Vassileva, the vice-miss, is now the new Miss Bulgaria 2012 and will travel to Miss World.
The jury had revoked the crown of Miss Bulgaria 2012 Ina Mancheva after it was established that a hacker attack had manipulated the online vote of theaudience.
The news was announced Thursday by TV7, which was the main organizer of thepageant.
The new Miss Bulgaria is now the first runner-up, Gabriela Vassileva.
The audience vote counted as 3 points, but a check of the organizers revealed themanipulation and showed that Vassileva was actually one point ahead of Mancheva.
The votes for Mancheva had come in large numbers from some very strange places such as Bangladesh and Pakistan, the jury says, admitting their own mistakes and promising that next year they will close the online vote two days prior to the conclusion of the pageant in order to have time to count and verify the results.
“This decision is hurting my self-esteem, but made me wiser… This pageant must be honest. I wish Gabriela luck at the world contest. I feel offended because these results had to be checked earlier,” Mancheva commented.
Gabriela Vassileva will now represent Bulgaria at Miss World 2012 in Ordos.
Hang on tight to your crowns, ladies! It’s World Dethroning Week!
I know and the whole re-crowning thing was very strange and sad for both girls!!!
I completely disagree with most of the comments , because. Gabriela isI very beautiful and smart girl ! I also would like to mention that this picture is from the original ceremony in which she was crowned as a runner-up and believe me there was no fake ceremony or re-crowning ! Moreover, our new miss Bulgaria -Gabi is adored and supported by the entire Bulgarian nation!!!
The new Miss Bulgaria was crowned during some news show in a TV studio.
Ina was more beautiful then Gabriella. Bulgaria should send Ina to MU bcoz she has what everyone wants to see at MU
The Miss Bulgaria contest dropped the MU franchise in 2009. And even if they had it, Ina is ineligible as she is only 17.
Really………..can’t you see very well????? I don’t wanna say that Gabriela is the most beautiful girl in Bulgaria….but if you compare both,Gabriela is 1000 times better than Ina,sorry to say that,but this is the truth …….And than ,i need to add that the most beautiful girls in Bulgaria ,will not be showing off in such a competition, we all know what,and how it is about…….
Thanks for the info.
1st Runner up usually compete for Miss Universe pageant.
Bulgaria last went to Miss Universe in 2009. After that they dropped the license.
Omg that would be exciting to see a grand slam winner be dethroned lmao
Seems like 2012 is a DARK YEAR for pageant world! I wonder if any od the Grand Slam titleholders will be dethroned soon!
I THINK MISS PHILIPPINES SHOULD BE DETHRONED AND SEND SOMEONE ELSE, JANINE IS TOO PLAIN AND NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT HER AND SHE SEEMS SO RESERVED THAT SHE WOULD NOT EVEN MAKE FRIENDS AT ALL THE THE PAGEANT. SHE HAS THAT FULL MOON TYPE OF FACE THAT JUST TOO PLAIN FOR ANY PAGEANTS.
BEAUTY WISE: TOO WEAK
PERSONALITY WISE: (BASE ON PICTURES) TOO WEAK
COMPETITIVE WISE: (BASE ON OBSERVATIONS) TOO WEAK
STAND HER TO 80+ LADIES: TOO WEAK, NOTHING REMARKABLE ABOUT HER, TOO PLAIN.
IT IS VERY DISREPCTFUL TOWARD THE WINNER……..
the winner is more beautiful then the runner up…sorry
Bulgaria has made a crowing ceremony for Gabriella with all the finalists back on stage, as if, to appear, that she was really crowned the very night of Miss Bulgaria Finals.
I feel for Ina, but Gabriella deserves the win. Ina can be sent to Miss Universe (though the third placer is better)
mancheva became a star in night and was brought down to earth in a night(logicaly)
lets hope that the host countries of all the pageants do not suffer from any scandals
beauty pageant creates so many major major mistakes….
From “transexual”, to being “married”, to being “too old”, and now “vote manipulation”… 2012 the year of Scandal after scandal after scandal…
Shocking year for the pageants.
True!!
Cuando es por votos, se debe manejar muy bien los conteos, esto despues de que se la anuncio como ganadora, y ahora la destituyen, es jugar con las iluciones de los demas, entonces para un mejor resultado que la envien a miss universo,
very embarassing
oh dear, Bulgaria unearthed a gem only to find out there was an error- the organisers should have just allowed the results to stand
First Ireland now Bulgaria who’s next?
What a week for dethroning ! Dom Rep, Ireland and now Bulgaria…..I wonder who is next!