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Miss Puerto Rico Wins Crown -- By An Itch

And you thought American beauty pageants were crazy, bitchtacular dramapaloozas? Try Puerto Rico.


Yesterday, cops revealed that the gown and makeup of the new Miss Puerto Rico, Ingrid Marie Rivera, had been coated with pepper spray during Friday's final competition, giving her hives and forcing her to ice her swollen skin between rounds. Pageant officials are investigating whether a rival had a hand in the peppering, saying in a press conference that a makeup bag belonging to Rivera had been stolen as well. There was no update on the investigation today. Rivera will represent the island in the upcoming 2008 Miss Universe pageant.

Puerto Rico has a history of odd beauty queen breaks. Back in 2006, the then-Miss Puerto Rico, Zuleyka Rivera (no relation), went on to win Miss Universe, and fainted. Boom! There goes the dynamite.



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1. I have some "creme" to apply to her skin.

Posted at 6:36PM on Nov 26th 2007 by FlBiker

2. TMZ don't believe everything you read...Ingrid won that contest. Not because it was fair...she was selected to win MONTHS ago. She was boo'ed serveral times during the pageant..
It's not right that they have these pageants having the girls spending thousands of dollars just to find out they already have a winner...
There was no proof that anyone srayed her dress, Not pictures of her so called welts..it was done to take the spot light off the scandle of the pageant

Posted at 6:42PM on Nov 26th 2007 by Blinking !!

3. Yes i know..i live here..

Posted at 6:43PM on Nov 26th 2007 by Blinking !!

4. what ever you coward..you cant use your name right..hide behide the computer...you know u secretly love us...

Posted at 6:49PM on Nov 26th 2007 by Blinking !!

5. muy caliente.

Posted at 6:50PM on Nov 26th 2007 by bossman

6. She's beautiful. It's too bad the hags of the contest had to resort to dirty tricks to try to attempt to win. Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth of the US. Puerto Ricans are US citizens just like people from the Commonwealth of Virginia are US Citizens as well. SOMEONE has to take them.

Posted at 6:50PM on Nov 26th 2007 by SuperStarSteve

7. # 5, You show your ignorance with the message you post and by the way you spell.

Posted at 6:52PM on Nov 26th 2007 by Flapjacj

8. Posted at 6:50PM on Nov 26th 2007 by bossman
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SI SOMO MUY CALIENTE !!! PARA QUE LO SEPA

Posted at 6:52PM on Nov 26th 2007 by Blinking !!

9. She's very sexy. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the US, just like Virginia. Ricans are US citizens...it's sad that her competition hags had to resort to dirty tricks to try to win.

Posted at 6:55PM on Nov 26th 2007 by SuperStarSteve

10. "jane" :] puerto rico is not the usa.. it is a usa territory though.. coming form a proud puerto rican :]



"dog chapman" :: DON'T HATE ! :P

Posted at 6:55PM on Nov 26th 2007 by ...

11. Thats just it..No one did anything to Ingrid Rivera. The owner of the pageant, had selected Ingrid Rivera MONTHS before the pageant. The other girls who had already spent thousands of dollars preparing didnt have a chance of winning since Ingrid was picked to win...People are upset, because this was to be a contest.and it wasn't. Magaly (owner) said they pepper sprayed Ingrids dress to take away the spotlight from the scandle of already having a WINNER b-4 the actual pageant....

Posted at 7:01PM on Nov 26th 2007 by Blinking !!

12. Nachos for EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 7:21PM on Nov 26th 2007 by BiG Deal

13. Yeah, people really need to go to Russian for real female beauty, I mean the girl in the video is pretty, but in Russia she would be almost an average, she'd turn couple of heads, but only for so long because every other girl on the street would be way more stunning. It's just amuzing - from faces to bodies, they are all so slender, with flat abs, beautiful skin, eyes , make-up, feminine clothing. And yeah - on the top of that most of them are educated and have gone to unviersities and dont think that that ethereal music score from Kill Bill (where Uma learns the sword) is an authentic Kill Bill melody but are well aware that the score is from 70-ties by a European composer.

Posted at 7:22PM on Nov 26th 2007 by LIDA

14. last time i checked puerto rico was part of america...

Posted at 7:33PM on Nov 26th 2007 by jen

15. She's HOT. Now, where are the naked photos?

Posted at 7:57PM on Nov 26th 2007 by Flake

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