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Almost a month after her Miss North Carolina USA crown was stripped for conduct in violation of Miss USA standards, Brittany Boltinhouse is now Miss Global Honduras.
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Pageant organizer CNB Latinoamérica announced Monday that Boltinhouse, hailing from the eastern North Carolina town of Beulaville, will travel to Thailand to represent Honduras at the Miss Global pageant in October.
Boltinhouse holds her new crown “with the firm intent to highlight the love, passion, charm and cultural wealth of the Honduran people, who deserve to have dignified representation on the global stage,” CNB Latinoamérica wrote in Spanish in a statement via Instagram.
Had Boltinhouse kept the Miss North Carolina crown, she would have been the first Honduran to represent the state at the Miss USA pageant. Her pivot comes roughly a week after Boltinhouse sued Miss USA organizers for defamation, The News & Observer reported.
After evaluating “our vision and commitment to Honduras,” organizers met with Boltinhouse who proposed that she represent the central American country, CNB Latinoamérica wrote in its statement. Boltinhouse “agreed to take on this important commitment under the conditions, values and guidelines established by our organization,” the organization wrote.
CNB Latinoamérica did not address Boltinhouse’s Miss USA controversy in its statement. But it wrote that Honduras has much to offer the world, and the organization’s mission is to ensure the country’s people, culture and essence is represented with dignity.
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“We firmly believe that everyone deserves to fulfill their dreams, and that a country, too, deserves a new opportunity to be represented with pride, respect and determination,” CNB Latinoamérica wrote.
Boltinhouse was announced Aug. 28 as one of four judges for Miss Latina Tennessee, whose CEO, Jordan Joel Huete Matute, is also the founder and CEO of CNB Latinoamérica. Huete Matute was announced as the national director for Miss Global Honduras on Aug. 21.
Though Boltinhouse, 27, used the n-word in social media posts from 2017 and 2019, the posts were only a pretext for dethroning her, according to the lawsuit. It alleges Boltinhouse was actually ousted for expressing conservative beliefs on social media, like her support for President Donald Trump and disdain for former President Joe Biden’s declaration of Transgender Day of Visibility.
The Miss USA organization has never specified publicly how Boltinhouse violated its standards, but CEO Thom Brodeur said in an Aug. 5 statement that the organization “does not tolerate racism, homophobia, transphobia nor language that strips any person of their dignity — no matter who they are.”
Miss USA and A Blaize Productions did not respond to The N&O’s Aug. 24 request for comment on the lawsuit, though A Blaize Productions told the paper on Aug. 8 that the decision to dethrone Boltinhouse had nothing to do with her conservative beliefs.
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