Miss Universe 2025: Miss Palestine Nadeen Ayoub alleges vote manipulation at Miss Universe

She took to her Instagram on November 23 to share her disappointment with her followers, calling it unjust and voicing her concern about the transparency of the process.

If you didn't know, there are categories on the Miss Universe app that are open to public voting. They are essentially popularity-based, and some of them determine who gets to enter the semifinals through fan votes. Miss Palestine was leading the Most Beautiful People voting category significantly.

Nadeen said in the video, “I was leading it by far, and we only had maybe thirty minutes until the voting closes, and within two minutes another contestant went up over twenty thousand votes, which is very impossible to do unless there's more than one person voting. And it is not really realistic unless it is done internally. And I just found this is very unjust.”