>Miss Great Britain is a national beauty contest held annually in Britain since 1945. It is Britain's longest-running beauty pageant.[1]

> In 1984, the controller of BBC1 Michael Grade, announced that the 1985 contest would be the last televised on the BBC.[4] Grade stated that the contest "no longer merits national air time. They are an anachronism in this day and age of equality and verging on the offensive."[4]

>Grade was born into a Jewish fa-