Rough month for beauty queens
The tiaras are falling rapidly. In the last month or so, three beauty pageant winners lost, or came close to losing, their titles. I keep remembering, from the years I watched, the line read for the runner-up for Miss America, "If, for any reason, the winner is unable to fulfill her duties ... " or something along those lines. Nobody cared. She wasn't going down in history. Who would've thunk it would actually be used, barring some freak accident?
But nope, Miss New Jersey USA is the third in that pageant to "violate pageant rules." She's pregnant. That's a no-no, especially, I imagine, during the swimsuit competition. She's expected to deliver in late summer, and hey, she even plans to marry her live-in boyfriend. She said they do plan to wed, but they're taking it "one step at a time." Ummmm, I think she got a little confused over the order in which the steps were supposed to go. I guess dancing's not her talent routine.
Her first runner-up gets to step in and compete in the March 23 pageant in Los Angeles.
Last month, Miss "Girls Gone Wild" Nevada USA was replaced by her runner-up after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet.
Word to pageant wannabes: Avoid cameras off the catwalk!
Also last month, the current Miss USA was allowed to keep her tiara and title when she agreed to go into rehab after she was caught drinking in New York bars (she wasn't 21 yet). I turned on my radio last month, and heard pageant owner Donald "If-he-has-that-much-money-why-doesn't-he-have-better-hair" Trump blustering about how Tara is a good person and she has a good heart so she gets to keep her crown. Hey, that first runner-up should be ticked. She could've claimed the last three months of ... well ... whatever pageant winners do.
Then there was apparently a big brouhaha between Trump and Rosie O'Donnell, I somehow managed to avoid hearing about that silliness.
Makes you nostalgic for good old Bert Parks.
But nope, Miss New Jersey USA is the third in that pageant to "violate pageant rules." She's pregnant. That's a no-no, especially, I imagine, during the swimsuit competition. She's expected to deliver in late summer, and hey, she even plans to marry her live-in boyfriend. She said they do plan to wed, but they're taking it "one step at a time." Ummmm, I think she got a little confused over the order in which the steps were supposed to go. I guess dancing's not her talent routine.
Her first runner-up gets to step in and compete in the March 23 pageant in Los Angeles.
Last month, Miss "Girls Gone Wild" Nevada USA was replaced by her runner-up after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet.
Word to pageant wannabes: Avoid cameras off the catwalk!
Also last month, the current Miss USA was allowed to keep her tiara and title when she agreed to go into rehab after she was caught drinking in New York bars (she wasn't 21 yet). I turned on my radio last month, and heard pageant owner Donald "If-he-has-that-much-money-why-doesn't-he-have-better-hair" Trump blustering about how Tara is a good person and she has a good heart so she gets to keep her crown. Hey, that first runner-up should be ticked. She could've claimed the last three months of ... well ... whatever pageant winners do.
Then there was apparently a big brouhaha between Trump and Rosie O'Donnell, I somehow managed to avoid hearing about that silliness.
Makes you nostalgic for good old Bert Parks.
2 Comments:
"Ummmm, I think she got a little confused over the order in which the steps were supposed to go." -- Clare
Shhh! Are you crazy, Clare? Someone might report you to the Political Correctness cops for saying something like that. :-)
As they say in computer-speak, LOL!
And I love your blog name slappy!
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