Ricky Gervais "in Hot Water" for Jokes About Leaked Nude Photos of Jennifer Lawrence and More Celebs

Comedian tweeted (and then deleted), "Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on your computer"

By Rebecca Macatee Sep 02, 2014 4:26 PMTags
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Ricky Gervais is in hot water—literally!—for joking about the recently leaked nude photos of celebrities.

In response to the scantily clad pictures of women resembling Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and more female stars that surfaced Sunday, Gervais reportedly tweeted (and quickly deleted), "Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on your computer."

He quickly clarified his retracted joke, though, tweeting, "Of course the hackers are 100% to blame but you can still makes jokes about it. Jokes don't portray your true serious feelings on a subject."

"It's more important to spend your energy trying to stop actual bad things than to run around trying to stop jokes about bad things," he added.

The Derek star reiterated, "Making a joke about a thing doesn't mean you condone that thing."

He also tweeted a comically revealing photo of himself (and his hairy chest!) submerged in bathwater, captioning it, "Comedian in Hot Water."

Gervais previously tweeted a black-and-white version of the photo, joking, "Anyone who retweets this leaked erotic photo of me should be ashamed of themselves."

The women whose risqué photos were allegedly hacked, however, certainly don't find this to be a laughing matter. Upton's lawyer and a rep for Lawrence both issued statements on the privacy violation, and the FBI and Apple are investigating the matter.