The brand new docuseries Secrets and techniques of Miss America premieres on July 10 and dives into the long-kept secrets and techniques of America’s oldest magnificence pageant and exposes the surprising scandals on the middle of all of it. HollywoodLife has an EXCLUSIVE preview of the premiere that options former Miss America winners speaking about their experiences after they wore the crown.
“From the second you’re topped to the top of your yr, your life will not be yours nor do you’ve got time to consider it,” Miss American 2017 Savvy Shields says. “Throughout my yr, I used to be not allowed to share that I had a boyfriend. It was made clear that Sam [Haskell] was in cost and what he mentioned went. Boyfriends weren’t allowed to exist if you’re Miss America.”
Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan revealed that “behind the scenes, there have been guidelines like no males are allowed in your resort room, together with your father.” Whereas she had “so many phenomenal moments as Miss America,” the truth of the job is that it’s “24 hours a day, day by day of the week, for the whole thing of the yr.”
Miss America 2001 Angela Perez Baraquio added, “I don’t suppose anybody can put together you for that yr. They actually gave us a folder with all of your appearances and your itineraries just for one month upfront as a result of it’s so formidable to see the entire yr forward of you.”
Betty Maxwell, who gained the Miss America title in 2016, defined how her homecoming journey grew to become nothing however drama. One among her buddy’s boyfriends introduced her Taco Bell, after which somebody referred to as then-CEO Sam Haskell and instructed him that Betty’s boyfriend spent the night time along with her.
“After which I used to be reamed out by Sam Haskell for one thing I didn’t do,” Betty says. “They’re very, very, very anti-boyfriend as a result of they need you to seem like you’re America’s sweetheart. They’re attempting to be feminists and #MeToo and all these items and on the similar time they’re like not pondering that each younger 20-something is courting somebody.” Secrets and techniques of Miss America will air Mondays at 10 p.m. on A&E.
