Editing Miss World (section)

===1970s–1990s===
The Miss World pageant has been the target of many controversies since its inception.
* In [[Miss World 1970|1970]], feminist protesters threw flour bombs during the live event at London's [[Royal Albert Hall]], momentarily alarming the host, [[Bob Hope]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mw2006.pl/index.php?id=216&eng |title=Miss World 2006 |access-date=26 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803200450/http://www.mw2006.pl/index.php?id=216&eng |archive-date= 3 August 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-29-2003-43584.asp |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090316054040/http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-29-2003-43584.asp |url-status=usurped |archive-date=16 March 2009 |title=L–ast milestone on a record-breaking comedy Road ... Bob Hope dies at 100 |publisher=Buzzle.com |date=29 July 2003 |access-date=24 May 2011 }}</ref>
* The [[Miss World 1973|1973]] winner, [[Marjorie Wallace]], was stripped of her title on 8 March 1974 because she had failed to fulfill the basic requirements of the job. Miss World's organizers did not elect someone to serve in her place.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19740307&id=vsIlAAAAIBAJ&pg=5690,3958787|title=Miss World is stripped of her title|access-date=12 October 2020|archive-date=18 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818213908/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19740307&id=vsIlAAAAIBAJ&pg=5690,3958787|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* In [[Miss World 1976|1976]], several countries boycotted the pageant because it included both a [[white South African|white]] and a [[Black South African|Black]] contestant from South Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1976.htm |title=Miss World 1976 |publisher=Pageantopolis |access-date=24 May 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623082606/http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1976.htm |archive-date=23 June 2011 }}</ref> South Africa competed for the last time in 1977, before returning in 1991 as [[Apartheid in South Africa|apartheid]] disintegrated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1977.htm |title=Miss World 1977 |publisher=Pageantopolis |access-date=24 May 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903002634/http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1977.htm |archive-date=3 September 2011 }}</ref>
* The [[Miss World 1980|1980]] winner, [[Gabriella Brum]] of Germany, resigned one day after winning, initially claiming her boyfriend disapproved. A few days later it emerged that she had been forced to resign after it was discovered that she had posed naked for a magazine.<ref name="Pageantopolis - Miss World 1980">{{cite web|url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1980.htm |title=Miss World 1980 |publisher=Pageantopolis |access-date=24 May 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008201347/http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1980.htm |archive-date= 8 October 2014 }}</ref>