The lovely Miss California, Leah Cecil is in the news today.
We know and love Leah, and the one thing we know is that she is a wonderful, smart and articulate young lady who has a GREAT sense of humor about herself. That's a good thing because...while she didn't win the Miss America pageant, she is getting a lot of attention for something she said.
During a 20/20 broadcast of "Pageant Confidential", a special about the long road followed by Miss America contestants, they showed a clip of Leah practicing for the competition’s Q&A portion.
According to Media Bistro, Later in the program, ABC ran the full clip of this sequence. The male questioner in fact wanted to know her feelings about the idea of euthanasia being legalized, whereupon Cecil prefaced her answer with: “That’s actually one thing I’m not very educated on, so I need to look up on exactly what that means, but…” Afterwards, she told reporter Lara Spencer that she felt “so dumb, so idiotic…”
Chalk it up to nervousness. Per a write-up this weekend in the Garden Grove Journal, the 22-year-old professional harpist is no dummy:
A graduate of California State University, Fullerton, Cecil plans to get a Master’s degree in business and wants to teach music at the college level…
What’s more, when Cecil won the Golden State title last summer, Miss California president and CEO Bob Arnhym raved that “she has remarkable poise, she’s extremely attractive, she’s highly intelligent and she’s also quite articulate.” She also appears to have a solid sense of humor:
