Definitive 1000

We are going to be counting down the Definitive 1000 things.
Why are they Definitive?
Because The Friendly Friends have deemed them as such.

#986 - The Rock the Cradle of Love Video Girl



I have never been particularly fond of Billy Idol. And I don't even particularly like this song.

But this Definitive 1000 entry is not Billy Idol or the song Rock the Cradle of Love, it is for the Rock the Cradle of Love Video Girl.

I distinctly remember being home from school, sick, and watching MTV all day long waiting to see this video [Ed. Note: This was when MTV had something called a rotation and they actually showed videos all day] every single time it was played. The one and only reason was to see this girl trash the annoying yuppie's over-sized apartment in her spandex pants and bra. Man. She is one of the hottest girls ever and this is still one of the hottest videos.

That is pretty amazing when you consider your run of the mill glorification of thug life rap video features women gyrating a lot more, wearing a hell of a lot less. The annoyingly brain-rotting Pussycat Dolls wear less. Hell, even punk grrl Avril Lavigne wears less now (even though she bad mouthed Britney Spears and the like for showing too much skin). The RTCOL video girl is dressed like a nun compared to all of these girls. And yet....she's hotter. I can't explain it, but she is.

So where is Ms. RTCOL? According to VH1's "Where Are They Now: Video Vixens":

Betsy Lynn George used every sexy contortionist move she knew in Billy Idol’s “Cradle of Love”. She now teaches young girls her techniques—in gymnastics classes.

Apparently her name is Betsy Lynne George. A quick Internet search also turned up that Ms. George has taken a turn waaaaay out into left field and is (or was at one point at least)ensnared in the net that is Scientology.

I guess that might happen when your post-hot-video-girl career included such fare as In The Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful, Petticoat Planet and Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen. Thanks IMDB.com!

So let us remember her as the lithe, nubile, non-Scientologist that she was here:


And here:



Oh, and here:



And, finally, here:



And not the Tom Cruise (Happy 45th by the way, freak) worshipping, gymnastics teaching old maid mature woman she appears to have morphed into: