BIG BEAUTY PAGEANT BRAWL

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nAN EXTRAORDINARY situation blighted the recent Mrs Sri Lanka beauty pageant when 2019 winner Caroline Jurie snatched the crown off the head of horrified 2020-2021 recipient Pushpika De Silva (above) and accused her of breaking the rules by being divorced. She then gave the crown to the first runner-up during the bizarre on-stage intervention.

The 23rd UK Asian Film Festival will run from May 26 to June 6. Visit www.tonguesonfire. com in coming weeks to see the full line up. The title was later returned to De Silva with an apology and Jurie was arrested by police on charges of assault. The only positive from this whole mess was the pageant getting more publicity than it has ever had in its history. De Silva said: “A true queen is not a woman who snatches another woman’s crown, but a woman who secretly sets another woman’s crown.”

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