{"id":1703123,"date":"2022-10-20T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703123"},"modified":"2022-10-20T07:48:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:48:54","slug":"miss-usa-organizers-suspended-by-miss-universe-after-scandal-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miss-usa-organizers-suspended-by-miss-universe-after-scandal-erupts\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss USA Organizers Suspended By Miss Universe After Scandal Erupts"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmiss-usa-organizers-suspended-by-miss-universe-after-scandal-erupts%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=1703123&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>Miss Universe has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11334377\/EXCL-Miss-Universe-SUSPENDS-Miss-USA-organizers-amid-claims-winner-crowned-unfairly.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspended the organizers of Miss USA<\/a> after a furor erupted following the annual Miss USA pageant.<\/p>\n<p>Contestants in the 2022 Miss USA pageant received an email from Miss Universe CEO Amy Emmerich informing them that Miss Brand, which runs the pageant, has been suspended from the pageant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter thorough deliberation, Miss Universe Organization has decided to suspend Miss Brand immediately,\u201d Emmerich wrote. \u201cMiss Universe will be taking over the Miss USA program while a comprehensive third-party investigation is conducted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appreciative of the cooperation we\u2019ve seen from Miss USA Director Crystle Stewart as we work through this process,\u201d Emmerich added.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, the director of Miss Brand and the winner of Miss USA in 2008 before starting to run the pageant in 2020, has come under fire after contestants alleged that the pageant favored the eventual winner, Miss Texas, R\u2019Bonney Gabriel. After Gabriel\u2019s victory was announced and she walked around the stage, other contestants, in an unprecedented move, walked off the stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see them exiting the stage before she even turns around. All of them. Not one of them stays on stage to congratulate her or run and hug her,\u201d former contestant Jasmine Jones\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@callmejas0\/video\/7150795496850804014?is_copy_url=1&#038;is_from_webapp=v1&#038;item_id=7150795496850804014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>\u00a0in a TikTok video. \u201cIn my pageantry opinion, something was off about that. In my ten years as a contestant, I\u2019ve never seen the girls walk off stage and not congratulate the girls that\u2019s won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am at a loss of words since it goes to show there were many signs that the winner was already predetermined and myself, amongst all my other sisters, weren\u2019t even given the chance to lose,\u201d Alexandra Lakhman, Miss New Jersey wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Miss New York, Heather Elley, added, \u201cThe way I entered this pageant and gave it every last bit of my heart and soul. I had limiting beliefs of the outcome and did everything to ignore ALL the signs,\u201d Yahoo News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ph.news.yahoo.com\/miss-usa-contestants-allege-pageant-rigged-favor-fil-am-queen-052929011.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJ2wN-GC-LvteCbAy2M2Qon46MRKHocdjk0TO21ISZT8Kwj07maxqoXu_Kn_rOBXxYy5a2YgubHI3BkctXemKnJLhgwmLIX6N_sE2kGl6C-HNaLb_Mx-KtRxTflH7FXCKRM64l77bztTFSnXbEpmZaAE5IC7k9m6MCmaIs2xx4M5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Missouri, Mikala McGhee, claimed Gabriel\u2019s victory had been preordained because she is a Filipina-American, and the Filipina community has a large pageant fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that [Miss USA] are in a state where they are trying to revamp and re-glamorize pageantry here in the United States, because we\u2019ve been seeing a constant drop off in enrollment\u00a0for pageants, and not just in the Miss USA system,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot to say that Gabriel couldn\u2019t have gone out here and won this on her own, but I think that she was a Houstonian \u2014 everyone, again, from the Miss Brand \u2026 and most from Miss USA Organization, including Crystle herself, are from Houston. They\u2019re Houston natives,\u201d McGhee continued.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Montana, Heather Lee O\u2019Keefe, agreed; she told The Daily Mail of an \u201cinherent bias\u201d for pageant entrants from Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a big issue that a lot of us are trying to bring light to is the fact [Stewart] owns so much of the organization. She owns the main organization, Miss USA, and she also owns the main sponsor of the organization which is a big issue we all have with it,\u201d O\u2019Keefe stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I heard] they were saying that there was a sabotage list, or that R\u2019Bonney has already been preselected to win,\u201d McGhee said. \u201cI was completely ignoring it, because I was like this is a competition. I get it, you know. Stress can be high, you know, it becomes a little bit of like the intimidation factor. Are you trying to throw people off their game?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know I was really looking at it kind of from a sports world perspective,\u201d she continued. \u201cBut again, when you get there, and you start seeing some of the behavior that was displayed at Miss USA week, you know it made me take a step back, and really kind of reconsider. Well, what really was going on was, were these rumors true? And if so, why are we wasting our time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I know was that there was clear and convincing favoritism toward her in the competition and leading up to the competition. She received more resources than we did. That is the root of the issue,\u201d O\u2019Keefe claimed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/miss-usa-pageant-accused-of-rigging-competition-after-non-winners-walk-off-stage\/\">Miss USA Pageant Accused Of Rigging Competition After Non-Winners Walk Off Stage<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Universe has suspended the organizers of Miss USA after a furor erupted following the annual Miss USA pageant. Contestants in the 2022 Miss USA pageant received an email from Miss Universe CEO Amy Emmerich informing them that Miss Brand, which runs the pageant, has been suspended from the pageant. \u201cAfter thorough deliberation, Miss Universe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703123","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}