Once Miss Universe 2023 in El Salvador is over, the changes related to the Mexican competition will be known, whose country will host the next edition of the competition directed by Anne JKN. Mexicana Universal will no longer be under the leadership of Lupita Jones.
The information was revealed by the former beauty queen herself, who was in charge of the beauty pageant for 30 years.
In a live appearance she made on her Instagram account on November 19, Lupita Jones, the first Mexican to win the title of Miss Universe in 1991, hinted that there would be a new direction for the competition, which she under the name “Our Belleza México” and which he headed for 30 years, as El Universal remembers.
“In the last few months there have been a lot of comments, I have received a lot of messages to clarify the situation. “I want to start by telling you that Miss Universe has not confirmed anything to me, although everything indicates that what is being said is true,” Jones mentioned in the video, which was replicated by the show’s IG account: “Sit you, who can.” .” “.
“The situations that I have faced here indicate that there is another director of Miss Universe in Mexico,” he added in his message, before businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú, owner of the franchise in Mexico, interrupted him presented at a press conference. Cynthia de la Vega as the new director. In 2012, de la Vega was crowned Nuestra Belleza México.
The controversies surrounding Lupita Jones and her refusal to accept trans candidates
Although beauty pageant guidelines are constantly evolving, Lupita Jones stood firm and refused to allow transgender people into the Mexicana Universal pageant, which elects the Miss Universe representative.
“We have taken in some girls who are mothers and have participated in state events. “I am very happy that it is developing in such a way that the circumstances or life choices that a woman has made do not prevent her from achieving her dreams,” she commented in a short interview with journalist Edén Dorantes, published at the time by It was reviewed by Who magazine.
Jones had previously also commented on transgender people. This happened after the participation of Ángela María Ponce Camacho, representative of Spain at Miss Universe 2018.
“Through these operations they manage to create a body very similar to that of a woman, but it is a transgender woman. There are spaces for everyone, you don’t discriminate, everyone has their space and their place, they have every right to be recognized for their attitudes, qualities, values, everything, but the conditions are different,” he added.
It should be noted that Anne Jakkaphong, the owner of Miss Universe, is a trans businesswoman from Thailand.
Another controversy surrounding Lupita Jones was the accusation made against her by Sofía Aragón and Denisse Franco, two Mexicana Universal winners, as mentioned in Yahoo.
Aragón questioned management’s lack of support for her participation in the Miss Universe pageant and also warned of mistreatment and mistreatment of participants in the Mexican pageant. In this regard, Lupita responded with a precise attack that put her in a bad position.
“I know where they all come from… from drug addicts to alcoholics, I know where they come from and what foot they are limping on. Lots of stories and I have to talk about all of them,” said Lupita Jones in a broadcast she did on YouTube at the time and for which she later had to apologize. (AND)