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Beauty pageant organisers try to gag outspoken contestant

16:42 pm on 8 July 2019

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In Tonga there's a hulabaloo over the Miss Heilala beuty pageant. Over the weekend the outgoing Miss Heilala, Kolo Funganitao, used her farewell speech to lambast the organisers for not protecting her from bullying, lying and backstabbing. The twist is that reporters say as she was giving her controversial speech, Tonga's Deputy Prime Minister Semisi Sika got the DJ to play loud music to drown out Kalo and her mic was eventually cut.