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Miss North Carolina USA dethroned after controversy over 'recently surfaced information' 47%
By WRAL staff20%
8/6/2026, 2:30:06 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Self-Serving Bias, and Framing Effect, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 19.6% saturation with 90 hits. Analysis detected 582 faulty-reasoning hits from 459 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 40.6% and a BS Rank of 47% (16,474 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.90% of the article peer group.
Miss North Carolina USA has been stripped of her crown over recent controversy that prompted pageant organizers to act.
Brittany Boltinhouse, who is from Duplin County and competed after being crowned Miss Wilmington, was recently crowned Miss North Carolina USA and was supposed to take the stage at the 75th annual Miss USA pageant on August 27.
Instead, the runner up, Myla Hadley, will take her crown and place at the national pageant.
Pageant organizers did not say what, exactly, Boltinhouse did to have her title removed.
A Blaize Productions, who runs pageants in the Carolinas, said the decision came after a "thorough review of recently surfaced information."
"We ask our pageant family, supporters, and the public to extend kindness and respect to both Brittany and Myla during this transition.
Moments like these are never easy for anyone involved, and we remain committed to treating everyone with dignity while continuing our mission of empowering the next generation of women leaders," the organization said.
Thom Brodeur, the chairman of Miss USA, said the organization "does not tolerate racism, homophobia, transphobia nor language that strips any person of their dignity."
"A title here isn't a trinket.
It is a position of trust, extended by an organization and accepted by a woman who agrees to carry a standard in public," he said.
"When that standard is broken, the title cannot continue as though nothing happened."
Brodeur said the organization holds pageant contestants to a zero tolerance standard for conduct, but said holding someone accountable is not permission to "strip someone of their humanity."
"There is a young woman at the center of this.
She has been named, examined, and judged in public in a way that most of us would not survive, and she is still a human being with a family, a future, and a life ahead of her that is longer than this part of her journey," he said.
Brodeur said Boltinhouse would issue her own statement on the matter soon.
"She should be the one to speak to this in her own voice.
We wanted to honor that," he said.
Myla Hadley, who was crowned Miss Charlotte before competing in the Miss North Carolina USA pageant, thanked people for the support on social media as she gets ready for the Miss USA national pageant.
"I understand the seriousness and level of prestige that this title carries, and I can confidently say that both my team and I are ready to take this on," she said.
"While this may seem like a two-week turnaround given the circumstances, I've been preparing to represent at Miss USA since I first competed with this organization.
I am ready to represent North Carolina."
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