The 59th Miss Universe pageant was held last night in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay where the very beautiful Miss Mexico, 22 year old Jimena Navarrete won the title.  I really think this girl stood out from all of them, and there were a lot of beautiful women in contention for the title.

First runner-up was Miss Jamaica, Yendi Phillipps, second runner up was Miss Australia, Jesinta Campbell.  Miss Ukraine, Anna Poslavska was  fourth, ahead of Miss Philippines, Venus Raj.

The judging panel consisted of an Olympian, actor, actress, singer and magician:

Chazz Palminteri – American actor and writer
Chynna Phillips – American singer and actress
Criss Angel – Greek-American illusionist and musician
Evan Lysacek – American Olympic Gold Medal Figure Skater and Dancing with the Stars participant
Jane Seymour – English actress and Dancing with the Stars participant
Niki Taylor – American model
Sheila E. – American musician
Tamron Hall – MSNBC anchor
William Baldwin – American actor, producer and writer

Miss Universe hold close to her heart eating disorders and wants to help women:

“I studied nutrition and I would like everyone to understand that it is not about your looks it is how you feel inside,” “And when you feel good inside you look good.”

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Last night’s winners of the Dancing With The Stars‘ disco ball trophy, Nicole Scherzinger and Derek Hough, along with the other two finalists Evan Lysacek, Anna Trebunskaya, Erin Andrews and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are in New York today to make the talk show circuit and are pictured here on Good Morning America this morning.

The first video is of all 6 of them in the studio and the second video is of them outside taking questions from the audience and via email.

One question of course was whether Maksim and Erin are dating to which they sidestepped the question quite well, although Erin ‘slipped up’ and referred to him as my man. One thing is for sure, they aren’t answering the question point blank.

Derek gave some lucky girl in the audience a hug and dipped her

It’s hard to believe the season is over.

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Derek Hough and Mark Ballas both celebrated their birthdays (May 17 and May 24 respectively) last night at the H Lounge in Los Angeles after Derek and Nicole’s perfect Argentine Tango.

Lots of their Dancing With The Stars’ friends (both past and present) came to wish them a happy birthday:

• Anna Trebunskaya
• Ashley Roberts
• Chelsie Hightower
• Cheryl Burke
• Edyta Sliwinska
• Erin Andrews
• Evan Lysacek
• Jake Pavelka
• Lacey Schwimmer
• Louie Vito
• Maksim Chmerkovskiy
• Tony Dovolani
• Vienna Girardi

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Evan Lysacek is out and about in Hollywood after having had breakfast with some friends yesterday wearing a hat to hold in his grey matter.  Did you see his head injury from the behind-the-scenes on Dancing With The Stars?  He luckily only suffered a mild concussion but it was scary looking, wasn’t it?

And Evan is still in contention for the disco ball as he was not eliminated last night! Woo hoo! He admitted to E! Online’s Marc Malkin that everyone will miss Kate Gosselin (yes I know, I just spit a whole bunch of coffee onto my computer screen):

We all miss her for sure. All you have to do is spend five minutes with her to know what a sweet person she is and how nurturing she is.”

“It’s normal for people to make assumptions as much as one doesn’t want to do it. But you have to get to know someone.

“She is such a great mother. And that doesn’t stop when she isn’t with her kids. She was always like, ‘Are you okay? Do you need anything? Do you need a back rub?’

He is right that you have to get to know someone, but it’s kind of hard to discount her emasculation of Jon on their show.  But then again, I don’t think Jon is an easy person to live with, and has proved himself to be a bit of a douche, no? I really don’t know what I’m saying or where I’m going with this.  It’s early.  I have no business posting at this time of the morning.  None at all.

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March 26 has been declared Evan Lysacek Day in Naperville, Illinois!

Olympic gold champion and Dancing With The Stars‘ celebrity Evan Lysacek was honoured in his hometown of Naperville yesterday where Mayor A. George Pradel presented him with the honour and a key to the city at the Millennium Carillon on Rotary Hill.

Evan’s dance professional Anna Trebunskaya attended with him.  What a great honour and well-deserved.

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The countdown is on.  Five more sleeps until Season 10 of Dancing With The Stars and the celebrities are hitting the dance rehearsals hard (I really don’t have personal knowledge if they are hitting them hard but one has to assume as much, yes?).

Nicole Scherzinger, Evan Lysacek, Niecy Nash and Pamela Anderson can all be seen leaving (or going to) dance rehearsals.  I wonder if they are nervous at this point?  The pressure must really be on to get the routines down! So who do you think will come out of the gate being a phenomenal dancer?  Personally I have to say Nicole Scherzinger and Evan Lysacek will probably be two of the strongest dancers.

What do you think?  Are you excited?

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