Miss Universe New Zealand has run into rough waters; the Herald reports:
The newly crowned Miss Universe New Zealand may be stripped of her tiara because she is not a New Zealander.Unless the citizenship of South African-born Avianca Bohm is fast-tracked she is unlikely to be able to attend Donald Trump's Miss Universe pageant later this year.Representing Howick, the 22-year-old was crowned in a ceremony on Saturday night in Wellington.But less than 24 hours later, organisers admitted she should never have won.Yesterday, pageant director Val Lott blamed the judges and said they were told Ms Bohm was not eligible to win."It's not embarrassing for the competition. It's embarrassing for the [chief] judge, who should have taken on board what I said to him."It says that in their entry form. [Ms Bohm] and I both had a clear understanding that she couldn't win."I said, you can enter it because it will still be a lot of confidence-boosting and great for your area to represent Howick."Ms Lott has contacted organisers of Miss Universe 2012 to ask if Ms Bohm can represent New Zealand as a permanent resident.The judging panel was headed by Jack Yan, publisher of fashion magazine Lucire.Mr Yan told the Herald he disputed Ms Lott's version of events, but said he didn't want to get into a game of "he said, she said". "If I do that, it's going to drag on with no end. I think we need to look to the future and see what the next right step is."Another person involved in the competition, who asked not to be identified, pointed to an online casting call which said that to enter, "you must have NZ residency and citizenship".However, the Herald understands some of the other contestants also don't hold citizenship.
6 comments:
When you say 'too much of a problem' what is 'too much' with regards to a quantifiable amount of any given problem?
While you're looking for Shane, do you mind awfully keeping an eye peeled for those jobs John Key wrongly says are out there? Thanking you! xxoo
Yesterday, pageant director Val Lott blamed the judges and said they were told Ms Bohm was not eligible to win .. if she wasn't eligible to win why did the director let her compete?
Not very nice KS, you won't be making any friends in the Labour Party with this, but seriously why would you be looking Shane when clearly there are more attractive sights.
Where's Judith?
Nostalgia-NZ (992) Says:
June 5th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I’ll go back Keeping Stock. Why is all of this so unexpected to the Minister? Why didn’t she review the complaint, instead of taking it on face value when it was obviously in her department’s interest to undermine the credibility of Boag and Pullar. Surely she saw that, understood the seriousness of allegations of extortion and if they weren’t legitimised that trouble would loom even larger. Due process must also be the satisfaction that allegations of this nature are well founded, and not founded on desperation within the scope of your own watch.
This stuff is giving the impression of too ‘hands off’ to be credible from the Minister’s office. In respect of your last point, I don’t see how somebody within the department leaking the email strengthens anything for the Minister when there is apparently so much dysfunction in her own department. As I’ve said earlier – she should be furnishing a comprehensive explanation of the leak and not taking the position of a respondent.
@ Judith - fair questions, but they would be better on the Pullar/ACC thread
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