Vanessa Williams and Miss America @ Odds Over Who Apologizes

[orangeblossom]

If I were Vanessa Williams, I'd tell them to shove it.  I can't believe they even approached her thinking that she should/would apologize.  If that was their intent, they should have stated that.


news.yahoo.com/miss-america-vanessa-williams-odds-202500517.html


Major drama has erupted at the Miss America pageant.



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Vanessa Williams is reportedly being asked to make a public apology for the nude photo scandal that cost her the Miss America crown 32 years ago.



When the show airs on Sunday, a pageant official is expected to apologize for forcing Vanessa’s resignation back in 1984. Vanessa will then be presented with a new crown - a symbol that all is forgiven.



But officials of the squeaky-clean pageant also reportedly want Vanessa to make an apology for taking those nude photos when she was just 19.






Vanessa reportedly threw a fit when she found out - throwing the pageant into "crisis mode" and a "meltdown," according to published reports.



The other judges include former Dancing with the Stars contestant Amy Purdy, singer Zendaya and American Sniper widow Taya Kyle.



Kyle spoke to INSIDE EDITION earlier this week and said: “I don't think she [Vanessa] did anything wrong. She's just a woman, a very successful woman who owns her beauty and her talent and her skills and she's smart. I think she's a good face for this competition.”



Vanessa has also spoken out about the scandal recently.



Appearing on Good Morning America this week, she said: “That's one of the problems that I’ve had to deal with for my career. Not only being a Miss America, but being a scandalous Miss America.”



The pageant has "no comment" on the reports of the behind-the-scenes turmoil.



Miss America airs Sunday on ABC.

[ECB]

She better not fucking apologize!! She's got nothing to apologize for.

And while she says being a scandolous Miss America was a problem for her career, I kind of wonder if it really was. I know intially it was a problem, but I kind of feel she was more well known because of the scandal and once people got over it - they knew who she was and started working with her.

[suzyp]

What is she supposed to be apologizing for exactly? Ugh. I really hope she doesn't.

[sparrowsong]

I saw a commercial for this on TV last night and it suggested there would be some big moment worth tuning in to see. So this is the plan?

Why on earth? 30 yrs later? It's absurd making a grown woman apologize for her lack of purity 30 yrs prior. What in the actual fuck are they thinking? War on women?

[iammalcolmx]

I wouldn't apologize for shit. Matter fact? They may see my black ass all over again!!!

[sparkythelawyer]

Oh I hope she told them to fucking fuck off

[taratru]

I'm so torn...I don't want to watch, but Miss Colorado went to my school. I used to coach her. She's wonderful, and her talent is a monologue, which I loved.

They go fuck off with this apology nonsense. Jesus.

[niki]

She should do another spread for Playboy as a big fuck you.

[ttt]

I think she should apologize. Miss America is no place for people who think it's okay to objectify women or act as if a woman's looks and her conformance to unrealistic beauty standards are the most important thing about her. Certainly Miss America does not support women parading around their scantily clad bodies for men to ogle.

[Deleted]

LOL forever.

This is all just a publicity stunt for the Miss America organization anyways. Their TV ratings are at an all time low.

[tacosforlife]

Sept 12, 2015 12:18:48 GMT -5 ttt said:

I think she should apologize. Miss America is no place for people who think it's okay to objectify women or act as if a woman's looks and her conformance to unrealistic beauty standards are the most important thing about her. Certainly Miss America does not support women parading around their scantily clad bodies for men to ogle.

THE BEST. 

[oscarnerdjulief]

They're "dreamin'" if they think Vanessa Williams should apologize. (heh heh)

Speaking of her music, Comfort Zone is one of the best albums. Love it. Love it. In fact, I am going to go to my basement now and push aside the Martika and Lisa Stansfield to listen to it.

[gpw]

Why in the world would she, or SHOULD she fucking apologize.

Fuck them.

[iammalcolmx]

Sept 12, 2015 15:01:51 GMT -5 oscarnerdjulief said:

They're "dreamin'" if they think Vanessa Williams should apologize. (heh heh)

Speaking of her music, Comfort Zone is one of the best albums. Love it. Love it. In fact, I am going to go to my basement now and push aside the Martika and Lisa Stansfield to listen to it.

True dat.

[bernsteincat]

Sept 12, 2015 12:12:23 GMT -5 taratru said:

I'm so torn...I don't want to watch, but Miss Colorado went to my school. I used to coach her. She's wonderful, and her talent is a monologue, which I loved.

They go fuck off with this apology nonsense. Jesus.

I watched last year for the first time because Miss Kentucky was from our tiny town. Most of it was spent eye rolling at the ridiculousness, and we changed the channel as soon as she was eliminated (before the talent portion where she was going to play bluegrass on her fiddle - somehow Miss Florida got to go on and do the fucking cup song!?). But we watched, dammit.

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 13, 2015 12:38:10 GMT -5 1234FIF! said:

I am trying to think of another Miss America I can name off the top of my head and...yeah, nope. They need to kiss Vanessa's round brown ass.

I pay some attention so that's why I know them, but among the more famous ones:

Lee Meriwether
Mary Ann Mobley
Bess Myerson
Gretchen Carlson

As for Vanessa, fuck that noise. She has nothing to apologize for.

[summer]

Sept 13, 2015 12:43:10 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Sept 13, 2015 12:38:10 GMT -5 1234FIF! said:

I am trying to think of another Miss America I can name off the top of my head and...yeah, nope. They need to kiss Vanessa's round brown ass.

I pay some attention so that's why I know them, but among the more famous ones:

Lee Meriwether
Mary Ann Mobley
Bess Myerson
Gretchen Carlson

[gpw]

Sept 13, 2015 13:57:43 GMT -5 summer said:

Sept 13, 2015 12:43:10 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I pay some attention so that's why I know them, but among the more famous ones:

Lee Meriwether
Mary Ann Mobley
Bess Myerson
Gretchen Carlson

Lee Merriwether I recognize, Gretchen Carlson sounds familiar in a "did I go to grade school with her?" kind of way but the rest?  No.

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 13, 2015 14:02:20 GMT -5 gpw said:

Sept 13, 2015 13:57:43 GMT -5 summer said:

Lee Merriwether I recognize, Gretchen Carlson sounds familiar in a "did I go to grade school with her?" kind of way but the rest?  No.

Bess Myerson is more known locally mostly due to political scandal in the 80s. Mary Ann Mobley is the lady who replaced Dixie Carter on Diff'rent Strokes. #uselessknowledge

Gretchen Carlson...you all might recognize her on Fox News (which I know we all watch all day, every day).

[WOT?*]

Sept 13, 2015 14:02:20 GMT -5 gpw said:

Sept 13, 2015 13:57:43 GMT -5 summer said:

Lee Merriwether I recognize, Gretchen Carlson sounds familiar in a "did I go to grade school with her?" kind of way but the rest?  No.

Phyllis George was a TV Host (NFL Today among others iirc.)

This is Gretchen Carlson:

She was a news anchor in Cleveland before going national on Fox and Friends and then Fox News.  I liked her until that happened.

And MaryAnn Mobley was married to Gary Collins and they hosted the Miss America pageant together back when I was young-ish.

[Deleted]

Sept 12, 2015 12:57:17 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Sept 12, 2015 12:18:48 GMT -5 ttt said:

I think she should apologize. Miss America is no place for people who think it's okay to objectify women or act as if a woman's looks and her conformance to unrealistic beauty standards are the most important thing about her. Certainly Miss America does not support women parading around their scantily clad bodies for men to ogle.

THE BEST. 

If she could work a bunch of this into her apology, that would be amazing.

[AJL]

She played my all time favorite character Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty. I love her!

[Velar Fricative]

"Saved the Best for Last" is the shit too.

[gpw]

Sept 13, 2015 17:28:29 GMT -5 AJL said:

She played my all time favorite character Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty. I love her!

I LOVED Ugly Betty.  Everything about it.  Loved it. 

[StrawberryBlondie]

I read this subject line about 10 times as "Venus Williams."