MMXXViss UNIVERSE

2025 Miss Universe Contestants Gallery


Continuing with the Roman numeral theme, the 2025 Miss Universe contestant gallery will be called MMXXViss UNIVERSE since MMXXV is 2025 in Roman numerals!

The big day for the finals of Miss Universe 2025 is November 20, 2025 to be held in the Impact Arena in Nonthaburi Province, Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand. Ancillary events are scheduled to be held in Phuket and Pattaya in Thailand. The pageant will be held in the morning of November 21 in Thailand time but will air in North America during the evening of November 20, 2025. The date and venue was confirmed during a press conference held in New York held on February 7, 2025. Some originally speculated that the date would be moved up from November to October but this will be the third year in a row that the Miss Universe pageant will be held in November. The reigning Miss Universe, Denmark's Victoria Kjaer Theilvig will reign for a full year plus 4 (technically 5) days since she was crowned on November 16, 2024. This also marks the first time the Miss Universe pageant isn't airing on a weekend date in North America since 2012!
8 countries were supposedly in the running to host the 2025 Miss Universe pageant and they were: Argentina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Morocco, India, South Africa, Spain, or Thailand. In February, the list of potential host countries for the 74th Miss Universe pageant was later narrowed down to: Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Spain, South Africa, Thailand and the Philippines.
Did you notice that the two co-owners of the Miss Universe pageant, Raul Rocha Cantu of Mexico and Khun Anne Jakrajutatip of Thailand had their countries host the Miss Universe pageant in consecutive years?? Mexico hosted in 2024 and now Thailand will host for 2025 which will be the 4th time in history that the golden kingdom hosts which breaks the 13-year-chain of Thailand serving as the Miss Universe host country as they first hosted in 1992, then 13 year later in 2005, then another 13 years later in 2018 but instead of 2031 (which could still be held in Thailand so I guess we'll find out that year) but 7 years later, Thailand is hosting the Miss Universe pageant for the fourth time. Khun Anne's time with MUO might be limited as the news of the 2025 Miss Universe pageant being held in Thailand comes on the heels of former MUO president, Paula Shugart suing current MUO co-owner, Khun Anne. Paula Shugart resigned from her position in November 2023 and claims Khun Anne Jakrajutatip made false statements about Shugart, including claims that Shugart was corrupt and received bribes to influence the outcome of the Miss Universe pageant. Shugart claims that Jakrajutatip's comments defamed her and discredits the women who have won the Miss Universe pageant and is seeking damages and reserving all rights to take legal action so we will see where this goes... Some state directors are also allegedly complaining about having to forward a significant amount of their national pageant profits over the owners of Miss Universe and many directors say they are not doing this for profit but for their love of pageantry so the business aspect might be ruining it all. Thailand might also have been chosen as a last-minute option due to other countries not wanting to pay exorbitant hosting fees which was often the reason that the USA hosted so many Miss Universe pageants back when it was American-owned.

Despite all this, a new Miss Universe will be crowned on November 20, 2025. Who will be the lucky woman chosen this year?!?!



OTHER NEWS

(posted 2025 March 14)
Some interesting developments in Thailand. Nawat Itsaragrisil, who is a Thai media personality and businessperson, best known as the president and founder of the Miss Grand International pageant, has struck a deal with Khun Anne to be the national director for Miss Universe Thailand from 2025 to 2029 taking the franchise away from TPN Global. Veena (Praveenar) Singh who is a favorite for the Thai title and has been a runner-up multiple times before has confirmed her participation yet again in Miss Universe Thailand and Veena even divorced her husband, who opposed her participation, to pursue her dream. Will she take the title and be the first Miss Universe Thailand of Indian descent? In addition to this, the Miss Grand International team is going to responsible for the production of the 2025 Miss Universe pageant being held in Thailand. Is this a good thing or a bad thing that another pageant is getting heavily involved with this year's Miss Universe pageant? We'll soon find out!
In the meantime, there was a press conference held on March 13 confirming dates of special events leading up to the 2025 Miss Universe pageant. The event was held in the MGI Hall with the presence of the Miss Universo organization, Tio Nawat, Victoria Kjaer Theilvig (Miss Universe 2024), Rachel Gupta (Miss Grand International 2024) and Tia Teresa.
Nawat said that the Miss Grand International team has invested a lot of money in this project to prove to the world that Thailand is the top country for producing beauty contests. He also accused the newly formed Vietnamese international pageant, Miss Cosmo of copying Miss Universe. You may remember that former MUO president, Paula Shugart and Miss Universe 2021-Harnaaz Sandhu of India participated as judges in the 2024 Miss Cosmo pageant. Nawat expressed that while Miss Grand International is a fun pageant, Miss Universe will be a pageant that will maintain its class.
Nawat also informed that the event will be held in the Impact Challenger Hall (which is said to be the largest hall in the world) with a capacity of 15000 people and that the tickets will go on sale at the beginning of June.
The schedule of activities for Miss Universe 2025 were presented as follows:
November 2 and 3: Arrival of 130 participants in Bangkok.
November 4: Fashion Show of welcome and band handover ceremony.
November 5: City Tour and Gala Dinner.
November 6 to 7: Various activities.
November 8: Trip to Phuket.
November 9 to 12: Tour and Fashion Shows in Phuket.
November 12: Trip to Pattaya.
November 13 to 16: Tour in Pattaya and Swimsuit Event in the Water Fun Park.
November 16: Interview with the judges and return to Bangkok.
November 17 to 18: Rehearsals.
November 18: National Costume competition at 7 PM Thai time.
November 19: Preliminary competition in Swimsuits and Evening gowns at 7 PM Thai time.
November 20: Final rehearsal.
November 21: 8 AM (Thai time) Final Show
The participants will be in Thailand for three weeks with many activities which is reminiscent of how pageant activities were prior to 2015. When asked about financial concerns, Nawat boasted, "I have enough money, don't worry!"
Will this year's pageant live up to the hype? We shall see! Thailand has always put on a fantastic show in their previous years hosting Miss Universe (1992, 2005 and 2018) so will this year's pageant outdo them all???



OLDER NEWS

(posted 2024 December 25)
Delegates are starting to be crowned for the 74th Miss Universe pageant to be held in 2025 but the date and venue are not yet confirmed and yes, all women who are at least 18 years of age are eligible to compete and there will continue to be no age limit and contestants who have been married or have children or are transgendered are eligible to compete.

Are you excited?!?!?! Is it your country's turn?!?!?!

Who will be crowned MMXXViss UNIVERSE (a.k.a. Miss Universe 2025?)
Let's meet the contestants crowned so far!!!

Angola-Maria Cunha

What a gorgeous headshot! 21-year-old Maria will represent Angola and she hails from the city of Lianda. Angola has placed four times and they won their only Miss Universe crown in 2011 thanks to Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes but this nation hasn't placed since so could Maria make a huge comeback?


Belgium-Karen Jansen

The diamond capital of Europe last placed in 2018 and has never won the crown but they came close twice in 1981 with Dominique Van Eeckhoudt placing as 4th runner up and in 1992 with the sexy Anke Van Dermeersch getting 5th runner up that year. Karen is a 23-year-old psychology student from Lommel and is the latest hope for the land of the Flemish so can she do it?

Brazil-Maria Gabriela Lacerda

Gabriela hails from the state of Piaui and this state last won the Brazilian title in 2017 with Monalysa Alcantara. Gabriela answered during her national pageant held on February 13 that she has a social project and wants to talk about the missing people who are often forgotten by the law and the justice system in her country. There are women and mothers who have been searching for their lost children for at least 30 years. Brazil enjoyed a streak in the semifinals since hosting for the first time in 2011 to 2020 but they haven't placed since. The land of the Samba has claimed the Miss Universe twice thanks to Ieda Maria Vargas in 1963 and Martha Vasconcellos in 1968 so they have had to wait a long time for another win. Will Gabriela bring this tropical paradise back in the spotlight?

China-Xuhe Hou

The land of the great wall sends us Xuhe Hou from Jilin City this year. China has never won the crown but their best finish was as 2nd runner up in 2002 which was technically elevated to 1st runner up when the original 2002 Miss Universe winner was dethroned and placed in the 2024 Miss Universe pageant among the top 30 so will the woman who is representing 1/6th of the world's population place for a consecutive year?


France-Eve Gilles

Funny story. In 2001, I won a dance competition at a cabaret called La Nouvelle Eve in Paris, France and now I have dubbed France's representative, Eve Gilles as "La Nouvelle Eve" and she will represent the land of the Eiffel Tower and recent host of the 2024 Olympics. France won two Miss Universe crowns (1953 and 2016) and they last placed in 2024 and is one of only two countries that has competed at every Miss Universe pageant since its inception in 1952 (Canada is the other one and USA was disqualified in 1957 after preliminaries but before finals).


Iceland-Helena Hafporsdottir O'Connor

The land of ice and fire sends us stunning Helena who hails from Reykjavik and also previously competed at the 2024 Miss Supranational competition placing among the top 25. Iceland has never won the crown but they came close in 1962 when Anna Geirsdottir finished as 1st runner up. Will Helena claim her country's first Miss Universe crown???


Kazakhstan-Dana Almasova

Kazakhstan has never placed at Miss Universe so Dana has a chance to make a name for her country. Will she achieve that elusive first placement for this land rich with accessible mineral and fossil fuel resources and can she even go all the way and capture her country's first Miss Universe crown?


Kyrgyzstan-Mary Kuvakova

Mary hails from the city of Bishkek and has a background in social work and takes active involvement in community initiatives. Kyrgyzstan has never placed so Mary has a chance to get her country's first placement.


Suriname-Chiara Wijntuin

Suriname participated for the first time in 25 years last year after being absent from 2000 to 2023. They did place once way back in 1958 when Gertrud Gummels made the top 15. Will Chiara make a name for Suriname??


Venezuela-Stephany Adriana Abasali Nasser

Stephany was born on the 12th of June in the fabulous year, 2000 and is only the second contestant who represented the state of Anzoategui to win the official Miss Venezuela title. The other winner from Anzoategui was Olga Antonetti in 1962 who represented Venezuela at Miss International 1962 making the top 15 only to tragically die in a plane crash in 1968 when Olga was only 24 years old. Stephany is an Economics student at Florida International University and she was born in the state of Bolivar and comes from a family of Syrian immigrants to Venezuela. Of course, Venezuela has done extremely well in international pageantry claiming 7 Miss Universe crowns. Venezuela has placed in 15 of the last 18 Miss Universe pageants missing the semifinals only in 2010, 2016 and 2020 and last winning the crown in 2013 and placing among the top 5 last year. There was a 12 year gap between the Venezuelan wins of Alicia Machado in 1996 and Dayana Mendoza in 2008 so will this pattern continue and will Venezuela claim its 8th Miss Universe crown 12 years after Gabriela Isler won in 2013??





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MMXXViss UNIVERSE!



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