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‘Game of Thrones,’ HBO apologize for depicting decapitated George W. Bush head

By Lisa De Moraes,June 14, 2012

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Besides, Bobi J rationalized, “Friends whose houses we toured were in the midst of working towards life changes (job promotions, out-of-state moves) and both thought they might be selling in the next few years — so it wasn’t such a far stretch for them to want theirs featured.” In fact, she added: “One actually went on the market and sold before the show aired.”

“I’d like to make clear that I love HGTV!” Bobi added.

Now is maybe not a good time to reveal that some of the celebrity amateurs on “Dancing With the Stars” have had prior dance training and professional dance experience; and that almost no marriage proposals on “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” are genuine, and they hardly ever result in an actual, you know, marriage, because the participants are really doing it in a bid to become famous and launch an on-screen career.

Second ‘Miss USA’ claim

Fox News reports that another Miss USA contestant says she, too, heard Miss Florida reveal most of the list of Top 5 finalists backstage before the list of Top 15 finalists was announced. But the firm that tabulates the judges’ votes and verifies the results during the live broadcast says that’s not possible.

“I saw [Miss] Florida backstage, and she was very, very flustered and upset. I thought it might be because she didn’t make the Top 15 cut, but at that point, she was able to reveal to me at least four of the five names who went on to be the top girls,” the contestant said in an interview, according to Fox News. The competitor, who is not named in the report, said Miss Florida “couldn’t remember the fifth, because she was so upset.”

Miss Pennsylvania, Sheena Monnin, claimed last week that one of the other competitors told her she’d seen the lists of the Top 5 finalists before NBC’s Sunday broadcast of the beauty pageant started; she claims the women who were named did turn out to be the Top 5 finalists.

Pageant organizers said the other competitor in question is Miss Florida, Karina Brez, who has denied the accusations, saying that she made a “throwaway comment, in the stress of the pageant,” that was “never meant as fact.”

The Miss Universe Pageant — of which the Miss USA Pageant is a part, and which is co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC — has also denied the accusations.

Meanwhile, Ernst & Young — the firm that for years has independently tabulated the judges’ votes and verified the results during the live Miss USA and Miss Universe broadcast — said Thursday, in a long-ish statement, that no one could have seen a list of the Top 5 finalists beforehand. That’s because Ernst & Young did not tabulate the Top 5, it says, until after the evening-gown competition that night.

For previous columns by Lisa de Moraes, go to washingtonpost.com/

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