Posted on 09/20/2010 11:43:58 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
A British private schoolgirl has caused quite a storm after she was named America's Perfect Teen.
Anysha Panesar, 16, beat a host of American beauties to win the contest while on holiday in Florida, but her victory has left families of the other contestants furious.
Parents of the American girls have protested to the organisers of the pageant, which has a 2,000-dollar first prize, and an 18,000-dollar scholarship to train as a TV broadcaster.
But Panesar has hit back, arguing that the outcry is just sour grapes.
"Some people did say I shouldn't have won because I'm British. But really I think the people who said that just said it because they didn't win," the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.
Panesar, who goes to the same private school in Cardiff that singer Charlotte Church used to attend, entered the teenage beauty pageant while at the family holiday home in Kissimmee, Florida.
The America's Perfect Teen contest, which included girls as young as 13, has a big following in the States.
The pageant's founder Michael Galanes, whose toddlers' pageant Little Miss Perfect has become a TV hit in the U.S., admitted it has caused fury.
"Yes, her win caused a bit of a stir because she is, of course, British. But that is perfectly within the rules of the competition and those people are just naysayers," he said.
"One of the judges told me they liked Anysha because she was a breath of fresh air. She has natural beauty but she isn't afraid to be a bit wild. Anysha - what a beautiful girl," he stated.
Panesar, who plans to use the scholarship to learn broadcasting in the U.S., after her A-levels, is also in talks to have her own TV show about her year as America's Perfect Teen.
Let`s Annex Wales.
“Perfect Teen” is an oxymoron.
No wonder she won..they had a spelling bee as part of the competition..
I’m trying really hard to, but I just don’t care..
Let Barack Obama win. Just because.
It’d look nice on his mantle next to his do-nothing Nobel Peace Prize.
Insufficient evidence for me to create an opinion (wink wink nudge nudge)
Yes, and puberty is a temporary mental disorder.
Hey, if being a US citizen is not required for POTUS...
Teenagers already believe the world revolves around them. I can’t imagine how insufferable the “Miss Perfect Teen” contestants would be. *ick*
She looks 30.
Isn't the 21st century amazing?
“Yes, and puberty is a temporary mental disorder.”
Ideally, it’s only temporary, but some teens grow up to be Democrats.
16 going on cougar it looks to me ....
I think they either need to change the name of the contest, or change the rules/qualifications.
Did a rule require Natural Born Citizen?
She has to pay US income tax on her income. That makes her an illegal alien as she is undocumented to earn income in the USA.
Of course, when slinging around numbers of the total number of illegals, a large percentage of those numbers entered the USA legally. They did not sneak in. But like Miss Perfect, they earn money illegally.
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