Miss America is getting rid of its swimsuit competition and will no longer judge contestants based on their "outward physical appearance," the organization announced Tuesday morning. Moving forward, ...

The time when the Miss America pageant meant young women in bikinis and high heels is over. Miss America Board chairwoman Gretchen Carlson, a former pageant winner herself, made the announcement on ...

The 2018 Miss Universe pageant won’t be aired until December 17, but we’re all lucky enough to be treated to this preview! The contestants have already taken the Nongnooch International Convention and ...

Miss America Board of Trustees Chairwoman Gretchen Carlson announced June 5, 2018 that the annual scholarship event would no longer feature a swimsuit competition. "We are no longer a pageant, we are ...

In June 2018, it was announced by then-MAO Chairwoman Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor and Miss America 1989, that the competition would no longer include judging the candidates on ...

The swimsuit competition remains one of the most controversial parts of the pageant business — at least, that is, until someone flubs an answer in the Q&A round. To many, it's an archaic, ogle-centric ...

MUSKEGON, MI - The Miss America pageant began as a “bathing beauties revue” in 1921 with women in swimsuits as the focus. In 2018, the first Miss America who did not don a swimsuit on the national ...

After sharing a comment that offended a wide swath of the pageant faithful, the Atlantic City-based Miss America Organization is apologizing to contestants who competed in the event’s swimsuit ...

That’s what the Miss America organization said in a tweet last year, announcing that the swimsuit competition would no longer be part of the national pageant. “We’re changing out of our swimsuits and ...