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There is nary bid successful the satellite of the Miss USA pageant. 

The enactment is being rocked by cheating and favoritism accusations, and contestants aren't hiding their feelings, arsenic respective walked disconnected the signifier erstwhile Miss Texas, R'Bonney Gabriel, was crowned the caller winner.

Several contestants are convinced that R'Bonney was the predetermined winner, arsenic evidenced by the pb up to the Monday, Oct. 3, crowning ceremony. The seemingly-shunned women constituent to the information that the Asian and Filipina American was hugely choky with Miss USA manager Crystle Stewart and visited a integrative country spa, a cardinal portion of the winning prize, weeks earlier being crowned. The eventual victor — Miss Texas — besides participated successful a pageant coaching concern that is tally by Crystle, which solidified the women's friendship.

Miss Montana, Heather Lee O'Keefe, took to TikTok to outline the cheating claims.

"Most of the Miss USA contestants consciousness precise powerfully that determination was favoritism towards Miss Texas USA and we person the receipts to beryllium it," she said successful a TikTok video, via MailOnline. "We are putting our titles connected the line, putting our reputations connected the line."

In different video, she said, "That's however powerfully we consciousness astir believing and lasting up for what is right. There is galore of america who person adjacent said we are consenting to relinquish our titles to instrumentality this basal due to the fact that that's however superior we are astir this."

While it's customary for Miss USA contestants to enactment connected signifier and applaud the winner, video showed the quality queens leaving successful a wide exodus aft R'Bonney's win. 

Miss Texas' rivals judge the hole was successful agelong earlier the crowning evening. A video of Crystle doing R'Bonney's hairsbreadth weeks earlier the ceremonial is conscionable 1 portion of the controversy. In addition, Heather pointed to a video of R'Bonney being pampered astatine the NIZUC Resort & Spa implicit 2 months agone — the edifice tweeted retired the video soon aft the win. The spa sojourn is typically talented successful the days aft the win, not months before.

"@MissUSA was crowned little than 24 hours ago, yet she already got her sponsored abrogation to @NIZUCResort," Heather said. "Are you kidding me? I was giving y'all the payment of the doubt, but this is conscionable embarrassing astatine this point."

Miss Texas, Heather besides claims, was the lone 1 featured connected the Miss USA website. Further, it turns retired that 1 of the judges of Miss USA is allegedly the laminitis of a quality institution affiliated with NIZUC.

"Ever since Miss Texas was crowned a mates months ago, she has been shown favoritism by the Miss USA enactment done their businesses that are besides each owned by the aforesaid woman," Heather said. 

Former Miss USA contestant Jasmine Jones, who has been progressive successful pageantry for a decade, besides said the favoritism is "obvious" and insisted the wide exodus was a "big tell-all" that "something was off."

"In the background, girls were virtually clapping [weakly] and they started exiting the signifier earlier she adjacent turned astir for her congratulatory hug from different contestants," she said. "Before she adjacent got halfway down the runway for her crowning moment, the contestants down her were exiting the stage." 

Several women successful the Class of 2021, Heather alleged, person filed a suit against the organizers.