She's 21 years old, she calls Sherman Oaks home, she's a model, and says she's nutty about the history of British monarchy and a big "Star Wars" fan. She's Alyssa Campanella, and while until last night she was merely Miss California, she's now been crowned Miss USA.
Sherman Oaks Model and 'Star Wars' Geek Crowned Miss USA
Don't Get Your Panties in a Wad About Miss USA Promo Photos--It's Just Hot Ladies in Sexy Lingerie!
Are moody black and white photos showing beautiful young women in sexy lingerie taking things too far for the Miss USA pageant? It seems several major news outlets think so, according to Gothamist, and Tim Winter of the Parents Television Council claims the set of 51 images shot by Fadil Berisha "obliterates" the "line between a beauty pageant and soft-core pornography."
TV Junkie: Big Wednesday
It's not really a big Wednesday, I'm just making a reference to the obscure and awful surfer flick starring Jan Michael Vincent and Gary Busey. I've got a major case of the munchies as I write this so tonight's primetime is all about food for me. 8:00pm Back To You FOX - Series Premiere - oops, NOT[TD]. I'm not so sure I want to give Kelsey Grammar another chance on network TV. I would like...
Miss USA Falls, Gets Booed, and Still Beats Mexico?
We were distracted and didn't make it to our Tivos to check out the Miss Universe pageant until last night, but girlfriend, there was some drama on that show and no one seemed to have seen it. If you heard anything about the pageant, you may have heard that Miss USA slipped and fell during the evening gown competition. Well, that's true, and the video above shows you that. It also shows you that...
Memorial Weekend Gossip Fix
Memorial Day Weekend 2007 wasn't just all about Lindsay's crash and arrest, there were other celeb items in the news..... One of, if not the most beautiful baby in the world, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt turned one this weekend in Prague alongside the rest of the Jolie-Pitt litter - Celebitchy Looks like its the official end of the unlikely match of John Mayer and Jessica Simpson as these photos from Cabo reveal - Flynetonline Nicole Ritchie looking...
Weekend Gossip Roundup
Sometimes I feel like the Gossip Roundups should be renamed the Britney Roundups... Like when she visited a hair salon this weekend to discuss extension choices to attach to her short do once it grows out a little more, she's having major hair shaving regret- Star Or her first brunette wigged-post rehab outing to a dance class and then sushi with girlfriends - People Clearly, dance class and sushi were not dramatic enough, because...
Miss Kansas Worships the Devil
Their crowns glitter even brighter than their teeth, but are America's beauty queens hiding a deep, dark secret? Coiffed and coutured, they are the picture of fresh-faced, feminine perfection, but LAist is blowing the lid off the seemingly wholesome beauty pageant industry to expose the tarnish on the tiara!!!
A disgusted beauty pageant insider revealed exclusively to this shocked and horrified reporter that comely Miss Kansas, Michelle Walthers, may be a card-carrying Satanist. Walthers, who recently competed for the Miss America crown, can be clearly seen in the picture above making the notorious devil horns, the mark of devil worshippers and heavy metal fans alike.
Pictures don't lie. Is Walthers a free agent, or does she belong to a secret cabal of Satanic minions sent to infiltrate our most cherished institutions? How many others are there? What are they doing to our children? And how much foundation does it take to cover those devil horns?
TV Junkie: David Spade on CBS; Sam Spade on TCM; Emo Alert: Fall Out Boy on Letterman
A Word or 108: Superbowl Redux: I found myself wandering over to the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet a couple times yesterday, and that isn't a bad thing -- the kitten halftime show was excellent. Almost all the Superbowl commercials had been leaked onto the web a week ago so there was nothing new there. I still can't understand why, with all those professionals there, that it would take almost Prince's entire (fantastic) set...
TV Junkie: Apathy Friday
Tonight - Friday - February 2nd, 2007
Dear Rosie, You're a loser, unattractive, and lucky to have your girlfriend. Merry Christmas, The Trumpster
To be honest we've been super busy today with meetings and last minute re-gifting and trying to shake whatever little bug blew into town with those cold gusts, so we don't know why Rosie O'Donnell is pissed that Donald Trump gave his drunken, hot, Miss USA a second chance the day after her birthday and a few days before Kwanzaa. But Rosie's talking hella shit about Trump, but no one can bash you like...
Surprise, Surprise: Trump Doesn't Fire Miss USA
Donald Trump gave the 21-year-old blonde and busty Miss USA a second chance. How big of him. Kentucky's Tara Conner came thisclose to getting dethroned amid reports of her underage partying ways in the Big Apple. (She just turned 21 on Monday.) But after what was probably a heartfelt meeting this morning, the old Trumpster decided to give her a second chance. 'Cause Trump's like God in this case. He owns -- literally, with...
Shanna Moakler Explains Her Vegas Divorce Party Tonight
The other day LAist posted a link to Travis Barker's MySpace page where he went off about his ex-wife embarrassing him and their kids by being so public about her Las Vegas Divorce Party tonight at the Bellagio. We even took his side in the tragic divorce, which was hard for us because after watching their MTV reality show, he seemed like a freaky prick. Shanna, the former Playboy centerfold and Miss USA, fired back...
Travis Barker Disses His Wife on MySpace
LAist has seen at lot of fucked up shit in our day, but this has got to be the most childish move between divorcing love birds ever. Travis Barker, the talented and tattooed drummer of Blink-182, who came off as a geniune prick on the reality show "Meet The Barkers", went on his MySpace page yesterday and described what his wife's day consists of - by hour. If we are to believe the percussionist,...
Miss Puerto Rico becomes Miss Universe then Faints
Miss Japan's final question was clearly lost in translation as she was asked what moment in history would she change if she could and answered about how men and women are different because men use their power incorrectly.

