miss america 2010 contestants

 miss america 2010 contestants

The countdown is on until Miss America 2010 is crowned.

In the meantime, here’s your chance to meet the contestants!



BIKINI PHOTOS: Meet Miss America Contestants

RadarOnline.com has assembled this photo gallery, showcasing some of the early standouts from the 53 beauty queens, picked from every corner of the country.
Tonight, they will attempt to woo a panel of judges -including conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh - in the hope of winning the Miss America 2010 crown.

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The winner, crowned by the newly engaged reigning Miss America Katie Stam, gets a $50,000 scholarship and embarks on a yearlong run with the title to represent the organization and raise awareness for her chosen platform.

The 89-year-old pageant will be shown live on cable network TLC from 8/7c.

miss virginia

miss virginia
A 22-year-old woman who represented Virginia was named the winner Saturday night in the 2010 Miss America pageant.

At the competition, held in Las Vegas, Caressa Cameron of Fredericksburg, a Virginia Commonwealth University communications major, won one of the oldest and most celebrated titles in American popular culture.

"Take away the TV, take away the video games, set some standards for our children!" she answered unhesitatingly in the interview portion of the contest, in which she was asked what to do about the epidemic of childhood obesity.
As winner of the pageant, which is in its 88th year, she is to receive a $50,000 scholarship.
Her talent was listed as singing, (vocal pop) and Saturday night she sang the "Dreamgirls" ballad "Listen." Her platform was listed as AIDS education.

She went to Massaponax High School before VCU, and has been a dean's list student. Her career ambition is to work as an anchor for a television news station, according to the site.

Jen Corey, 22, Miss D.C., was in the top 10. Cameron follows two other winners from Virginia, Nicole Johnson in 1999 and Kylene Barker in 1979.

miss america 2010 winner

miss america 2010 winner

The official Miss America 2010 Winner was Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron. But the real Miss America 2010 Winner was Rush Limbaugh dancing to Lady Gaga, which is becoming a YouTube and Blip.tv hit.
First, Limbaugh, the Couch Potato Conservative blowhard and radio star - who made news first by being named a judge in the wake of his blast of a female caller "April", telling her to get the "tampon out of her ears" (as he was insulting Haiti after the earthquake) - was named judge of the pageant.



Second, Rush Limbaugh, discovering he was happy to be alive in the wake of his unfortunate chest pain incident on New Year's Eve morning, got off a what can only by called a "dry heave" of a dance to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" during the pageant. It was a hilarious scene worthy of analysis on video:
All kidding aside, it's great to see Rush Limbaugh getting lose and enjoying life. No word on Lady Gaga's opinion of Limbaugh's dancing. But if you're interested in what a "dry heave" dance is, it was created by the writers of Seinfeld and done by Julia Louise-Dryfus as "Elaine" and seen here