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FOUND IT!!! HERE IS HOW THE ARTICLE ORIGINALLY READ. One of the contestants in the Miss USA pageant, which was held this past Sunday in Las Vegas, claims that the event was fixed. Earlier this week, Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin announced on Facebook that she was giving up her crown, claiming the Miss Universe Organization, which runs the Miss USA pageant, is "fraudulent, lacking in morals, inconsistent, and in many ways trashy." Monnin reportedly has since published another Facebook post in which she alleges she "witnessed another contestant who said she saw the list of the Top 5 BEFORE THE SHOW EVER STARTED proceed to call out in order who the Top 5 were before they were announced on stage." Monnin also writes, "After it was indeed the Top 5 I knew the show must be rigged; I decided at that moment to distance myself from an organization who did not allow fair play and whose morals did not match my own." The Miss Universe Organization tells E! News in a statement that Monnin resigned due to her objection over the inclusion of a transgender woman in the Miss Universe Canada pageant. The statement continues, "She has changed her story by publicly making false accusations claiming that the pageant was fixed, however the contestant she privately sourced as her reference has vehemently refuted her most recent claim." Miss Rhode Island Olivia Culpo was crowned the winner of the Miss USA pageant. Read On ABC News Radio: http://abcnewsradioonline.com/entertainment-news/miss-usa-contestant-claims-pageant-was-fixed.html#ixzz1x1P6vBIw

I think the pageant officials (both national ones I bet) are doing damage control because of the fixing accusation. I notice a lot of sites shut down their comments—probably so people like me who actually had first hand experience with fixing can’t say so.

I was a college music major (not a pageant bimbo) and ran for my sorority, then once I won the local, competed in the Miss Maine pageant.

Based on my brief experience, I would say they are fixed. The night before the live pageant, national pageant officials brought several of us to their hotel room “to meet us” and asked us to try our gowns on for them. They proceeded to push the foot of one girl’s heel through her gown and said “oh my, you’ll have to have a new gown” (I can’t believe they had the gall to do it in front of us). so they OPENED the Maine Mall at night and got her a new gown. We noticed news coverage was always slanted to the Jaycees’ contestants (that is who sponsored the pageant.) The night of the pageant, after the judges had returned the results to pageant officials, several contestants said they saw my hostess crying, while saying they had “switched the cards” and changed the pageant results. The Jaycee girls won and a year later, the executive director contacted me and apologized for what he did.

If I had a daughter, I doubt I would want her to participate. I did it for the scholarship and performance opportunity but had no idea they would allow us to spend all that money only to give the title to their girls regardless and you can be sure the national officials are in on it because they played an active role behind the scenes.