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17th August 2022
02:09pm BST

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Emma hopes to fend off competition from 50 other women over the two-day final in October and shine a light on the LBGQ+ community.
A previous Miss Great Britain has come out as bisexual but Emma believes she will be the first openly gay finalist.
Emma, form Cribbs Causeway, South Gloucestershire, said: “I got into pageantry back in 2016, my marriage had just ended and I wanted to try and improve my self-esteem.
“I had no clue what I was getting myself into but I loved everything it stood for and it was like a sisterhood.
“I fell in love with it and all the behind-the-scenes charity work you could do.
“Ever since then I have just had the bug for it.
“My day job is a forklift driver - it pays the bills.
“It’s a huge contrast to the glamour of pageantry but I love it.
“I am the only girl in the warehouse so I am definitely one of the boys.”
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Emma is having a custom-made evening gown for the final in Leicester on October 20 and 21.
In the lead up to the competition she is raising money for Cancer Research UK and Alex’s Wish.
Emma said: “There will be 50 girls in the final which is held over two days.
“On the first you have your power interview, which is like a job interview, and you have the chance to showcase your charity work.
“There is also a fashion round that day where you show your outfits.
“On the second day you have evening wear and swim wear showing.
“My charity work is for Cancer Research UK and Alex’s Wish, so over the next nine weeks I will be trying to raise as much as I can for those.
“The outfits can be expensive, my evening gown for the finals is being custom made.
“But with a bit of work you can make it affordable – at a previous pageant I wore a swim suit from Primark and added bits to it myself.
“I am not doing Ms GB for myself I am doing it for the entire LGBTQ+ community.
“It just takes one torch bearer to shine a light on everyone.
“Out of the hundreds of girls who do pageantry there has to be more from the LGBTQ+ community who take part but I don’t think they are very visible at the moment.
“Now is the time to bring a light to those people.”
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