Miss World Betting Odds

Miss World Betting Odds

The first Miss World contest was held in 1951. The competition was founded by Eric Morley, and it was the first major international beauty pageant. However, while it was dubbed Miss World, it was anything but as 20 of the first 26 entrants were British. Despite a weighted field favoring a British woman winning the inaugural competition, Kiki Hakansson of Sweden was the first winner of the famous beauty pageant.

It wasn’t until 1953 that Miss World only allowed one entrant per nation. In that year, London citizens gathered to watch 15 women from around the world compete for the title, and the number of entrants has grown almost exponentially since that point. The last Miss World saw entrants from 111 nations take the stage, but the 2020 Miss World competition is under threat of being cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic.

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The very first Miss World was a glorified swimsuit contest, and the winner was crowned while wearing a swimsuit for each of the contest’s first 25 years. It wasn’t until 1976 that evening gowns became the go-to attire, and the competition has further evolved since that point. In 1980, the format grew to make Miss World more than just a looks-based pageant, as there were personality and intelligence tests added to go along with a new slogan, “Beauty with a Purpose”. That slogan has been used in conjunction with Miss World since that point.

Accordingly, there are other smaller competitions that run alongside Miss World now. There is a Beauty with a Purpose portion of the competition where contestants highlight a charity project in their nation, a talent show, and a modeling segment

Miss World Winners

India and Venezuela have each seen six of their women be crowned Miss World, making these two countries the most successful in this competition. Four different contestants from India won the competition in a seven-year stretch from 1994 to 2000 (highlighted by the incomparable Aishwarya Rai), while Venezuela’s winners have been more spread out since Susana Duijm became the first South American to win Miss World in 1955.

Three women have been forced to give up the crown, but we haven’t seen that happen in this competition since 1980. The first American to win (Marjorie Wallace) was stripped of her title due to some sensationalized scandals in the tabloids, and first runner-up Evangeline Pascual refused to replace her. The very next year, Helen Morgan was forced to resign after tabloids ran scurrilous stories about her having a child out of wedlock, and Gabriella Brum was only Miss World for a day in 1980 after the media discovered nude photos of Brum in a magazine.

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