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Valtteri Bottas Capitalizes on Viral B*tt-Naked Photos to Launch Charitable “BOTTA**” Merch

Published 11/14/2023, 5:17 AM EST

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Suited booted and ready to make the world a better place, Valtteri Bottas made an interesting announcement using social media today. Ever since leaving Mercedes, the Finn has hardly been making the headlines. However, his flair for aesthetics became front-page news back in May 2022. The Finn’s social media antics generated so much attention he decided to capitalize on it. Now, almost a year and a half later, he has more to show.

The Finn, during the US GP weekend, went skinny dipping and told the world about it which we all vividly remember. The photo of Bottas’s a** generated so much attention he decided to make charitable contributions using it. Now, he’s doing it again.

Valtteri Bottas announces his own calendar for charity

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Bottas doesn’t shy away from baring it all in front of the camera and he has done on a few occasions. As he did back in Aspen in 2022, Alfa Romeo man has gone fully naked again for a charitable cause. The Finn with his friend Paul Ripke announced his Botta** 2024 Calendar to raise money for an important cause.

Ripke began the introduction and said, “Do you remember last year’s picture of this guy naked in the river in Aspen?” Bottas continued, “There’s great news. There’s now 13 of that.”

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Ripke added, “Botta** 2024, out now.” Bottas went into details and said, “And $5 from each sale of the calendar goes to Movember and to research of prostate cancer and other great projects that they support.” 

For the willing, you can purchase the portraits of Bottas’s a** on Bottass.com. Yes, they did not waste the pun.

It’s hilarious how a seemingly innocent, albeit not so innocent, photo has become a source of charity. Do you wonder how it led to that?

Valtteri Bottas breaks down the beforemath of the famous b*tt photo

The famous photo which has now become a charity did not start off with the thought. It was just a random photo Bottas’s cyclist girlfriend took which the Finn thought was aesthetically pleasing and worthy of an Instagram post. However, the reaction to the photo and his friend’s suggestion made it into what it is now, a charity!

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In an interview, he said, “It was actually, the idea was, I don’t know quite often we just take photos like of different situations, but actually it was Tiffany, my girlfriend who took the photo. Um, yeah me and Paul, we were having a swim, my friend, Paul Ripke.

“But then at the evening, I was just scrolling through the photos and I was like that is actually quite, artistic photo in a way. Then I just decided to post it, no text, nothing, just posted because I loved it. It was quite funny and so on. But then I saw the reaction the next morning, like wow, it was like record number of views and likes and everything. So, then Paul Ripke came up with the idea that we should do like a limited, 24-hour edition of the prints and do it for charity and that’s we did. And it was pretty popular,” he revealed.

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Who knew being the literal b*tt of all jokes could turn into a charitable initiative? Way to go Bottas!

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