Well fellas and some gals, you are just going to have to wait a little longer to peep the goodies of Leona Lewis. She has been offered an astonishing $1 million to pose nude by US men’s magazine Playboy.
The singer, who is bidding for her fourth No1 on Sunday with latest release Happy, formally received the seven-figure contract offer earlier this week.
Last night, a close friend revealed: ‘Playboy think Leona would make a real statement for them as a magazine, and show they remain relevant in the modern world.
‘They are prepared to pay through the nose to sign up Leona.
Ms Lewis – who sang at the Children In Need concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday evening – rose to fame in 2007 when she won the X Factor.
Bizarrely, last month, X Factor judge Dannii Minogue told how she had decided to pose for a Playboy front cover shoot 14 years ago.
She admitted she had decided to strip to pay off crippling debts – but she insisted she had no regrets over her decision.
At the time, Ms Minogue owed more than $150,000 but she was too proud to turn to her older sister Kylie for help.
Ms Minogue made her confession in an interview with Piers Morgan for his ITV chat-show.
She admitted: ‘I don’t regret it, but I feel relieved that people know why I did it – it’s a huge weight off my shoulders.
‘It was actually fun and I did feel liberated. I looked at the pictures and thought, “I look all right!”
‘My girlfriends went out to buy it and told me I looked beautiful. It then felt like a celebration of me.’
The magazine is now 56 years old but still sells more than 2.5 million copies in the US alone.
Other celebrities to have stripped off for the magazine in the past include actresses Denise Richards, Drew Barrymore and Kim Basinger plus singer LaToya Jackson.
But last night, it seemed Leona would not be the latest celebrity to decide the financial lure from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner was just too much.
A friend added: ‘There is no way Leona will strip however much they offer. For starters, she is just far too shy.’
Last night, a spokesperson for Ms Lewis said: ‘We have no comment on this.’
