Miss USA has been dropped by The CW network a week before the pageant

Aug 21, 2026 05:10 AM - 1 hour ago 1

The next Miss USA won't beryllium coming to your tv screens aft all.

A spokesperson for The CW confirmed to Business Insider connected Thursday that the web will not aerial the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA finals adjacent week arsenic primitively planned.

"After observant information and conversations pinch the Miss USA Organization, The CW Network has decided to forego adjacent week's broadcasts of the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants," the spokesperson said successful a statement. "We wish the statement and each of this year's contestants good successful the competition."

A spokesperson for Miss USA told Business Insider that the pageant will beryllium streamed connected the Queen Beauty Network, arsenic it was successful 2025.

Miss USA CEO and president Thom Brodeur antecedently announced successful June that the pageant had agreed to a caller woody pinch The CW.

It was meant to beryllium a return to cablegram for the troubled pageant, which has seen its activity alteration hands 3 times since 2020 and weathered respective highly publicized scandals.

The CW web antecedently agreed to a three-year woody pinch then-CEO Laylah Rose successful April 2024. A period later, Miss USA 2023 Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA UmaSofia Srivastava relinquished their titles, a first successful the pageant's 70-plus-year history. The pageant queens said they had been bullied by Rose, who denied the allegations.

Miss USA 2024 took spot successful August 2024 and aired connected The CW arsenic scheduled. But, successful 2025, the web confirmed to Business Insider that it had nary plans to aerial that year's pageant. It was the first clip Miss USA had not been televised since 1965.

Brodeur, who replaced Rose successful September 2025, was excited astir the pageant returning to TV.

"Bringing Miss USA and Miss Teen USA backmost to The CW for some competitions is simply a defining infinitesimal arsenic we observe 75 years of Miss USA," he said successful a property merchandise announcing the caller woody successful June.

"The CW reaches audiences successful each area of the country, and location is nary amended shape connected which to showcase these 102 bonzer women arsenic they compete for 2 of the astir iconic titles successful the world," he added.

The Miss Teen USA and Miss USA finals will return spot astatine the Adrienne Arsht Center successful Miami connected August 26 and 27.

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