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Chicago Designer Donates Dress to Homeless Miss Colorado
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsAfter suffering a series of financial setbacks that left her homeless, Miss Colorado flew to Chicago this week to choose the gown of her dreams, donated by a sympathetic designer. Burr Ridge, Ill., dress designer Mac Duggal owns 11 labels. His shimmery threads have hung from such famous shoulders as Gwyneth Paltrow (in "Country Strong") and Vanna White (on "Wheel of Fortune"), as well as countless pageant contestants. He met Blair Griffith, 23, in January, and was moved by her struggles. The art school graduate's father died of prostate cancer. Her mother, Bonita, suffered a heart attack and ...
Miss Colorado USA Stays Positive Despite Homelessness [VIDEO]
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsThe fairy tale life of a pageant queen seemed to be coming true for 23-year-old Blair Griffith when she won the title of Miss Colorado USA 2011 in October. But a month later, she and her mother, Bonita, were evicted from their Denver-area home. Today, Miss Colorado USA is still homeless. Griffith has suffered a string of tragedies in her life, beginning with the death of her father from cancer when she was 14. Then, three years ago her mother had a heart attack, leaving her unable to work. The beauty queen, who graduated magna cum laude from the Art Institute of Colorado, has a job at Saks ...
Miss USA Signs on for WWE 'Tough Enough'
By Brian Fritz - AOL NewsIt was just last May when Rima Fakih used her looks and personality to become Miss USA. Now, she's hoping to show off her tough side in the wrestling ring. That's because Fakih will be one of the participants in the upcoming season of WWE "Tough Enough" where she will compete against a group of people with the winner becoming a WWE Superstar or Diva. "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to battle for a title in an entirely different competition," said Fakih in a press release. "Miss USA is an incredible honor that's provided invaluable experience which will undoubtedly help me as I push my ...
There She Is, Miss America, Back on Network TV
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- There she is, Miss America. The question is, will anyone notice? Those in charge are convinced that this is the year that the iconic but long-beleaguered beauty pageant re-establishes its rightful place in the nation's consciousness as it returns triumphantly to network TV on Saturday for its 90th strut after five years in the cable wilderness. ABC's live broadcast will begin at 9 p.m. EST. "America loves a comeback story," Sam Haskell, chairman of the Miss America Organization, told AOL News. "When you figure out how education and scholarship and talent and service are all put ...
Miss USA Winner Who Had Title Stripped Dies in LA
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LOS ANGELES (Oct. 10) - Leona Gage, who in 1957 was named Miss USA but had the title stripped the next day when pageant officials learned she was married and a mother of two, has died in Los Angeles, her son said Saturday. She was 71. Gage died of heart failure after spending several weeks at a Sherman Oaks hospital on Tuesday, son Robert Kaminer told the Associated Press. Like Vanessa Williams and Carrie Prejean decades later, Gage's pageant scandal probably brought her more fame than if she had kept the crown. ...
Was Miss Australia Sabotaged by Pin Pricks at Miss Universe Pageant?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 7) -- Dirty tricks in the form of tiny pin pricks? That's what third-place finisher Miss Australia Jesinta Campbell says she endured during last month's Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas. Donning a multicolored aboriginal-themed swimsuit dress as she took the stage during the competition, Campbell says she discovered that someone had sabotaged her outfit, inserting several pins in sensitive areas, the Herald Sun reports. (Using somewhat saltier language, readers be warned!) "I put it on just before I was due to go out on parade but I felt these sharp pains when something stuck into ...
Rima Fakih, Cool on Mosque Controversy, Vies for Miss Universe Title
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- Whether a politician or a beauty pageant contestant, the burdens of representing an entire country should not be underestimated. Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to win the Miss USA title, will walk the stage at tonight's Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas on behalf of a country that has been embroiled in a controversy over the proposed construction of an Islamic cultural center just blocks from the site of the 9/11 terror attacks in lower Manhattan. Fakih, who is currently fasting from sunrise to sunset for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, has directly weighed in on the ...
Miss USA Rima Fakih Is a Muslim. Hallelujah!
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyLast weekend a Lebanese-American from Michigan was crowned Miss USA. With all the uproar that followed you'd think al-Qaeda just dropped a bomb on Las Vegas. Instead of wringing our hands, we should be popping champagne corks and queuing up to toast the soldiers who just might not have to march off to battle someday. Isn't this what we all wanted? Hearts and minds, assimilation, Muslim moderates drowning out the extremists? To quote Wikipedia: Rima Fakih's "family is Muslim, but they celebrate elements of both the Muslim and Christian faiths." Is this perfect, or what? Her story reads like ...
'Single Ladies' Dancers and Miss USA: The Sizzle Over Sex
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyEven though booty-shaking is a national pastime, much like McDonald's, SUVs and politicians with mistresses, we often struggle with our indulgences. Especially when our young people have an appetite for the very things that enthrall and seduce us. We get hot and bothered about child dancers gyrating on stage to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)." But we're OK with Beyoncé herself performing at a White House state dinner because her alter ego Sasha Fierce stayed home. (What will be our thoughts when we see Liza Minnelli perform "Single Ladies" in "Sex in the City 2"?) We ...
Miss USA, Rima Fakih: Terrorist in a Bikini?
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyA new Miss USA, Rima Fakih, was crowned at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night. The first-generation Lebanese-American beauty queen moved to New York at 7 and as a teenager moved with her parents to the Detroit area, home to the largest concentration of Arab-Americans on the continent. Readers may recall that in previous years, Miss USA contests have been followed by controversy. When they were, contest owner Donald Trump took a very personal interest in protecting and marketing his brand. One year the real estate developer-showman extended compassion ...
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