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Carrie Prejean, the dethroned Miss California USA, was shown an offer she couldn´t refuse.
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Carrie Prejean, the dethroned Miss California USA, was shown an offer she couldn't refuse.
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Sideshow: Ex-pageant winner drops her suit

It's a scandal-heavy week.

So strap in and . . . squirm.

The infamously defrocked California pageant princess Carrie Prejean and Miss USA pageant organizer K2Productions have reached a settlement in their dueling lawsuits.

A triumph for the spirit of reconciliation and love? Not exactly, says TMZ. The celeb news outlet contends that Carrie, who claimed she was stripped of her Miss California title in June due to religious discrimination, dropped her suit seconds after K2 lawyers showed her a hard-core vid in which she performed solo sex acts.

TMZ says that, under the terms of the settlement, Carrie will be paid . . . $0, while her lawyers and publicist will get $100,000. K2 dropped its lawsuit, which accused Carrie of failing to repay $5,200 for her breast-augmentation surgery.

Miss California USA has said it dethroned Carrie for failing to attend contractually obligated appearances and making paid appearances without the org's approval. Carrie made headlines when she told Miss USA judge Perez Hilton she opposed gay marriage because of her deeply held convictions as a Christian.

To err is human, to forgive divine . . .

Don't lose faith in Carrie's potential to grow (some morals). So says the fallen Miss California's spiritual guide, Pastor Darren Carrington of The Rock Church in San Diego.

"Everyone is a work in progress," the pastor tells TMZ. After all, he says, everyone has done "something we're not proud of."

Ugly family melodrama resurfaces

The Lohan Family's bloody internecine conflicts were reignited this week when beloved patriarch Michael Lohan released recordings of phone conversations involving his daughter, one-time actress Lindsay, and his ex-wife, Dina. So typical of Michael to do such loving things!

The recordings, posted on RadarOnline, reveal details about the family's dysfunctions. In one tape from September '08, Dina tells ML of her angst about LiLo's addictions: "You don't even know what I'd go through trying to get her into, like, rehab. . . . She'd like, punch me in the face, kick me out of the car." In another, LiLo cries to her dad: "No one cares about me. . . . It's about how they feel, not how I feel."

ML tells RadarOnline he made the tapes public to save LiLo from herself. He says he needs to prove to the world that LiLo's addiction to prescription drugs is killing her.

LiLo is angry: "My father's such a loser & those recordings are from years ago," she says via Tweeter. "To release personal things is foul enough, but to edit them. . . . He needs the book for dummies on HOW TO BE A MAN." Her lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, tells RadarOnline that she is "exploring all options, both civilly and criminally" against ML.

Rihanna: I was 'embarrassed'

Rihanna's heavily promoted one-on-one with Diane Sawyer went off without a hitch yesterday on Good Morning America. There were no surprises: Most of the Barbadian-born hitmaker's chat, about her recovery from assault in February by ex-lover Chris Brown, was released earlier this week.

The 21-year-old said she should never have dated Chris. "That's embarrassing, that that's the type of person that I fell in love with," she said. " . . . It's humiliating to say this happened. To accept that? It's a traumatizing experience." She said she has newfound faith and strength in her new role as a voice for victimized women: "When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part," she said. "Even if Chris never hit me again, who is to say that their boyfriend won't?" The second part of Rihanna's chat will air tonight on 20/20.

The singer last month released a single, "Russian Roulette," from her new LP, Rated R, due out Nov. 23. Her promo blitz includes a deal with cell-phone-maker Nokia, which will stream her tunes live Nov. 16 to its British customers.

Chris Brown chats up MTV

Rihanna's ex, Chris Brown, is matching her TV appearances with his own: a 30-minute interview to air today at 6 p.m. on MTV. Asked to share his thoughts and feelings after the incident that resulted in his plea of guilty to felony assault, Brown came up with this: "My thoughts is like, 'Why did it happen?', like, 'What was I thinking?', 'What is wrong with you?' " There are more thoughts, he adds. "My thoughts basically now is just, 'OK, how do we get past it? How do you, Chris, go from Point A to Point B?' " Easy! With new product: Surprisingly enough, Brown's chat also coincides with a new album, Graffiti, to be released Dec. 8, weeks earlier than initially planned. (To capitalize on current events? Surely not!)

Rihanna's other performances . . .

People mag says Rihanna will perform at the 37th annual American Music Awards, to air live Nov. 22 on ABC. Other performers include Adam Lambert, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lopez, and the Black Eyed Peas.

Tidbits 'n' pieces

Alicia Keys, who has been studying political resistance movements, including the Black Panthers, has her own political gesture: She will release a new line of baubles, called The Barber's Daughters, with a live event Nov. 23-24 at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York. Info: www.thebarbersdaughters.com/collection.html.


Contact "Sideshow" at sideshow@phillynews.com.

This column contains information from Inquirer wire services.

Comments   
Posted 09:40 AM, 11/06/2009
Professor Smart E. Pants, PhD.
Ha! I don't think I could have come up with a better ending to this hypocritical bigot's lame saga. Like I didn't see this one coming. Well, Carrie I guess the old adage is true, "God don't like ugly." I do not think God cares too much for self-righteous, hate-mongering hypocrites either. Now hopefully she will just fade away into obscurity never to be heard from again.
Posted 12:55 PM, 11/06/2009
George Tomezsko
Actually, Prof, the only ones who should fade away are individuals like you who think name-calling settles arguments. Didn't they teach you about a logical fallacy called ad hominem in Philosophy 101? Apparently not, so now we all know that "Ph. D" is actually an acronym for "piled higher and deeper." Thanks your proving that so adroitly.
Posted 01:14 PM, 11/06/2009
George Tomezsko
Wow, terminal political correctness must be as contagious as swine flu. First we have a make-pretend professor whose only profession seems to be leftist ideology, complete with the typical name-calling that those types routinely engage in to defend their causes. Talk about an intellectually empty barrel! Then we have Inky scribbler Tirdad Derakhshani, whose comment that former Miss California Carrie Prejean apparently has “the potential to grow (some morals),” by which he means she may come to accept so-called homosexual marriage, clearly shows he has caught that political contagion. (I’ll try to make this brief, Tir, but Carrie showed real, genuine courage in standing up to you media elitists, knowing your collective cabal would attack her for daring to publicly state her commitment to common sense and common sense values. This brings me to one more point: your notion of “morals” is, like everything left, completely inverted. Real moral people defend the need to place limits on sexual desire and to channel it in a truly healthy and beneficial direction, within the bonds of a normal marriage).
Posted 01:55 PM, 11/06/2009
Professor Smart E. Pants, PhD.
Oh yeah, I must be one of those wacky political correct leftists who believes that no one should be discriminated against because of anything, including sexual orientation. So, let me understand this George: gays getting married is morally reprehensible, but recording your self-satisfaction for posterity is somehow channeling it in a healthy and beneficial direction? How is that exactly? I don't know, but I was brought up Christian and was told that's a huge no-no. So, tell me how does hypocrisy work again? It's not what she said up on that podium; surely, she is entitled to her own opinion. It's the fact that she perpetuated a false image of being "Little Miss High Morals." Good moral, Christian girls, as she was so adamantly claiming to be, do not pose for nudie shots nor are they filmed rocking their own boats. By the way, "calling" Miss. Prejean a hypocrite at this point (Did you miss that part about an explicit sex video, George?) is about as much of a name-call as "calling" a cat a cat. It is what is. See George, I can respond to you in a civilized manner without resorting to name-calling, but it’s funny how you were unable to get your point across to me by not doing the same.
Posted 02:40 PM, 11/06/2009
Jame Gumb
Looks like George Tomezsko and Carrie Prejean have been eating at the same Christian Values Bible Buffet where they are able to pick and choose what they consider to be of moral value without having to take the whole package. I'm sure Carrie wasn't thinking about the Lord when she was getting herself off or maybe she was because I've heard in the video she was shouting, "Oh God, oh God, oh God!" a few times.
Posted 02:43 PM, 11/06/2009
Jame Gumb
Looks like those two holy-rollers George Tomezsko and Carrie Prejean have been eating at the same Christian Values Bible Buffet where they are able to pick and choose what they consider to be of moral value without having to take the whole package. I'm sure Carrie wasn't thinking about the Lord when she was making that little video or maybe she was because I've heard she did shout, "Oh God!" a few times. It must have been a most holy experience.
Posted 02:53 PM, 11/06/2009
Jame Gumb
This now brings all new meaning to the term "flogging the bishop."
Posted 03:44 PM, 11/06/2009
johnnydomino
Self-reliance is a noble and inherently American virtue. Good for you, Miss Carrie.
Posted 04:29 PM, 11/06/2009
Plastic Bertrand
Georgieboy was just SCHOOLED by a make-pretend internet scholar.
Posted 04:40 PM, 11/06/2009
Plastic Bertrand
I wonder why Georgieboy is so concerned about what two dudes are doing behind closed doors. Sounds a little g@y to me.
Posted 08:33 PM, 11/06/2009
George Tomezsko
Hey, Ph. D. I did NOT miss the part about the sex video. I also did not miss the part that read "the celeb news outlet (referring to TMZ) contends that Carrie,..." The operative word here, prof and Jame, is "contends." That indicates an allegation, not something proven to be factual (sorry to spoil your fantasy, Jame!). Moreover, ever hear of innocent until proven guilty, guys? I think this whole video contention is a contrivance to smear Prejean with the intent to intimidate others, especially Christians and conservatives, from speaking out against homosexual marriage. As for Bertrand, his post is so plastic the disposition of it requires just three words: "leftist" and "wishful" and "thinking." But its typical. His post is just an old rhetorical device deviants have been using since the 1970s if not earlier to agenda monger. Sorry, Plastic. You and your buddies are going to lose the Culture War. The free-wheeling, anything goes Sixties have come and gone.
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