Carrie Prejean is pretty, but she sure is testy.
Larry King got the fallen beauty queen so fired up on CNN's Larry King Live last night, she walked out on the show.
Prejean is in the middle of a publicity bonanza hawking her new book, Still Standing, which details her clash with Donald Trump, Shanna Moakler and the rest of the Miss California organization.
After she showed off the tome and talked about her love for Sarah Palin—she considers herself "Palinized"—King began to ask about Prejean's recent settlement with the pageant organizers. She continued to spout her party line...that is, until she called King inappropriate and ripped off her microphone.
"You accused [the organization] of a number of things, including religious discrimination—clearly an issue very important to you. Why did you settle?" King asked. "You don't have to tell me the terms of the settlement. But why settle, since you had a fight to carry on?"
"Larry, everything that was discussed in mediation—I'll say it again—is completely confidential," she said for the umpteenth time on the tour. "I'm not going to be able to talk about that. So I'm just letting you know that ahead of time."
The host continued to ask her to explain her motives for settling—not the actual settlement—until she got all accusatory.
"Larry, you're being inappropriate. You really are," she said.
He countered by renaming his show "Inappropriate King Live" and taking a call from a viewer. The caller asked a question about gay marriage, but at that point it was too late.
The dethroned one was tuned out and removing her mic.
"I think you're being extremely inappropriate right now. And I'm about to leave your show," she threatened.
After a quick commercial break, she claimed King and her publicist had agreed that she would take no viewer questions. He said he was unaware of that agreement and so ended the episode of Inappropriate King Live.
To think—he didn't even ask if she was going to take the million-dollar porno deal!
Wonder what she'll say to her ex-boyfriend—the one who dropped the bombshell sex tape—when she hears he told TMZ that she urged him to "lie" and say she was 17 in the raunchy video. He claims, however, to have received the tape in 2007, when she was 20-years-old.
Keith Lewis, the executive director of the Miss California pageant, is clearly pleased with the outcome of Prejean's recent interviews.
"The public is finally getting a glimpse of the real Carrie Prejean who lives in her own delusional world," he said in a statement to E! News. "The childish behavior, her negative attitude, the sarcasm and condescending tone, the disrespect and continual lying she is demonstrating now is only a fraction of what we endured during her reign and after. Anyone who buys her book is supporting a woman who is actually the opposite of everything she claims to be. I sincerely hope she is able to get the psychological help I believe she has shown to clearly need."
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(Originally published Nov. 12, 2009, at 7:46 a.m. PT)
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We would crown Carrie Prejean the Queen of the Beauty Pageant Scandals. Would you?