Miss California USA Carrie Prejean " Fired "

LOS ANGELES — Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up trouble for herself when she said gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry, got the dreaded words from pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: "You’re fired.”

Trump and other pageant leaders said Prejean was being sacked not because of the remarks but because she hadn’t been holding up her end of a deal she signed when she entered the pageant.

The California pageant’s executive director, Keith Lewis, had complained that Prejean was skipping Miss California USA events while speaking out against gay marriage.

Trump, who owns Miss California USA’s parent organization, originally decided to give her a second chance and keep her on. On Wednesday, he changed his mind.

Pageant officials said Prejean would be replaced by the pageant’s first runner-up, Tami Farrell, 24.



by the associated press