Quasi-Celebrity You’ve Never Heard of #2: Valerie Begue Keeps Her Title
Ever heard of Valerie Begue? No? Me either.
Apparently she’s Miss France 2008, but was in danger of losing the title after some pictures showed up in a gossip magazine. Now I know what you’re thinking, didn’t we do this a while back with Vanessa Williams, and aren’t the French just copying us?
No, this is weirder. She not naked or anything, the photos are just kind of weird. Not even sexy, just weird. One has her floating in a pool (wearing a bikini) on a cross, and one shows her licking up evaporated milk (with an expression on her face like she thinks licking up evaporated milk is the sexiest thing she could possibly be doing.)
And since the beauty pageant rules said that contestants must “never have posed or exhibited (themselves) in dubious outfits or poses, partially or totally nude,” people were trying to get her decrowned. Personally, I’m guessing these were religious nuts who didn’t like the cross rather than people afraid of nudity. You’d think this was some American flyover state religious freak for that, rather than France. Who knew?
Turns out Valerie Begue will get to keep her crown. However, she won’t be competing in Miss World or Miss Universe. Wait, what? There’s a Miss World and a separate Miss Universe contest? Seriously? What the hell’s the difference? Are there really Martians that show up for Miss Universe, and we sent the winner of Miss World to compete against them?
This whole beauty pageant thing is so crazy, it’s funny.