Plus... she's Welsh, not British...

She was IN America, so she qualifies. It's not called "perfect AMERICAN teen" it's "America's Perfect teen"

She's a teen and she's in America... It says nothing about being "American".

And if citizenship was a qualification for the contest, she should have never been allowed to enter. Since she was, I guess it's the other contestants' faults for not being good enough teens. (I don't imagine the girl was trying to mask her accent and "pretend to be an American")

Was anyone else disgusted by the video that showed these teenage girls parading around in bikinis and high heels? What sort of pedophile thinks of these things? I say get rid of the entire competition. It's disgusting.

Apparently Mr. Galanes is a business man and knew that this would get a lot of publicity for his pageant. I don't agree with this decisions. The girls should have been informed of this before paying the $1000 entry! What a friggin waste of money and time. It was purely political. Burn me once.....

She won.

One of the problems is if you don't agree with or 'love' Americans--------they hate you.

It's in their genes.

Miss Panesar won fair and square. Congratulations! The tile of the pageant is ambiguous; the name should be "The Best Teen in Florida....today" or they should change the rules and cut out the fine print, because it is obvious the participants were unaware of the .....un-rule? Folks don't hate the palyer.....just hate the game.

She won fair and square,they let her enter and she won.If there were no rules then she got if fairly

What I find COMPLETELY hilarious are the few "short comments" about why you selected yes or no...there are some people who must be delusional! Some people are putting that she is obviously a better role model than our own teens...In what alternate galaxy do you know this girl to say she is a better role model. To me she is SCREAMING spoiled, rich, snot who feels entitled to whatever she wants whenever she wants it due to the fact she would even ATTEMPT to enter, much less actually go through with it, any competition that is clearly marked AMERICA'S .... (fill in the blank). I would never travel to any other country and then enter a competition that was clearly marked "Canada's", "Wales", "Ireland", etc as the title. And for that matter, if I didn't NEED the scholarship, or prize to be won, I would leave it to someone that DID need it. Just because she wants to giggle and laugh with her little friends and say "Those American's are so stupid, they called me America's Teen and I'm not even American" that's wrong

Oh, and to you annoying people who say "it isn't in the rules"....It may not be in the rules but I am pretty sure the name has already implied it and shouldn't have to be spelled out to stupid people...kinda like the McDonald's coffee cups that say "Caution: Contents Hot"...No crap it's coffee....Caution: those who enter a contest for AMERICA'S Perfect Teen should be American (by birth or LEGAL immigration) DUUUUHHHHH

Why do we, as American's, always have to put things in fine print for dumb people...If it says it in the title, that's what it is, COFFEE is hot, Water is slippery when wet, Gravel is always loose unless it is cement (don't need the "Loose Gravel" signs on country roads), and if it says AMERICA'S anything the title should only be available to those that fit the bill....(American for those of you who are too simple minded to understand that)

I think their was money involved and somebody got paid off . And also publicity.

If she fairly qualified per the existing rules and was the best contestant based on the standards of the pageant then she deserved to win and deserves to keep her title, scholarship, tiara, ruby slippers and whatever else she won. It is a contest and she was voted the best by the judges. Perhaps it should just be called "Perfect Teen Pageant" so it isn't misleading to people. I do know that we have rules in this country and when followed you qualify, whether it be for a pageant, a job, college enrollment, sweepstakes, lottery, etc. Follow the rules and you get to play. That is fair. Her win is fair. That is what makes this country so great! The private pageant set the rules and if you don't like them, don't play. Enter a pageant that has rules you do agree with.