Nude photos topple another Miss Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe`s Miss World contestant has been stripped of her title following a leak of nude pictures, organisers of the local pageant said Thursday, in a repeat of a scandal that dethroned her predecessor. 

Emily Kachote, 25, broke rules that insist beauty queens must never pose naked, the pageant board said in a statement.

Kachote "violated the rules and regulations governing the pageant," it said.

The statement referred to a recent tabloid report which said nude pictures of Kachote had appeared on the phone messaging service WhatsApp.

"Winners of the Miss World Zimbabwe beauty pageant whether a title holder or runner-up must not have posed nude professionally or socially in all forms of media," the organisers said.

Kachote, a psychology graduate, was crowned Miss World Zimbabwe in April, beating 15 other models. 

The organisers of the contest said Kachote`s pictures were leaked shortly after she confessed that she has once posed nude.

Her predecessor Thabiso Phiri was stripped of her crown after a similar scandal last year.

The board said Kachote will be replaced by runner-up Grace Mutambu, who will represent Zimbabwe at the Miss World pageant in Sanya, China in December.

The reigning Miss World is Rolene Strauss from South Africa.