Miss Italy:Banned from a beauty contest for being too sexy

Red card: Judges said Miss Modugno's underwear shoot went against the ethos of the competition

Three contestants have been kicked out of this year's Miss Italy beauty contest after it emerged they had posed for risqué photographs.

Alice Bellotto, 22, was the first to be thrown out after judges saw a seductive pictures of her in a pink nightdress.

Another image involved her striking a raunchy pose in denim hot pants and high heels.

Miss Bellotto, who was the representative from the Veneto region, was quickly followed by Miss Curvy Italy, Raffaella 

Judges discovered pictures of her in silky underwear posing suggestively on a leather sofa.  The third model to be shown the red card was Tiziana Piergianni, 26, who was Miss Liguria, the area around Genoa and who was one of a handful of single mothers in the pageant .She was also shown reclining in a lacy black corset top.www.mannastores.com