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Miss Universe Owner Caught on Tape Saying Trans Contestants “Cannot Win”

Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, the transgender co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization, was caught on tape saying that women from nontraditional backgrounds — transgender women, married women, divorced women, and plus-sized women — “can compete but they cannot win.”It is unclear from the video whether Jakrajutatip is referring to the Miss Universe Pageant itself — or a potential, separate reality competition involving pageant contestants.Jakrajutatip made the comments during a Miss Universe board meeting last November.During the meeting, Jakrajutatip said it would be good for the pageant’s image to allow a diverse group of women to compete.“This is a communication strategy, because, you understand…they can compete but they cannot win,” she says in the video, which online news outlet Vox obtained from Rodrigo Goytortua Ortega, the former CEO of Miss Universe Mexico, who was present at the meeting. “We just put the policy out there.
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Nicola McLean's secret feud with Amber Gill after branding her 'wannabe Kardashian'
Love Island beauty Amber Gill has revealed her rudest ever celebrity encounter.In Chloe Burrows's latest YouTube video, Amber opened up to the fellow Islander about her run-in with Celebrity Big Brother icon Nicola McLean.In the video, Chloe asked Amber who was the rudest celebrity or person she's ever met.To which Amber explained: "I haven't met them but the person that was the rudest to us was Nicola McLean - so I went to Winter Wonderland the year I came out and it was intense and I thought it was a press evening and there was loads of kids and stuff but that's fine but I couldn't get into any rides because they were swarming us."I left Winter Wonderland and I had to start saying no to people because I wanted to go on rides - and she put on a story about us saying 'she acted like Kim Kardashian' because one of her nieces or cousins was there."She was talking to her story and obviously it's intense when you come out as well saying I acted like a Kardashian and she was tagging us in it as well it was mad."This was followed by Chloe then revealing that bosses calmed her nerves about having sex on TV by telling her the show is "not Pornhub".The bombshell starred on the show in 2021 and coupled up with Toby Abomolaran who she is still dating.Chloe asked whether Amber had sex during her stay on the show, to which she responded "no" but Chloe lifted the lid on her sexual experience in the villa.The blonde beauty said: "Oh, I did and also we had the graduation ceremony when we told everyone that I had sex and that was way after I had sex."So, I was like this is ITV doing me a favour here because I kept worrying like 'Oh my God, they were going to show me on TV at night time you know blah, blah'."But they would also say to us
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Susanna Reid urges critic to 'stop flirting' after branding host 'bit of eye candy' on GMB
Susanna Reid, 51, has taken to Twitter to express her view on today's antics involving Boris Johnson, leaving one social media user to critique her journalism skills.The Good Morning Britain presenter couldn't help but hit back with a funny jibe, telling her critic to "stop flirting" with her.Tim Stanley took to Twitter today and wrote: "After the 1922 committee meeting a senior party source was challenged on partygate."He asked journalists 'Have you never got drunk before?'"To which, Susanna replied in view of her 877,500 followers: "Not at work during a lockdown when life and death decisions were being made, no."Her reply angered social media user Royston Gabb who took to Twitter and criticised the GMB host.The social media user penned: "Susanna to call yourself a journalist is stretching it a bit far, you're a presenter who happens to have a beautiful face and as such is employed as a bit of eye candy." (sic)Susanna couldn't help but quip back, as she replied: "Stop flirting Royston..."Social media users rushed to the comments to defend Susanna and laugh at her funny jibe.Pankaj Gupta said: "Sorry on behalf of men - that a professional woman has to hear this in the 21st century."David Hobbs added: "There's a lot of people out there that wouldn’t agree with your comment about Susanna, Royston."Tim Baldwin commented: "I disagree, you do an excellent job whilst also having a very pleasing face."Susanna made sure to hold parliament to account as she spoke to Sajid Javid on this morning's Good Morning Britain.Sajid was defending Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid talks of a vote of no confidence to be taking place tonight.This comes after the news broke that Boris was to face a vote of no confidence this evening after the
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Amber Heard plans to appeal Johnny Depp verdict after branding actor’s win a ‘setback’ for women
Amber Heard is planning to appeal the verdict of her defamation trial against Johnny Depp, after the Pirates of the Caribbean actor won.The jury decided that Depp – who was not in court – would be awarded $10million (£8million) in compensatary damages and a further $5million (£4million) in punitive damages.Heard, 36, won one of her three defamation countersuit claims against Depp, 58, and was awarded $2million (£1.6million).She had her head bowed in court as she listened to the jury verdict come in.Metro.co.uk understands that Heard now intends to appeal the decision.In a statement after the court hearing, Heard said: ‘The disappointment I feel today is beyond words.‘I’m heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband.‘I’m even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women. It is a setback.‘It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.‘It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously. ‘I believe Johnny’s attorneys succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of Freedom of Speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK.‘I’m sad I lost this case.
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Amber Heard's ex-pal claims Johnny Depp ‘insults fans’ branding them 'suckerfishes'
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's former friend, iO Tillett Wright, has testified on Tuesday in a pre-recorded testimony played to the courtroom.The author and television host claimed that the Jack Sparrow actor “would insult his fans”, branding them “remoras” - a type of fish.The trial resumed on Monday at Virginia's Fairfax County Courthouse following a break of over a week.During his testimony, Mr Wright claimed that Johnny’s alleged alcohol and drugs consumption would reveal a "cruel and misogynistic" side to the actor.He also claimed that Johnny would direct his insults at Amber, attacking her looks and talent.Mr Wright said: "Johnny is incredibly intelligent, incredibly smart and witty, and he would point his jokes at people, Amber's appearance, her talent — her lack of talent, as he perceived it, why he thought she was actually famous, which he always implied was because of her looks."Amber's former pal also claimed that Johnny would label his fans “remoras” and would also take aim at his own family.In his video statement, Mr Wright went on: “He would insult his fans, he called them — I remember, he called them remoras, which is a type of suckerfish that attaches itself to the hull of a ship and puts a hole in it and then sinks it."He would rail against his mother, his sister - sisters. Pretty much anyone he felt had crossed him or would cross him.
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Celeb agent reignites feud with Nadia Sawalha after branding her a 'total witch'
Loose Women legend after she branded the star a “total witch”.Back in 2020, Melanie Blake – who runs talent agency Urban Associates – slammed her former client Nadia Sawalha on Twitter after the TV host opened up about body issues on the ITV show.It is understood their feud “kicked off” back in 2015 at the TV Choice awards but in a recent interview with OK! Magazine, the blonde bombshell brought their spat to the surface.Melanie also took a thinly veiled swipe at her as she brought up Nadia’s ongoing feud with her sister Julia during the tense interview.She told the publication: “Oh, I really don’t want to give that any more oxygen.“I’m sure she’s got enough drama with her sister Julia taking digs at her on social media, she’ll hardly want to be reminded of an old fall out with me.”The 57-year-old got vulnerable on Loose Women as she urged women to love themselves and their bodies as she shared her relationship with her body on the show.Two years ago, Melanie shared with her 27.4k followers: “It’s a shame she ‘officially’ gave up acting because Nadia deserve an Oscar for this speech.“In 20 years of repping clients I never saw a nastier side to anyone than I did of her and I'm not alone.“Her constant ‘be kind’ etc speeches are so ironic considering she is a total witch,” she concluded.It comes after the Sawalha sisters re-sparked their bitter feud for the umpteenth time when Julia accused Nadia of “destroying” their family and crying “fake tears for attention” back in 2019.The 50-year-old actress stormed to Twitter after Nadia claimed on the daytime panel show that their relationship was “volatile.”Almost two decades ago, the pair became enraged over Julia’s then-boyfriend Alan Davies, 53.Her older sister branded the
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Alex Beresford fires back at Donald Trump for branding him 'a stiff' in Piers Morgan chat
GMB co-star Piers Morgan when the new TalkTV host sat down for a chat with former US President, Donald Trump.Trump and Piers discussed a wide range of topics - from the Royal Family to the US election - and the Good Morning Britain weatherman was also brought up in conversation.On Twitter, Alex typed: “Dearest Donald, the hips don’t lie,” alongside a video of him using a hula hoop while on the ITV show, in a witty response to Trump's jibe that he "was a stiff", while addressing his on-air row with Piers over Meghan Markle.Alex’s name cropped up as Piers teed up the second part of his exclusive interview with Trump, which will air on Tuesday evening. Piers shared previews of Trump’s thoughts on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as well Elon Musk’s purchase of social media giants, Twitter. The TalkTV host then shared a snippet of the conversation regarding his GMB departure, with Piers saying to viewers: “Trump even gave his forthright take on my walkout from Good Morning Britain.”In the clip, Piers says to the former President: “I chose the title [Uncensored] because I lost my last job at the Good Morning Britain show -“Trump nodded along before he interjected: “I thought you overreacted by the way…”“Well, I’ll tell you what happened…” Piers tried to protest, before Trump delivered his own damning verdict on Alex.He weighed in: “I mean, the guy was a stiff! “You didn’t have to do (that),” Trump added, before Piers tried to point out: “It wasn’t about him.”“You made it about him!” Trump interrupted again. “He probably got a nice raise.”Piers could be heard chuckling in the background in the interview, before commenting: “You’re right about that.”And as the cameras returned to the TalkTV studio, Piers had one final swipe to
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