Miss Great Britain To Let In Single Mums and Divorcees For The First Time

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | April 11th 2010

[Steelfish]

Miss Great Britain To Let In Single Mums and Divorcees For The First Time 11th April 2010

Hopeful: Rachel Hatton, a 27-year-old divorcee [Pic in URL] and single mum. Single mothers and divorcees will be allowed to enter the Miss Great Britain beauty contest this year for the first time in its 65-year history. Organiser Liz Fuller, a former winner, said: ‘Beauty pageants have been stuck in the past. They were run by men and their rules were to fulfil the typical male fantasy that beautiful young girls had to be virginal.

‘I want to make Miss Great Britain relevant to today’s society. Though I’m not one to encourage divorce nor single motherhood, I accept this is increasingly part of the modern way of life and I didn’t want to discriminate.’ A former communications specialist in the Army is the first divorcee to take advantage of the change in rules. Rachel Hatton, 27, was married for three years until her divorce in 2007 and left the Army last year. She is now hoping to become a professional model. She said: ‘My childhood ambitions were to represent my country as a model soldier and to be a beauty ambassador. I have achieved the first and now I am aiming to fulfil my other dream.’

[the invisib1e hand]

:) In ‘69 I had a light blue Mercury Cougar with sequential head lights.

Actually, it's taillights that are sequential, isn't it?

And are these double-entendres?