A new Miss USA will be crowned Sunday night after a series of controversies last year with the beauty pageant organization, including a breakup with former owner Donald Trump and the mistaken crowning of Miss Universe. Fifty-two contestants will participate in the 2016 Miss USA ...
From Philippines, Miss Universe winner says her next dream is to be a Bond girl
The reigning Miss Universe has her eyes set on her next big dream: being a Bond girl. Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach returned home to the Philippines for the first time since her crowning — and that awkward moment when host Steve Harvey mistakenly crowned Miss Colombia ...
Miss Universe crown fiasco was humiliating, Miss Colombia says
The Colombian beauty queen who was briefly crowned Miss Universe is making the best of what she calls a humiliating situation. Ariadna Gutierrez told Colombia's W radio Wednesday that no one can take away the four minutes during which she wore the crown. Gutierrez was accidentally ...
NBC said Monday that it is ending its business relationship with mogul and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump because of comments he made about Mexican immigrants during the announcement of his campaign. NBC said it would no longer air the annual Miss USA and Miss ...
Univision pulls plug on Miss USA pageant after candidate Trump's Mexico slur
Univision, the largest Spanish-language television network in the United States, said on Thursday it would not air the Miss USA pageant, which is co-owned by Donald Trump, because of what it called insulting remarks made by Trump about Mexican immigrants. During his speech last week ...
Meeting Miss Universe Japan, the 'half' who has it all
Progress occurs when people of substance assume the mantle of leadership, and it appears Ariana Miyamoto is equal to the task.
Multiracial Miss Universe Japan hopes to change homeland's thinking on identity
Ariana Miyamoto hadn't planned to enter a Japanese beauty contest because she figured her multiracial origins meant she couldn't win. Then a close multiracial friend committed suicide. So Miyamoto, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an African-American man, whose bronze skin and height of ...
Deaf woman helps hearing-impaired 'break out of shell'
A beauty pageant contestant, model and aspiring entrepreneur — who happens to be deaf — recently organized a fashion show to offer hearing-impaired people an outlet to express themselves. Saki Oshiro, 26, who lost her hearing when she was 1, supervised every aspect of the ...
