Amere three weeks after Mallory Hagan tap-danced her way to the Miss America crown — becoming the first Miss New York to do so in nearly 30 years — she was ushered to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.
The 24-year-old, who for two years waited tables at swanky Lure Fishbar in SoHo before winning the title, was attending a press conference when she suddenly came face-to-face with one of the restaurant's A-list customers — Beyoncé.
"We caught her coming out of a door," recalls Hagan, a native of tiny Opelika, Ala., who moved to New York in 2008. "A photographer said, 'Hey Beyoncé! Would you like to meet the newly crowned Miss America?' "
When she's not wearing gowns, Mallory Hagan is a sneakers-and-jeans kind of gal.
On Mallory
Woolrich John Rich & Bros. T-shirt, $105 at woolrich.it
Kelly Wearstler skirt, $350 at neimanmarcus.com
"Carino" cardigan, $143 at supertrash.com
"Luca" booties, $495 at marchezvous.com
"Shelby" frames, $65 at lookmatic.com
"No Sleep Till Brooklyn" bangle, $88 at katespade.com
The pop star happily obliged. It was then that Hagan casually mentioned the pair had met before — under far less glamorous circumstances.
"I said, 'I waited on you at Lure Fishbar.' She said, 'OMG! I love that place,' and I said, 'Yeah, I know. You eat our fish and chips!' " says Hagan in a raspy lilt reminiscent of actress Emma Stone.
"And then immediately I was thinking, 'Shut up! Stop talking!' " she adds with a self-deprecating eye roll.
Therein lies the beauty of Hagan: Though she has a decade of pageant experience on her résumé, you won't mistake her for a grown-up version of the terrors you see on "Toddlers & Tiaras."
The curvy, 5-foot-6 blonde is now about 60 days into the job. And while she no longer has a full-time residence here, she continues to check items off her NYC bucket list — from cutting the ribbon at the reopening of the Fairway in Red Hook to singing the national anthem at a Barclays Center Nets game.
"It's a tough balance, because you want to be as real and relatable as possible, but it's not about you. It's about representing the organization as a whole," says Hagan, adding, "I love it . . . but I knew it was a job, and it was going to be long hours."
Her Miss America duties include traveling the country to speak out against childhood sexual abuse and doing meet-and-greets. She's currently single, and lives mainly out of hotels, having packed up her Windsor Terrace apartment when she nabbed the crown. (She currently stores her belongings in the home of a woman on the board of Miss America.)
This particular day, Hagan's morning started with a meeting with Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. There, she filmed a public service announcement to raise awareness of child sex abuse (her personal platform), read to children and finally arrived at The Post's Midtown offices for a photo shoot.
Despite her rising star, she remains refreshingly sound-bite-free. She has publicly struggled with her weight and hasn't forgotten her humble Big Apple roots, which started not with a hipster-approved pad in Williamsburg but with a South Brooklyn apartment at the tail end of the F train.
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