Source: Reuters
(LONDON)– Miss United Kingdom will be allowed to compete in the Miss World beauty contest despite a controversy over topless photographs of her in a tabloid newspaper.
Organizers of the event said 18-year-old Nicola Willoughby was “duped” into doing a topless photo shoot and said her heart-felt plea not to be excluded from the global beauty show had found favor.
“Everything is fine. She is going ahead with the competition,” a spokeswoman for Miss World said.
“She’s was duped into doing it. She was young, she needed the money … and he (the photographer) promised her the photos would never ever be published,” she said.
The Miss World contest, eager not to be seen as a “degrading cattle market” as feminists once branded it — is being held in Britain for the first time for 10 years.
