The Miss USA Pageant Might Have Been Rigged
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The Miss Universe organization has ordered an independent third-party investigation after several Miss USA 2022 contestants alleged that the pageant was rigged in favor of Miss Texas USA, aka R'Bonney Gabriel. These are the contestants who have spoken up so far: Miss Montana, New York, Alaska, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Heather Lee O'Keefe, aka Miss Montana USA, made a series of viral TikToks about the allegations.
Some of the evidence:
THE CROWNING MOMENT! @MissTXUSA receives the #MissUSA crown from outgoing queen @ellesmithtv 🤩🇺🇸💫 #MissUniverse2022 pic.twitter.com/DASYCs7QdT
- Miss Coronas 🇨🇴 (@miss_coronas) October 4, 2022
It's been a big week for cheating scandals. A chess grandmaster has been accused of cheating at least 100 times, a man was caught cheating in a fishing competition, and Adam Levine and Ned from the Try Guys was caught cheating. On their wives.
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The Miss Universe organization has ordered an independent third-party investigation after several Miss USA 2022 contestants alleged that the pageant was rigged in favor of Miss Texas USA, aka R'Bonney Gabriel. These are the contestants who have spoken up so far: Miss Montana, New York, Alaska, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Heather Lee O'Keefe, aka Miss Montana USA, made a series of viral TikToks about the allegations.
Some of the evidence:
- Miss Texas USA did not seem surprised when she win.
- The remaining contestants walked offstage after her crowning, even though they usually remain onstage to congratulate her.
- The Miss USA Instagram page reposted Miss Texas USA, but no other contestant.
- One of the prizes services by MIA plastic surgery, which is affiliated with NIZUC spas. Less than 24 hours after the pageant, NIZUC posted pictures of Gabriel at their spa -- nine weeks before the pageant happened.
- The founder of MIA, which is one of the pageant's sponsors, posted clips of Gabriel weeks before the pageant.
- Crystle Stewart, one of the owners of the Miss USA organization and a former Miss Texas USA, posted pictures to Instagram of herself doing Gabriel's hair weeks before the pageant. EDIT: someone investigated and this happened after the pageant.
- Crystle Stewart also runs a coaching program called Miss Academy, which coached Gabriel.
- The Miss Universe organization has suspended Crystle Stewart.
THE CROWNING MOMENT! @MissTXUSA receives the #MissUSA crown from outgoing queen @ellesmithtv 🤩🇺🇸💫 #MissUniverse2022 pic.twitter.com/DASYCs7QdT
- Miss Coronas 🇨🇴 (@miss_coronas) October 4, 2022
It's been a big week for cheating scandals. A chess grandmaster has been accused of cheating at least 100 times, a man was caught cheating in a fishing competition, and Adam Levine and Ned from the Try Guys was caught cheating. On their wives.
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