Miss England 2024, Milla Maggie, certainly one of many contestants inside the ongoing Miss World 2025 pageant, has withdrawn midway. Organisers said that she has a family emergency involving her mother’s effectively being. Read on to know additional.

New Delhi:

Miss England 2024, Milla Magee, certainly one of many contestants inside the ongoing Miss World 2025 pageant, has withdrawn midway attributable to a “reported” family emergency, said the organisers on Saturday. Following her departure, Charlotte Grant, the first runner-up of Miss England, stepped in to characterize her nation.

Grant arrived in India on Wednesday and has been a part of the Miss World sisterhood. A press launch from the organisers said, “Earlier this month, Milla Maggie requested to leave the competition due to a reported family emergency involving her mother’s health. As a mother and grandmother herself, Julia Morley CBE, Chairwoman of Miss World, responded to Milla’s situation with compassion and immediately arranged her return to England, placing the well-being of the contestant and her family first.”

Citing some UK media opinions, Julia Morley said the statements allegedly made by Magee regarding her experience in India are “false and defamatory.”

“These claims are completely unfounded and inconsistent with the reality of her time with us,” Morley said.

When Magee withdrew from the competitors, she said, “It’s stuck in the past. Morally I couldn’t be a part of it.” She extra said that she “felt like a prostitute” and was “farmed out for entertainment” by the pageant organisers.

In response, the Miss World Organisation is releasing unedited films recorded all through Milla’s maintain in India, throughout which she expresses gratitude, pleasure, and appreciation for the experience. These films mirror her private phrases and sentiments, and performance a direct contradiction to the most recent false narratives, the assertion said.

Miss World stays devoted to actuality, dignity, and the values of “Beauty With a Purpose”, it added. The Miss World 2025 pageant kicked off with a grand ceremony in Hyderabad on May 10 and may proceed until May 31, which will also be the grand finale of the event.

(With PTI inputs)

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