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First there was Outrageous Fortune’s crotch-in–the-face-lap-dance episode (see promo here) and now John Banks’ press secretary Nick Clelland has been photographed far too close to a stranger’s crotch than advisable.

Clelland got a whiff of celebrity when Lisa Lewis (aka naked newsreader, high-priced escort) performed an in-your-face dominatrix routine at Rachel Glucina’s Spy Society party on the weekend. The performance culminated in a disturbing picture in the Herald On Sunday of a seated Clelland with an inverted and spread-eagled Lewis on his lap. It’s nasty. Never mind thinking about it on a deeper level; even on the surface it’s not a good look for Clelland, Banks or Auckland City.

Clelland says he was “dragged up on stage unwittingly” and he’d “rather the picture hadn’t been published”, but doesn’t want to make a big deal out it. He claims he doesn’t want to interfere with “journalistic independence” and wouldn’t comment on whether the Mayor was happy with the picture.

What do you think?