• The 74th annual Miss Universe contest will be held in Bangkok on Friday morning. • There will be 120 women competing in the pageant. • The contestants include a civil engineer, a "Big Brother" star, and a Ph.D. candidate specializing in HIV research.

Drama has surrounded the 2025 Miss Universe pageant, but the show must go on.

A new winner will be crowned in Thailand on Friday morning by Miss Universe 2024 Victoria Kjær Theilvig, the first woman from Denmark to win the title. In the US, coverage of the pageant will stream on Peacock starting at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday.

Here's every woman competing in this year's Miss Universe pageant.

Flavia Harizaj, 26, was born in Fier, Albania, and has a degree in finance. She believes that financial literacy is "not only a professional pursuit,

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