Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppeler was crowned Miss America 2012 last night in Las Vegas after showing off her amazing swimwear figure, singing opera, and promoting her platform: mentoring children of the incarcerated. Though the platform may seem to be a an odd choice for this 23-year-old beauty from Kenosha, Wisconsin, but not after you find out Laura’s father, Jeff Kaeppeler, served 18 months in federal prison for a mail fraud conviction almost ten years ago stemming from his involvement in a Ponzi scheme bilking investor’s out of more than $6 million.

I’m not a smoker and don’t intend to start any time soon. BUT, I think if I had just gone through what it appears that Gemma Arterton has just gone through in this photo, I might start.

Jessica “Red” is the ex-girlfriend and baby’s mother of Wes on the new MTV MMA fighting show Caged! She’s a super gorgeous nursing student with fiery red hair, and a good head on her shoulders. Jessica is from a small Louisiana town called Mendin, where she feels trapped (get it, this show’s title is literal AND metaphorical!)

Red and Wes broke up three months before they started taping the show, and Red thinks Wes uses fighting to escape reality “whenever he has a lot of stress, or any kind of anger . . . he can just go and train.” Without the fighting competition, Red thinks that Wes would be getting in all sorts of trouble.

She and Wes broke up three months before they started taping the show, and Red thinks Wes uses fighting to escape reality “whenever he has a lot of stress, or any kind of anger . . . he can just go and train.” Without the fighting competition, Red thinks that Wes would be getting in all sorts of trouble.