A video tape, featuring Digicel's Rising Stars fifth-place contestant, Kyino Cunningham, bathing with another man, has become quite popular on the Internet.

THE STAR recently received an e-mail with two clips entitled, 'Bman ting dat'. The email with the now-infamous clips began being circulated after Kyino became an active contestant on Digicel's Rising Stars. The clips were being featured on the popular Internet site, www.youtube.com, before they were removed.

The first clip in the e-mail shows an unseen male videographer entering a well-kept bathroom with a shower stall containing a naked Kyino Cunningham bending down beside a naked dreadlocked man.

The naked dreadlocked man has his hand resting on Kyino's head as he tells him not to look up. The videographer responds, "There's not even any camera in here." The videographer then tries to push away the shower stall door as Kyino gets up and keeps his face turned away from the camera. Kyino's partner in the shower tries to protect him by using his hand and his body to block the camera, but the videographer pushes him aside.

In the second and longer clip, the videographer tries to get a better view of Kyino as the other man in the shower gets out. The videographer exclaims, "I'm not recording anything Kyino, look here, yuh tink I'm recording anything. Why yuh tink I would record it?" Kyino responds, "Why wouldn't you?"

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Kyino then closes the shower stall door and the videographer says, "No hol on ... ." Muffled sounds occur as Kyino attempts to close the shower stall. The stall door is forced open again as Kyino continues to shower, while the videographer seems to taunt him saying, "Kyino yuh don't trust me ... eeh Kyino?"

As the man who had been in the shower stands up fully naked and dries off with white towels outside the stall, Kyino continues to bathe, not paying the videographer any attention. At various points throughout, Kyino's face is clearly seen and so is that of the other man. The videographer runs his camera up and down Kyino's naked body and begins his tirade again by referring to him as the "upcoming Rising Star ... phone dis enuh".

The videographer continues, "The only way I can delete this enuh Kyino is if yuh gimme a kiss." Kyino responds in a low voice that he doesn't care what the videographer does. He then gets out of the shower and dries off with a towel as the clip comes to a close.

Efforts to reach Kyino Cunningham proved futile as his cellular phone was locked off. He was noticeably missing at the Rising Stars final show and concert at Mas Camp on September 27. Officials representing him refused to give any comments, telling THE STAR that the artiste was off the island.

When contacted, executive producer for Digicel's Rising Star, Paula Pinnock-MacLeod, said that she had not seen the tape and could not comment on it. She further explained that having not seen the tape, she doesn't believe it affected Kyino's performance on the show.

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