Miss World 2023 pageant to be held in India after 27 years

Miss World 2023 pageant to be held in India after 27 years

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Category : Awards Published on: June 12 2023

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  • Four months after announcing the UAE would host Miss World 2023, organisers of the long-running beauty competition have finalised India as the host country for the pageant.
  • The 71st edition of Miss World is expected to take place in November this year in India.
  • India has hosted the Miss World pageant before, in 1996, in Bangalore, where Greece's Irene Skliva won the title.
  • India has won the prestigious title six times -Reita Faria (1966), Aishwarya Rai (1994), Diana Hayden (1997), Yukta Mookhey (1999), Priyanka Chopra (2000), and Manushi Chillar (2017).
  • Miss World 2022 was held in March last year in Puerto Rico, where Bielawska was crowned, beating runners-up Miss USA Shree Saini, and Ivory Coast's Olivia Yace, who was favourite to win.
  • Bielawska made history by becoming only the second Polish beauty queen to win the title.
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