Miss USA 2013: Erin Brady, Miss Connecticut, Wins

25-year-old Erin Brady, who represented Connecticut in the USA 2013 Pageant has won top honors and she is the new Miss USA. Watch this video where the runners up are announced from last to first, leading up to the big moment when it comes down to Miss Alabama and Miss Connecticut. You can see the girls talking to each other in the last suspenseful moments until Miss Connecticut is crowned the winner. Miss Alabama was whisked out of there before you could blink and Nana Meriwether, Miss USA 2012, who is much taller than Erin, appeared to turn over the crown.

Here are the runners-up, a whole lotta brunettes goin’ on:

First runner-up: Miss Alabama, Mary Margaret McCord

Second: Miss Illinois, Stacie Juris

Third: Miss Utah, Marissa Powell

Fourth: Miss Texas, Ali Nugent

Fifth: Miss South Carolina, Megan Pinckney