Child beauty pageant organisers considered staging it in scrap yard

Organisers of a US-themed child beauty pageant were so desperate to find a venue, they even checked out a run-down industrial estate and considered staging it in a dilapidated scrap metal yard.

Texas-based Universal Royalty’s plans to host their debut show in Ireland last September were thrown into chaos when management at their first-choice venue pulled the plug on the pageant two days before it was scheduled to take place.

Although the &contest went ahead two days later at an alternative venue, the full extent of the frantic efforts pageant chiefs went to to secure a location have only now come to light in a documentary.