LEBANESE IMMIGRANT Rima Fakih says it was a certain look from Donald Trump that tipped her off that she had won the 2010 Miss USA title. The 24-year-old resident of the state of Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the title on Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown.
She told reporters later that she believed she had won after glancing at pageant owner Trump as she awaited the results with the first runner-up, Miss Oklahoma USA Morgan Elizabeth Woolard. “That’s the same look that he gives them when he says, ‘You’re hired,”’ on Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice, she said. “She’s a great girl,” said Trump, who owns the pageant with NBC. Fakih took top honours at the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold bikini, wearing a strapless white gown that resembled a wedding dress and saying health insurance should cover birth control pills. —AP
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Cowell may be bestowed knighthood
London: Music mogul Simon Cowell is reportedly all set to be bestowed with a knighthood as part of the Queen’s birthday honours.
The Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor judge, is expected to be dubbed “Sir” on June 12 for his charity work and generating millions for the British record industry, Mirror reported online.
Cowell, notorious as a judge for his blunt and often controversial criticisms, has launched singers like Leona Lewis and Susan Boyle and has been recommended by Gordon Brown before he resigned last week as the PM. The 50-year-old entrepreneur, dined with Brown and wife Sarah and helped to raise almost £1 million for quake devastated Haiti by getting stars like Robbie Williams and Rod Stewart to help record Everybody Hurts. Cowell is all set to marry make-up artist Mezhgan Hussainy. —PTI