Ashley Roberts Knows Her Place…

If you’re like most people, this is the view of Ashley Roberts to which you’ve become accustomed:

Nicole Scherzinger and Ashley Roberts from the Pussycat Dolls leaving Alto club at 3am

Wicked Step-Sister says: "It rubs the lotion on its skin and stays out of my frame, or it will find its ass walking to the airport next time."

Y’know, somewhere in the background behind Nicole Scherzinger, like a plastic fern with tits. Ashley’s there, she kind of adds a little atmosphere, and she requires almost no upkeep… just dust her on occasion and make sure the other ‘Cats don’t pee on her.

It's like Nicole stays up nights coming up with new ways to make other girls feel like vestigal organs. Reporter: "So how do you all feel about your place in thr group?" Ashley: "Well, obviously, Nicole is our heart." Nicole: "And don't doubt for a second that Ashley is an awesome appendix! Not to mention, uh... Other Blond Girl; she's our indispensible third nipple."

It's like Nicole stays up nights coming up with new ways to make other girls feel like vestigial organs. Reporter: "So how do you all feel about your place in the group?" Ashley: "Well, obviously, Nicole is our heart." Nicole: "But don't doubt for a second that Blond Girl is an awesome appendix! Not to mention, uh... Other Blond Girl; she's our indispensable third nipple."

It’s almost as if Ashley tried to make a deal with the devil for fame, only he turned down her soul and took her self-esteem instead. (The market in used souls has really bottomed out since the Robert Johnson days. I hear the Gosselin group deal left Satan on shaky ground, and Keith Richards’ ongoing refusal to die has the Dark Prince on the edge of infernal bankruptcy.) She could be this enormously talented, multi-faceted individual, and all we’ll ever know is that she doesn’t entirely grasp the “under” concept in “underwear”.

Pussycat Dolls Play Auckland

Not for nothin', but you know, they do make seizure medications that'll clear that right up.

She apparently wants to pursue an acting career (which makes sense, given that she’s spent years acting like a singer… ZING! Thanks, I’ll be here all weekend, enjoy the veal!), so maybe that will be her path to freedom from the emotional and professional tyranny of Frau Scherzinger’s School for Wayward Dancers. At FSSWD, aspiring young stars are taught that good girls don’t speak to Snoop Dogg until they’re spokenizzle todizzle, and the headmistress does asshole bleaching inspections every morning promptly at 7:00am.

Just so we're clear, this really is a photo of Nicole making it clear that her hand is a better focal point for a photo than Ashley's face. That there is some fine super-dickery.

Just so we're clear, this really is a photo of Nicole making it plain that her hand is a better focal point for a photo than Ashley's face. Also note that only the pride's alpha 'Cat is flatteringly lit. That there is some fine super-dickery, people.

The weird thing in all of this is that –despite how intentionally bland she’s made to appear in almost every photo or performance with PCD– Ashley’s actually quite hot. Perhaps even hotter than She Who Shall Not Be Namedzinger.

Ashley Roberts Pussycat Dolls bikini

Ashley Roberts Pussycat Dolls bikini 2

Ashley Roberts Pussycat Dolls bikini 3

So here’s my summation. FACT: Ashley Roberts is surprisingly good looking. TOTAL, COMPLETE FACT: Nicole Scherzinger is a fifth-dimensional ego-bot sent by The Kaiser of an alternate Earth to make our hot burlesque dancers feel bad about themselves.

Think about it. It’s all really starting to make sense now, isn’t it?

Miley On The Pole: Intervention With Billy Ray Cyrus

Hi… nice to meet you. Can I call you “Bill”? Oh… Billy Ray it is, then. No, no… it’s fine. It’s just that I feel like I should be talking to the buck-toothed, trailer-dwelling, plumber-cracked spawn of some backwoods eugenics program when I address someone as “Billy Ray”. No offense.

Anyhoo… I think we all know why we’re here. This is going to be an awkward situation no matter what we do, so in my experience, the best approach is to just jump right in. I’ll start.

Billy Ray, you know the rules. You know that –as the father of an attractive teen girl– you have a single responsibility in her life. Just as a refresher, allow me to briefly turn this process over to Mr. Rock, who I believe sums matters up perfectly in a mere 22 seconds:

“Keep my baby off the pole,” indeed. That’s what it’s about, sir. The rest of the males in our society are working hard to get her on the pole, and you are the balancing influence that says, “Hey, maybe there are better ways to get attention.” You are the key to your daughter developing the tools she needs to make an informed decision between becoming a vice-president of marketing studies at General Electric and wiping a mix of jizz and Pabst off her ass in a champagne room at 2am.

(Allow me to hasten to mention that the latter scenario is not inherently inferior… this is about preserving options, not making moral judgements. Except with regard to you, Billy Ray. We’re definitely gonna judge you.)

So imagine everyone’s surprise when we spotted your little lady initially showing up like this at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards:

2009 Teen Choice Awards

…and immediately following that up with a performance that looked like this:

Miley Cyrus standing pole ice cream cart 2009 Teen Choice awards

See? Ice cream! That's innocent, right? Nothing more Disney than ice cream! And booty shorts. That's just good marketing, right there.

Miley Cyrus squatting pole ice cream cart 2009 Teen Choice Awards

"Now I'd just like to take a moment to say 'fuck you, Nick Jonas,' you pencil dick. This pole has already given me more pleasure than you ever could."

Now, don’t get us wrong. To a large extent, you’re doing the world a favor here. If we track the Britney Spears Awesome-Jailbait-to-Insane-Nightmare Arc and match it up to sweet Miley, it rapidly becomes clear that we’re in for at least five years of increasingly exciting, erratic entertainment. (Did I say “erratic”? Sorry… “erotic”.) In fact, she may even be ahead of schedule; she could be dancing in a harem outfit with a snake next summer at this rate.

Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus mashup Slave 4 U

Artist's rendering, obviously. I mean, Miley's boobs will never be that big.

Let that image burn into your retinas for a moment, and then consider what little Smiley has been posting on the interwebz:

For all the people calling me the “next Britney” THANK U. I couldn’t ask for a better compliment :)

@mileycyrus on Twitter

Says it all, does it not? Miley doesn’t even have the sense to spot a cautionary tale when it’s hitting her in the face like a crazy bald bitch with an umbrella. Do you really want a soul-patched jizz-tube draping himself all over your baby?

Take steps now, Mr. Cyrus, before your family’s gene pool is polluted by Federline 2.0 while you’re installing underwear verification monitors and spending your evenings wiping Cheetos dust off your girl’s chin.