Miss America CEO Sam Haskell’s Leaked Emails Reveal Slut-Shaming & Fat-Shaming Winners
The Miss America CEO Sam Haskell has been exposed for writing crude emails to past winners of the competition.
MISS AMERICA CEO INSULTED CONTESTANTS FOR YEARS VIA EMAIL
In emails between Haskell and other board members, the CEO is seen slut-shaming and fat-shaming the women. A Huffington Post reporter obtained three years’ worth of internal emails, which contained discussions and jokes about the contestants’ weight gain and sex lives. Ali posted a series of emails to his Twitter account.
1. Exclusive: In emails I obtained, Miss America CEO @samhaskell, along with other board members and staff, repeatedly maligned, attacked, and slut shamed former Miss Americas.
Link To My Story: https://t.co/fyv26kDt55 pic.twitter.com/XXsHrT3MtH
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 21, 2017
2. Lead writer of the Miss America telecast Lewis Friedman asks CEO @samhaskell: are we the only ones who haven’t fu*ked Mallory? (Miss America @ItsMalloryHagan)
Haskell says: “It appears we are the only ones” – then he goes on to defame her.
Link: https://t.co/fyv26kDt55 pic.twitter.com/svdPmLmesI
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 21, 2017
3. Scooplet: @dickclarkprod which produced the Miss America telecast for 3 years obtained the same emails in August. They went to the board of Miss America Organization and were told to pound sand. Dick Clark Productions severed ties immediately. https://t.co/fyv26kDt55
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 21, 2017
4. @GretchenCarlson, a former Miss America, served on the board for a number of years. When she refused @LynnWeidner‘s request to attack former Miss Americas, board member, and DC connector Tammy @haddadmedia, called her a “snake” https://t.co/fyv26kDt55 pic.twitter.com/jAetDKzZdD
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 22, 2017
5. @dickclarkprod just issued this statement confirming my reporting. They obtained some of the same emails I did months ago. They presented them to the board and current board of Miss America did nothing.
Link to my story: https://t.co/fyv26kDt55 pic.twitter.com/ypcSqZXVMn
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 22, 2017
6. I just received this statement from @GretchenCarlson in response to the revelations in my story. https://t.co/fyv26kDt55 pic.twitter.com/bEolhoN8lp
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 22, 2017
7. Today Show segment about my story pic.twitter.com/GuwnJ80YHh
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 22, 2017
Action was immediately taken by Dick Clark Productions, which produces the live telecast of the show – they’ve cut ties with the Miss America Organization.
The board members also spoke ill of the women. In 2014, board member Tammy Haddad spoke about some of the former Miss America winners as a “pile of malcontents and has-beens who blame the program for not getting them where they think they can go.” Some particularly vulgar language was used against 2013 winner Mallory Hagan.
“Mallory’s preparing for her new career…as a blimp in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade,” wrote lead telecast writer Lewis Friedman. “As she continues to destroy her own credibility, her voice will attract less and less notice while she continues her descent to an unhappy pathetic footnote… Ps. Are we four the only ones not to have [slept with] Mallory?”
“It appears we are the only ones!” replied Haskell.
In 2015, Haskell felt that Hagan was trying to personally sabotage him, so he informally banned her from coaching any future Miss America contestants. Shortly after this, Hagan’s coaching business flopped.
TV commentator and 1989 Miss American winner Gretchen Carlson was also mentioned in the emails. She was on the board of directors for many years, but experienced a falling out when she refused to speak ill of other contestants. Haddad apparently called her a “snake” at the time.
Carlson tweeted in the wake of the scandal that she is “shocked and deeply saddened” by the content of the emails. #ResignNow was added at the end of her message.
“As a proud former Miss America and former member of the Board of the Miss America Organization, I am shocked and deeply saddened by the disgusting statements about women attributed to the leadership of the MAO. No woman should be demeaned with such vulgar slurs.” #ResignNow
“As a proud former Miss America and former member of the Board of the Miss America Organization, I am shocked and deeply saddened by the disgusting statements about women attributed to the leadership of the MAO. No woman should be demeaned with such vulgar slurs.” #ResignNow https://t.co/2nWvl45vQo
— Gretchen Carlson (@GretchenCarlson) December 22, 2017
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