ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Miss America group is seeking the help of former pageant winners and directors, after a scandal over vulgar emails disparaging contestants.
In the emails, published by the Huffington Post, pageant officials made degrading remarks about past winners' appearance, intellect, and sex lives.
Executive director Sam Haskell, president Josh Randle, and other board members resigned over the scandal.
Now the group is reaching out to former Miss Americas to help find new leaders.
Dan Meyers, the interim board chairman, said the group wanted former winners to recommend members for a search committee that would determine the group's future leadership structure.
In a statement to the Associated Press, he said: "The board wanted to have a process that was unprecedented in terms of openness, transparency and inclusion.
"Given the turbulent nature of leadership transitions, asking all the stakeholders to be a part of this process was the best way."
The leaked emails contained three years worth of messages between Mr Haskell and other pageant officials.
