The annual beauty pageant concluded on Saturday night in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, with Sheynnis Palacios of Nicaragua emerging as the 2023 Miss Universe. Thailand’s Anntonia Porsild finished as first runner-up.
With Palacios’ victory, a woman from Nicaragua has won Miss Universe for the first time ever. She had previously competed for Nicaragua in the 2021 Miss World pageant and finished in the top 10 of the 2017 Teen Miss Universe competition.
This year’s Miss Universe featured contestants from 84 different national pageants. The judges consisted of model Halima Aden, Carson Kressley from “Queer Eye,” Avani Gregg, a TikTok influencer, and two previous Miss Universe winners: Janelle Commissiong from Trinidad & Tobago (Miss Universe 1977) and Iris Mittenaere from France.
