{"id":56216,"date":"2018-01-06T07:37:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=56216"},"modified":"2018-01-06T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:37:57","slug":"miss-america-dropping-swimsuit-competition-gretchen-carlson-hints-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/miss-america-dropping-swimsuit-competition-gretchen-carlson-hints-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Miss America Dropping Swimsuit Competition? \u2014 Gretchen Carlson Hints At Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Miss America Dropping Swimsuit Competition? \u2014 Gretchen Carlson Hints At Changes<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

2018 might be the first year without a swimsuit competition at the Miss America pageant. We\u2019ve got CEO Gretchen Carlson\u2019s hints at big changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the new Miss America chairwoman, former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson plans to bring some modern day changes to the stalwart pageant. That could include not judging women by their bodies by doing away with the seemingly outdated swimsuit competition. When asked if she planned to get rid of the controversial contest of women parading around in tiny bikinis being judgesdon their tight abs and firm behinds, she said the end may be near. On Jan. 5, she told Good Morning America\u2018s Amy Robach that \u201cI have so many great ideas for this organization, and I will be talking about those with all the other board members and the eventual CEO of Miss America and staff of Miss America.\u201d She added, \u201cSo what I would love to say about that is, please stay tuned, because I plan to make this organization 100% about empowering women. Changes are coming \u2014 potentially big changes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gretchen, 51, is the first former Miss America to be in charge of the pageant and got the title after previous CEO Sam Haskell, 52, was forced to resign in Dec. of 2017 after leaked e-mails showed that he and other competition board members made misogynistic, crude and disparaging comments about contestants\u2019 looks, brains and bodies. He called Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan, 28, \u201chuge and gross\u201d and even slut shamed her. Now that Gretchen is in charge her \u201cbig changes\u201d includes possibly changing eligibility status to include older contestants, divorcees (Miss America as it stands has to be an unmarried woman), and even gender identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m open to looking at all of that,\u201d Gretchen revealed. \u201cRecently we had our first open lesbian contestant. Fantastic.\u201d She added, \u201cYou know, the lesbian, transgender community has already reached out to me. I mean, I am open to speaking to every single person who wants to have a voice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gretchen said she felt a \u201ccall of duty\u201d to return to the pageant after Haskell and other board members\u2019 disgusting e-mails were made public. She blazed the trail for the #metoo movement 18 months ago by suing then Fox News boss Roger Ailes, 77, for sexual harassment and won a $20 million settlement. \u201cI find that incredibly empowering in this Me Too movement, that some of the women who were allegedly maligned in those appalling emails, are now running the place,\u201d Gretchen said of the new Miss American organization. We can\u2019t wait to see what changes she makes for the competition to showcase women\u2019s empowerment instead of their bikini bodies!<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2018\/01\/05\/is-miss-america-dropping-swimsuit-competition-gretchen-carlson-changes\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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