For the past five years, the controversy swirling around Miss USA has stolen the spotlight from the women in the pageant.
There was a rigging investigation, sexual harassment and bullying allegations, and the resignation of a Miss USA and Miss Teen USA for the first time in the 74-year-old pageant's history.
Now, Thom Brodeur is ready to take the reins, hoping to usher in a new era and restore the sparkle of Miss USA's tiara. He is the founder and CEO of Brodeur Beauty and a longtime pageant coach and judge. Noelia Voigt, the Miss USA queen who resigned, told Business Insider that it was a "new day on the horizon."
"I genuinely feel like going on my social media right now and telling every girl that has been afraid to compete in the USA system since I resigned to please go ahead and sig