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The Miss America Mess
The battle of the two Miss North Carolinas is over.
The loser: Miss North Carolina. The winner: Um, the other Miss North Carolina.
Allow us to explain: For the past week, the Tar Heel state has been represented at Miss America activities in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by not one, but two, beauty queens.
That ended today when a federal judge on Thursday ruled that one of them, Rebekah Revels, was not entitled to the state-pageant crown she gave up in July amid a topless-photo scandal.
In a statement, Miss America Organization interim president George Bauer said that, in the wake of the decision, Revels would not be allowed to walk the runway at the Miss America finals, to be broadcast September 21 on ABC.
Instead, North Carolina will be repped by Misty Clymer, who had assumed the state crown when Revels resigned.
Thus ends the confusion that had reigned since Revels got a state judge in North Carolina to temporarily restore her title. That ruling, handed down last week, allowed Revels, 24, to go to Atlantic City and do her Miss North Carolina thing, even as Clymer, also 24, was doing her Miss North Carolina thing.
"It's been very uncomfortable," Clymer told reporters on Tuesday, "and it's a very touchy situation."
Still, the two made nice for photo-ops, standing shoulder to shoulder this week. According to Revels, Clymer was not her foe: "We're not fighting," she said.
There was no immediate comment Thursday from Revels on her court defeat. Earlier, she said she'd been "prepared to pack up and leave since I arrived."
It wasn't supposed to end this way for Revels. Back in June, Revels was a high-school English teacher who coveted the $12,000 in scholarship money that came with the Miss North Carolina crown. After singing a mean Puccini, the title (and scholarship) was hers. Then came trouble.
"My ex-boyfriend emailed the Miss America Organization with some [suggestion of] questionable character, specifically dealing with a photo that he had taken," Revels told ABC's Good Morning America in July.
The two photos in question showed Revels' torso sans her sash (or anything else). She has maintained the pics were snapped while she was changing clothes.
Revels resigned her title on July 23; Clymer, the first runner-up was installed in her place. At the time, Revels said she wanted to protect her family, and head off Miss America organizers possibly barring her from Atlantic City (on moral grounds).
But in a federal court on Tuesday, Revels said she did not quit voluntarily; she said she quit to avoid being fired.
"I would rather for people to say [I] resigned than [I] was terminated," Revels testified.
The temporary restraining order that temporarily reinstated Revels to her lofty pageant self expired at midnight Wednesday.
That leaves Clymer, an accountant, Red Cross volunteer and semi-classical vocalist, to carry on the hopes and dreams of North Carolinians in Atlantic City.
"I'm living the moment that I'm in right now," Clymer told CNN on Tuesday. "That's all about the Miss America program. It's just being able to think on your feet at that very minute, and that's--I can't think about what will happen in the future right now."
At least now, though, she can be assured her future consists of only one Miss North Carolina--herself.
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