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Everyone needs to stop writing mean and inappropraite comments about both Christina and Raquel. They are not the ones that caused all this drama. The people you should be bashing is Keith Lewis, K2 Productions, the “volunteer accountants”, and the one and only son of gun Donald J. Trump. They are the master minds behind all this! Keith Lewis is not a man of intergrity or class. I love that his idea of consoling are sorrows is with a holiday “gift” of bribes. Please stop Mr. Lewis your an embarassment and do something about your 80’s hair do! He is great at crying on cue and loves to talk trash. He has said it in the pass that he did not get along with Megan Tandy 07 winner and made comments about her bad skin. Oh wait he is a classy guy.?. By the way many of you don’t know this but if you look closely at some of the footage posted on you tube, google and various media outlets not once but twice does he run after Miss Barstow when she looses. If you look closely after he takes a picture with Miss Barstow as third runner up she walks away and a few seconds later he goes after her. Now some of you maybe thinking who cares. Well why didnt he run after Palos Verdes, Greater San Diego, Woodland hills? Just seems odd. Another shot of film you can see Keith looking at a particular angle, the direction Barstows VIP family section was and he looks scared and well to be frank like “oh crap someone did not get the memo” Contestants did you know that K2 Productions has put a restriction on the film distribution not only to the media but to the public as well. Why? Because there are a lot of things they don’t want you to see but more importanly hear. Look ladies kudos to you if you want to continue to participant again next year but just remember the kind of people you will be surrounded by. Funny how Keith has stated via email that he makes no money producing the pagent but last that I heard he lives three doors down from the one and only Halle Berry. Oh that’s where my $8,000.00 went.! Girls why hasnt he showed anyone the official, official ballots? I mean that would end it all, right? Well that will never happen they have been sealed and re-written with love by Mr. Keith Lewis. Oh by the way I think it is so cute when you watch the press confrence he had for the recrowning look at him stare at Raquel. It is so creepy, so disturbing and just plain wrong. Raqul if I were you I would never be alone with him, I mean seriously honey the way he is looking at you would make a priest happy. Keith have a great time making next years event bigger and better that’s the least you can do right. If anything he should get crowned “Mr Manipulator USA 2008, 2009, 2010……” Donald Trump must be so proud of his young son. Trump only hires the best. Resume to The Donald with love Keith Lewis
Objective: To make a lot of money manipulating beautiful young girls (check)
Experience:
I can cry on cue (check)
I can bribe a bunch of girls with cute emails and gifts (check)
I can lie and change the lives of young hot girls as I please (check)
I can sell my soul for a price and live happily next door to Halle Berry (check)
The Donald to Keith
“Your Hired”

Merry Christams and a Happy New Year!

Miss Los Angeles aced the swimsuit competition.

Looked great in an evening gown.

Poise?

You be the judge:

When Christina Silva of Koreatown was asked on the final day of the Miss California USA beauty pageant 10 days ago in Los Angeles if she was a leader or a follower, she said:

“I’m a leader. I’m on top and in front.”

Silva’s adoring family was in attendance at the Orpheum Theatre, sweating it out as she made the cut to the final 15, the final 10, the final five. And then, the impossible dream:

Silva, a 24-year-old actress, was crowned Miss California.

Her first thought: Miss USA or bust!

Imagine, then, the crushing blow that came just four days later. Silva said she was summoned to the Los Angeles home of pageant director Keith Lewis. She thought she would be signing a contract that would open doors to unlimited opportunity. Instead, she was told the unimaginable.

Due to a so-called error in the tabulation of voting by pageant judges, she was not a winner, after all. Nice try and see you later.

Instead, the crown belonged to Miss Barstow, Raquel Beezley, who had been second runner-up.

“It was the shock of my life,” says Silva, who didn’t understand the explanation that judges’ point totals had been accidentally reversed. If that were the case, why wasn’t the fifth-place finisher the winner? Silva had to wonder whether the pageant simply preferred Beezley’s look, or wanted to reward her for having been on the pageant circuit longer than Silva had.

“I went there with such joy and happiness in my heart, and when I was told I didn’t win, I just broke down and cried. My mom held me and I said, ‘Why me? Why is this happening?’ “

Excellent questions, if you ask me. And here’s another: “What kind of Mickey Mouse operation is the pageant, anyway?”

Let’s not forget this is all part of some Donald Trump fantasy. His Miss Everything operation includes Miss Universe and Miss USA, and the most interesting news always seems to come out after the winners are crowned. Trump fired one Miss Universe and almost dumped last year’s Miss USA when she entered rehab.

How about firing some of the people running the show?

To add insult to injury, Silva says Lewis pushed her to play the role of Miss Congeniality and personally call Miss Barstow to break the news. This would have been like asking Jennifer Aniston to call Angelina Jolie and offer to turn over her wedding ring.

“I’m not going to use the word threatened, but I am going to use the words pressured and manipulated,” says Silva, who has since hired an attorney to argue her case.

I’ll get to Lewis’ response in a moment.

But Silva says he told her she could continue to wear “the crown and the sash, but if this leaks out somehow, your career and your integrity will be completely jeopardized. You don’t want to be that kind of girl. You’re a girl of faith, right?”

Silva says she had nothing against Beezley, the new winner. So she placed the call and delivered the news.

“It was so difficult, I had to hold back tears,” said Silva, who then went home, locked herself in her room and cried for days.

In a statement, the pageant said “a mistake was made by the volunteer accountant who tabulated the votes” on the night in question, the night on which Christina Silva’s future looked so gloriously bright.

The release said Silva was told she could keep her crown, the sash, “and the $4,500 Miss California USA necklace,” and that she could have her $1,500 entry fee back.

Lewis seems to express surprise that Silva wasn’t playing the good sport.

“It is unfortunate that now, several days later, we have heard reports that Miss Silva feels manipulated although she has not returned our calls or e-mails,” he says in the news release.

“We support Christina in her quest to seek the truth. At the end of the road she won’t find an ounce of discrimination, preferential treatment or impropriety. What she will find is simple human error.”

Reached last evening at his home, Lewis said the audience reacted disapprovingly when Silva was announced as the queen of California. He didn’t think anything of it, he said, until a judging coordinator told him, “The judges are talking, and they’re surprised at the winner.”

Lewis said further examination of the ballots revealed that point totals were assigned to the wrong contestants.

Nice going.

This could be the biggest voting scandal since the hanging chads. And, as with Florida in 2000, I’m not even sure what to believe. The more Lewis attempted to explain how it all went wrong, the more confused I got.

How hard can this be?

Hot in Bathing Suit - 5 points.

Frumpy in Bathing Suit - 1 point.

Quick Witted- 5 points.

Barely Verbal - 1 point.

Pencil them in and move on to the next contestant.

Lewis denied telling Silva that refusing to give up the crown would hurt her career, and he still thinks he was right to encourage her to call Miss Barstow with the news.

“My advice to her was to take the high ground,” said Lewis. “I think she did the right thing. She cried, I cried.”

There’s nothing to cry about, Miss Los Angeles.

I mean no disrespect to Miss Barstow, nor am I suggesting that her dusty, drive-by town couldn’t produce a beauty worthy of the crown. All I’m saying is that until a better explanation of this fiasco is offered, this column will continue to recognize Christina Silva as the official Miss California.

You got a problem with that, Donald Trump?

I love that you are very generous with your prizes on your show, however, I was just wondering how many people actually have the heart to donate their gifts to people who actually need these items more than they do..especially during this Christmas season. When I see some of those people in the audience, they seem to think, "Oh, yah, looky at what I got!"...I sit at home and think that at least SOME of those items they go home with could be donated to make someone else happy (someone who doesn't have as much). That's what Christmas is all about to me.

I just love you and you make me HAPPY with your smile and good heart. Keep up the good work you do for so many of us, just to know we can smile and dance everyday even if we can no longer do it standing up. We can try and that make me happy. Love you and your show. Carol (Lynn) D'Agostino

Ellen,
We love your show. Thank you for making me smile every day. My 13 year old daughter just loves you as well. It's wonderful that she can watch with me---when she's not in school. You are doing a great job!
Arlene L. Bates

Hi Ellen,
I just thought I'd send a little comment. I think you are the best!! I've watched your show from day one. I also was a huge fan of your sitcom years back. My favorite episode of that show was the one where you were getting your driver's license renewed and kept getting a goofy picture and tried over and over again to get a good picture. I laughed so hard and definately could relate.
Keep up the good work and keep me laughing. Everyone needs a laugh everyday! Thanks for giving me mine.
Have a Great Holiday!!
Linda Timmer