The Miss Universe 2017 pageant took place Sunday, November 26, in Las Vegas where ninety-two women from around the world competed for the crown. The host for the pageant again was Steve Harvey, who made several jokes about his 2015 mistake, when he pronounced the wrong person as that year’s winner.
The top 5 contestants selected after the evening gown portion were Miss South Africa, Venezuela, Thailand, Jamaica and Colombia.
Advancing to the top 3 were Miss Jamaica, Colombia and South Africa. After answering one question each, Jamaica’s Davina Bennett was crowned the third runner up, Miss Colombia Laura Gonzalez second runner-up, while Miss South Africa, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters emerged as Miss Universe 2017!
Nel-Peters was a favorite throughout the night, she described how she survived a carjacking by fighting back against her attacker and used that terrifying experience to help other women, and spoke out about issues such as equal pay.
More pictures from the event below:
Miss Jamaica, Davina Bennett
Nigeria organizer should take a cue from this, they are always looking for light-skinned ladies to represent the country when there are lots of dark-skinned lady who can do better.
Shout out to Jamaica for representing the dark-skinned. When I look at our representatives, I want to be able to feel and see the African heritage, and that’s the colour of our skin, it’s what make us unique, not all these bleaching, yellow fever eyibo they silverbird group always export every year, it’s so lame.