Sumire Yokono bounces back from scandal with photo book, cover shoots, and Calvin Klein
Sumire Yokono suddenly left NMB48 in May 2021 — shortly after a report broke that went to a hotel with a male celebrity twice her age. Even more shockingly, she was also spotted on a date (six days later) with yet another boyband member, with who she also spent the night at an expensive hotel.
The resulting scandal sunk her NMB future.
After a year off, the 21-year-old relaunched her career in May this year.
Su-chan is now trying to go it on her own (with a little help from a major modeling agency). She is carving out a career as a gradol and model, and is succeeding: three gravure cover shoots alone this month (including for Weekly Playboy), plus a print photo book earlier this year that sold out.
Here are some highlights from the Weekly Playboy comeback shoot.
Stunts like this certainly help: no, Sumire hasn’t landed a lucrative gig advertising for Calvin Klein, but sure does look very nice in CK underwear.
She demonstrated this in her recent social media post.
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Is there a good chance if she remains irrelevant in the entertainment industry, she ends up doing an AV? It seems girls who became idols rarely go down the route of getting a degree and a normal office job. Of course, she can just find a rich guy to marry with that pristine look.
Brian that is some serious talent. Marrying a rich guy or doing some high priced papakatsub is the optimal path
@Brian Cox,
actually there are some former J-idols who do go into normal jobs and another few who stay in the entertainment industry as actresses and as co-hosts of morning and variety shows……JUST not from THIS group. I’ve sort of followed 48G way back in the early 2010s. But their constant, consistent scandals made me lose hope that this agency would change. Or that the girls who consciously choose to sign up are serious about wanting to show their talent and represent the company with dignity. I thought they’d learn their lesson from that serious incident in 2019 involving physical assault. And they even changed agencies hoping to start over. Sadly, I guess they never did