Miss New York, Mallory Hagan, right, reacts with Miss South Carolina Ali Rogers as she is crowned Miss America 2013 on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, in Las Vegas.
Brooklyn was
certainly in the house at the Miss American competition.
Miss New
York, Mallory Hagan, was named the winner of Miss America 2013.
The
23-year-old, who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, won the
swimsuit competition on last night’s show and also performed a tap-dance to
James Brown’s “Get Up Offa That Thing.”
Both of
those things are even harder to do than they sound.
Hagan beat
out contestants from 49 other states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia,
and the U.S. Virgin Islands to win a $50,000 college scholarship and the right
to wear the crown for one year.
Hagan
answered a timely question about guns during the show, saying that she didn’t
think the proper way to fight violence was with more violence, and that gun
safety classes and longer waiting periods to purchases guns were better
solutions.
Hagan, who
has roots in Alabama, is the first New York representative to win Miss America
since actress-singer Vanessa Williams, who won in 1984.
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