{"id":1103236,"date":"2021-12-09T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103236"},"modified":"2021-12-09T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:28:53","slug":"dozens-of-camels-disqualified-from-saudi-beauty-pageant-for-botox-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-of-camels-disqualified-from-saudi-beauty-pageant-for-botox-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant for Botox Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdozens-of-camels-disqualified-from-saudi-beauty-pageant-for-botox-use%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103236&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Organizers of a camel beauty pageant taking place near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this week <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/gulf\/2021\/12\/08\/Saudi-camel-beauty-pageant-clamps-down-on-Botox-cheats\">disqualified<\/a> at least 43 participants on Tuesday for altering their camel contestants\u2019 appearance \u201cin various ways including injecting Botox into their lips,\u201d Al Arabiya reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther methods of manipulation included using rubber bands to distort body parts, and using gel implants,\u201d according to the Dubai-based news site.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe stakes are high, as competition winners can take home a total of $66 million (250 million Saudi riyal) in prize money, and private sales can fetch millions of dollars,\u201d Al Arabiya observed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8423076923077\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICYMI: Organizers of the King Abdulaziz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Camel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Camel<\/a> Festival carry out the biggest bust of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Botox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Botox<\/a> cheats in the event\u2019s six-edition history, according to the official SPA news agency.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FBmMNd6bpm\">https:\/\/t.co\/FBmMNd6bpm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlArabiya_Eng\/status\/1468513180158771200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Camel Club organized this year\u2019s King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, which launched on December 1 just outside of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital and financial center. The event\u2019s organizers told the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on December 8 \u201cthe high number of violators found\u201d serves as evidence of the Camel Club\u2019s \u201cstrength and strictness\u201d in combating efforts to cheat during the competition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Camels competing in the King Abdulaziz beauty pageant must undergo a number of rigorous evaluations before they may be considered finalists for the contest\u2019s million-dollar prizes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamels are inspected visually for desirable traits that include gait and physical proportions before undergoing X-rays, ultrasound tests, and genetic analysis,\u201d Saudi Arabia\u2019s Camel Club told SPA on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Camels competing in the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-42802901\">accused<\/a> of Botox tampering since at least 2018, according to the BBC:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the lead up to the festival, Saudi media reported that a vet had been caught giving camels plastic surgery including Botox injections and reducing the size of their ears,\u201d the British broadcaster reported of the event in January 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The discovery led pageant organizers to disqualify roughly one dozen camel contestants for appearance tampering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey use Botox for the lips, the nose, the upper lips, the lower lips and even the jaw,\u201d Ali Al Mazrouei, 31, the son of a top Emirati camel breeder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/gcc\/saudi-camel-beauty-festival-12-entrants-disqualified-for-botox-use-1.698068\">told<\/a> the <em>National<\/em> on January 23.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19070850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-660214192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19070850 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-660214192-1024x685-1.jpg\" alt=\"A Saudi boy poses for a photo with a camel at the annual King Abdulazziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 150 kilometres east of Riyadh, on March 29, 2017. The 28-day King Abdulaziz Camel Festival features a camel beauty contest, known as Miss Camel with prizes amounting to $30 million. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A Saudi boy poses for a photo with a camel at the annual King Abdulazziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 150 kilometres east of Riyadh, on March 29, 2017.<\/em><br \/><em> The 28-day King Abdulaziz Camel Festival features a camel beauty contest, known as Miss Camel with prizes amounting to $30 million. (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh look at how big is that head is. It has big lips, a big nose,&#8217;\u201d he explained to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)-based newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat distinguishes a beautiful camel is not just its height, shape and the placement of its hump,\u201d the <em>National <\/em>noted at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA full, droopy lip and large features are essential to achieving camel celebrity-status in the multi-million dollar industry of camel pageantry,\u201d the publication detailed.<\/p>\n<p>The Camel Club describes the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival as \u201cthe world\u2019s largest\u201d camel beauty pageant. The event has convened since 2017 as \u201can annual cultural, economic, sports and entertainment festival in Saudi Arabia under royal patronage,\u201d according to the event\u2019s state-run website.<\/p>\n<p>The King Abdulaziz Camel Festival aims to \u201cconsolidate and strengthen the camel heritage in the Saudi, Arab and Islamic culture and provide a cultural, tourist, sports, leisure and economic destination for camels and their heritage,\u201d the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.my.gov.sa\/wps\/portal\/snp\/content\/events\/eventsDetails\/CONT-events-11022019%203\/!ut\/p\/z1\/jZFbT4NAEIX_ii880p3hZvUNoVYxsBIK4r4YMFsgoSyBtaT_3k1rTOql7bzN5DsnM2cIIzlhXbFtqkI2oita1b8y5y14nlvoAtKlBwuIPd-PkyfDgNAhL3sgwgU8oIUULOMeYt93I3uFAWYOYZfovwFq2ncKCK-pm2QIYF-mh3_KhXP6hHckOAepFIwh9MKKsL6Qtd50a0Fyj0YrnW95J0cdERSKN1em2ogd-9FlYCk_TA07yAA8-ws4FdoPh9-p7IETZ6ubqlaUhxe6XWnO1fIDX_OBD7OPQY1rKfvxVgMNpmmaVUJULZ-9i40Gf0lqMUqSH5Ok36RpPu1MaB51Vu6mT08hZNc!\/dz\/d5\/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh\/\">states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event is one of several camel beauty pageants across the Middle East celebrating \u201cthe traditional Bedouin heritage of the Gulf, which placed a high level of importance on the desert-dwelling dromedaries,\u201d according to Al Arabiya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of a camel beauty pageant taking place near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this week disqualified at least 43 participants on Tuesday for altering their camel contestants\u2019 appearance \u201cin various ways &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}