How does Casey Donovan the winner of Australian Idol become Casey Donovan a gay Adult actor? Easy: when half-page ads in two major Australian newspapers inadvertently display the URL for Casey Donovan the gay porn star's Web site.
The mishap occurred when BigPond, the Internet arm of Telstra, which handles Australian Idol, inadvertently forgot to spell out the complete and correct name of Idol-winner Donovan's site, www.caseydonovan.com.au. BigPond apparently forgot to include the .au designator.
BigPond's corporate affairs manager Craig Middleton told reporters the mishap was a simple case of human error during last-minute preparation of the newspaper ads.
Readers who hit www.caseydonovan.com got anything but the Australian Idol star – they got full frontal nude imagery of Casey Donovan the gay porn star as well as links to his films.
BigPond scrambled to add Casey Donovan the gay porn star to its internal filtering systems to keep children from unwittingly hitting that site, whether looking for Donovan the Idol's official site or for a fan site with the URL www.caseydonovan.org, according to Australian press reports.
