In an interview with TMZ, deposed Miss California Carrie Prejean said that she was "shocked" at the news she had been stripped of her crown and fired back at pageant owner Donald Trump and the pageant producers. Prejean, who was fired by Trump for failing to get clearance for extracurricular activities, claims in response that pageant head Keith Lewis actually encouraged her to pose for Playboy magazine and appear in the reality series "I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!" Prejean, who sparked controversy with comments she made against gay marriage, insists the real motivation behind her firing was political: "What's behind this, I think, is a political debate. They don't agree with the stance that I took [on California's Proposition 8]…. From day one they wanted me out, and they got what they wanted."
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Uh, I doubt THEY wanted her to do Playboy.
Now that they’ve taken her crown away, let see if they let her keep the boobs they bought her.
That’s what she’s full of. Wah WAh Wah. “They insisted this and that”
WTF is that?
Miss America pageant is bogus if Miss America cannot say what she feels whether it is right or wrong.
Who is advising this twit? Ms. Prejean, your 15 minutes of fame are up. And that was about 15 minutes too long.
Oh, Carrie, you’re still talking? Plans to pose for a memorial statue of Anita Bryant fall thru? Seriously, your problems are of your own making, from the bigotry to the nudity. We don’t need you anymore. Kthxbye.
LOL…. Just love to watch these people use one another to get wat they want…a model wants breast implants…. a model exploited by Trump enterprises. They get their name on the news.. lets see… lawyers will be next…. they gotta get their money too… next comes the lawsuits… settlements…. nondisclosure agreements and wow… maybe someone will care about MISS AMERICA AGAIN… total failure
yes, the Miss America Pageant IS Bogus. I do not want her representing America.
She is a true idiot.
#1 – Its Miss USA twit, as in girls not good enough to be Miss America
#2 – This has nothing to do with what she said, but how she was constantly braking her contract as Miss California.
Can she go away now? I am sure even Jesus is sick of her crap.
Nice Girl Model Openings: Shoes, gloves, hairspray. (Are they really so pure) It seems modeling is a tough field as is. Killed by personal views?? Gimme a break! Good luck Carrie…..
Why is this jibberish even being covered? goodness gracious pageants are so out! and she said what she wanted, cried,,,etc…etc.. so quiet and go away.
Sam Boanga: This stupid mess is NOT connected to the Miss America pageant. It’s the State level of the Miss World pageant, owned by Trump. Pageants in general suck, but Miss World more than most.
well, now she can move onto better things, like republican vice-president candidate…
She was allowed to say anything she wanted. She had the chance to lie about her thoughts the same way she lied about her own body. You lost, baby, so get used to disappointment.
Free Speech is only acceptable if it is what people want to hear at the time. For Ms. Prejean her honesty led her to paying the price with her crown. But come on people REALLY does it need this much publicity, do that many people REALLY care?
Gay maffia strikes again!
Finally, the primitive beast is gone!
It’s a defeated purpose anymore, So lets have Ray Charles umpire the world series since a gay man judges the miss America pageant. Go figure.
Who would believe what she had to say, look at how much she lied about those pictures right before/after they came out? Oh they weren’t me they were photoshopped, oh I wasn’t really posing for them (despite smiling right at the camera), oh it was the wind blowing my clothes open even though my hair was perfectly still etc etc. Anti gay marriage people can be ambitious divas too — it sure gets her talked about more than thinking she lost for her own qualities and fulfilling her obligations.
The most appalling thing about all of this is that beauty pageants are still considered newsworthy in 2009.
Trump is a pompous horse’s ass, Always has been, always will be. Nothing but sleazy chickensh*t politics.
Whine, whine, whine… you couldn’t be the least bit eloquent or diplomatic in your response, you couldn’t have the intelligence to think about what you said before you said it, and you wonder why it caused so much stir. You got so wrapped up in your own soapbox and so blinded by everyone stroking your ego, that you couldn’t do your job correctly. You were told to honor your committments and fulfill your contract, but you were too intent on your personal causes to remember what you were there to do. And now that you’ve been fired, you’re actually shocked? You think you’ve been robbed?
Thank you, Ms. Prejean, for setting the stereotype of beauty pageant contestants back 50 years. Thank you for proving that brains and beauty cannot reside in the same body.
Now that she is no longer Miss California her new friends will drop her because she is no longer important. What an idiot if she stuck to the contract she could have push her religious agenda but now its over. Oh too bad sweetie HAHAHAHA
Unless she is going to go down on me Who the F^%$ cares – The fag wins this time.
And we should care about this because…?
She spoke the truth, Gay marriage is an abomination. Aparently free speech is only allowed if it agrees with popular degraded opinion. She’s fortunate to be free of the whole nonsense, but they should reimburse her big time in mandatory severance fees.
Her breaking the Miss America rules has NOTHING to do with “free speech” or liberal America! It’s time that people learn to separate the two. Blaming liberal America for Ms. Prejean’s lack of understanding as it pertains to the Miss America Pageant rules and regulations is clearly misplaced. Instead of apologizing, she continues to place blame everywhere but herself – where it squarely belongs!
Hey Steff – This had nothing to do with free speech. She was on company time making personal statements. Miss California is not a platform to voice personal opinions it is to represent California. She also missed company promotions to promote her personal agenda. That is not free speech it is telling your boss you are not coming in to work because you have something better to do. Does your boss let you do that? She is no champion of anyone’s rights she is a brat that has poor work ethic.
The Fag Piruz Hilton as a judge for a Girl beauty contest is like having a Hottest Fagfest judged by a normal hetro female. It doesn’t work, he should get the dick out of his mouth and move on.
Politics as usual. She gave a politically incorrect answer and they’ve been after her ever since. But the pageant biz and Playboy is a lousy places for a Christian to be, anyway. As the saying goes, if you play with a dog, it’ll lick you in the face. She’s only 21 so it’s not too late for her to figure out whether she wants to be a practicing Christian and not just a mouth service Christian, or whether she wants to be a centerfold. Pick one, Carrie.