Mallory Hagan Miss America Organisation Scandal
>> Friday, December 22, 2017
Mallory Hagan Miss America Organisation Scandal
THE Miss America beauty pageant is the latest organisation to be caught up in a sexual harassment scandal, following derogatory emails from management about the contestants.
Miss America Organisation CEO Sam Haskell exchanged emails with a writer for the televised pageant and others that included harsh and sometimes vulgar comments about past winners.
The shocking content posted online includes a reference to former Miss Americas using a vulgar term for female genitalia that Haskell indicated he found to be amusing. They also speculated about how many men former Miss America, Mallory Hagan, had had sex with.
Hagan was also ridiculed over a bathing suit photo in which she appeared to have gained weight from when she competed in and won the pageant.
— Mallory Hagan (@ItsMalloryHagan) December 22, 2017
Mallory Hagan spoke out about the scandal online.
The emails have cost the pageant its television production partner, and raised questions about the future of the nationally televised broadcast from Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall the week after US Labor Day each year.
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Haskell said he would address the matter on Friday; he did not respond to a follow-up inquiry as to whether he had apologised directly to the women named in the emails.
The comments are in stark contrast to the glowing, supportive statements Haskell repeatedly made in public about past title winners.
The Huffington Post article shows that Haskell and others directed considerable attention to Hagan, who won the 2013 pageant.
He forwarded an email he had been sent regarding Hagan to a writer for the pageant, who has since been terminated. The writer responded by questioning whether he and Haskell were part of a tiny group of people who had not had sex with Hagan.
“It appears we are the only ones!” Haskell replied
From: http://www.news.com.au
