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Pirelli returns to nudity with ‘sexy classic’ calendar for post-#MeToo era


Ethan James Green says photos featuring semi-naked John Boyega and Padma Lakshmi are ‘about collaboration’

John Boyega is among the celebrities posing for the 2025 edition, named Refresh and Reveal, with the musclebound British actor flexing and crouching on a Florida Keys beach – while an assistant splashes him with water for full effect. Photograph: Alessandro Scotti/PAIt also features Padma Lakshmi in a wispy thin tulle dress that exposes her breasts and the performance artist Martine Gutierrez naked aside from a piece of driftwood covering her pelvis. Green also shot the Euphoria actor Hunter Schafer for the calendar Photograph: Alessandro Scotti/PAThe return to nudity is something of a handbrake turn for the Italian tyre company after it mostly opted for clothed models in recent years.

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