Beauty queen is deposed

A COURT has brought down the curtain on the stranger-than-fiction saga of battling beauty queens, allegations of topless photos and a judge intent on protecting “a significant part of Americana.”

Judge James Fox rejected Rebekah Revels' bid to force the Miss America Organisation to let her, the original Miss North Carolina 2002, and Misty Clymer, the runner-up who replaced her, compete in the Miss America Pageant.

Immediately after the judge's decision, Miss America boss George Bauer declared Revels out, clearing the runway for Clymer to compete as North Carolina's entry at the contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey, next weekend.