Rejoice, redheads around the world! Despite everyone’s best efforts to deny the ginger side of life and keep redheads at the bottom of the social ladder (well, sort of), we’ve finally reached a new historic moment. Despite beauty pageants not really meaning anything anymore, we can officially say that for the first time ever, a redhead has been crowned Miss England. While this probably won’t do much against the constant bullying redheads have to endure, even a small step would be one in the right direction!
The new Miss England is named Jessica Gagen and despite the show’s long history (it’s been around for nearly a century), she is indeed the first redhead to win the crown and gain the opportunity to represent England at the Miss World elections.
The 26-year-old was born in Skelmersdale, between Liverpool and Manchester. Despite having beauty and brains in spades, she didn’t get to where she is right now without some struggles. She was bullied for being a redhead, like many kids in that situation, but the bullying was severely abusive in nature.
