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Miss Universe Contestant Talks To 'Today', Still Believes In God

Anna — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:00:00 EST

Pepper-sprayed Puerto Rican beauty pageant contestant Ingrid Marie Rivera showed up on the Today show this morning for a sitdown with Meredith Vieira about pageantry, haters and toxic tiaras. During the six-minute-long interview, Rivera refuted the new accusations that she pepper-sprayed herself in order to garner sympathy/press/what have you, and says that she was shocked that it happened to her because "I'm not that kind of person". (Whatever that means). Clip above.

Miss Puerto Rico Insists Outfit, Makeup Tainted [Today Show]
Related: Miss Puerto Rico To Survive 'With God' [People]

Drama Queens

Jessica — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:30:00 EST

The plot thickens in the Miss Puerto Rico pepper spray incident. There is some speculation that Ingrid Marie Rivera, the pageant winner, fabricated the entire scenario. Rivera claims that rivals doused her dress and makeup with pepper spray before she went on stage. This morning on the Today Show, anchors Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer wondered how Rivera would have been able to stop crying between camera appearances had she really been pepper sprayed. [People]

Beauty Queen Doused With Pepper Spray, Says God Wanted Her to Win

Jessica — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:30:00 EST

The saboteurs who called in a bomb threat during the final day of the Puerto Rican Miss Universe competition totally stole their idea from the Sandra Bullock vehicle Miss Congeniality. And the beauty queens behind the bomb scare may have been same women who slathered pageant victor Ingrid Marie Rivera's gown and makeup with pepper spray! (Her competitors were probably hiding the spray in their enormous pageant up dos a la Amy Winehouse.) Though she was dreadfully uncomfortable and pretty splotchy, Rivera — who broke out in hives — persevered because she realized that Jesus had her back. "'Am I a masochist?'" she wondered. "But I said: 'I am with God and this is my goal, regardless of the results.'"

The other contestants, according to reports, were out to get Rivera from Day 1 because she had already won Miss World Caribbean 2005. (The haters said she was "too experienced" and should be disqualified. And after she won Puerto Rico's Miss Universe feeder pageant this weekend, her rivals said she bought the crown.) We are crossing our fingers that the CW's upcoming mother/daughter pageant showdown, Crowned has this kind of rampant psycho bitchery!

Beauty Queen Undeterred By Attack [BBC News]
PR Pageant Officials Probe Pepper Spray [Breitbart via AP]