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Hannah Montana Winner Rethinks Sharing

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By SARAH HOYE, The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 17, 2007

TAMPA - Sometimes a deal just isn't a deal.

On Wednesday, after clinging to a statue of Hannah Montana for more than 150 hours, Jody Powell of Port Charlotte was declared the winner of the WFLZ, 93.3 FM, contest.

Lara Padgett of Tampa let go of the statue while adjusting her T-shirt.

Powell said then he would share the prize with Padgett. Powell would get the four tickets to Monday's show, Padgett would get the backstage passes, and they would split $5,000.

By Friday the deal was off.

"I was planning on sticking to it until I heard her talking trash about me on the news," Powell, a handler at Green Acres Bird Farm in Fort Myers, said in a telephone interview from his home. "I'm not sure what's going on right now."

On the air Friday with radio show host Todd "MJ" Schnitt, Powell said he would keep the contest tickets and the $5,000 and give Padgett the backstage passes.

Later in the day, even that had changed.

"I'm still undecided if she gets the meet-n-greets on Monday," he said Friday afternoon.

Padgett says she didn't say anything bad regarding Powell to anyone.

"I was totally shocked by him. I don't disrespect anybody," she said Friday.

Schnitt said he's staying out of it.

"I decided that I was not going to be a part of any deal brokering; that's in their hands," he said. "Jody is the definitive clear-cut winner."

Either way, Padgett is still going to the show.

Before beginning the Hannah Monstrosity contest, she had paid $1,000 for four tickets to the show. Monday, when more concert tickets went on sale, her cousin was able to purchase four more.

"He can have the tickets, and we don't need the money. Hopefully, this can help him," she said. "I wish this was done with."

Reporter Sarah Hoye can be reached at (813) 259-7832 or shoye@tampatrib.com.

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