Miss Universe 2019 to air live from Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta

"Miss" Universe?

That's really good for Tyler Perry studios.

Great.

Atlanta is a strange city to be hosting Miss Universe.

They usually go for an "international" destination, with warmer weather.

There's not much to do in Atlanta in December.

Maybe they'll send the contestants to Miami Beach for promo shots, and then hod the competition in Georgia.

They are trying hard to keep people filming in Atlanta. Some movies and TV shows have pulled out. Serious money changed hands on that deal.

Live! From Atlanta, Georgia!

It's the 2019 Miss Universe competition, with 80 delegates from around the world!

Hmm.... I don't think so.

I can totally see Miss USA being held there, but not Miss Universe.

California is being consumed by fire, so of course Hollywood is moving to Georgia. Atlanta to be specific.

California is over. No one is going to be able to live there soon.

Miss USA's "National Costume."

What a joke!

Miss Venezuela.

Aruba, Chile, Costa Rica, Argentina.

Miss Spain looks more like a Miss Sweden.

Here are the Miss Universe contestants.

The competition is this Sunday, December 8 on FOX.

Pageant pros are predicting these 20 ladies to make the cut...

Check out Miss Sierra Leone's eyebrows!!!

They're terrifying.

I think that Tanzania has a good shot...

All sorts of rumors and BIs that Perry is basically using his studios as a brothel, for straight and gay, for his friends and business cohorts. So this makes sense. Especially good for rich overseas gentlemen who like to yacht and finance movies.

I have only watched snippets of previous shows but there’s something about Steve Harvey that gets on my last nerves.

[quote] there’s something about Steve Harvey that gets on my last nerves

For starters, he YELLS everything out of his mouth.

He is indeed very annoying, and I cannot stand the way he speaks.

Haha, he the claws are out already!

Love the photobomb of Miss Egypt in the background.

Omg, Miss Myanmar is actually a lesbian!

She came out of the closet in an interview.

Good for her!

OP with all the links - why are you so invested?

Just scroll on by, R21.

No one's forcing you to read this thread.

BYE!

But all the posts are you, OP...

BYE!!

HI!!!

OP do you script the fights on RPDR?

Awe, the black Donald Trump!

Ugly contestants this year.

Has Miss Universe of late become a Third World/Developing country competition? Or is that how the judging trend has migrated?

Will a black tranny win?

Lately R29, either Philippines, Venezuela, or India has won. So.... yes.

However, France won a couple years ago, which was a first time that a European had won the crown in decades.

And in those cases, the winner has usually been the girl who looks the LEAST philipino, venezuelan, or India. Usually, they always have white features.

Just look at the current titleholder. She's a philipino, and she looks white. You'd never guess she was from that country.

I think her dad is a white American. Naturally.

Omg this video is hilarious!

Miss Equatorial Guinea cannot be BOTHERED with the bitch in front of her.

She's like, "BITCH, MOVE!"

I like when they announce the wrong winner.

Miss Venezuela looks like a potato. I thought they were famous for plastic surgery and beauty queens? How did this one get in the contest?

Did anyone watch the show?

Horrible winner.

Very unsatisfying result. She wasn't even pretty.

Mexico should have won.

Winner is UGLY.

The most beautiful is the stunning Miss Malta. Runners-up: Miss Denmark and Miss Sweden.

This year, the Europeans had it way over the girls of the Southern Hemisphere.

Ironically, Miss Malta was born in Venezuela. Her entire family moved to Malta to escape conflict and seek better opportunities.

Miss Albania is another stunner.

Miss Myanmar is the out lesbian.

Miss Denmark is gorgeous.

Miss Sweden. I enjoyed it when the Scandinavian girls ruled.

Miss Haiti is beautiful.

Come on, even Miss Iceland is biracial?

First runner-up: Miss Puerto Rico

Second runner-up: Miss Mexico

I really really really wanted Iceland to win. She was so cute and natural.

All the rest were WAY too rehearsed!

Mexico was fantastic, but she seemed to be depressed.

Did she ever discuss what her "mental health" issues were?

"I have only watched snippets of previous shows but there’s something about Steve Harvey that gets on my last nerves." Mine, too. His forte is as a comedian, and as a game show host. Another thing that gets me, is that there is no more suspense. For instance, many years ago, they'd say, "The first runner-up is Miss______, Miss______, you are the new Miss Universe".

r50 they stopped announcing the first runnerup after the mistake a few years ago when the wrong winner was announced. That was what got screwed up. He announced the first runnerup as the winner.

[quote] they stopped announcing the first runnerup after the mistake a few years ago when the wrong winner was announced

To be fair, the Colombian girl should have won.

The philippino bitch was UGLY.

If you ask me, the right person was announced as the winner.

DYKETASTIC!

"Swe Zin Htet on being the first openly gay Miss Universe contestant: 'People in Myanmar are not accepting of this'"

Swe Zin Htet, the reigning Miss Myanmar, is making major progress for both her country and for the Miss Universe pageant as a whole. The 21-year-old told People — who will compete in Miss Universe on Sunday night — that she wants to use her platform to help LGBTQ people in her home country, which is also referred to as Burma.

"I have that platform that, if I say that I’m a lesbian, it will have a big impact on the LGBTQ community back in Burma," Htet told People via a translator. "The difficult thing is that in Burma, LGBTQ people are not accepted … they are looked down on by other people and are being discriminated against."

As People noted, Htet recently came out during an interview with beauty blog Missosology. "I believe that not all countries allow same-sex marriage. I want the world to accept the LGBTQ+ community and their right to choose their own path and pursuit of happiness," she told the blog. "Love is the most powerful thing and people fall in love with human beings, not gender."

Htet is the first openly gay Miss Universe contestant, but she's not the first member of the LGBTQ community to be involved with the pageant. Last year, openly trans contestant Angela Ponce joined the pageant as Miss Spain. Still, the pageant world has a reputation for predominantly including contestants who are thin, cisgender and white.

By using her platform as a voice for the marginalized, Htet also hopes to effect change in people's hearts. "A majority of people in Myanmar are not accepting of this," the contestant told Glamour. "But my goal is to make them look at me and others that are like me just the same."

Under Myanmar's laws, citizens can be punished for the "unnatural offense of carnal intercourse against the order of nature," according to a refugee legal aid group. That's been interpreted to include same-sex relations, leading to homophobia and violence against the country's LGBTQ community.

Miss P.C. Universe.