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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Tonya Bites

Posted by on October 26 at 11:38 AM

After a couple years of relative silence, disgraced figure skater-turned-disgraced celebrity boxer Tonya Harding is back in the news. According to the Associated Press, this past Sunday Harding “tussled in her home with a man she described as her boyfriend, prompting an emergency call by the figure skater-turned-boxer and an arrest of the man.”

According to the boyfriend—27-year-old Christopher Nolan—the brawl started after he told Harding that she’d had too much to drink, after which Tonya allegedly threw him to the floor and bit his finger. (I love a good debate.)

Now that I’ve re-whetted your appetites for the trashy allure o’ Tonya, check out her deeply impressive website, containing an array of delights, and kicking off with this million-dollar sentence:

For good or bad, Tonya Harding has been the most influential person in Figure Skating history, and in all sports history, second only to Mohammad Ali.

Enjoy!