BOND - RICHARDS WON'T SING AGAIN AFTER BASEBALL BACKLASH

RICHARDS WON'T SING AGAIN AFTER BASEBALL BACKLASH

Former BOND girl DENISE RICHARDS has vowed never to sing in public again after her performance of baseball anthem Take Me Out To The Ball Game at Chicago, Illinois' Wrigley Park sparked a storm of criticism last week (01May09).
The actress belted out the tune during the seventh innings on the Chicago Cubs' home game with the Florida Marlins - but her off-key singing failed to go down well with fans.
One person at the game says, "It was awful. We've had some bad versions at Wrigley Park - but that was among the worst."
Richards admits she only agreed to sing the song at the last minute after Cubs officials asked her to perform in return for letting her set up an information booth for the Kidney Cancer Association during Friday's game.
She tells Eonline.com, "They said, 'Will you sing?' So I said, 'Yes, because it's for a good cause and we want to raise awareness about kidney cancer.
"I'm clearly not a singer. I wasn't doing it to show off my pipes. Thank God I wasn't singing the national anthem. But I thought it would be fun... I had no idea the backlash I would get.
"It took everything in me to get up there and do that... It's just unfortunate that doing something good was turned into such a negative."