Miss South Carolina Fights Back After Miss Teen USA

Authored by Scott Goldberg on August 30, 2007 - 7:00am.

Laurn Caitlin Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina

The clip has been viewed nearly 9 million times, and now “Miss South Carolina” is a household name. To capitalize on the lighting speed of her fame – and demonstrating that, as one of our readers put it, she was the real winner of the Miss Teen USA contest – Lauren Caitlin Upton is fighting back. The day after the contest she appeared on NBC’s Today Show then made a quick hop to People Magazine where she recorded her own geography quiz.

In her Today Show interview Matt Lauer asked, “What are your plans, what do you want to do, in terms of after that pageant, what are your goals?”

Miss South Carolina answers, “Well my goal is to attend Appalachian State University, major in graphic design, once graduated from there go to L.A. and go into the International Academy of Design & Technology, major in Special Effects learning to design special effects for movies and television.”

But a reader predicted a different future for Ms. Upton’s yesterday: “This girl will do Maxim or something, SNL, get spoofed on Family Guy, become a reality TV star, the next Paris Hilton / Nicole Richie, and maybe the spokesperson for MapQuest and make millions if her agent plays it right.”

Either way we’re about to see a lot more from Miss South Carolina. The latest YouTube celebrity might be making her way to L.A. sooner than she thinks. Who in this town would stop her?

Scott Goldberg

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