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Miss Universe CEO Anne Jakrajutatip shocked the pageant community when she praised Miss Universe winner Victoria Kjær Theilvig's blond hair and blue eyes, calling them 'the best.''We have blond and blue eyes, so we're coming to the ultimate evolution already,' Jakrajutatip said during a November press conference when a reporter asked her if the Miss Universe pageant still needed to evolve. 'We don't need any more evolution here. We already got the best here.
'Both Miss America and Miss USA — the latter of which is part of the Miss Universe Organization and now overseen by Jakrajutatip — have undergone big changes over the past few years amid their own controversies.Sam Haskell ran the Miss America Organization for 12 years before he stepped down in 2017 after his vulgar internal emails about past Miss America winners were leaked to the press.
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