| Greetings
in the name of a fabulous pageant or a wonderful show. Here we are once
again to pour the tea on just that…I hope you liked the short and
sweet story in the previous Q-Notes about the Continental weekend, ’cause
it sure was fierce. One more round of congrats to Dominique Chappelle,
our new Miss Continental. She’s everybody’s girl.
And speaking of Continental, you know how we do it — that’s
the perfect opening to mention a winner of the most recent prelim to Miss
Continental PLUS, Christian Valentino, who won Miss Metropolitan and to
also go back and mention one young lady who qualified to compete at Miss
Continental who I forgot — Nicole Ellington Dupree ended up winning
Miss Tennessee!
And speaking of the big girls, I couldn’t be happier to mention recent
qualifiers to Miss Gay U.S.ofA. at Large, which takes place in just weeks,
ending up two nights before Miss Gay America. Congrats to Paisley Parque
our new Miss N.C. at Large, and her RU Dorae Saunders, with alternate Dy’mond
Cartier; TN — Ondreah Montrese and RU CoCo Couture; IN — Lady
Ivanna and RU Michelle Preston; FL — Jasmine Skiies and RU Denile;
Miss OH is Payje Turner; the new Miss Rocky Mountain is Khrystal Leight
with alternates Nova Starr and Kayla Stevens Love.
The first preliminary to Miss Gay U.S.ofA. was held in Houston, it was
Miss TX, naturally, and they say our Miss U.S.ofA. Tamisha Iman was exquisite.
The winner was Tersa Matthews. She did her famous impersonations of the
different queens for talent (which was great, I saw it online) and her
RU was a lovely Asia O’Hara. Nothing like a good pageant in Texas.
Recent qualifiers to go to Miss America include Miss Texas (and former
Miss U.S.ofA.) Layla LaRue (yes ma’am) and RU Onyx, Miss Delaware — Diva
and Miss Mid-Atlantic Celebrity Starr with RU Lady Marissa.
We’ll end with a plethora of local news and tidbits, starting off
with some old news. I owe an apology to my girl Malaysia Black who won
Miss Club 9 at Large a while back and it simply slipped my mind. She also
just recently won Miss New Beginnings over in Johnson City and was crowned
by an N.C. sister, Roxxy Hart. Laylay’s runners-up included Maya
Campbell and Jessica Jade. Malaysia also recently won Miss Global Universe
down in Columbia with RU Alexis Chanel. That same night, Dy’mond
Cartier won Global Universe at Large and Honey Divine won Global Universe
Newcomer. Two other local contests to speak of — Miss Blue Ridge,
a prelim to the Scandals’ Land of the Sky contests, which lovely
Verba S. Deo won, with RU Ashley Adams and Miss Summer Fun, relinquished
by Sasha Chambers, with Jessica Jade winning and taking on-stage question,
1st RU Malaysia Black taking creative evening gown, creative swimwear and
talent and 2nd RU Raven Wood.
One exciting contest coming up that I’d love to tell you about — former
Miss Castle Victoria Morgan told me all about a contest they have coming
up down there on Oct. 8 in Greenville, S.C. — Miss Castle Entertainer
of the Year, featuring a prize package of $1000 that night and $500 more
in bookings — winner take all. Just imagine. Especially with only
two categories — gown and talent. Baby, the girls will come with
all kinds of stunts that night, I suppose. Sounds like it’s time
for a road trip. They recently held Miss Fyaetteville Newcomer at Spektrum,
and congrats go to Riva Iman Black, the winner, and her RU Ariel Nicole
Knight-Addams; also to Jessica O’Brien who was just apppointed Miss
South Eastern United States to compete at Miss U.S. in Roanoke, VA; and
a hearty congrats to our former Miss NC U.S.ofA., Diamond, on winning Miss
Greensboro FI with RU Bridget LeMans. Diamond took all categories that
evening.
Unfortuantely, I have to close with sad news — the passing of a good
and dear sister, Portia DeParis of Columbia, S.C., who had just won the
25th Anniversary Miss Castle Pageant in late April. Hats off to a sweet
queen. |
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