Mr. Nawat spent 136 billion to buy Miss Universe Thailand, bringing Engfa and a series of favorite chickens to compete?

On February 17, Mr. Nawat posted a photo with the Miss Universe Thailand logo with the caption " MGI (Miss Grand International becomes the official owner)", causing surprise because he had previously declared his displeasure with this contest.

Miss Universe Thailand has also recently created an Instagram account, and this account not only follows Ms. Anne (Miss Universe President) but also Mr. Nawat. This makes beauty fans even more suspicious about this transition.

Piyaporn Sankosik - former National Director of Miss Universe Thailand - congratulated Mr. Nawat on her personal Facebook page. She shared: "Congratulations Nawat. Change is inevitable and we are proud of everything we have done for this contest. Let's continue to develop the contest with love!".

According to unconfirmed sources, Mr. Nawat paid 180 million baht (about 136 billion VND) for a 5-year contract, from 2025-2029.

In response to rumors from fans, Mr. Nawat said all information will be clarified at the Miss Universe Thailand 2025 press conference on February 18.

After this information was announced, MU Thailand also quickly announced the list of 25 contestants for the new season. Notably, Praveenar Singh-Thakral - runner-up of MU Thailand 2024 has registered to compete in Miss Universe Thailand 2025. This is the fourth time she has participated in Miss Universe Thailand.

The return of Praveenar Singh-Thakral received a warm welcome from the audience. She is considered a beauty with great potential to win the crown this year.

"She deserves the crown", "This is Praveenar's moment", "She is a strong, resilient warrior. She deserves to represent Thailand at Miss Universe 2025"... the audience commented.

Praveenar's perseverance inspires women to pursue their dreams. However, Praveenar's fourth beauty pageant appearance has also drawn mixed reactions.

"If Praveenar participates and doesn't win this year, she should think about moving to another beauty pageant and not try to win Miss Universe," one viewer said.

Praveenar Singh-Thakral last competed in Miss Universe Thailand in 2023 and finished as the second runner-up. She later relinquished the title. She previously placed as the first and second runner-up at Miss Universe Thailand in 2018 and 2020.

In addition to Veena, a series of Mr. Nawat's favorites are also expected to join MU Thailand. Even Engfa also hinted that he would join with the status line "Road to..."

Miss Universe Thailand in the past six seasons (from 2019 - 2024) were all managed and organized by a different unit. The contestants who won the crown in these seasons were all sent to compete in Miss Universe. Of these, only twice in 2021 and 2022, the Golden Temple sash was "out of top".

The series of achievements that the Thai beauty brought to her homeland at Miss Universe are considered impressive, including: Top 5 - season 2019, Top 10 - season 2020, 1st runner-up - season 2023 and 3rd runner-up - season 2024.

Although she did not achieve good results in the 2021 and 2022 seasons, the Thai beauty still left clear personal impressions, causing international media to mention her a lot.

Over the years, Mr. Nawat has repeatedly caused a stir on social media by openly disliking the Miss Universe pageant. For example, he openly showed a video declaring war on the "rival pageant" in 2022. Not only that, the president of Miss Grand International is also not very happy to welcome contestants from the Miss Universe Thailand pageant.

Mr. Nawat once announced that the contestant who competed in Miss Universe Thailand was banned from competing in Miss Grand Thailand. Not to mention that he also frankly scolded the beauty who won Miss Grand Thailand 2023 for continuously wearing costumes of the sponsor of the Miss Universe Thailand contest. But now, Mr. Nawat is said to be about to buy back Miss Universe Thailand. This clever "turn" of the chairman was unexpected, and also caused many concerns.

Many people ask: "How will Mr. Nawat manage when he holds two famous beauty contests in his hands?". When one side is his "child" and the other side is a playground that is said to be about to transform from "enemy to friend". How will Mr. Nawat balance the organization of Miss Grand International and Miss Universe Thailand and clearly separate the colors of these two contests, if he officially owns Miss Universe Thailand?

In recent years, Mr. Nawat's contest has been "commercialized" by developing more activities such as fashion shows, singing, livestream sales... However, the core of Miss Universe in general and Miss Universe Thailand in particular is beauty, intelligence, compassion and influence on society.

Many people are concerned that Miss Universe Thailand has lost its individual identity and become commercialized, causing the quality of contestants to decline under Mr. Nawat's control.

Miss Grand whose copyright was revoked speaks out to warn Mr Nawat about the MU Thai copyright case Bảo Nam15:47:35 21/02/2025Recently, the copyright of Miss Universe Thailand has changed, attracting the attention of the beauty fan community. Accordingly, Mr. Nawat has successfully purchased the copyright of the contest in this country. The handshake between Mr. Nawat and Ms. Anne surprised the public.