I understand that we were all watching the Michael Jackson memorial today, but did one of the most blogged about movie-related story have to involve Megan Fox? Again? Really? Wasn’t it enough that we devoted yesterday’s post to that derivative and divisive Jennifer’s Body movie? And that neither Fox nor Michael Bay nor their Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie needs anymore publicity?

Allegedly, Fox had to wash Bay’s Ferrari as part of her audition for the first Transformers. And he supposedly filmed the whole thing, though there’s no proof of this (online at least, which is where it’d be if it existed). Did it really happen? I guess it doesn’t matter, because it’s already in the consciousness of boys and men everywhere to help them sleep better tonight.

True or not, check out the responses to this non-news after the jump:

• Vince Mancini at Film Drunk doesn’t buy the story:
  

  I sat through all eight mintues of Solomon’s interview with Michael Bay (also in video) to see him ask about the Megan Fox story, and it never came up (though Michael Bay does reveal “I was a magician as a child.”).  Secondly, why would she have to “audition” for a sequel?  The only grain of truth I can find in this is that it’s well known in Hollywood circles that Michael Bay does use the phrase “wash my Ferrari” as a euphemism for oral sex (which he prefers to receive in a freshly-washed Ferrari).

• Perez Hilton is grossed out by the real-life Transformer that is Michael Bay:
  

  The only transformation Michael Bay should be concerned with now is the one he took from geeky teenager to disgusting, douchey perv!

  Apparently, the Transformer’s director had Megan Fox complete a rather unorthodox audition at his house. A source reports that Bay “made her wash his Ferrari while he filmed her.”

  What?! Ewwwww!!!!

• Josh Tyler at Cinema Blend commends Bay for his honesty:
  

  It sounds more like he was filming an impromptu rap video than conducting an audition. At least Bay’s honest with himself about the way he treats women in his movies. There’s little doubt that to him they’re nothing other then sex-objects, blow-up dolls on film for his and our gratification.

• Mark Graham at Vulture wants to see the video:
  

  We’ve all heard stories of some of the skeevier things that actors and actresses have to do in order to land roles in major (and even minor) motion pictures, but this one might take the cake for sheer hilariousness…Sadly, the footage of said screen test seems to have been permanently misplaced.

• Erik Davis at SciFi Squad (thankfully not yet Syfy Squad) offers some ideas of where that video could be:
  

  Apparently this video exists somewhere, though no one knows where it is. (Um, have you checked Bay’s sock drawer?) Fox says she doesn’t know what happened to the footage, and when Page Six asked Bay, he said he didn’t know what happened to it either. Me wonders whether there was something a little more … hmmm … erotic on that tape? Maybe it’s stuck between the cushions of Bay’s casting couch? What do you think?

• Kyle Buchanan at Movieline points out that Fox got off easy:
  

  Michael Bay forced Megan Fox to wash his Ferrari as part of her original Transformers audition. At least she got off easy compared to Skids, who became a blubbering wreck when script sides forced him to reveal his robo-illiteracy.