Miss Lebanon, Saly Greige, found herself in the midst of a scandal, following a controversial selfie in which she appears next to Miss Israel and other contestants, during Miss Universe.
Saly Greige claimed Miss Israel “photobombed” the selfie with other contestants, and then posted it on her instagram account.
The picture sparked both negative and positive reactions by Lebanese twittos, but some called for the Lebanese beauty to be stripped of her title.
This prompted Sally Greige to declare on her Facebook page that Israel’s Doron Matalon had pushed her way into a now widely-circulated photo showing the Middle Eastern beauties with Miss Japan and Miss Slovenia.
Matalon responded to the controversy herself on Sunday, saying it made her “sad.” “It doesn’t surprise me, but it still makes me sad. Too bad you can not put the hostility out of the game,” she wrote in English and Hebrew.
A similar incident took place back in 1993 when the then Miss Lebanon, Ghada El Turk faced prosecution for posing with Miss Israel Jana Khodirker because a photo together.
