Priyanka Chopra won the Miss World beauty pageant in 2000, and twenty-two years, her co-competitor accused her win as 'rigged'. Check out to know more!
Bollywood actress-turned-Hollywood diva, Priyanka Chopra is enjoying the most beautiful phase of her life. However, she started her journey into the world of glam and glitz with a beauty pageant. Yes, Priyanka won the Miss World title in the year 2000. And after twenty-two years, her co-competitor, Leilani McConney claimed that her win was rigged.
For the unversed, Miss Barbados 2000 and now YouTuber, Leilani McConney hurled some serious allegations on Priyanka Chopra and then-Indian sponsor, Zee TV of favouritism and the winner being already decided. She posted her views in a podcast video on her Youtube channel, and the video has over 20K views.
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The video starts with Leilani talking about the latest controversy around Miss USA 2022 and people claiming it to be rigged. She said that this reminded her of her own experience at Miss World 2000 beauty pageant. She revealed that Miss World 1999 was from India and Miss World 2022 was also from India, and it was all planned as India's Zee TV was one of the sponsors of the show. She said:
"I literally went through the same thing at Miss World. I was Miss Barbados, and the year I went, Miss India won. Mind you, Miss India had won the previous year (Yukta Mookhey), the sponsor was also ZeeTV, and Indian cable station. Our sashes had ZeeTV on top and then the names of our countries. This is very familiar to me."
The former Miss Barbados also accused Priyanka of favouritism. She shared that Priyanka's gowns were better made and she got good food in her room. Leilani also shared that she got larger pictures in newspapers while the other girls were bunched together on a beach. She also added that Priyanka was the only contestant who was allowed to wear a sarong during the swimsuit competition. She said:
"Apparently she was using some skin tone cream, to even out her skin tone and it was splotchy. I did not say it was a bleaching cream, it was a skin tone cream. It didn't work, her skin was blotchy so she did not want to remove her sarong. So during the actual judgement, she is actually in a dress."
However, when we look at Leilani's YouTube channel, it is filled with hate for Indian actress, Priyanka Chopra and her best friend, Meghan Markle. She had made tons of videos bashing the actress and her opinions and often trolled her for no apparent reason. We can smell envy here!
What do you think of the former Miss Barbados' claim of Miss World 2000 being rigged?
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