Many fans were taken aback when Miss Universe CEO Anne Jakrajutatip declared that the pageant didn’t need to change any further because they “already got the best” with Victoria Kjaer Theilvig, who took home the title on November 16, 2024.
“We’re coming to the ultimate evolution already,” the CEO responded when a reporter inquired about her plans for Miss Universe’s progression. In that said statement Anne Jakrajutatip noted “We have blond and blue eyes.” The CEO further noted, “We don’t need any more evolution here.”
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The Miss Universe first runner-up, Chidimma Adetshina, who became the first Miss Nigeria to rank in the top five, told Business Insider that she was unfazed by the criticism of Jakrajutatip’s remarks from those in the pageant world.
“I’m not really offended by it,” she shared. “Maybe that’s just her perspective; maybe that’s how she felt about the evolution of Miss Universe.”
Adetshina went on to express her disappointment with Donald Trump Jr.’s comments on the pageant.
On November 18, Jakrajutatip and Raul Rocha, co-owner of the Miss Universe organization, posted a statement that Trump Jr. wrote on X on their Instagram sites, stating, “Biological & objectively attractive women are allowed to win beauty pageants again. WE ARE SO BACK.”
Adetshina told reporters, “All the queens that were crowned are so beautiful in their own different ways, so for him to make a comment like that, I feel like he was disregarding all the past queens.”
She added, “I can understand why people didn’t really like a comment like that and why it was causing a spark on social media.”
