“Please Note That Miss Uganda 2018 is A Reality Show,” – Brenda Nanyonjo

Social Media hasn’t been kind to the Miss Uganda team these past few hours thanks to a video they posted on their Facebook page that depicted judges of the pageant ‘mocking and bullying’ one of the contestants. Everyone on social media has shared their two scents on the matter, apart from the pageant CEO herself, Brenda Nanyonjo.

The mother of queens has shared a statement on her social media page reiterating what they announced months ago when they were launching this year’s pageant that it would be some sort of reality TV show. See our post from their announcement here in case you missed it.

“From the beginning of the campaign we promised to bring you all the content of what happens behind the scenes including funny, sad, happy, angry and emotional moments throughout the entire Miss Uganda journey,” she shared. “This is a fresh new start to bring more public engagement and insight to the Miss Uganda pageant. This concept may be new to Uganda but we ensure that empowering young women and beauty with a purpose has always been the fundamental cause of the pageant,” she added.

See the full statement below

There has been a lot of discussion on social media about a reality TV video clip that was published from the Miss Uganda auditions. From our initial press conference we promised the new Miss Uganda Pageant would be full of showbiz, entertainment and reality content made for social media and TV similar to competitions such as The Voice, American Idol, Britain’s Got Talent, etc. Additionally all competitors in Miss Uganda knew that they were participating in a pageant where they will be judged by their appearance (looks, speech, poise and general knowledge etc ) and a reality show will be filmed and aired. From the beginning of the campaign we promised to bring you all the content of what happens behind the scenes including funny, sad, happy, angry and emotional moments throughout the entire Miss Uganda journey. This is a fresh new start to bring more public engagement and insight to the Miss Uganda pageant. This concept may be new to Uganda but we ensure that empowering young women and beauty with a purpose has always been the fundamental cause of the pageant. We had more than 250 girls who attended the auditions and the panel of judges selected the top 23 girls who they thought were the most likely to succeed if they were faced by judges at Miss World. Some of the judges are former beauty Queens that have represented our country at Miss World and they are working to groom a Miss Uganda winner that can represent Uganda on a global scale as this is one of the most important elements of the competition.

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