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Johannesburg - A white girl representing South Africa was the most jarring thing for some beauty pageant watchers to witness this week. When the blue-eyed former Miss SA Melinda Bam took to the Miss Universe stage at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, she triggered a social media buzz. Her appearance sparked an avalanche of tweets, mostly from American viewers during the pageant, which was streamed live online at 03:00 local time.

Jennifer Lawrence has been voted the world's most desirable woman. The 22-year-old The Hunger Games star has been awarded the title in a new international poll released on Thursday by online men's magazine AskMen.com after winning over the majority of the 2.4 million voters with her down-to-earth attitude. Editor-In Chief James Bassil said: 'Overall, there's a sense that she's a little more authentic than other actors. 'She's fresh because we haven't seen her all over the gossip pages for the past three or four years.' The blonde beauty was followed in the top five by actress Mila Kunis, model Kate...

After finding a portrait subject, he asks her to put together a hot-pot meal using veggies and ingredients native to her country. They then assemble the foods into the shape of a gun and do a portrait shoot. Once the photograph is made, Ozawa and his model disassemble the delicious weapon, cook the ingredients, and share a meal together.

Julie Banderas -dob 10.25.73- is a (really good-looking) correspondent for the Fox News Channel and frequent guest -in the leg chair, of course- on Gutfeld's Red Eye. Half Colombian on her mother's side, Julie herself was born in Connecticut and earned her degree from Emerson College...  w/ the equally scrumptious Megyn Kelly More at Reaganite Republican _____________________________________________________________________________ TVNewsCaps   RedEye   IntimateCelebs   Wikipedia   TV AnchorBabes

Safariland announced today that Team Bianchi shooter Kenda Lenseigne added her third major victory this year when she won High Overall and Overall Champion Cowgirl at the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA) National Championship August 1-4 in Las Vegas, NV. The High Overall Champion title is awarded to the overall winner of the match, a shoot based on five stages of an accumulative score. Kenda and her horse-athlete, Justin, an American Quarter Horse, performed flawlessly during the event. Lenseigne said, “The countless hours in the saddle is proof that our hard work is paying off!” This showed not only in...

Bikini-clad, gun-toting Israeli woman becomes an Internet sensation A photo of a gun-wielding, bikini-clad woman standing on a crowded Tel Aviv beach has become an Internet sensation, with thousands of viewers curious about whether the brunette beauty is part of Israel's military and why she wasn't in uniform with her weapon in tow. The newspaper Haaretz notes that 'To an Israeli, the photo makes perfectly practical sense. When soldiers take their weapon off military premises, they must guard it closely and keep it on their person, at all times. Having one's weapon stolen is harshly punished with time in military...

Kate Upton was way too hot for the Super Bowl so they would not allow this one to air.

Cowboy Mounted Shooting has a style of its own. Unlike any other Western equestrian sport, this one combines, fashion, leather and guns. No gender in the sport shows it off better than the girls. Meet some of the Girls of Mounted Shooting. Photos by Ken Amorosano, Lucinda Wood, James Cook and John Beckett Growing up, I was frequently told that I could do or be anything. I never heard there was a ceiling beyond which I could not reach. The American Dream was an open door to me, as it was to all Americans. We foster an ideal in this...

Miss China 2011 Luo Zilin just placed '4th Runner-Up' at  Miss Universe 2011 Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Not bad...  lotta competition down there, you know: More/video/links at Reaganite Republican Plenty more were that one came from, mind you! ___________________________________________________________ Missology   MissChina.cn   Matichon.th   Pageant.com   BeautyContests blog ChinaDaily   Spitsniews.nl   CTPost   Miss Universe (official) ___________________________________________________________ Previous 'Know Your Enemy' -Miss Russia- -here-

Some of us around the Blaze office have joked that GBTV should hold a “Miss Occupy Wall Street Pageant” – A beauty pageant offering to pay off some of the winner’s student loans. (OK… I’m the only one talking about it.) This morning we learn about a new website promoting the better looking protesters at various OWS locations.

Pop quiz: Name one accessory that grandmothers, moms, girls, wealthy socialites, middle-class females and low-income women might be likely to own — and cherish — all across America. If you answered “a gun,” you’d be correct. Based on polling research and gun-sale statistics, an estimated 15 million to 20 million women in the United States own their own firearms. Dozens of those heat-packing women are documented in “Chicks with Guns,” a new book by photographer Lindsay McCrum that is sure to challenge almost anyone’s assumptions about gun ownership. “Their numbers are really high but their profile is actually really low,”...

Brazilian model Ana Araujo has been tipped to become Daniel Craig's leading lady in Bond 23, the 23rd instalment of the 007 franchise. "Ana is really excited. It's all very new to her and she is optimistic about the prospect of landing the role. It's very much a case of watch this space," a source from the production house said.

Girls just wanna have fun,, a couple of girls exercising the right to own and get proficient with firearms. OK, maybe they don't own em....

LostLettermen.com, the college sports fan site and player database, regularly contributes to Shutdown Corner. Here's a look at rookie New England Patriots cheerleader Alexa Flutie, daughter of Doug Flutie. There will once again be a Flutie on the New England Patriots sideline this season. No, Doug Flutie isn't coming out of retirement at the age of 48.

Add supermodel Kathy Ireland to the list of people wanting Congress to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business by cutting the millions of dollars it receives to promote its agenda. “I think Planned Parenthood needs to reassess and look at what their values are, what their mission is, what their goals are, and do they deserve government funding? For example, there are non-profits that I’m involved with, and we don’t get government funding,” Ireland told FOX411’s Pop Tarts program. “We go out there, and if you really believe in this strongly enough to fight it for it, go get the...

Though the controversial pictures of Kate Middleton's sister Pippa have not been circulated, they have managed to create a furore in the Middleton family. Kate's parents have decided to take action over the nude pictures of Pippa which they think have been let out by 'betrayed' friends.

It’s not every day that you see women circling Boston Common in the midafternoon wearing only micro minis and bras. So when the “Boston Slutwalk” wound its way from Government Center to the Common yesterday, chanting, “However we dress, wherever we go, yes means yes, and no means no,” heads turned, but there weren’t many catcalls. But then, you don’t mess with 200 “sluts” on a mission.

A Muslim actress has received threats after she appeared topless on the front cover of Playboy. Sila Sahin, the 25-year-old star of German soap Good Times, Bad Times has been labelled "whore" and "western slut" for posing for the German edition of the men's magazine, The Sun reports. Her conservative parents, originally from Turkey, are said to have reacted with "horror" at the 12-page spread and her mother has refused to speak to Ms Sahin. Islamic internet sites have raged at the shoot and German intelligence agency BND is now monitoring the threats. One person posted "She needs to pay",...

A YOUNG woman removing her clothes for Playboy magazine would not normally stoke the passion of Germany's dry-as-dust intellectuals. Their minds are usually fixed on higher things -- more Nietzsche than nudity. But next month's cover girl will, for the first time, be a Turkish German and her glistening, coconut-oiled presence is stirring eager debate about the limits and challenges of ethnic integration. How else to explain the sudden rush of the country's top brains towards their local newsagents? "These photographs are a liberation from the restrictions of my childhood," says Sila Sahin, the 25-year-old star of a television soap...

model bidding to become the first Muslim to represent the UK in the world final of Miss Universe has been defending her decision to enter. Shanna Bukhari, who is 24 and lives in Manchester, said she's been sent racist and abusive messages since making it to the beauty contest's UK final. She believes Muslims in the UK should be allowed to have a western lifestyle. But Muslim groups have accused her of disrespecting Islam. Shanna was born in Blackburn and she became a full-time model after finishing her degree.