Miss America Organization
As we congratulate Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppeleron on being crowned Miss America 2012 Planet Hollywood in Vegas, we learned one thing – blonde is no longer in vogue … at least this year anyway.
All five of the top five contestants including Miss Arizona Jennifer Sedler, Miss California Noelle Freeman, Miss New York Kaitlin Monte and Miss Oklahoma Betty Thompson are all of the non-blonde persuasion. While blondes do have more fun, maybe the seriousness of the economy and all of the other crap in the world had judges join Team Brunette.
Laura performed “Il Bacio” during the talent portion and even won the talent portion of the unaired, first-night preliminaries. Other prelim winners were Miss Utah Danica Olsen (fitness), Miss Oklahoma (talent), Miss Texas Kendall Morris (fitness), Miss New York (fitness) and Miss Hawaii Lauren Cheape (talent).
In addition to winning the title, Laura won a $50,000 scholarship and will travel 20,000 miles each month raising awareness for her charity Circles of Support – which mentors kids of jailed parents – and the Miss America Organizations platform partner, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Should she not be able to fulfill her duties, Miss Oklahoma is on deck and will takeover as first runner-up with Miss New York in the hole (to continue the baseball analogy) as second runner-up.