In one of the Indian T20 league matches recently, the entire band of cheerleaders had disappeared to the team hotel immediately after the match. The reason was that a post-match party was being held at the hotel and the cheerleaders were supposed to attend it Par for the course “This wasn’t just one-off. There were parties after every game. Although entry is restricted, it wasn’t difficult to get in, if you knew the right people,” said an official who had attended it. “Most of these parties are organised by owners while the sponsors also chip in,” the official added. In 2011, a Mumbai Indians’ cheerleader from South Africa, Gabriella Pasqualotto was sent back after she had blogged about after parties. “Usually only after day matches there is an exclusive after party and at night is when it all happens. The music pumps, the drinks flow and the cricketers come and go … the real fun happens in the VIP rooms where the players and night owls can cause scandal!” Pasqalotto had written. A ...
Former Mumbai Indians cheerleader Gabriella Pasqualotto, who was sent home midway through IPL 4 for exposing the antics of some of the top players on a blog, has been offered a role in a major Bollywood movie and also been invited to the inaugural Indian Grand Prix in October. According to a report in a South Africa newspaper, the 22-year-old has been flooded with media requests from all over the world since her return to her native country. America's NBC channel and top radio DJs from Australia have also requested for interviews of her. The South African cheerleader, in a report, has claimed that her blogs were light, fun and innocent and not malicious. "I mentioned Graeme Smith, but that was old news anyway. When I called Aussies 'naughty', it was meant as mischievous and not in a sexual way," Pasqualotto was quoted as saying by 'The Independent'. Pasqualotto's mother Amanda was furious at the treatment meted out to her daughter by the IPL organiser...