Topless photo could cost Prejean pageant crown

[FreeState]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/05/05/california.miss.california/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California -- Miss California USA Carrie Prejean "breached her contract" by keeping semi-nude photos a secret and could be stripped of her beauty queen title, according to a state pageant spokesman.

Prejean said the photos -- taken when she was a teenage model -- were being used in a "vicious and mean-spirited" effort to silence her for "defending traditional marriage."

The 21-year-old Miss USA contestant has been the center of controversy since she declared her opposition to same-sex marriage in a response to a question on the pageant stage last month.

"That answer, and my commitment to stand by my beliefs, has since resulted in attacks on me and my integrity as a woman," Prejean said in a news release dated Tuesday.

Her fate was being discussed in "closed-door meetings" Tuesday among California pageant officials, lawyers and representatives of Donald Trump, who owns the international competition, said Miss California USA spokesman Roger Neal.

"They are going over the legalities and clearly she breached her contract," Neal said. "When you compete for Miss California, you're supposed to disclose whether you posed for nude or semi-nude photos because it's grounds for disqualification."

The spokesman for Miss California USA provided CNN with a copy of the pageant contract Prejean signed last year agreeing that the discovery of semi-nude photos could mean disqualification....

[louis-t]

1. Traditional marriage?

I thought it was "opposite marriage".:silly:

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Oh dear

This is PERFECT for the Miss Cal folks. They can ask her to step down now and she can't run to FOX News (of course she will) and cry her fake tits .... I mean TEARS that it was because of her "Christian" views.

[Sequoia]

3. Rules are rules and that's that.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. I love this little tid-bit

Shanna Moakler, the co-executive director of the Miss California USA organization, will meet with Tami Farrel, the runner-up for Miss California USA, "to discuss the possible next steps."

[geckosfeet]

4. ,,, your integrity - as HUMAN being. Nothing to do with being a woman.

Except of course that you exploited yourself by posing nude and having rubber balls implanted in your chest.

[ejpoeta]

10. that's ok though, because she wasn't posing for any gay people

and fake boobs are just as god intended, as long as there are no gay people looking at them or touching them.

[rocktivity]

6. If the entered the contest knowing these photos existed

and knowing that the pageant rules specifically forbid them, then she's an even bigger idiot than I thought.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[FreeState]

8. Especially given this quote:

"Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself."

(by lying about my past photos!)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517228,00.html

[Sequoia]

17. She's hiding behind her religion.

It has nothing to do with her being "smeared" for her religious beliefs either. She's playing the pity, pick-on-me card. Oh, man and woman being married? Look at all the fine upstanding Christian men who are out there killing their wives and children because they got laid off.

[bluebellbaby]

7. Most Of You May Not Remember, Vanessa Williams..

She lost her Crown and she was Miss America...because of nude pictures...

On Edit:

Not the Runner-up...

[ronnykmarshall]

12. I love Vanessa.

Losing her crown was probably the best thing to happen to her.

She's a great singer and I LOVE her on "Ugly Betty".

[ropi]

14. yeah, i remember

but at least vanessa used the 'loss' for something positive. she became a singer, model, actress, and producer in her own right rather than cry victim. if miss prejean had any scruples she'd follow what Vanessa did. Sadly, I don't see that happening.

[kedrys]

15. Ms Prejean would need talent for that. n/t

[WillParkinson]

9. I guess I may as well say it...

Tit for Tat. :-)

[ropi]

11. oh please

donald is going to have another behind the door meeting to decide what to do.
little miss prejean is a cash cow for him and perez hilton both.
we saw what he did the last time when he had the two party girls- *slap on the wrist* "
..bad queen! bad queen!"

she'll get a slap on the wrist, wind up writing a tell all book about how evil the glbt persons were to her and how she was merely a 'teenager' when she took those photos--then she'll wind up giving talks to churches about the evils of pornography and the glbt menace. and once she's used up the church, she'll wind up having a spread in Hef's magazine.

nothing off- but she is one big old mess.

[ronnykmarshall]

13. He doesn't have the final say for Miss California

Just for Miss USA.

[Duncan Grant]

16. Yes, Carrie Prejean! This is your 15 minutes!

Congratulations! (and thank-you for playing...) :rofl:

[xchrom]

18. recommend you try following the rules carrie. nt

[Hugabear]

19. Little Miss Perfect needs to have her credibility utterly destroyed

I love it when this kind of stuff happens to those who want to tell the rest of us how to live. She could have used her moment in the spotlight to talk about anything, she chose to spew her message of hate. I am glad to see people mobilizing against her. Hopefully, someday these types of right-wing hateful views will be just as socially repugnant as Nazism.

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. Why is it that someone who claims to have so much trust in God

...wasn't happy with the rack He gave her?

[Chovexani]

21. This entire story is just a giant clusterfuck

And I wish this chick's 15 minutes would be up already.

[ronnykmarshall]

22. She's still blaming *the gay* for this.

Yeah dumbass, it was gay peeps that made you pose semi nude when you were SEVENTEEN!!!