Polina Lomakina, who worked with Miss Vietnam contestants for two weeks, expressed her disappointment with the fairness of this pageant on her blog.

Polina Lomakina

Lomakina, who manages a modeling agency, was one of two foreign experts who were invited to Vietnam to train the 37 contestants of the Miss Vietnam 2010 pageant in performance skills. , which wrapped up on August 14. She currently manages a modeling company.

After she returned home to Russia, the former supermodel wrote on Facebook about the pagent, which wrapped up on August 14. “We all knew in advance who was going to win. It was really unjust. The opinion of only one person doesn’t mean anything. [In a pagent,] the most important thing is who is chosen by the people. You can’t buy the love of the audience, and you can’t make them like you.”

Though she expressed her disappointment in the way the pagent was run, the Russian supermodel didn’t comment on the new Miss Vietnam. She wrote that the two weeks working with Vietnamese girls is wonderful time in her life.

Polina Lomakina and Vietnamese girls.

The comment attributed to Lomakina has stirred up controversies on many online forums. Some writers call her personal opinion “not sufficient’ to conclude that Miss Vietnam 2010 contest was unfair because the views of Vietnamese and foreigners are different.

“She thought that the pagent unfair because the judges had chosen the winner before the final night. However, she didn’t know that was their way of working. The Miss Vietnam judges selected the winners based on their performance during a long process before the final night,” one aficianado wrote.

Others said that Lomakina’s comment is reliable because she worked directly with contestants. “She is not a Vietnamese so she gains nothing from making such a comment. She only expressed her personal feeling. If Polia was a judge, the results would have been different!” an audience wrote.

Commentators tended to agree that time and the new beauty queen’s activities will answer whether the Miss Vietnam 2010 pageant was fair or not.

PV