Miss California Carrie Prejean and Shanna Moakler kiss and make up

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Miss California Pageant directors and current title holder Carrie Prejean have mended fences in their battle over whether Prejean should retain on her crown. On Monday Pageant directors Shanna Moakler and Keith Lewis held a press conference describing the ways that Prejean had violated her contract with the pageant. It wasn’t about her views on same sex marriage, but that Prejean had become a spokesperson for an anti-gay marriage organization against pageant regulations. She also failed to disclose semi-nude photos and had not contacted pageant directors or responded to their messages.

Despite all the strikes against her, pageant owner Donald Trump announced with great fanfare yesterday that Prejean would retain her title. He focused on her statements on gay marriage and the semi-nude photos as if those were the main issues instead of the fact that she violated her contract on several counts. Trump also made a bunch of comments on how pretty Prejean is, with the cringe-worthy dismissal that “If her beauty wasn’t so great, no one would have really cared” about her remarks on same sex marriage.

Now it’s up to Moakler and Lewis to decide if they’re going to let go of their well-argued issues with Prejean and make nice or hold on to a grudge and probably get replaced. It looks like they all decided to make nice. It also sounds like we won’t be seeing Prejean in commercials extolling the virtues of opposite marriage, since they say that she’s going to “stay true to the contract”:

“Thanks to Donald Trump, we were able to have a meeting with Miss Prejean and her family alone for the first time since the pageant,” Moakler, the co-executive director of the California pageant, tells PEOPLE. “We were able to sit down and communicate and vent our frustrations. I am confident that she will stay true to the contract. I’m looking forward to returning to L.A. and starting fresh.”

After the New York meeting, which also included the other California pageant chair, Keith Lewis, The Donald, who co-owns the Miss Universe Organization, announced Tuesday that Prejean will continue to reign as Miss California USA and Miss USA runner-up despite a spate of bad publicity.

Moakler tells PEOPLE the meeting allowed them to clear the air with Prejean, who angered many when she said she was against same-sex marriage and when semi-nude photos of her surfaced after her win.

“Our issue was never about her opinions about same-sex marriage or the pictures,” says Moakler. “Our issue was with her complying with our agreement. When you sign the contract, we ask you to show us everything you are being offered. That wasn’t happening. After the pageant, we lost control of our titleholder.”

Contestants in the pageant are required to sign a 12-page document that, among several clauses, ensures that they conduct themselves “in accordance with the highest ethical and moral standards” and avoid making personal appearances, granting interviews or making commercials without authorization from pageant officials.

[From People]

I’m really glad there’s no grudge there, because as interesting as this story was it’s time for it to die now. If Moakler and Lewis continued to try and strip Prejean of her title we would be hearing about it for weeks. Now Prejean can go back to being known for being prettier than average, because that’s really what beauty pageants are about. It just gets out of hand when politics are added to the mix.

Here are photos from yesterday’s press conference, thanks to WENN.com. The Donald looks so much like an Oompa Loompa it’s eerie.

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  1. HEB says:

    She was AWFUL on the Early Show this morning. I was optimistic of her until that interview but now I absolutely despise her.

    Whenever they asked her a question, she replied that she answered that at the press conference yesterday… THEN WHY DID YOU COME ON THIS SHOW TODAY?!
    Dumbass.

  2. DD says:

    she’s a loser but who cares whether she gets to keep her title or not, it’s a dumb beauty contest not a brains contest.

  3. Iggles says:

    Wow, people are eating crow. Of course the Donald wouldn’t fire her. His ratings are gonna be up for next year, and weeks after the pagent, people are still talking about.

    ““Our issue was never about her opinions about same-sex marriage or the pictures,” says Moakler. “Our issue was with her complying with our agreement. When you sign the contract, we ask you to show us everything you are being offered. That wasn’t happening. After the pageant, we lost control of our titleholder.””

    That is absolute bullshed. They hated what she said but they’ve been shut down by the Donald.

  4. Rosanna says:

    The sad part is that CP, who supposedly was not to apologize for her opinion didn’t apologize but dumped her role for a beauty pageant crown (GROWL) whereas Moakler who supposedly had issues of principles with CP decided to basically shut up so that she could go on running the pageant. The only one who won is the Donald. The others (ALL parties involved) showed how principles don’t run far… business come always first and foremost *barf*

  5. nanster says:

    Everyone knows Carrie Prejean’s name, but who actually won the Miss USA pageant? If I were the winner, I’d really be ticked off. She’s being overshadowed by a complete moron.

    Also, was Shanna Moakler ever really pretty? She just looks rough and I can’t imagine that her hardness is a new development.

  6. Annie says:

    That is absolute bullshed.

    Why?

  7. gg says:

    Ugh – Moakler is nasty and so is that dress. Was she ever in porn or does she just look like one?

  8. Serendipity says:

    Is it just me or does CP look like she’s already had one too many run ins with the botox fairy? Seriously, she’s going to look a mess by the time she’s 30.

    There’s just something about the incredibly vapid/plastic expression on her face that I cannot stand. Maybe all the radiation from tanning/chemicals from the hair bleaching have seeped into her brain, causing it to short circuit? I don’t know what it is, but she looks like her own wax sculpture; and that’s not flattery at all.

    If this is what beauty is nowadays in America, I’m glad I live overseas!

  9. Wresa says:

    Sounds to me like they are all bowing to Trump. Kinda symbolic of how paternalistic the entire Miss America pageant is.

  10. Cath says:

    I never realized that Shanna Moakler was cute until I saw her next to that cross-eyed trainwreck.

  11. ! says:

    Lies, above commenter. Try reading. She left because of the decision to completely ignore the fact that Ms Prejean has violated her contract several times over.

  12. Magsy says:

    Was it a lesbian kiss? Oh, never mind.