{"id":11840,"date":"2025-10-22T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11840\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:40:32","slug":"miss-panama-beauty-queens-awkward-onstage-blunder-goes-viral-leaving-viewers-mortified-beg-your-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11840\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Panama beauty queen\u2019s awkward onstage blunder goes viral \u2014 leaving viewers mortified: \u2018Beg your pardon?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretty awkward.<\/p>\n

A confusing moment ruined the celebration for one beauty queen after her competitor mistakenly took her spotlight in a viral, painful-to-watch mishap.<\/p>\n

Isamar Herrera stood proudly among the 76 contestants for Miss Grand International stood on stage in Bangkok, Thailand, hoping to hear their country called and be named one of the 22 finalists, on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old, who represented Panama, covered her face in surprise as she began to walk down the stage while the crowd and her fellow contestants looked in stunned silence.<\/p>\n

Herrera made it to the front of the platform, striking a pose for ten seconds for her shining moment.<\/p>\n

\"Isamar<\/p>\n

Isamar Herrera represents Panama at the Miss Grand International competition in Thailand. Miss Grand International<\/p>\n

Miss Grand Panama\u2019s moment was cut short when host Matthew Deane interrupted to fix the glaring error.<\/p>\n

\u201cAaah, I beg your pardon, I announced Miss Grand Paraguay,\u201d Deane said, drawing out the long, awkward silence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot of noise in this hall, packed full of fans from all over the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Herrera was forced to walk away from her position as Paraguay\u2019s representative Cecilia Romero made her way to the front.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The beauty contestant\u2019s mishap has since sparked an avalanche of support on social media, with one video on TikTok amassing almost 5 million views alone. Miss Grand International<\/p>\n

Some of the contestants were left awkwardly looking around, while others gave supportive applause in an attempt to save the moment for Romero.<\/p>\n

Ten more contestants were called to round out the 22 finalists as Herrera failed to make the cut.<\/p>\n

The awkward onstage blunder resonated with viewers who shared remorse for both Herrera and Romero.<\/p>\n

\u201cPanama, Canada, Paraguay, sound the same, don\u2019t condemn her,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe she didn\u2019t really understand because of language barrier,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n

\"Paraguay\u2019s<\/p>\n

Paraguay\u2019s Cecilia Romero was crowned the real winner during the coronation ceremony of the event. Miss Grand International<\/p>\n

Some fans offered support for Herrera and hoped she would toss the mistake out of her mind and return to competition.<\/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 another comment read.<\/p>\n

The 22 finalists represented Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Martinique, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela and Zambia.<\/p>\n

\"Cecillia<\/p>\n

Cecillia Romero. Facebook\/ Cecilia Romero<\/p>\n

Emma Tiglao, of the Philippines, was crowned Miss Grand International after the multi-week contest.<\/p>\n

It is the second year in a row the Southeast Asian county won the marking two years in a row the Southeast Asian country won the pageant.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old news anchor beat out first runner-up Sarunrat Puagpipat of Thailand 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

With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pretty awkward. A confusing moment ruined the celebration for one beauty queen after her competitor mistakenly took her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9425,9430,9429,9426,9427,9,24,63,9428,122,124,123,9202],"class_list":["post-11840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-awkward-silence","tag-bangkok","tag-isamar-herrera","tag-matthew-deane","tag-miss-grand-international","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-paraguay","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11840","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=11840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}