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Beauty queen dodges the question in mortifying fashion

She is now basically Miss Morto USA.

Jun 17th 2013, 11:11 AM 3,841 Views 2 Comments

WE CAN’T SAY we really understand beauty pageants, particularly the really over the top American ones.

It is all very glitzy and glam and a bit much if we’re being honest.

Mind you they can provide the odd unintentional laugh which is exactly what happened this weekend at the finals of Miss USA 2013.

Miss Utah Marissa Powell was posed a question about how much women earn in the US and this happened:

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Scarlet for her.

Mind you it did remind us of this YouTube classic from a few years back:

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Beauty queen dodges the question in mortifying fashion

She is now basically Miss Morto USA.

9 times Ireland was made a show of on Big Brother>