CelebrityFIST!

I simply don’t get the French. I mean eat a lot of their traditional food: French fries, French bread, French dressing; but I don’t get THEM. I mean the just award Miss France and already their pissed off at her because of her past:

The winner of this year’s Miss France contest has been ordered to resign just days into her reign, after a magazine published provocative photographs taken early in her modelling career. Valerie Begue, 22, a student from the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, returned home triumphant after her win earlier this month (Dec07). But her joy was short-lived after event organisers took exception to pictures, taken three years ago but only published last week, of her floating on a crucifix in a swimming pool and eating yogurt in way deemed lewd by contest officials. Genevieve de Fontenay, 75, a former model who has run the event since the 1950s, has demanded that Begue be stripped of her crown - just two weeks after claiming it. She says, “I don’t understand how she can have had the cheek to enter the competition when she knew perfectly well the ethical rules of Miss France. “I have no desire to see her again. I certainly cannot see myself going around France escorted by a woman like that. As she is from Reunion, let her stay there!” The dramatic step has caused uproar in Begue’s native Reunion, with local radio stations inundated with angry supporters of the model. Begue herself is distraught, and claims to have been “betrayed” by whoever sold the pictures to Entrevue magazine. She tells France’s Le Parisien magazine, “I was never happy with those pictures. They were a mistake that I regret bitterly. But now the wonderful year I had ahead of me is going up in smoke.” (source)

In case you didn’t read all that (and I didn’t): “Why did she join the contest when we don’t allow such ‘riff raff’” and then it was followed by some snail-eating and wine-drinking.

UPDATE:  The organizers of the contest have decided to have mercy on her and allow her to retain her crown.  On the other hand, she is not allowed to compete in the Miss World and Miss Universe contests (you mean they’re different???).  Nah, Miss New Calendonia gets to have that honor.  She’s the lass down below.

I say this much - she has nice gums.

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