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Thursday, February 28, 2008

missbrooklynliveinmanhattan.jpgBack when we posted about the return of the Miss Brooklyn pageant we never could have predicted the affair would be one wrought with so much scandal. This year's winner, 22-year-old Leigh-Taylor Smith, crowned Miss Brooklyn after an "off-key rendition of 'Nobody Does It Like Me,'" is in fact . . . wait for it. . . a Manhattanite! And, according to The Brooklyn Paper, the pageant's committee knew all along. Their excuse? "We couldn't have a contest with only three girls." [via]


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