From: Exotic Dancer Publications
Rio Rivers started with aspirations of being a successful feature entertainer before deciding to help lift the industry upon her shoulders as the producer of the Miss Nude World pageant.
Rio Rivers waited a full 12 hours at the Déjà Vu in South Beach for this moment — her audition to be an entertainer.
She proceeded onstage … and fell “from one end of the stage to the other,” recalls Rivers, who this month celebrates 20 years of producing at the 58th Miss Nude World at Fantasy Gentlemen’s Club in Hammond, Indiana.
“I just slipped,” she says. “I got up and I was like, ‘OK, whatever.’ And then I started dancing. So, then I became an exotic dancer.”
But becoming the producer of a renowned pageant offered a different challenge. In 1999, Xcitement Magazine purchased the pageant and Rivers was tabbed producer.
“I wanted to bring the pageant to the next level,” she says. “I knew I could because the girls and I were a family and everybody was receptive of me becoming the next Samantha Jones. I just really had a dream to make the industry more united — that’s why I started doing the pageants. I started coordinating Miss Nude World with Samantha in 1998. When Xcitement purchased it, we were hosting Miss Nude World 2002 (which took place in 2001). That’s why this year is my 20th Miss Nude World.”
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