{"id":150259,"date":"2025-11-20T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150259\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:31:09","slug":"ex-chelsea-star-claude-makelele-and-composer-omar-harfouch-step-down-from-miss-universe-judging-panel-days-before-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150259\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Chelsea star Claude Makelele and composer Omar Harfouch step down from Miss Universe judging panel days before finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day later, Claude Makelele announced that he, too, would step down as a judge &#8220;due to unforeseen personal reasons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a difficult decision, as I hold Miss Universe in the highest regard. The platform represents empowerment, diversity, and excellence \u2013 values I have always championed throughout my career,&#8221; wrote Makelele.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sincerely apologise to the organisation, the contestants and everyone involved and I hope to be able to contribute in the future under better circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day later, Claude Makelele announced that he, too, would step down as a judge &#8220;due to unforeseen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,44057],"class_list":["post-150259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-miss-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}