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I Dated Miss Cali's Mom: Ex-Galpal

Tabloid reveals secret lesbian affair

(Newser) - Infamous gay marriage opponent Carrie Prejean is back in the tabloids. Miss California’s mother, Francine Coppola, had an affair with another woman, Star reports. “Yes, Francine and I dated,” her ex-girlfriend Valerie Vetrano says. But it ended when “Francine explained how she was a Christian and...

Miss Cali Snags Fox News Gig

Prejean will guest host popular morning show

(Newser) - In what seems perhaps an inevitable move, Carrie Prejean will guest host a Fox News Channel morning show May 27, according to US News & World Report. Miss California, who became a hero of gay marriage opponents during the Miss USA pageant, will fill in for Gretchen Carlson on Fox ...

Palin Leaps to Miss Cali's Defense
Palin Leaps to Miss Cali's Defense
May 14, 2009 3:18 AM CDT

Palin Leaps to Miss Cali's Defense

Ex-Miss Wasilla slams 'despicable' liberal attacks on Prejean

(Newser) - Sarah Palin has come to the defense of Carrie Prejean, calling attacks on the beauty queen "despicable," reports the Washington Post. The Alaska governor—and former Miss Wasilla—blasted the "liberal onslaught of malicious attacks" on the embattled Miss California. Palin said she spoke to Prejean soon...

Director Moakler Bails On Miss Cali Pageant

Executive director resigns a day after decision

(Newser) - Shanna Moakler has resigned as executive director of the Miss California USA pageant, she tells Us magazine a day after Carrie Prejean was allowed to keep her crown and Donald Trump promised all was well in pageant-land. “I cannot with a clear conscious move forward supporting and promoting the...

Olbermann to Prejean: WTF!?!

Host slams pageant queen for self-righteous attitude

(Newser) - Keith Olbermann ripped “holier-than-thou know-it-all” Carrie Prejean in the new “WTF!?!” segment of his show last night, Gawker reports. “This is no longer about her opinion, it’s about her,” Olbermann insisted, tweaking the beauty queen on the First Amendment: “Your grandfather did...

Dethroned Miss Nevada: 'Um, Hello?!'

Double standard isn't fair, she whines

(Newser) - Of all those seething as Donald Trump allowed Carrie Prejean to keep her crown yesterday was Miss Nevada 2007—also a beauty queen in the 21st century, also a victim of naughty photos surfacing, but instead stripped of her crown and not very happy about yesterday's turn of events. “...

Trump: Miss Cali Stays
 Trump: 
 Miss Cali Stays  
May 12, 2009 10:51 AM CDT

Trump: Miss Cali Stays

(Newser) - Donald Trump declined to fire the embattled Miss California today, TMZ reports. In a press conference, Trump, the owner of the Miss USA pageant, praised Carrie Prejean for answering a "tough" question about gay marriage 'honestly"—the same way, he noted, the president and the majority of Americans...

More Topless Miss Cali Pics Found

Trump's decision expected today

(Newser) - Donald Trump’s decision on whether to remove Carrie Prejean as Miss California just got a little bit harder. TMZ uncovered even more topless photos—and these are from last year, unlike the first set, which she says were taken when she was a minor. The partially nude photos are...

Prejean: 'Satan Set Gay Trap for Me'

She rejected devil and 'stood up for God' on gay marriage, Prejean tells Dobson

(Newser) - Miss California has told a Christian radio program that "Satan tried to tempt me" with the gay marriage pageant question that rocketed her into controversy. "I wanted to sound politically correct" and win the Miss USA pageant, Carrie Prejean told evangelical leader James Dobson yesterday. "Then God...

Organizers Defer to Trump on Miss Cali Title

(Newser) - Officials of the Miss California USA pageant have strongly criticized titleholder Carrie Prejean, but said today it's not their decision whether she should be stripped of her crown. Co-executive directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler told a Beverly Hills press conference that only Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump can...

Miss California May Get the Boot Today

Pageant officials meeting

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean may be spending her last few hours with the Miss California crown. The pageant directors are holding a news conference today; Prejean wasn't invited, but runner-up Tami Farrell was, ABC News reports. And Donald Trump, who co-owns the Miss Universe Organization, has skedded one for tomorrow. Her offense?...

Guess Who's Friends With Miss California

Prejean's dad says Palin called—and gay community's 'empathic'

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean’s dad says support for his daughter has been pouring in, and she received a call from an equally controversial governor. “She called her directly to offer support,” William Prejean said of Sarah Palin. He also says Carrie has gotten encouragement from an even less likely...

Get Off Prejean's Back: Pastor
 Get Off Prejean's Back: Pastor 

May 8, 2009 9:20 AM CDT

Get Off Prejean's Back: Pastor

Plus, pageant exec stars in new pro-diversity campaign

(Newser) - Topless photos of Carrie Prejean may disqualify her from being Miss California, but “they do not disqualify her from being able to share her opinion,” her pastor tells E! “We all have things in our past that we would not want to have broadcast on national television....

Prejean Parents Slung Gay Accusations in Divorce

Both sides alleged homosexuality, court docs reveal Gay Angles in Folks' Divorce May Have Shaped Prejean

(Newser) - Both Carrie Prejean’s parents hurled accusations of homosexuality during their messy divorce and decade-long custody battle, TMZ reports after reviewing court papers. The mother of the embattled Miss California repeatedly accused their father of being gay. In return, he told the girls their stepfather was gay—along with all...

Miss Cali Offered $1M for Porn
 Miss Cali Offered $1M for Porn 
May 7, 2009 9:05 AM CDT

Miss Cali Offered $1M for Porn

Also, second racy pic unveiled

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean's topless-photo scandal could cost her the Miss California crown, but it’s brought her a $1 million offer to star in a porno, TMZ reports. “This is purely a business offer and has nothing to do with your religion or your personal beliefs,” Vivid Entertainment’s...

Maybe I Should Be Miss Cali: Runner-Up

Promises focus on 'positive aspects' as photos haunt Prejean

(Newser) - The California beauty who lost the state pageant to Carrie Prejean is eying the tiara, TMZ reports. Prejean’s” beliefs are not what is in question, but her contractual obligations to the Miss California USA program,” Tami Farrell wrote officials, alluding to semi-nude shots of Prejean that may violate...

Racy Photos May Cost Prejean Her Crown

No decision yet from pageant officials

(Newser) - The seminude photos of Carrie Prejean that emerged recently may not be the only ones—and the secret snaps could cost the controversial gay marriage opponent the Miss California crown, CNN reports. Pageant officials held closed-door meetings yesterday to discuss Prejean’s fate. “The reports say that there are...

Miss Cali Slams Nude Shots as 'Intolerant'

(Newser) - Want to see Miss California’s fake boobs? A nearly-nude shot of Carrie Prejean surfaced yesterday on TheDirty.com, showing the model topless, but with her arm over her breasts. The site claims to have five more shots, including one of her completely nude, but even a single semi-nude shot...

We Paid for Implants: Pageant Boss

We wanted to boost her confidence, says co-director

(Newser) - Another Miss California pageant organizer has confirmed that the pageant paid for winner Carrie Prejean’s breast implants, the Huffington Post reports. “We assisted when Carrie came to us and voiced the interest in having the procedure done,” said co-director Keith Lewis on CBS' Early Show, though “...

Next for Miss California: $1.5M Marriage Ad Campaign

She's heading to DC on behalf of conservative group

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean is going to push “opposite marriage” in a new $1.5 million ad campaign bankrolled by same-sex opponent National Organization for Marriage, CNN reports. The group says the ad will call “gay-marriage advocates to account for their unwillingness to debate the real issue: gay marriage has...

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