Painful-to-watch footage of a beauty contestant has gone viral, after the young woman made an awkward onstage blunder that has left people mortified.<\/p>\n
Isamar Herrera, the representative for Panama, had been competing in Miss Grand International, a multi-week contest held in Thailand, when she made a blunder she\u2019ll likely never live down.<\/p>\n
During the pageant\u2019s coronation night, the 31-year-old hopeful was standing on stage alongside 76 other contestants from around the world, as a host called out the women who had made it to the final 22.<\/p>\n
At one point, Herrera can be seen stepping forward, with the cameras focusing in on her as she smiles and celebrates her \u201cwin\u201d.<\/p>\n
The young hopeful then proceeds to walk forward, as the crowd around is excruciatingly silent.<\/p>\n
Isamar Herrera represents Panama at the Miss Grand International competition in Thailand. Miss Grand International<\/p>\n
It quickly became clear why.<\/p>\n
In the chaos and excitement of the moment, there had been a terrible misunderstanding, with the announcer taking to his microphone to quickly clarify the mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cAaah, I beg your pardon, I announced Miss Grand Paraguay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a lot of noise in this hall, packed full of fans from all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
She then has to awkwardly return to her spot as the real winner, Paraguay\u2019s Cecilia Romero, proceeded to walk the stage in celebration.<\/p>\n
The beauty contestant\u2019s mishap has since sparked an avalanche of support on social media, with one video on\u00a0TikTok\u00a0amassing almost 5 million views alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cPanama, Canada, Paraguay, sound the same, don\u2019t condemn her,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe she didn\u2019t really understand because of language barrier,\u201d reasoned another.<\/p>\n
The beauty contestant\u2019s mishap has since sparked an avalanche of support on social media, with one video on\u00a0TikTok\u00a0amassing almost 5 million views alone. Miss Grand International<\/p>\n
Paraguay\u2019s Cecilia Romero was crowned the real winner during the coronation ceremony of the event. Miss Grand International<\/p>\n
As someone else added: \u201cI\u2019m from Paraguay and I felt very sorry about what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others noted the video was \u201cpainful to watch\u201d before adding: \u201cHope she gets over it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were a good candidate, impeccable every time you came out, and you deserved the classification. I\u2019m sure better things will happen in your life,\u201d agreed one more.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoor girl, wish someone had told her before she reached the front,\u201d mused another.<\/p>\n
Cecillia Romero beat out 76 other contestants including Thailand\u2019s Sarunrat Puagpipat as first runner-up, Spain\u2019s Aitana Jim\u00e9nez as second runner-up, Ghana\u2019s Faith Porter as third runner-up, and Venezuela\u2019s Nariman Battikha as fourth runner-up. Facebook\/ Cecilia Romero<\/p>\n
Thankfully, she appears to have taken the mishap in her stride.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese things happen. It was a mistake and this is a competition,\u201d she said after.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to know how to lose and recognise the triumph of others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma Tiglao, 30, of Pampanga was crowned the eventual winner of Miss Grand International 2025.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the winners were Thailand\u2019s Sarunrat Puagpipat as first runner-up, Spain\u2019s Aitana Jim\u00e9nez as second runner-up, Ghana\u2019s Faith Porter as third runner-up, and Venezuela\u2019s Nariman Battikha as fourth runner-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Painful-to-watch footage of a beauty contestant has gone viral, after the young woman made an awkward onstage blunder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9351,157,9,24,63,9352,122,124,123,9353],"class_list":{"0":"post-11719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-beauty-pageants","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-panama","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-social-media-fails"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}