Staff Correspondent|Vice-President, Constantino Chiwenga’s wife, Marry, is urging all beauty contestants participating in the Miss World Zimbabwe (MWZ) to maintain their state of professionalism.

Marry stated that the country’s flagship beauty contest should be a scandal-free pageant, where the queen is identified on merit and crowned on professional grounds.

She is currently the pageant’s licence holder of the global event in Zimbabwe.

Speaking to the aspiring models vying for this year’s crown who are currently in boot-camp in Harare, marry told the beauties to report any form of abuse during the boot camp.

“As you are here in boot camp, there is no difference as you are at home, so let me advise you that no one must pressurize or abuse you in any way with claims that they might be closer to me as the Miss World Zimbabwe licence holder. Even those who are closer to me they don’t have the capacity to influence the crowning of the queen, this cannot happen at all, let professionalism carry the day,” she said.

“Those men who are facilitating your grooming progression as part of this boot camp program must be treated as your brothers or fathers as they are not potential boyfriends or husbands. So they must not by any chance abuse you in any form, be it proposals of love or demands for se_x in exchange for the crown. You must report them as this is a professional pageant whose crown must be won on merit.”

Marry challenged the executive committee to improve on what she used to do with them so as to continue raising the pageant’s bar high.