Miss Supranational creative director apologizes for ‘I’m so sick of these f-ing Indonesians’ remark

Indonesians have been completely incensed by an insulting comment made by a director of a lesser-known worldwide magnificence pageant.

Andre Sleigh is the artistic director of the Miss Supranational pageant, which held its newest annual contest in Poland’s Małopolska Area in late August.

On Sept. 7, Thailand’s Anntonia Porsild streamed a dwell video on her Instagram with Sleigh close by however off-camera. At one level within the video, Sleigh may be heard venting about his current frustrations and saying, “I’m so sick of those fucking Indonesians.”

For context, Sleigh mentioned he had been continually pestered on-line by Indonesians over the previous couple of weeks after Jihane Almira, Indonesia’s consultant on the 2021 Miss Supranational contest, did not crack the highest 5. The harassment appeared to have bothered Sleigh a lot that he live streamed an announcement on Instagram on Sept. 4, stressing that the choice was made along with his and the competitors’s integrity intact.

But Sleigh clearly misplaced it and let his true emotions identified when he was oblivious to having his voice recorded on movie. For that, he has apologized on social media, significantly to the Puteri Indonesia Basis and Indonesian contestants at Miss Supranational.

“There may be nothing I can say to justify my second of anger as I used to be studying a remark. It was fully fallacious and jogged my memory how straightforward it’s to make a really damaging mistake,” Sleigh wrote on Miss Supranational’s official Fb web page.

Jihane, who additionally made headlines not too long ago for her role in a controversial new TV show, supplied some pointed recommendation to Sleigh in a current Instagram put up, saying, “Be sure they develop a thick pores and skin and a metal coronary heart earlier than they go ‘out’ there.. A minimum of for the media 😉” 

In the meantime, Porsild, who didn’t immediately problem Sleigh when he made the insulting comment, took to Instagram yesterday to say: “I don’t agree with what was mentioned. I felt it was finest to handle it privately to know what had occurred. Whereas I do perceive that you simply anticipated me to react in protection, I wished to ensure what I heard was right as a result of it caught me fully off guard.”

The 2019 Miss Supranational winner added that she loves all Indonesian followers and has respect for the nation as an entire.

The Miss Supranational pageant has not launched an official assertion concerning Sleigh’s comment as of this text’s publication. 

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