In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: " Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos.

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial / religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France.

Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon.

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

Cathy Dennis wrote hit songs for Céline Dion, Australian siren Delta Goodrem, and for Hear ’ Say and Bardot.

He wrote, " Bardot moves herself in a fashion that fully accentuates her charms.

Bardot asked him to write the most beautiful love song he could imagine and that night he wrote " Je t ' aime " and " Bonnie and Clyde ".

While working on No Commandments, the Dowlut brothers also wrote two tracks for Bardot ( 2000 ) the debut album by winner of reality TV contest Popstars, the pop group Bardot.

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton (" Pluto's Square "), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II of Denmark, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.

In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a " macabre spectacle " that " is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands ...

Bardot expressed support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.

Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda: My Life With The Three Most Beautiful Women In The World ( 1986 ), published by Simon & Schuster ( ISBN 0671530070 / ISBN 9780671530075 )

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (; ; born 28 September 1934 ) is a former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist.

Bardot caught the attention of French intellectuals.

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold.

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially inscribed bullfighting on a list enumerating the country's cultural heritage, a decision which Bardot is currently publicly contesting.

Brigitte Bardot is supporting Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the 2012 French Presidential Election.

" Bardot's book was also against miscegenation ; made attacks on modern art, which Bardot equated with " shit "; drew similarities between French politicians and weather vanes ; and compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had " given their lives to push out invaders ".

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was again convicted by a French court for " inciting racial hatred " and fined € 5, 000, the fourth such conviction and fine from a French court.

In 1970, sculptor Alain Gourdon used Bardot as the model for a bust of Marianne, the French national emblem.

* September 28 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress, sex symbol of the 1950s and 60's, and animal rights activist

Bonnie and Clyde were also the subject of a popular 1967 French pop song performed by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot.

* Brigitte Bardot or BB, French actress

The release of the French film Et Dieu … créa la femme ( And God Created Woman ) in November 1956 was a major event for the Riviera, making an international star of Brigitte Bardot, and making an international tourist destination of Saint-Tropez, particularly for the new class of wealthy international travellers called the ' jet set.

It was his role in a 1957 French film, The Night Heaven Fell opposite Brigitte Bardot which gained him critical and public attention.

And God Created Woman () ( 1956 ) is a French drama film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot.

The latter especially after it had been translated into French by Sacha Distel ( French singer and sometime boyfriend of Brigitte Bardot ).

* The Truth ( 1960 film ) ( La Vérité ), a French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Brigitte Bardot

The Parachute Training School, and RAF Abingdon generally, featured heavily in the 1953 Alan Ladd film " The Red Beret " ( aka " Paratrooper " in the USA ), and the Parachute Training School was used as a location for some scenes for the films " Carve Her Name With Pride " ( 1958 ) and " Operation Crossbow " ( 1965 ) as well as the French comedy " Babette s ' en va-t-en guerre " ( 1959 ) which starred Brigitte Bardot.

Her schoolmates called her " The Wimbledon Bardot " on account of her resemblance to the French film star Brigette Bardot.

Dewey Hoople ( Jack Moran ) runs a broken down tourist trap along the Colorado River along with his French wife Babette ( Babette Bardot ) and his daughter Coral ( Adele Rein ).

When the version with Bardot was recorded, the French press reported that it was an " audio vérité ".

He showed an issue of the magazine to director and screenwriter Marc Allégret who offered Bardot the opportunity to audition for " Les lauriers sont coupés " thereafter.

In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday.

The mix of eclectic samples – including pieces of Suicide's electro-punk classic " Girl " (" 3 Minute Classic "), Angelo Badalamenti's theme to cult TV show Twin Peaks (" Perfect Person "), and the Serge Gainsbourg / Brigitte Bardot duet " Bonnie And Clyde " (" Everywhere ")-- evokes the Dust Brothers ' work on the Beastie Boys ' Paul's Boutique according to XLR8R magazine.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media's attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate by rarely, if ever, going to Hollywood.

Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wishes ; the following year, he re-recorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin, which became a massive hit all over Europe.

Bardot popularized this style which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers although it is also used for other tops and dresses.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.

Vadim then raised the funds to produce and direct his first film, And God Created Woman, starring Bardot, the profits from which made him wealthy.

They went on to make two more films together, both of which featured Bardot as a sexpot.

In November, Bardot released its second album Play It Like That, which achieved gold status upon release and performed before 90, 000 music lovers at the Rumba festivals.

After numerous rounds of singing and dancing workshops, Monk was selected as a member of the group, which was named Bardot.

Bardot performed at the 2000 ARIA Awards at which they were nominated in three categories.

After the Colony Republic announced its independence, the Federation responded with the Bardot Policy, which halted all resources to Side 3 ( L2 ).

At the beginning of the Eighties, recovering from cancer of the throat, which had been diagnosed in 1979, he sold 80 % of his label to Polygram, and retired to Saint-Tropez, where he had spent 25 years building a house since Brigitte Bardot persuaded him to buy land there in the late 1950s.

" There was media speculation, as with the Bardot version, that they had recorded live sex, to which Gainsbourg told Birkin, " Thank goodness it wasn't, otherwise I hope it would have been a long-playing record.

In May 2011 Sydney-based author, Amanda Cole, issued Who Needs Prince Charming ?, a self-realisation book for women, which collated contributions from 35 Australian women including Amer, Bianca Dye, Camilla Franks, Kathryn Eisman, Bessie Bardot, Molly Contogeorge, Tania Zaetta and Cindy Pan.

Other film appearances include A cœur joie, in which he appeared with Brigitte Bardot, Les Garcons by Mauro Bolognini in 1959, Vanina Vanini, Desert of the Tartars, and Medea.