Miss World Contradicting the concept "Beauty and Brains never meet"

Contradicting the concept that “Beauty and Brains never meet”, various competitions are held worldwide to select the best person who has the right characteristics required to be a model for the world! Miss World selects females based on her intelligence, mannerisms, charm, general knowledge, and anything and everything pertaining to beauty within and outside! 

Created in UK in 1951, by Eric Morley, and now co-chaired by his wife Julia Morley, after his death, it is one of the most renowned beauty pageant held worldwide. Traditionally Miss. World lives in London during her reign and the official language is British English. Categorized as per different criteria ranging from government and private institutions and agencies worldwide, it is telecast as a prestigious and powerful pageant globally.

Miss World is the pageant that has the slogan ‘beauty with a purpose’ and is replete with tests for intelligence and personality. Not just for entertainment, this pageant also is the institution for humanitarian causes, and has raised millions of pounds for charities with the aforesaid slogan.

Preceding the global finals, the delegates of this pageant must win a national title or a specially designated Miss World annual preliminary. Conducted by the license holders who has the franchisee of this competition, in their country, it is typically a month long event replete with galas, dinners, balls and activities that culminates in a final show telecasted worldwide after selecting 15-20 delegates. The winner for 2014 was Rolene Strauss of South Africa and it was held at London, UK at the state of the art ICC Auditorium.

To be a runner-up in Miss World competition, she should win the final Beach Fashion, Beauty with a Purpose, Multimedia, Sports, Talent and Top Model, the points of which are important. The points are added together and before the finals, a few contestants are whittled down through a series of questions and interviews. Adding to it the people’s choice vote, finalist is announced.