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Carrie Prejean has been stripped of her pageant crown for allegedly failing to fulfill her beauty queen duties, but the ousted Miss California says it's the Miss USA team that fell down on the job.According to statements from Carrie Prejean in an interview with TMZ.com Wednesday, in which Carrie Prejean said sge was "shocked" to learn she'd been "fired" by Donald Trump."What's behind this I think is a political debate.
They don't agree with the stance that I took. Shanna is trying to bash me. They don't like me. From day one they wanted me out and they got what they wanted," Carrie Prejean said.Trump maintains the cause was breach of contract."I told Carrie she needed to get back to work and honor her contract with the Miss California USA Organization, and I gave her the opportunity to do so," Trump said in a statement. "Unfortunately it just doesn't look like it is going to happen."
Carrie Prejean claimed that pageant exec Keith Lewis pushed her to take the $140,000 to pose in semi-nude photos for Playboy - an offer Carrie Prejean rejected.Lewis admits he presented her with a $140,000 deal from the skin mag but said he did that because she had insisted he tell about any and all promotion offersPrejean officials said Carrie Prejean has missed a slew of pageant-organized appearances and doesn't seek clearance before participating in unsanctioned activities.Not true, said a "shocked" Prejean, who hit back with explosive charges that the pageant wanted her to pose semi-nude in Playboy - an offer she nixed, TMZ.com reported on its web site.
Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy when Carrie Prejean said gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, got the word from pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: "You're fired." Trump and other pageant leaders said Prejean was being sacked not because of her controversial remarks but because she hadn't been holding up her end of the agreement she signed when Carrie Prejean entered the pageant. "This was a decision based solely on contract violations, including Ms. Prejean's unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization," the California pageant's executive director, Keith Lewis, said in a statement. Lewis had complained at a news conference last month that Prejean was skipping Miss California USA events while speaking out against gay marriage at unsanctioned appearances. After the complaints reached Trump, who owns Miss California USA's parent organization, the mogul decided to give her a second chance and keep her on. On Wednesday he changed his mind and sided with Lewis.
"I told Carrie she needed to get back to work and honor her contract with the Miss California USA Organization and I gave her the opportunity to do so," Trump said in a statement. "Unfortunately it just doesn't look like it is going to happen." Carrie Prejean spokeswoman Melany Ethridge declined to comment, saying she hadn't been able to reach the former beauty queen since the announcement of her ouster. Carrie Prejean told the television show Access Hollywood she would never have been let go from the pageant had she not replied the way she did to a judge's question about gay marriage. "It's just because of my answer, I think," Prejean said Wednesday shortly after learning of Trump's decision. "None of this would be happening right now if I just said, 'Yeah, gays should get married.'"
She also denied being derelict in her post-pageant duties. "I've tried to reach out to them and I've done several appearances and I'm going to be presenting at the Special Olympics this weekend as an honorary guest," Carrie Prejean told the TV show. "I mean, I've been cooperating with them. I don't see why this is happening."
One thing reigns supreme when it comes to the gay marriage-hating Miss California Carrie Prejean: Mass confusion.Donald Trump will reveal Tuesday whether he's telling Carrie Prejean "You're Fired!" or letting her keep her crown, but state officials just couldn't wait. While acknowledging it's Trump's decision - he owns the pageant - they took the bizarre step Monday of naming Carrie Prejean's runnerup, Tami Farrell, a special "Beauty of California Ambassador."Carrie Prejean has failed to make appearances, complained Miss California USA co-executive directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler. She became a lightning rod for the gay marriage issue when she said, in reply to a question at the Miss USA pageant, that she didn't think it should be legal.Soon after, it was revealed Carrie Prejean had recently got breast implants. But the biggest controversy erupted over recently-revealed nude photographs. "Up until now we have just been riding along pretty much a passenger on this runaway train.But as of today, that ends," said Lewis. Carrie Prejean entered violated her contract, and hasn't been available for appearances, Lewis said.Moakler said Carrie Prejean's failure to reveal the photos were out there to organizers shows Carrie Prejean entered the pageant under false pretenses."For us the severity of nudity in the one photo that Carrie Prejean has admitted was hers is not the issue. The fact that she entered the pageant and admitted it, is," Moakler said. Lewis admitted that the gay marriage controversy is also a factor."Her message was dividing us rather than bringing us back together," he said.He blasted the National Organization for Marriage for making 21-year-old Prejean, who spoke out against gay marriage in the Miss USA pageant, its poster girl and encouraging her to shirk her pageant responsibilities in favor of "polarizing" politics."Shame, shame, shame," he said. "Shame for doing it all the while knowing that you placed her in a position where she stood to possibly lose her crown not for her beliefs ...but for the breach of contract you so willingly encouraged."The state pageant has been investigating whether the blonde bombshell violated her contract by making public appearances for the National Organization of Marriage that conflicted with pageant business.Lewis and Moakler also revealed that they now have to go through non-pageant handlers to contact her and have been asked to provide special security for her at events. "We've never had that before: a beauty queen having to have a team of people protecting her in order to go out and create goodwill," he said."We've been pretty much hijacked, unable to do the work at hand." He said he'll support Trump's decision either way. Prejean was named first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant on April 19.She became a YouTube sensation after she answered a question on gay marriage posed by guest judge Perez Hilton, an openly gay celebrity blogger."I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman," she said.
Olympic swimmer and record-breaking gold medal winner Phelps shocked fans and made headlines around the globe when he was photographed smoking marijuana at a college party earlier this year.The Miss USA runner-up kicked up a controversy this week for speaking out against gay marriage in response to a question from pageant judge and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.Now - they may make headlines together as a ruckus-raising couple.Prejean's grandmother Jeanette Coppolla has said the two are dating, according to a report on RadarOnline.com."Carrie Prejean and Michael have been out to baseball games and lunch. He always calls her when he is in town and they go out," Carrie Prejean said.Prejean offered a vague response to questions on the matter from pageant host Billy Bush on Sunday."That’s not appropriate to answer right now. He’s a great man…You can call me on a later day and we can talk about that," Carrie Prejean said at the time.Source: nydailynews.com
