Pia Wurtzbach Criticized for Doubting Khanh Van’s Votes in Miss Universe

Miss Khanh Van has finished her 10-day journey to compete at Miss Universe 2020. With the final result, she entered the top 21 through the audience’s voting ticket. According to Olivia Culpo on live broadcast, Khanh Van is the contestant who received the highest number of votes in the 69-year Miss Universe history. At the time Khanh Van was named in the top 21 with a ticket to vote, Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015 from the Philippines, wrote on social networks: “Does Vietnam have more beauty pageant fans than the Philippines?”.

This sharing of Miss Universe 2015 is like confirming that Khanh Van’s ticket is “problematic”. It seems that she automatically considers the Philippines to win the vote.

Pia’s statement made many Vietnamese netizens angry, criticizing her for being stupid. Because at the moment of naming Khanh Van, the MC announced that the Vietnamese contestant received the highest number of votes in the 69-year history of Miss Universe. Therefore, the fact that Khanh Van surpassed the representative of the Philippines this year is not controversial or suspicious.

Pia’s statement is also said to be disrespectful to the Vietnamese audience, because winning the vote does not mean that the beauty fans of any country are larger. Many Vietnamese netizens are exhorting each other to “unfollow”, “boycott” Miss Universe 2015. However, there are also some opinions that Pia is not provocative, just expressing surprise because of Vietnam beauty‘s fans are so crowded.

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