing the photos was the sudden realization that there are very similar photos of me floating around out there, doing similarly stupid, drunken crap in my college years. Did I ever get photographed blow-drying my biscuits? No. But I was photographed performing fake-fellatio on a pepper mill. And various male friends. I think there’s even video of me doing vodka shots and talking smack about Jean-Paul Sartre. For real, it got wild!
But do these photos really rise to some kind of Royal Scandal DefCon 5 situation? Meh. After all, there are now just-released photos of Pippa dancing around drunkenly in her bra too (see it here at People Mag). Here’s the universal truth: drunk kids get photographed doing dumb stuff in college (and beyond).
Oh, and what are the thoughts about James Middleton being gay…? He kind of beeps on my gaydar, but English boys are so difficult to read. It’s the accent. And the fact that his dong needs a blow-out.
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
Is that his pimp standing behind him in the first photo?
these siblings look older than their years. i would not have guessed any of them to be in their 20’s. pippa looks about 35.
He is just creepy.
He really freaked me out during the wedding.
You are right Kaiser, something about him IS off.
If you don’t want something out there for the public, why put it on your facebook page? Especially with the whole world watching your family for years!
Kaiser, you are right about British boys being difficult to judge on the gaydar. I think it has something to do with a lot of them going to all boy schools and going behind the bike shed.
This one seems off though on a different kind of meter.
@KIKI-that is so true. i thought James Middleton is around early 30’s!they all look old and malnourished!!!
Oh please, there is nothing weird about these photos, even if you think he’s a bit strange himself.
I saw much odder things than this in my college bar every weekend. Rugby lads. Britney Spears. Whipped cream. Do not ask.
Please,those pics are tame. And normal for the average drunken teen/early twenties year old. I thank the holy diapered baby Jesus on a daily basis that the internet and digital cameras and cell phone cameras weren’t around in my misspent youth. Although they would have come in handy to remind me of some lost weeks…
Kids do stupid things – that usually result in nudity 😉
I recently ran across a box of old photos that I had not seen for years (decades) in which I found an envelope labeled “Moon Shots”. For my *cough*tieth high school reunion I am going to make a collage and try to identify everyone – it should add some fun to what would be an otherwise depressing evening.
I love cakes and baked stuff. I would love to have a boyfriend who could bake – but I am way too old for him (and living on the wrong side of the pond!)
Just a typical Hooray Henry! Pathetic prat with too much money … and not enough sense!
I’d send my child to a crash course how to drink (If I my example is not enough) and this before college.
He pings my gay friends radar so, I’m going with gay.
ssoooooooooooooooo gay. or bisexual to say the least. like my ‘I’m NOT gay!’ boss. technically, he isn’t gay, and technically he’s not lying, and he knows it. it will be very hard for him to keep his straightface if they asked him outright if he was bisexual but no, that doesn’t seem to cross anyone’s minds.
Yah, rumour in London is he’s bi.
Those pics are completely harmless, nothing unusual there.
Who cares about his sexual orientation. Leave the kid alone, it’s not his fault his sister married the future king of England.
Oh my – being from a different generation, I find those pictures disturbing. I suppose many people think they are funny – not me. Will have to think about this one as my initial reaction to him is disgust.
The pics are pretty tame frat boy stuff. Much ado about nothing. I’m so happy that I went to college before everybody had access to a camera.
His sexual orientation is his own business. I thought he did a great job with this speech. I didn’t think it was halting at all-most people making speeches speak wayyy too fast.
HANDSOME?????????????
For me the weirdness with him is not about sexuality, but more of a serial killer vibe. I just hear Law & Order’s duh duhn when he I see him.
It’s probably nothing he can help, but he is just a creepy dude.
Those pics made my day! So funny. I wish I was young enough to do drunken buffoonery again.
I don’t need to see the pictures, I’ve seen soooo many pictures like this on Facebook hahaha. However I guess this should serve as a reminder for young college kids to think twice before posting pictures like that online. Not only can they get out and embarrass the people in the pictures, but companies DO look at Facebook profiles when hiring people. I know so many people who have hidden their tagged pictures/taken down certain pictures/changed their Facebook names to prevent future employers from finding out about their drunken shenanigans.
@Micki: Totally agree. We should be educating our children on how to consume alcoholic beverages appropriately. Instead, I live in a state where you can’t buy liquor on Sunday, where wine is only sold in liquor stores, and where tons of the counties are dry. No wonder alcohol is treated like forbidden fruit.
Plus, my own drunken glory days came back to me yesterday:
My husband asked me if I knew so-and-so from our gym. I said yes. He said, Did you ever hook up with him? And I (harkening back to drunk college days) said, WHY? And he said…welllllll, apparently he liked to hide a camera and film his hookups. If I need to conduct a raid on his compound, I’d like to know so I can get the blackhawk ready…
I wanted to die.
@ Amy – I run across teens all the time who are brainless about how certain texts, e-mails and photos can really hurt them down the line. Making a death threat (i.e. “I’m going to kill you, bitch!”) is a criminal offence and putting it on-line gives all the proof needed to get convicted. Not smart in hindsight!
@ ladybert62 – sadly this is a different generation and sex and nudity are always on the table even in the early teens.
i think he’s prettier than his sisters.
and i heard he was gay and out.
Now that the Middletons are “Family”, get ready for the never ending flow of tacky stories about this group. They all did quite well last Friday, but they will always be a tacky family. Except for the father; he seems to be cool. Money does not buy class, nor does one pretty wedding. William, by marrying Katie, has foisted these people on the British public for good. Everyone was drooling over them last week. Let’s just see how long that lasts.
Oh, please- those pictures ain’t nothin’. I’ve seen worse… I’ve been in worse. It’s just his lil booty, what’s so awful about that?
These pics are nothing out of the normal for drunken college times. I have plenty of silly pics that I’m not necessarily proud of, but I feel like it was just part of that era (no sex tapes or anything like that, thank jebus). I used to joke, “damn, now I’ll never be senator!” Anyway, I totally think he’s gay. Has a bit of a Tim Curry vibe, I think that’s why people think he’s creepy.
@theblondeone, I think that all the time too. I swear, sometimes I look at my kids (all little) and think “Now how can I keep cell phone cameras out of their hands when they’re in their teens?”
@Melinda: TOTES TIM CURRY! You just nailed it for me! I was like, who the hell does he remind me of? Thank you! That would have bugged me all day…
He looks like Mr Burns from The Simpsons in the last pic.
he looks like he should be driving an ice cream truck around… my thoughts are bad after that. I know, that sounds horrible!!
@ Melinda – TIM CURRY!!!!!
The thing is that James Middleton so closely resembles Tim Curry, and all these photos connote some sort of secret Rocky Horror Picture Show secret lifestyle of the Middletons. Creepy.
I think James is probably bisexual, and definately creepy in bed. Like you would wake up the next morning remembering nothing (because you were so drunk as to go home with Tim Curry/James Middleton) and as you tried to quietly sneak out of the bedroom, he would be cooking mini-cakes in nothing but an apron.
I haven’t read all the comments, so I apologize if this has already been stated, but earlier in the week there was a story printed somewhere about what a bitch he is. Evidentally, he is all about being related to a member of the Royal Family and has more or less demanded from people when he has not been able to get his way, “Don’t you know who I am?” It won’t take long for the Royal Family to cut all ties from him.
I loved him & his dramatic reading at the wedding. But I fucking love English people to no end. They are awesome. Anyway, he’s also tall, skinny, and, at once, dorky & douchey. Just my type!
@ Lisa Turtle “cooking mini-cakes in nothing but an apron.” Loves it!
@Kaiser: Show us YOUR college pictures!!! (6)
So glad with this post, because my gaydar went off the moment I saw him. He’s gay and those pics just confirmed it. Is he still in the closet?
Was he the one who escorted his mother down the aisle to get their seat at the wedding? If so, he looked like he was rocking a package. But I could be confused with someone else?
He really does look like Tim! He could be his son….
OMG Lisa Turtle! That image of him baking cakes in nothing but an apron the morning after is so darn creepy! I don’t know what’s worse, completing that thought so I don’t have a nightmare tonight or just risking the nightmare!
From this post, I thought those photos were going to be WAY worse than they were. Just looks like typical drunken antics to me. (What does that say about me? LOL.)
Also, the picture of Pippa in her bra seems like no big deal to me. I mean yeah, she took off her shirt, but she’s still more covered up than she would be if she were in a bikini, so what’s the big deal?
Also, if that guy IS 23, those have been some fun-filled/hard-living-filled 23 years!
His reading at the wedding was stiff and off-beat, sort of awkward; and my gaydar did slightly register something too. OMG, can you imagine?
@Addie YES! Creepy in a latent serial killer way. Don’t follow him to the wood chipper.
So that’s her brother?? He was a bit um intense @ the wedding. & yeah they all look way older than they are. Def ping on my gaydar too.
Both of Kate’s siblings are kinda trashy socialites. Another photo of Pippa in little clothing has surfaced. She’s really a party animal. The British Paris Hilton. I think James is gay. It’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out. He can’t remain in the closet forever now that his sister is one of the most famous women in the world.
Damn!!! That boy has a cute bum.
oh, leave him alone! the English love mooning people, they’re cheeky like that. i find it quite funny
imo, he’s a mix between a less-pretty version of james haven’s looks (angelina jolie’s brother) & a milder version of emperor commodus’ personality (joaquin phoenix’s role in the movie “gladiator”).
And did you get a load of him delivering the speach at the wedding – like he was more royal than royal. Agree Julie M, this fam is trashy and we will get blow by blow accounts of their daily lives from here on in. Carole and pippa are hachet faces. Agreed, the father looks a lovely man who just goes along with the wisteria sisters and mumma cazza. Then goes for walks with the dogs when it all gets too much. Pippa won’t marry her boyf the banker guy who looks like a muppet because he simply is not good enough anymore. She will be looking for something along the lines of andrea cassaraghi of Monaco now. James looks the sort to have a stash of GBH/Ryhipnol in his pocket.
He’s got a Freddy Mercury thing going in his face. Slightly.
Why do all these people look 10+ years older than they are????
@Addie ITA! I was thinking to myself, “He doesn’t seem….right.”
Those pictures sound like they have been around for awhile. When I started using facebook only college students could join (I’m only a year older than james) and it didn’t matter as much what you put on there, it was only your friends looking at your page, I had plenty of embarrassing drunk pictures (that now are untagged and taken off). I miss the days of old facebook, if I was still in college and partying I’d have to be worried about my parents and co-workers looking at my page.
Dude is seriously creepy looking.
I kind of assume that he is out in his personal life, just not in his public life. Which is totally fine. I think it was in the vanity fair article about the middleton family where they wrote about his friends calling him “flamboyant” and in another article his friends talked about he doesn’t date girls because he’s ‘busy’. It all sounds like when newspapers back in the day couldn’t out right say somebody was gay so they would call them ‘confirmed bachelors’ or whatever
@ tina – I remember those days! Facebook was a lot more interesting back then. The privacy settings were so simple all you had to do was make sure college teachers or ta’s and such couldn’t see your page and you were pretty much good to go.
The pictures people put on there were definitely a lot more interesting. Now everyone is more conscious and paranoid for a good reason. I’m glad I got the facebook addiction out of the way before everyone and their grandmother joined.
This James guy definitely has a “secret basement” type of vibe.
All 3 middleton kids look older than their age. Sometimes Kate looks her age but can easily look haggard with the wrong angle.
yeah. so gay 🙂
Er, was Tim Curry seated on the bride’s side? Hahahaha.
That family needs to quit tanning. It’s no wonder they look older.
He looked really cute to me doing the reading, nice and well-groomed…the tan made him look kind of South European, like Italian or something…but then I googled his pictures and he just looks kind of…weird. He should never smile.
No gay vibes, though. But then my gaydar has always been rusty.