MUO proprietor Anne Jakrajutatip (left) and reigning Miss Universe Sheynnis Palacios. Picture: Fb/Anne Jakrajutatip
The Miss Universe pageant could have 120 nations collaborating in its 73rd version this 12 months, shared the worldwide competitors’s proprietor, Anne Jakrajutatip, on social media when she posted a bunch of nationwide administrators who signed up for this 12 months’s contest.
“Our Nationwide Administrators group 2 from the overall of 120 nations world wide! Congratulations! [hands clapping emoji],” she posted on Fb on Friday, April 19.
Jakrajutatip, whose Thai-based conglomerate JKN World Group now shares possession of the Miss Universe Group (MUO) with Mexican agency Legacy Holding, is at present with reigning queen Sheynnis Palacios in China for the titleholder’s Asian tour. They’ve just lately visited Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
The Miss Universe pageant’s greatest haul noticed 94 candidates competing in 2018 in Thailand, when Catriona Grey turned the fourth winner from the Philippines. The annual roster has hovered across the 80s mark, and has by no means crossed over 100 members.
Rival Miss World pageant has at all times been the foremost worldwide competitors that has constantly seen greater than 100 members yearly, and it seems that the Miss Universe competitors is gearing for a similar annual haul.
Even earlier than Palacios and Jakrajutaip launched into the pageant’s Asian tour, the MUO has already introduced modifications within the group after the shock resignation of long-time president Paula Shugart, whose departure she introduced through the 72nd Miss Universe pageant held in El Salvador in November final 12 months.
Osmel Sousa, the Venezuelan queenmaker who propelled his nation to worldwide pageant supremacy with a number of victories in main international competitions, revealed on social media what his particular position in MUO shall be.
“For all those that requested what my place was going to be at @missuniverse, I ship you greetings from #Mexico,” he posted on his Instagram account (@zardebelleza), displaying a photograph of him beside a portrait hanging on the wall, bearing his identify and the title “President Advisor.”
MUO has established an workplace in Mexico after Legacy Holding struck a take care of JKN World group to accumulate half possession of the worldwide pageant group. Sousa will maintain workplace within the North American nation, the place he’s additionally believed to be concerned within the nationwide contest.
Beneath Sousa’s tenure as president of the Miss Venezuela pageant from 1981 to 2018, he was in a position to produce six of the seven Miss Universe winners from the South American nation. He additionally noticed his nation document the primary, and thus far solely, back-to-back victories within the international tilt in 2008 and 2009.
He was additionally answerable for fielding 5 of the six Miss World winners from Venezuela, eight of the 9 Venezuelan Miss Worldwide titleholders, and the 2 Miss Earth queens from the worldwide pageant powerhouse.
Sousa is becoming a member of California-based Filipino entrepreneur Olivia Quido-Co within the MUO, after she was appointed as Vice President for World Partnerships in January. She had additionally earlier assumed the presidency of Miss Universe Skincare and Spa, a subsidiary of the worldwide group.
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Palacios will relinquish her title to her successor on the 73rd Miss Universe pageant, to be held in Mexico later this 12 months. The Philippines’ 2024 consultant shall be chosen on Might 22 in ceremonies that shall be held on the Mall of Asia Enviornment in Pasay Metropolis. The nation at present has 4 winners within the worldwide tilt.
