TOP 10: BEAUTY CONTEST CONTROVERSIES
08 September 2011
Freaks
4 stars
All luscious ladies aside, babe-ogling beauty contests like Miss USA and Miss Universe are bloody strange events full of behind the scenes whackiness and bizarre triple-standards.
But it gets weirder, though. A lot weirder. Cast your eyes over this ensemble of ten mental moments in beauty contest history and try not to scratch your head whist muttering WTF.
1. The Dumbest Thing You’ll Ever Hear
You ready for this? Proof that sometimes beauty does squash the brains out of some beauty queens, when South Carolina babe Lauren Upton hit the Miss Teen USA traps to demonstrate her smarts, IQs around the universe plummeted. When asked why one-fifth of Americans can’t find the United States on a map, her gloriously retarded mish-mash of an answer became the stuff of internet legend.
See all ten controversies here!
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RALPH: Miss Universe Winners 1991 - 2010