Stripper-pole controversy for new Miss USA
Photos of newly crowned Miss USA Rima Fakih pole-dancing - fully clothed - surfaced early Monday morning after hiding in plain sight since 2007. They were posted on the website for Detroit radio station WKQI/95.5's "Mojo in the Morning" show.
After TMZ.com initially posted news of the pictures, RadarOnline.com spoke with host Tom "Mojo" Carbello, who said a pageant official called the station "asking for the pictures and wanting to know more details." Carbello also said officials "asked for any unreleased photos that we have. We do have a few, but we're not sending them out. When we asked if everything was OK and if it would affect her crown, they said they couldn't make a comment on that right now."
Two photos show the future Miss Michigan USA in an aqua tank top and red short-shorts writhing against a stripper pole in the radio station's "Stripper 101" event, held at the Detroit strip club The Coliseum in 2007. She won the contest, which the station said was attended by women only. A third photo shows her holding one of her prizes - a home stripper pole - with several dollar bills stuffed in her bra. A call to the Miss USA office was not returned.
The Miss USA pageant this year posted risqué, black-and-white lingerie photos of contestants. The pageant, owned by Donald Trump, sells these "Glam Shots" online.
In another potential controversy, first runner-up Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, Miss Oklahoma USA, answered a question about Arizona's new immigration law, posed by judge Oscar Nuñez ("The Office").
After the crowd at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip briefly booed the question, Woolard responded that she supports the law, under which police can ask someone to document his or her immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" the person is in the United States illegally. She told the judges she is against both illegal immigration and racial profiling.
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