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O’Connell ‘sort of’ Joe Francis for ‘Piranha’

Jerry O’Connell shouldn’t expect an invite to the celebration of the union of “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis and Christina McLarty in Punta Mita, Mexico, on Nov. 6. He plays a soft-core pornographer filming bikini babes on spring break in “Piranha 3D.” Audiences will experience “the sight of O’Connell’s penis as it comes flying at them after being bitten off by one of these carnivorous creatures,” Jacob Bernstein writes on the Daily Beast. O’Connell says, “I get to play Joe Francis. Oh wait, for legal reasons I’m supposed to say, ‘I play someone loosely based on Joe Francis.’ “