Erin Brady From Connecticut Crowned as 2013 Miss USA

Brady's answer to a question about the U.S.
Supreme Court's decision upholding
widespread DNA tests made her win the beauty
pageant.
Miss
Connecticut
Erin Brady
is officially
the new
Miss USA.
25-year-
old Brady,
who
earned a
finance degree at Central Connecticut State
University and works as a financial accountant,
won the beauty pageant on June 16 in Las
Vegas after giving a convincing answer to a
question about the U.S. Supreme Court's
decision upholding widespread DNA tests.
Brady made it to the Top 5 alongside Miss
Utah Marissa Powel, Miss South Carolina
Megan Pinckney, Miss Illinois Stacie Juries and
Miss Alabama Margaret McCord. Giuliana
Rancic , who co-hosted it along with Nick
Jonas, surprised the final five with her
announcement that Miss Texas Ali Nugent
joined them to make it Top 6, thanks to Twitter
vote.
McCord, who majored in Public Relations at
the University of Alabama, became the first
runner-up after tackling a question about the
government tracking cell phone calls. Fashion
business major Juries was named the second
runner-up after quizzed about irresponsible
drinking. Powel, who is the singer of Geniveve
band, took the third runner-up. Asked about
bikini controversy at a beauty pageant, Nugent
was the fourth runner-up with Pinckney named
as the fifth one.
The Sunday event also crowned Miss Oregon
Gabrielle Neilan, 22, as Miss Congeniality.
Besides being third runner-up, Powell was
announced as Miss Photogenic, and received
$1,000 and a weekend at the Trump Resort in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jonas Brothers and DJ Pauly D performed at the
event, which aired live on NBC. Jonas siblings
sang a medley including "Pom Poms", "First
Time" and new song "Neon" during the
swimsuit competition. Meanwhile, Pauly tore
the stage with his fist-pumping music on the
show called the "Final Look".