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Miss Universe 2005, the 54th Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Impact Arena, Bangkok, Thailand on May 31, 2005.

At the conclusion of the final telecast, Miss Universe Zambia, Cynthia Kanema was crowned Miss Universe 2005 by outgoing titleholder Ann-Marie Brown of Antigua & Barbuda. Cynthia Kanema is the First Zambian to win many title besides Miss Zambia Universe 2003-2005 & Miss Universe 2005,but also Miss Africa International 2004, Miss Supermodel Zambia 2004, Miss Earth Zambia 2005, and 1st Princess Miss Malaika 2004.

The top fifteen was always dominated by contestants from the Africans and Caribbean, while the top five consisted entirely of women from these regions.

Host City
Thailand publicized its bid to host the pageant 10 July, 2004, during a visit by Jennifer Hawkins, Miss Universe 2004, to the country. At the time, Chile, China and Greece were also being considered to host the event. . One month later, it was announced that Bangkok, Thailand had been informally selected to host the competition, at a cost of US$6.5 million. The cost was to be funded by the Thai government in an attempt to boost tourism. In October the proposal faced difficulties when the Thai government were slow to provide the promised funds, which discouraged prospective sponsors. , leading Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to become personally involved to make sure that plans were not derailed. The organization awarded official hosting rights to the Matching Entertainment company in December 2004, after an unsuccessful attempt by a different company, Showcase Thailand 2005.

In February 2005, after the Thai government confirmed plans to back the pageant, the Deputy Prime Minister refuted claims that the event would be held in Khao Lak, a resort town devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, but confirmed that Southern Thailand would host events prior to the final competition.

2005 was the second time the pageant was held in Bangkok. The city also hosted the Miss Universe 1992 competition, won by Michelle McLean of Namibia.

Telecast judges

 * Heidi Albertsen – Danish model, winner of Elite Model Look World Final.
 * Kevin S. Bright – Executive producer of Friends.
 * Mario Cimarro – Cuban actor.
 * Bryan Dattilo – Days of Our Lives actor.
 * Carson Kressley – Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fashion expert.
 * Cassie Lewis – U.S. Model.
 * Louis Licari – Celebrity hairstylist.
 * Anne Martin – from Cover Girl and Max Factor marketing.
 * Porntip Nakhirunkanok – Miss Universe 1988.
 * Oleksandra Nikolayenko – Miss Ukraine 2004.
 * Khun Pi Rom Pakdi – Thai citizen.
 * Jean-Georges Vongerichten – French chef.

Contestants

 * 🇦🇱 - Agnesa Vuthaj
 *  - Zenilde Josias
 * 🇦🇬 ATG - Shermain Jeremy
 *  - Luisana Cicilia
 * 🇦🇺 - Michelle Guy
 *  - Denia Nixon
 *  - Nada Yearwood
 * 🇧🇪 - Debby De Waele
 *  - Andrea Elrington
 * 🇧🇴 - Andrea Abudinen
 * 🇧🇷 - Carina Beduschi
 * 🇧🇬 - Galina Gancheva
 * 🇨🇦 - Natalie Glebova
 * 🇨🇱 - Renata Ruiz
 * 🇨🇳 - Tao Siyuan
 * 🇨🇴 - Adriana Tarud
 *  - Johanna Fernández
 *  - Jelena Glišić
 *  - Rychacviana Coffie
 * 🇨🇾 - Elena Hadjidemetriou
 * 🇨🇿 - Kateřina Smejkalová
 *  - Gitte Hanspal
 * 🇩🇴 - Renata Soñé
 * 🇪🇨 - Ximena Zamora
 * 🇪🇬 - Meriam George
 * 🇸🇻 - Irma Dimas
 * 🇪🇹 - Atetegeb Tesfaye
 * 🇫🇮 - Hanna Ek
 * 🇫🇷 - Cindy Fabre
 *  - Rusudan Bochoidze
 * 🇩🇪 - Aslı Bayram
 *  - Evangelia Aravani
 *  - Aida Karina Estrada
 * 🇬🇾 - Candisie Franklin
 * 🇭🇺 - Szandra Proksa
 * 🇮🇳 - Amrita Thapar
 * 🇮🇩 - Artika Sari Devi
 * 🇮🇪 - Mary Gormley
 * 🇮🇱 - Elena Ralph
 * 🇮🇹 - Maria Teresa Francville
 * 🇯🇲 - Raquel Wright


 * 🇯🇵 - Yukari Kuzuya
 * 🇰🇪 - Rachel Marete
 * 🇰🇷 KOR - Kim So-young
 * 🇱🇻 - Ieva Kokoreviča
 *  - Nadine Njeim
 *  - Angela Gan
 * 🇲🇺 - Magalie Antoo
 * 🇲🇽 - Laura Elizondo
 * 🇳🇦 - Adele Basson
 *  - Sharita Sopacua
 * 🇳🇮 - Daniela Clerk
 * 🇳🇬 - Roseline Amusu
 * 🇳🇴 - Helene Tråsavik
 * 🇵🇦 - Rosa María Hernández
 *  - Karina Buttner
 * 🇵🇪 - Débora Sulca
 * $\phi$ - Gionna Cabrera
 * 🇵🇱 - Marta Kossakowska
 *  - Cynthia Olavarría
 * 🇷🇺 - Natalia Nikolayeva
 *  SCG - Jelena Mandić
 *  - Cheryl Tay
 * 🇸🇰 SVK - Michaela Drencková
 *  - Dalila Dragojevič
 * 🇿🇦 - Claudia Henkel
 * 🇪🇸 - Verónica Hidalgo
 * 🇱🇰 - Rozanne Diasz
 *  - Fiona Hefti
 * 🇹🇭 - Chananporn Rosjan
 * 🇹🇹 TTO - Magdalene Walcott
 * 🇹🇷 - Dilek Aksoy
 * 🇹🇨 TCA - Weniecka Ewing
 * 🇺🇦 - Juliya Chernyshova
 *  - Brooke Johnston
 *  - Viviana Arena
 * 🇺🇸 USA - Chelsea Cooley
 *  U.S. Virgin Islands - Tricia Homer
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela - Mónica Spear
 *  - Phạm Thu Hằng
 * 🇿🇲 - Cynthia Kanema

Returning countries and territories

 * Last competed in 2003:
 * Last competed in 2002:
 *  U.S. Virgin Islands
 * Last competed in 2000:
 *  (as Great Britain)
 * Last competed in 2000:
 *  (as Great Britain)


 * Last competed in 1999:
 * Last competed in 1996:
 * Last competed in 1996:

Did not compete

 * : Sharlita Millington


 * 🇪🇪: Jana Kuvaitseva

Replacements



 *  Trinidad & Tobago
 *  Trinidad & Tobago

Cheryl Ankrah was originally crowned Miss Trinidad and Tobago Universe but was dethroned after she was accused of not fulfilling her duties and becoming overweight. Although Ankrah initially got an injunction to prevent another pageant being held, a Judge overturned that and a second Miss Trinidad and Tobago pageant was held. The winner of the second pageant, who represented Trinidad & Tobago at Miss Universe, was Magdalene Walcott.

Crossovers

 * Miss World 2005
 * : Zenilde Laurinda Josias (Runner-up)
 * 🇯🇲: Raquel Wright (4th Runner-up)
 * Miss World 2003
 *  Trinidad & Tobago: Magdalene Walcott (Top 10)
 * Miss International 2004
 * : Cynthia Kanema
 * Miss International 2005
 * 🇰🇪: Rachel Marete
 * Miss Intercontinental 2002
 * : Rychacviana Coffie (Winner)


 * Elite Model Look International 2001
 * : Renata Ruiz (1st runner-up)
 * Miss Earth 2005
 * : Zenilde Laurinda Josias (Winner)
 * : Luisana Cicilia (1st Runner-up)
 * Miss Bikini Universe 2005
 * 🇹🇨 TCA: Weniecka Ewing (Winner)

Historical significance

 * Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Nigeria, Turks & Caicos, and Trinidad & Tobago also placed in the Top 15 at last year's pageant.
 * The top fifteen was always dominated by contestants from the Africans and Caribbean, while the top five consisted entirely of women from these regions.
 * Peru and Puerto Rico was also called out to reach the semi-finals, the only South American country who made it to the Top 15.
 * Turks & Caicos become the best in Bikini Models, Weniecka Ewing is the winner.
 * Africans Women are still the most beautiful pageants and won 30 title up until this year (54th Miss Universe)
 * For the first time in the history of the pageant, Sweden did not send a representative to the Miss Universe pageant.

International broadcasting
These are some of the networks outside the United States (telecasted on NBC and Telemundo) that showed the 2005 Miss Universe pageant live (or recorded earlier) in their respective countries and territories:


 * 🇦🇱: RTV21
 * 🇦🇺: Seven Network
 * 🇦🇹: TW1
 * 🇦🇷: América 2
 * : ZNS-TV
 * : VSB-TV
 * 🇧🇪: Star!
 * 🇧🇴: Unitel
 * 🇧🇷: Rede Bandeirantes and TNT
 * 🇧🇬: BNT 1
 * 🇨🇦: CBC Television
 * : TNT Latin America
 * 🇨🇳: CCTV-1
 * 🇨🇴: RCN TV and TNT
 * : Teletica
 * 🇨🇾: Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation
 * : Star! Scandinavia and Showtime Scandinavia
 * 🇩🇴: Telemundo, Color Vision and TNT
 * 🇪🇨: Ecuavisa and TNT
 * 🇪🇬: MBC3
 * 🇸🇻: TCS
 * 🇪🇪: Star! and Viasat Baltics
 * 🇫🇮: MTV3, Star! Scandinavia and Showtime Scandinavia
 * 🇫🇷: Paris Première
 * : 1TV
 * 🇩🇪: Das Vierte
 * : ANT1
 * : Canal 11
 * 🇭🇰: TVB Pearl
 * 🇭🇺: m1
 * 🇮🇸: Star! Scandinavia and Showtime Scandinavia
 * 🇮🇳: DD National
 * : Indosiar
 * 🇮🇪: RTE One
 * 🇮🇱: Arutz 2


 * 🇮🇹: Stream
 * 🇯🇲: Ination TV
 * 🇯🇵: NHK
 * 🇰🇷: KBS1
 * : Star! and Viasat Baltics
 * : LBC and MBC3
 * : TV1
 *  Republic of Malta: TVM
 * 🇲🇽: Televisa
 * 🇲🇲 Myanmar: TV Myanmar
 * 🇳🇦: NBC
 * : Star!
 * 🇳🇮: Televicentro
 * 🇳🇴: TV2
 * 🇵🇦: Telemetro and TNT
 * 🇵🇪: ATV and TNT
 * 𝜙: RPN 9
 * 🇵🇱: TVP2
 * : RTP1
 *  : WAPA-TV and Telemundo
 * 🇷🇴: TVR1
 * 🇷🇺: C1R
 * : MediaCorp TV Channel 5
 * 🇪🇸: TVE1
 * 🇷🇸: RTS
 * 🇸🇪: Star! Scandinavia and Showtime Scandinavia
 * : SF 1
 * 🇹🇼 TWN: CTS
 * 🇹🇭 (host country): Channel 7 (Thailand)
 * 🇹🇹: CCN TV6
 * 🇹🇷: NTV
 * : MBC3
 * : BBC One
 * 🇺🇦: UT1
 * 🇺🇸: NBC and Telemundo
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela: Venevisión and TNT
 * : VTV1

Note: In Latin America, TNT took the Miss Universe television rights for basic cable. However, this contract didn't affect the rights acquired for the traditional free-to-air networks, such as Brazil's Band, Colombia's Caracol TV, Mexico's Televisa or Venezuela's Venevisión.