From a reporter in the audience:

http://www.exile.ru/2006-May-05/feature_story.html

That's an awesome article. The Exile rocks. Obvious that the Russians bought the tiara. Gotta love the magnitude of the screwup which only served to highlight all this.
I love the fact that they spun this to make it sound like some sort of 'drama' instead of a complete disaster. OMG - I can't believe they did a take 2. Notice that Mrs. Costa Rica had already disappeared by that point. Oh man, you can also see that so many of the contestants had already left. Wild.
Also love the shot a quarter way in where you see people already leaving.
Damn.
So "Women's Entertainment" - the We Network - really did air this. Incredible.
From the Exile:
"Their disrespect of Russians was most clear in the way they failed to provide adequate translations for the Russian audience. Since the event was getting filmed for an American audience, they had to give the impression that the audience understood Thicke's stupid one liners. Therefore, he talked extendedly without a pause for translation. It was so wrong that the Russian crowd mutinied, shouting Thicke down until a translator jumped in."

rickegee, you've gotta vote for your own vid here, this is a stellar find.

Oh damn - one of the contestants even says "this is not a reality show" to the camera, and yet...

from the Exile:
"In a slimy Hollywood twist, the American producers, who included Jeff Androsky, a producer from a show on the new Fox Reality network Reality Remix, announced that that contest was going to be a reality show just three days before the pageant started. All the preceding contests were just a fodder for the reality show, not competitions they'd be judged on. It was even rumored that he was thrilled after the screw-up, because it'd make for better TV. As it was, the reality TV angle was mimicking Miss America's attempt to stay relevant, which it announced it was going reality TV this year. But, like everything else in this contest, it was done in a Mickey Mouse way."

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Quite an amazing video. And wow - what a monumental SNAFU.

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