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True story behind Miss World boss who tackled apartheid but was hated by feminists
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mirror.co.ukShe was famously targeted by angry feminists over her Miss World competition – but Julia Morley also confronted racism to ensure South Africa sent a black contestant at the height of apartheid.
Julia Morley, now 80, is back in the spotlight as #MeToo movie Misbehaviour tells the story of the shocking Women’s Liberation attack on the show at London’s Albert Hall in 1970.
But what it won’t focus on is how Julia took on a racist regime to bring a black beauty queen into the contest the same year.
Still running the competition, Julia defiantly talks of her pride in what she and late contest founder Eric Morley have achieved since it began in 1951.
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