Miss Universe Group Responds To ‘Absurd’ Claims Competitors Was ‘Rigged’ In Favor Of Miss USA!

The Miss Universe Group is below fireplace for the pageant winner it picked over the weekend. However the org is responding with as a lot energy as its social media critics are meting out!!!

ICYMI, Miss USA champ and Texas native R’Bonney Gabriel was topped Miss Universe 2022 on Saturday night on the group’s much-anticipated pageant in New Orleans, Louisiana. Venezuela’s Amanda Dudamel and Dominican Republic’s Andreina Martinez took house second and third place, respectively. However nearly instantly after Gabriel’s win, followers began grumbling that one thing should have been amiss!

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For one, many followers on social media identified how the brand new proprietor of Miss Universe, JKN International Group proprietor Anne Jakrajutatip, is additionally the proprietor of the Miss USA pageant. Thus, followers claimed, the association represents a battle of curiosity for the 2 orgs, and Gabriel’s win was unfair.

Different followers on Twitter famous how the 28-year-old Gabriel went over her allotted time whereas answering finalists’ questions through the present. Critics on-line slammed R’Bonney for going previous the bell timer whereas talking through the occasion. And when she received all of it anyhow, followers began questioning whether or not it was rigged in her favor even regardless of the timing mistake!

When you missed it on Saturday night time, you may watch that closing query flub (under):

The conspiracies have been flying throughout social media after that!!

Even Cardi B commented on the pageant! She first tweeted this (under) on Saturday night time because the finalists have been introduced:

Miss Dominican Republic ….GOD PLEASEE !!!!!????????????????

— Cardi B (@iamcardib) January 15, 2023

Then, lower than an hour later, R’Bonney was topped the champ.

Cardi adopted it up together with her personal clear present of disbelief over the Texan’s Miss Universe crown:

How ? pic.twitter.com/G2JIQ17DxS

— Cardi B (@iamcardib) January 15, 2023

And she or he wasn’t the one one!! All day on Sunday, followers have been calling out Gabriel’s surprising Miss Universe win. In truth, it’s gotten so contentious on Twitter that the Miss Universe Group has now felt the necessity to weigh in!

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In a press release launched to The Solar on Monday afternoon, a Miss Universe spokesperson slammed followers who selected to criticize the present’s Saturday night time outcomes. Referencing the pageant’s proprietor Jakrajutatip — who’s a transgender lady — the org delivered this robust assertion in regards to the outcomes:

“Saturday’s competitors was the primary time a trans lady addressed followers because the proprietor of Miss Universe. It was additionally the primary time a Filipina American took the crown. The false rigging allegations are absurd and distract from the unbelievable milestones our group and the delegates skilled this weekend.”

The assertion went on from there, too:

“As a substitute of specializing in unfounded statements, we are going to proceed to shine a light-weight on world ladies’s empowerment, inclusiveness, range, and transformational management.”

So there (half one)!

And that’s not all, both. The chief government officer of the Miss Universe group is now immediately talking out in regards to the outcomes, as nicely.

CEO Amy Emmerich, who runs the pageant below Jakrajutatip’s lead, spoke to TMZ on Monday night. In her assertion, Emmerich explicitly denied any rigging of the competitors passed off. As a substitute, she stated, a third-party accounting agency dealt with the outcomes independently from the Miss Universe employees:

“One of many prime 4 accounting companies in the USA dealt with the outcomes and verified the method.”

Emmerich went on from there, including one other denial about any shady connections between Miss USA and Miss Universe:

“The allegations re: rigging of Miss Universe are false. Folks saying that it’s ‘suspect’ that JKN International Group owns each Miss Universe and Miss USA aren’t acquainted with the historical past of the organizations.”

So there (half two)!!

The loopy factor right here is that this isn’t even the primary pageant controversy involving Gabriel! As Perezcious readers will recall, again in October, R’Bonney was accused of successful a rigged Miss USA competitors. That present acquired her into the Miss Universe area within the first place. So the historical past right here is juicy!

In that October controversy, different Miss USA contestants spoke out about alleged favoritism in the direction of R’Bonney. Miss Montana’s Heather Lee O’Keefe claimed on social media that “many of the Miss USA contestants really feel very strongly that there was favoritism in the direction of Miss Texas USA and we now have the receipts to show it.” However each R’Bonney and Miss USA denied these allegations then — they usually’re denying these new allegations now!

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Both manner, Gabriel now turns into the primary American lady to win Miss Universe since 2011, when Olivia Culpo took house the crown. That’s a giant achievement!

Do y’all suppose her win was honest and sq., tho, Perezcious readers??

Sound OFF along with your tackle the controversy down within the feedback (under)!!!

[Image via Miss Universe/YouTube]