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SU student to host Caribbean beauty pageant
By Ivy Tan
Posted: 11/20/08, 11:59 PM EST Section: Feature
"I thought it was fascinating how I can watch 50 women on television walking around in their swimsuits. I really don't know what sparked it (the fascination with beauty pageants), but I like it because it's something that year after year, I can predict who wins. So it's like challenging myself to see if I'm right or wrong," Smith said.
When Smith was 13 years old, he started his own Web site where he posted interviews he conducted with various pageant winners and contestants. The interviews were published in a monthly newsletter for beauty pageants he started called "Final Issue."
The interviews, including one with Miss USA 2002, Shauntay Hinton, can still be viewed on the Web site at finalissue.tripod.com.
"We had two lines in the house, and I would pick up the other line to make sure he was interviewing the person he said he was supposed to interview. And he really was interviewing her," Smith's mother, Mary Rodriguez, said.
The pageant that Smith will host this summer is owned by the Theodore Elyett Production company. The company's president and founder, Theodore Sealy, wrote in a message that he was busy with Fashion Week at the time of this story, so he would be
unavailable for an interview.
"I don't like people getting in between what I like to do and what I want to do. And if that means I have to put up a front, I'm going to put it on, because I don't want people messing around with my goals and dreams. Sometimes, those are things I have to protect," Smith said.
When Smith received tickets to this month's Woodie Awards, mtvU's annual music awards, he said he would bring his friend Luke to attend the show. He will also be wearing an outfit designed by Leilani Maldonado, a fashion design freshman and close friend.
"He lets people in, at least to a certain
part. That's the first layer of Terrance, and when you have more experiences with him, you start to know him better and you get another layer," Maldonado said.
When Smith was 13 years old, he started his own Web site where he posted interviews he conducted with various pageant winners and contestants. The interviews were published in a monthly newsletter for beauty pageants he started called "Final Issue."
The interviews, including one with Miss USA 2002, Shauntay Hinton, can still be viewed on the Web site at finalissue.tripod.com.
"We had two lines in the house, and I would pick up the other line to make sure he was interviewing the person he said he was supposed to interview. And he really was interviewing her," Smith's mother, Mary Rodriguez, said.
The pageant that Smith will host this summer is owned by the Theodore Elyett Production company. The company's president and founder, Theodore Sealy, wrote in a message that he was busy with Fashion Week at the time of this story, so he would be
unavailable for an interview.
"I don't like people getting in between what I like to do and what I want to do. And if that means I have to put up a front, I'm going to put it on, because I don't want people messing around with my goals and dreams. Sometimes, those are things I have to protect," Smith said.
When Smith received tickets to this month's Woodie Awards, mtvU's annual music awards, he said he would bring his friend Luke to attend the show. He will also be wearing an outfit designed by Leilani Maldonado, a fashion design freshman and close friend.
"He lets people in, at least to a certain
part. That's the first layer of Terrance, and when you have more experiences with him, you start to know him better and you get another layer," Maldonado said.
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Allie Duggan
posted 11/26/08 @ 3:46 PM EST
Terrance,
YOu are amazing!!!!!!!
Work it!
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