Rehabbed and embattled Miss USA Tara Conner passes on her crown and officially ends her reign Friday evening. 51 contestants will parade around the stage on ABD broadcast of the 2007 Miss USA pageant, showing brains, beauty, and all their surgically enhanced assets for America to see.

Tara Conner will be a hard act to follow, since most of the US now recognizes her name after bouts of underage drinking, drugs, debauchery, and a publicised verbal spanking by Donald Trump, followed by a stint in rehab.

She told "Access Hollywood" this week she thought the pageant would benefit from her experience.

"I think it is going to bring out a whole different era of people. The new girl will bring a new flavor to the title, just like I brought a very strange flavor to the title," Conner told the television show.

She may also reveal some of the six tattoos that she was told by pageant officials to cover up. "It's me. They're cute. That is the great thing even now. They (pageant officials) are so accepting of me and it is like this huge family," she added.

It remains to be seen if Conner will garner the success of former beauty queen Vanessa Williams, or if she will fall quietly out of sight of the public eye.

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