LONDON - The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar. Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next month's Miss World competition in South Africa. They said in a statement that the 21-year-old heptathlete will now focus on clearing her name and training for the 2012 Olympics.
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HAMPTON, Va. - The first non-black winner of the annual beauty pageant at historically black Hampton University says she's sorry for writing a letter to President Barack Obama contending her crowning was not widely accepted” on campus because she is not black.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary - It will be a night for unnatural beauties. With contestants showing off breast implants, nose jobs and face lifts, Miss Plastic Hungary 2009 strives to promote the benefits of plastic surgery in a country where artificial enhancements are viewed mostly with a wary eye.
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Dozens of tanks thundered down locked-down avenues toward positions near Tiananmen Square ahead of a massive military parade and spectacular pageant depicting how the Communist Party has led China from chaos to prosperity. |
CARACAS, Venezuela - Marelisa Gibson, a 20-year-old brunette, has been crowned Miss Venezuela and will represent the beauty-obsessed South American country at next year's Miss Universe pageant. The annual Miss Venezuela pageant is the one of Venezuela's most watched programs and a source of national pride.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - The newly crowned Miss Universe returned to her native Venezuela on Saturday to celebrate her historic selection, saying the nation would go for its third consecutive win at next year's pageant. Stefania Fernandez, 18, was welcomed at the airport with a red carpet and flowers.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Cayman Islands is sacrificing beauty for bucks. The government is telling beauty pageant participants that all contests have been postponed until the economy improves.
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NASSAU, Bahamas - The 2009 Miss Universe says her title fulfills a lifelong dream - and an improbable one for a girl who finished last in one of her first beauty pageants. Stefania Fernandez, an 18-year-old Venezuelan, said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press that despite the rocky start, she continued competing in order to keep busy.
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Heidi Montag jumped onstage in tight sequined pants and a matching bra Sunday at the Miss Universe pageant, and gave her first live performance, singing "Body Language" from her debut album.
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LIMA, Peru - A beauty pageant has set off a beastly battle between Peru and Bolivia, which both claim ownership of the Andean "Devil's Dance."
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The Cambodian government said Monday it will not allow a "Miss Landmine" beauty pageant to take place later this week, calling it an insult to the disabled. "The land mine beauty contest would make a mockery of Cambodia's land mine victims," said government spokesman Khieu Khanarith. "The government does not support this contest."
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An apologetic volunteer, not a thief, was to blame for the disappearance of the $400 crown, which turned up late Friday afternoon at a Reno alteration shop, said pageant organizer Teresa Benitez-Thompson. |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Miss Puerto Rico Petite competition stripped the reigning queen of her crown Friday, accusing the young woman of "intolerable conduct" that included threatening and assaulting pageant staff.
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Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up trouble for herself when she said gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, got two dreaded words from pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: You're fired. Trump and other pageant leaders said Prejean was being sacked not because of the remarks but because she hadn't been holding up her end of the agreement she signed when she entered the pageant.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - From the moment Barack Obama stepped off Air Force One, his first visit to Saudi Arabia as president was filled with, well, pomp and pageantry fit for a king. His host was, after all, the monarch who presides over the oil-rich nation.
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Models claiming to be from 24 countries took part in the contest in Taiwan last week, but organiser Huang Chih-hui later found that at least nine women, including winner Esma Voloder of Bosnia, were from Australia. |
The Miss Tiffany Universe took place in Thailand on Saturday.
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Former beauty queen Shanna Moakler has resigned as executive director of the Miss California USA pageant, a day after controversial titleholder Carrie Prejean (pray-ZHAN) was allowed to keep her crown.
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Miss California USA can retain her crown even though she failed to reveal she had posed in her underwear as a teenager, pageant owner Donald Trump said Tuesday.
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Officials of the Miss California USA pageant have strongly criticized titleholder Carrie Prejean? but say it's not their decision whether she should be stripped of her crown.
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LOS ANGELES - The Miss California USA pageant says its co-directors plan to address whether current title holder Carrie Prejean will hold onto her crown amid allegations of contract violations.
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Keith Lewis said Friday that he and fellow co-director Shanna Moakler will make their case public Monday. He says they and Prejean's representatives are close to a resolution. |
A former New Jersey beauty pageant winner has been sentenced to a year in jail for bouncing more than $70,000 in bad checks to purchase antique furniture.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she's a little on the plump side.
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Just when many people felt they had already seen enough of Miss California, Carrie Prejean, a topless photo of the beauty pageant contestant and National Organization for Marriage spokeswoman surfaced late on Monday night.
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Pageant spokesman Roger Neal said Tuesday it appears Prejean has run afoul of several sections of the 12-page contract that all prospective contestants were required to sign before competing in the November state contest. |
Donald Trump appeared on the "Late Show" last night to help Letterman out with his top ten list. The topic was "Top Ten Donald Trump Financial Tips" and had the mogul mocking himself at every turn with such gems as "Number 10: Only buy things that are essential like golf courses and beauty pageants," and "Number 8: Save money by styling your own hair." Of course there were some serious money-saving tips like "Number 7: Sell North Dakota to the Chinese" and "Number 5: Panic."br /
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Friday morning a Miss California Pageant official confirmed previous reports that controversial contestant Carrie Prejean received free breast implants, organized and paid for by the pageant, weeks before the Miss USA competition.
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[a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/Miss_California_stars_in_ad_opposing_samesex_marraige.html"Via Ben Smith/a] Unintentionally hilarious anti-gay organization National Organization for Marriage has ramped up their activities by enlisting the aid of a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30495983/"Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean/a, thus unleashing the powerful influence of people who lose beauty pageants, which has traditionally been an awesome force in remapping political thought in America. a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Upton#Famous_response"As you may know, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps of, such as, political thought, maps, Iraq, such as/a.
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A spokesman for the Miss California pageant on Monday denied that contest officials told the reigning beauty queen to publicly apologize for her statement opposing same-sex marriage during the Miss USA pageant.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Miss California Carrie Prejean, who became the bombshell of the Miss USA pageant by saying gay couples should not be allowed to marry, said Sunday that her state sponsors urged her to apologize afterward but she rejected the advice.
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Miss California Carrie Prejean, who became the bombshell of the Miss USA pageant by saying gay couples should not be allowed to marry, said Sunday that her state sponsors urged her to apologize afterward but she rejected the advice.
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A beauty/environmental-friendly pageant? emBe still, our beating hearts!/em
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The late night hosts took on the Miss USA pageant last night with Jimmy Fallon saying the GOP found their VP candidate for 2012 and Jay Leno mocking Miss California for alienating the people who watch pageants.
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It was supposed to be all smiles and tiaras, but Sunday night's Miss USA beauty pageant took an ugly turn after Miss California's comments on same-sex marriage. North Carolina may have won, but she's not the one getting all the attention.
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The "Tonight Show" took on the Miss USA pageant last night with a segment called "The Mo You Know," in which comedian Mo Rocca interviewed pageant contestants about state trivia. What did we learn? A chicken is not a bird, a moose and a camel have more in common than previously thought, and nothing happens in Iowa.
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The pageant may be over, but the controversy will likely linger for Miss California, who has no love for gay marriage.
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LAS VEGAS - Miss North Carolina USA Kristen Dalton was crowned Miss USA 2009 on Sunday, beating out 50 other beauty queens in the live pageant televised from Planet Hollywood Resort Casino in Las Vegas.
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"Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist is spending the weekend judging the Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas, but before he left he put together his weekly list of the top 5 stories of the week:
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The Miss USA pageant is this Sunday, and during the swimsuit competition the ladies will don bikinis a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/04/16/2009-04-16_jessica_simpson_collection_bikinis_.html"designed/a by a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/jessica-simpsons-country-_n_186547.html"flailing /acountry singer Jessica Simpson:br /
blockquoteIdentical $104 white 'n' gold string bikinis were especially created for the contest, as well as the $88 bright green string bikinis modeled by the crown-chasers during a pre-pageant photo shoot in Las Vegas.
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