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Live Bloggin'
Join us tonight at 9 pm Eastern for our liveblog of the Miss USA pageant. Then on Sunday, at 9 pm Eastern, we're gonna live blog the Rock of Love 2 finale. Who will Bret chose to continue to rock his world!? Only time will tell.
Daily (Hate) Mail
Remember Chloe Marshall? The Miss Surrey who is the first size 16 to ever compete in the Miss England Pageant? Well the Daily Mail does its best to try to make Chloe feel bad about her size. Here are some of the choice cuts from Jenny Johnston's gleefully undermining interview with her: "Chloe Marshall and her wobbly bits - of which there are a few...I try hard, shame on me, to get her to admit to some deep-seated loathing about her body - but she simply won't do it...[Later] It transpires that she knows exactly what it feels like to stand in Topshop with your skinny-minny mates, and want to cry." Despite this, Chloe keeps her head held high. "Most people have been lovely, saying, 'You go, girl', but some people have been sniping about how it isn't a good thing that I'm in this competition," she tells Johnston. "That makes me very cross. The whole thing about me being here is that I want to show other teenagers, younger than me, that it's OK to be a bit curvy, because you can still be beautiful." [Daily Mail]
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Tyra: Pageant Mom Insults Young Feminist's Love Of A Good Book
Yesterday's Tyra was so good. After a first half that featured the crazies from The Bad Girls Club, she had on two sets of moms and daughters featured on the reality show Wife Swap, one of which identifies with beauty pageant culture, the other with feminism. The daughter who is into pageants? She doesn't do her own homework, know how to spell "America" correctly, and is used to getting a Christmas present every day of her life. As for the other young woman, she decided that, after having to live with the pageant mom for two weeks - -and her insults — she's "proud to be feminist." (Question: Why are pageant people such freaks?!) Clip above.
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Crowned: The Sincere Sexy Reds Choke During Show Finale
Between Laura's freakouts and temper tantrums and Patty's puking and love of hamburger meat, the Sincere Sexy Reds are easily the break-out stars of Crowned. They were consistent in their performances during challenges for the whole season — whether it was choreographed aerobic routines or singing at a pitch that only canines could hear — which made them a favorite of the judges. So it was kind of surprising that the Type-A pair totally choked under the pressure of the final competition, coming in fourth place last night. Clip above.
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Miss America Contestants Continue To Shock & Awe Us With Their "Talents"
The Miss America preliminaries continued today, with another batch of girls performing their talents for whoever the hell judges these things. Alas, there was no baton-twirling. Or Marie Osmond-esque doll-dancing. But there was a whole lotta other kinds of dancing (and if you ask us, a lot of it looked like stripping. In pointe shoes.) Dodai and I continue to comment on this year's contestants in an annotated gallery that begins after the jump.More »
More pageant hijinks! Jessica Wittenbrink's $3,400 gown was vandalized during the Miss South Florida Fair pageant. Perhaps sabotage paves the way for success, because Wittenbrink, like the pepper-sprayed Miss Puerto Rico, went on to win the Miss South Florida crown. (And appear on the Today Show this morning). The Palm Beach County sheriff says there is not enough conclusive evidence to to nab a suspect at this time. [UPI]
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Crowned: Sincere Sexy Reds Get Raw Over Uncooked Chicken
The Sincere Sexy Reds on Crowned are endlessly fascinating. They sing! They dance! They insult! Mama loves her hamburger meat! So maybe that's why she didn't know how to prepare raw chicken when her daughter Laura asked her to make her something to eat. When Laura rudely criticized her mom for not knowing how to turn on an oven — even though Laura herself didn't know how to do so — we finally saw Mama Patty's Southern charm dissolve as she gave her daughter the talking to she deserved. (Loved when she pulled her lip gloss out of her cleavage when she was done. )But despite any turmoil in the house, or between each other, the SSRs always manage to turn it out during show time, winning this week's talent competition.
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