Beauty and the fleeced
June 29th 2010 06:51
Phyllis Diller once said, "When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate." This sort of honest appraisal of oneself is something the winner of the 2010 Miss Cornwall beauty pageant has yet to learn.
The rules of the annual Miss Cornwall beauty pageant are simple: entrants must be aged 17 to 24 and must live or work in Cornwall, the picturesque county in England's south-west.
Laura Anness, this year's winner, is 27, and she lives and works in Devon.
Laura managed to win the title - at her fifth attempt - by claiming she was a Cornwall resident and that she was aged 22. Her deceit was discovered when one of the pageant administrators noticed, while cleaning old files out of her office, that Laura's age was given as 22 on the entry forms for each of the five years she had entered the contest.
Now Laura has been stripped of the title she tried so long to win. She has also lost the chance to compete for the title of Miss England and forfeits a 12-month modelling contract.
When Laura looks back on her beauty pageant career, she can take satisfaction at least from making the final of the 2009 Miss Universe competition. It is believed there were no questions over geographical qualification for that one.
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