The owners of the Miss World pageant have announced that there will be no swimsuit round in next year’s competition. In an interview withElle, chairwoman Julia Morley explained:‘I really… don’t need to see women just walking up and down in bikinis. It doesn’t do anything for the woman. And it doesn’t do anything for any of us. I don’t care if someone has a bottom two inches bigger than someone else’s. We are really not looking at her bottom. We are really listening to her speak.’
Miss World, which was founded in 1951 by Mrs Morley’s late husband Eric, started as a contest dedicated exclusively to swimwear called the Festival Bikini Contest. But recently, she has come to feel that the swimsuit round is archaic and unnecessary. As such, the pageant has elected not to broadcast the bikini portion of the show in recent years, judging the girls privately in front of a small panel instead.
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