Regression to the Mean

There’s a bunch of stuff written so I’ll just summarize the basics of what they said about each person. PLEASE NOTE THE RUMOUR TAG.

For Arashi as a group, the AV actress Aya committed suicide in 2010 and afterwards, tabloids reported like crazy that she slept with all of the Arashi members except Sho, who absolutely hated her.

I’m sure everyone already knows about Aiba’s half-naked leaked photos with model Yamano Yuri, and the purikura he took with her that says “we got married!” as a joke (and you can find these pictures online), but apparently one time Aiba left a book in one of the company cars, a love/sex manual written by AV actor Kato Taka. He supposedly read the book quite carefully and folded back corners of the pages he was interested in. When the staff told him that he left the book behind, Aiba instructed them not to throw it away, so it was returned to him.

Jun and Sho were more careful about being photographed compared to the other three, but off the top of my head, they had a supposed 4P scandal reported about in the past (even though the picture didn’t show anything except their faces).

Sho’s really got his private life on lockdown from the media so all they’ve got is his type is “gyaru-kei” girls, and the Jimusho were really worried when Yamagishi Mai moved from NHK to NEWS ZERO.

The gossip about Jun basically said his preference was stylish and pretty ‘onee-chan’ types, like older women. He also said he has a tendency to fall for his co-stars. Once Julie argued that if Jun fell for such a big-name actress it’d definitely be exposed that they were dating, but Jun reassured her by saying it was okay because he only had dates at home. But Friday ended up reporting about Jun and Mao’s date at a yakiniku restaurant, and they’ve had marriage speculations ever since.

There was also a paragraph about how once on a fortune-telling segment of a radio program, Jun was desperate to hear about the relationship compatibility between him and another person, which was undisclosed but reported to be Nakama Yukie, since this was around the time Gokusen was airing. This is not in the article, but I have heard that Jun wanted to date Yukie but she rejected him, so he refused to do a Gokusen sequel or make an appearance in the movie.

Nino is apparently the Arashi member who’s most interested in women. He tried hitting on the female extras in the Nice na Kokoroiki PV (I just had to watch the PV to make sure there were actually girls in it because Johnny’s PVs rarely do), he sends heart marks in e-mails, he sings about girls that he’s dated in his concert solos, and he’s had leaked photos with Shiina Noriko and Goto Maki. And apparently Nagasawa Masami would always call him ‘Narimiya-kun’ instead of Ninomiya by accident (Narimiya Hiroki and Nagasawa Masami co-starred in the movie Shinkokyuu no Hitsuyou). They didn’t say anything about Sasaki Nozomi, though.