“Where’s the scandal? I was in Mexico with my girlfriend of a year, celebrating our anniversary on a private vacation. It’s not like I was caught with a Mexican hooker. We’ve all gone out and had a few too many and done something stupid. We’ve all made mistakes.”

- Nick Lachey tells OK! magazine about being photographed having sex in public with naughty girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo.

Vanessa isn’t a Mexican hooker, she’s a Filipina.

TMZ says that pictures above, printed this week in Life and Style, are just the beginning of the racy photos that were taken last weekend as Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey vacationed in Mexico, and other pictures actually show the two having sex in a hot tub. TMZ says:

…a lawyer for Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo is trying to keep photos of the couple having sex out of the weekly magazines and off the Internet.

TMZ has learned that the rest of the roll shows the two not only making out, but having hardcore sex in the hot tub. A source who has seen the photos tells TMZ that they are "Paris sex tape-level scandalous," and include images of the couple in several different sex positions.

Lachey’s lawyer is threatening to sue anyone who posts the racy x-rated photos. Vanessa isn’t that hot, and Lachey is getting kinda fat, so how hot and racy could the uncensored pictures really be anyway? I think I’d rather see the anime version where they both look totally hot, and I can choose multiple endings. If you want to see Vanessa’s nipples from a few years back click here.

Life and Style is publishing naked pictures of Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey taken while the two were on vacation in Mexico this past weekend. Except they’re not really naked because the magazine censored them. We’ll get our hands on the uncensored pictures soon, and you can see them here. Until then, you can see Miss Minnillo in a see through top at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards in the pictures below. It’s not like she’s innocent or anything. This whole stunt was probably planned.