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A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round(s) in the finals.
Winner State/District City Age [2] Awards Talent Notes; 1921: Sept. 8, 1921 Margaret Gorman [3] District of Columbia: Washington: 16 Inter-City Beauty, Amateur: Earned title of "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America" (pageant renamed "Miss America" in 1922) 1922: Sept. 7, 1922 Mary Katherine Campbell [4] [5] Ohio: Columbus: 16
Originally, the pageant presented trophies solely to the contestants who ranked 1st runner-up through 4th runner-up, in addition to the winner. [2] However, as of 2019, the organization began bestowing crowns upon all four of these positions. [3] Additionally, in 2022, they introduced the new title of 5th runner-up for a top 10 finalists. [4]
It was no Miss Mystic Falls, but The CW still put on quite a show with its first-ever televised pageant, the 2023 Miss USA competition. (Spoilers ahead!) Friday’s broadcast of the 72nd annual ...
Miss Teen USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1983, either under the direct management of the Miss Universe Organization, or beginning with the 2021 competition, as a licensed pageant, until the 2022 competition. [1]
The criteria for judging the winner of the pageant allotted 80 percent to physical beauty, leaving just 20 percent to be divided evenly between personality and intelligence. [6] Bediones later defended San Miguel, saying "I admire her for not buckling under the pressure and for being as blatantly honest as possible".
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. [1] Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", [2] the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: Private Interview (30%) – a 10-minute press conference-style interview with a panel of judges, On Stage Question (10%) – answering a judge's question ...
Her 'everywhere, like, such as ...' commentary made pageant contestant Caitlin Upton a viral sensation more than a decade ago in 2007. Then and Now: Caitlin Upton, Miss South Carolina Teen USA ...