Miss Malibu Tami Farrell, first runner-up in last year’s Miss California contest, has received her promotion following Carrie Prejean’s abrupt and public-before-private firing. Here she is, your…um, I mean their…Miss California:
Sooner or later I’m going to start wondering why I care about this.
Anyway. Fox News had a very brief and softball interview with her, here. One excerpt:
FOX: No hard feelings that you didn’t win the title outright last year?
Tami Farrell: Everything in life happens for a reason, and I think Carrie won for a purpose. I’m just excited to see what I can do in the next few months of my reign.
Note: I’m not saying they should have grilled her on Prejean and the whole gay marriage issue. Of course they shoudn’t have – she’s not a politician or anything. She’s just a beauty queen. And I say “just” in the most admiring (but non-stalkerish) way possible.
I’d just be interested to know what she thought of the whole thing; what she meant by “I think Carrie won for a purpose;” and whether or not the Miss California organization is prepping her for the inevitable moment when such questions do pop up.
In the meantime, still no word on whether former Playboy model Shanna Moakler will be welcomed back to the Miss California organization now that the Bible-thumper has been canned.
And one more thing: the firing may be contested.
And I still can’t remember who actually won the Miss USA pageant. All I know is, Prejean came in second.