Associated Press & KDRV Staff
 
June 10, 2009
 
LOS ANGELES -- It's official: Controversial Miss California Carrie Prejean has heard the words "you're fired" from the pageant's grand poobah, Donald Trump.
 
Trump issued a statement Wednesday saying he sacked Prejean for failing to honor her commitments as Miss California USA.
 
Pageant officials say Tami Farrell, the first runner-up to Prejean in the Miss California USA competition will take over those responsibilities. Farrell, crowned Miss Teen USA in 2003, was born in Southern Oregon and grew up in Phoenix.
 
Prejean created controversy during the Miss USA competition, where she was first runner-up, when she answered a judge's question about gay marriage by saying marriage should be reserved for men and women.