UAE to host Miss World pageant in 2023

The UAE will play host to this year’s Miss World pageant.

The announcement was shared on the Miss World Organisation’s Instagram page, with confirmation coming from Julia Morley CBE.

Ms Morley said in the post: “I am delighted to announce the 71st Miss World Festival will be held in the United Arab Emirates.”

This year's edition of Miss World will take place in May. The organisation is yet to make an official announcement on the final date.

So far, eighty-one delegates have confirmed their participation in the upcoming edition and Miss World 2021 Karolina Bielawska of Poland will crown her successor at the coronation ceremony.

The previous edition was held in March 2022, which was technically the 2021 outing.

It’s the first time the competition has come to the UAE after it first started in 1951.

If you want to enter, you have to be unmarried without children and between the ages of 17 and 27 while also being a national of the country you choose to represent.

Pamala Serena represented the UAE at last year’s competition.