- The 2023 Miss USA pageant will be held on September 29 in Reno, Nevada.
- You can watch the pageant on the CW channel at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
A new Miss USA will be crowned this week.
The 72nd annual Miss USA pageant will take place on September 29 at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nevada. It will air live on the CW channel at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Women from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will compete for the iconic crown. The two-hour event will include the swimsuit and evening-gown competitions, as well as interview rounds.
This year, the competition will be hosted by E! News hosts Keltie Knight and Adrienne Bailon-Houghton. The Miss USA judges are fashion designer Nicole Miller, actress Vivica A. Fox, makeup artist Patrick Starr, and model and philanthropist Emina Cunmulaj Nazarian.
The current Miss USA, Morgan Romano, will provide backstage commentary with former "Bachelor in Paradise" star Jordan Kimball.
The next Miss USA winner will be crowned by Romano, who inherited the title after R'Bonney Gabriel won Miss Universe in January.
Gabriel's Miss USA win became headline news in October after more than a dozen contestants claimed the competition had been rigged in her favor. The Miss Universe Organization launched a third-party investigation and indefinitely suspended Crystle Stewart, who was president of Miss USA.
In August, the Miss Universe Organization announced that a "thorough and extensive investigation" had found that the rigging allegations "were false," but they said Stewart would no longer be president of Miss USA. A representative for Stewart did not respond to a request for comment after the announcement.
"Crystle has decided to leverage the success she has had with the Miss USA Organization to pursue other entrepreneurial passions," the statement read. "We wish Crystle, and her team at Miss Brand, all the best and have no doubt that she will excel in this next chapter."
This will be the first Miss USA pageant with the new president and CEO Laylah Rose, who is also a fashion designer and CEO of the VIP Pageantry television network.
This will also be the first Miss USA pageant to feature a married woman in its 72-year history after the rules were changed in August 2022, and it will be the last one in which only contestants aged 18 to 28 were eligible to enter the competition. As of 2024, all women 18 and over will be able to compete for the crown.