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Just when you thought you had heard the last of Carrie Prejean, she gets fired. The true story may never be known. Somehow, the official excuse of contract violations sounds flimsy. But then, the lady wrote on her pageant bio that her ambition was to be a Victoria’s Secret model. From there to “opposite marriage” flack is a bit of a jump.
To PG, the whole story got very sad when the reports of Miss Prejean’s childhood emerged. Her parents separated when she was, at most, one year old. For the next ten years, there was a nasty custody battle, with all sorts of accusations. One wonders what Miss Prejean thinks she is defending.
The flip flop by Donald Trump is not surprising. The man seems to believe his own hype. First he supported Miss Prejean, in spite of the nudie pictures. Then, the rude behavior caught up with her, and she was expendable. Or, maybe she didn’t put out for him.
The National Organization for Marriage exploited Miss Prejean as much as anybody. If Miss Prejean had quietly gone away after the pageant, Perez Hilton would have looked like a mean old fool (which he does anyway) The fateful answer at the pageant would have been forgotten. As Keith Lewis ( Executive Director of K2 Productions, the independent producers of the Miss California USA pageant) says, the NOM was looking for a fresh face, and Miss Prejean fit the bill.
The interview with Keith Lewis is fascinating. It seems like Miss Prejean met Mr. Lewis and his boyfriend, and knew they were more than business partners. Things got very hectic in beauty contest land. You will have to turn up the sound on your computer to hear what is said.
It seems like Miss Prejean got a bit too big for her britches. There are reports of rudeness towards pageant officials. To be fair, Miss Prejean does have her story to tell. TMZ reports that K2 productions tried to set up a photo shoot with Playboy Magazine. Miss Prejean says : “I was very respectful of people even when they slandered me and humiliated me. I have not once stooped down to their level.”
That is not what others say. A site called The Dirty got a copy of a memo. The reasons for firing Miss California were: “1) Carrie was unavailable for the pageant organized interviews. She committed to only 1 of the 17 interviews that were scheduled. Sadly, the pageant had pitched 46 different entities for press interviews with Carrie but only 17 agreed. The others refused because of the controversy that Carrie was embroiled in.
2) The main sponsors for Miss California USA sent letters to the organization claiming that they will no longer sponsor the pageant because of the controversy that Carrie had caused. Her statements against gay marriage and rights and the lies regarding images of her (thanks to TheDirty.com) had appalled the sponsors and their clients.
3) The costs for the organization to deal with the controversies caused by Carrie far outweighed the revenues they could possibly ever recoup from her representation. These costs were primarily legal fees including notifying Carrie of her multiple contract breaches as well as the public relations costs for the unremitting damage control.
The only recourse the pageant had was to fire Carrie Prejean… Donald, finally used his infamous line “Carrie, you are fired!”.
The bottom line is, a beauty pageant winner is a PR position. Her job is to look pretty, and create good will. Apparently, Miss Prejean was not doing this job. From the looks of these conflicting statements, this is going to be settled in court, by lawyers. It was lawyers that brought us the Gay Marriage issue to begin with. Spell check suggestions for this feature:
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