Proving that I (I picked Miss New Jersey) my girlfriend (she picked Miss Ohio) and the odds-makers (they picked Miss California) can all be wrong: Miss USA 2010 is Rima Fakih, Miss Michigan.
BTW, as we covered in our previous post, there was a bit of.. notice? ..of the pageant's official 'glamour' (aka: Lingerie) photos of the contestants. If you saw the pageant, nowhere near as revealing at the bikinis the ladies wore. In Prime time regular old-guard NBC TV. I smell the start of a new standard operating procedure for any pageant that expects ratings. What do you think?
Not that the idea of doing official glamour lingerie photos of each of the contestants has gone over well with all:
Miss Pennsylvania, Gina Cerilli (above) defended her photos and the idea, as did pageant owner Donald Trump. Anything for ratings in an age when you could argue these pageants are of less and less importance, and actresses and models are often seen in lingerie or less in more than a few magazines?
^Miss Connecticut, Ashley Bickford Miss Colorado, Jessica Hartman v
^ Miss Maryland, Simone Feldman Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih v
I'll leave that up to you in the Comments section. Obviously, I'm going to be biased in favor of more lingerie photos in the world, and looking over the the gallery of all the contestants as photographed beautifully by Fadil Berisha, my only question was: do I use all 51 photos in this post or not?
^ Miss Oregon, Kate Paul Miss Kansas, Bethany Gerber v
^ Miss Virginia, Samantha Casey Miss Tennessee, Tucker Perry v
^ Miss Delaware, Julie Citro Miss Oklahoma, Moran Elizabeth Woolard v
^ Miss Wisconsin, Courtney Lopez
^ Miss Mississippi, Breanne Ponder Miss New Hampshire, Nicole Houde v
^ Miss Nebraska, Belinda Wright Miss Ohio, Amanda Tempel is my girlfriend's pick for the winner v
^ Miss New Jersey, Chenoa Greene (I know nothing of the contestants, but there's something about Ms. Greene I like. And, if she doesn't win? Well, the odds were already 50-to-1 against me guessing right who might win, and her odds are 50-1 anyway..)
My girlfriend's take on all this: If you're going to say this is a scholarship program, you're still living in the 1940's or earlier. If you're going to say it's a modern-day top model search, bring on the lingerie. I'll go along with that.
Behind the scenes of Fadil Berisha's "Waking Up In Vegas' photo shoot:
Speaking of Vegas, what do you want to wager all the attention this is getting helps the ratings for this year's broadcast, tomorrow night(Sunday)on NBC?
