Posted on August 11, 2026

NC Beauty Queen Stripped of Title Over ‘Racist’ Posts Launches Legal Challenge, Blames ‘Shameful Cancel Culture’

Chris Bradford, New York Post, August 10, 2026

Former Miss North Carolina USA winner Brittany Boltinhouse is planning a legal challenge to the “wrongful and unjustified” decision to strip her of her title, a law firm representing her announced Monday — calling it a “disturbing example of shameful cancel culture.”

Boltinhouse, 27, was stripped of her title last week, a little over a month after her victory, a decision blamed on a “thorough review of recently surfaced information.”

It came soon after reports that years ago she had penned a slew of posts under an alias using the N-word — while Boltinhouse claimed she was axed because of her “beliefs as a conservative Christian woman.”

She has now retained lawyers at the North Carolina law firm Mincey Bell Rhoades to challenge what it’s branding the “wrongful and unjustified” decision and “yet another disturbing example of shameful cancel culture.”

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Lawyers have claimed Boltinhouse is “yet another disturbing example of shameful cancel culture targeting an accomplished young woman solely because of her deeply held religious and political beliefs.”

Boltinhouse, the first Honduran to win the title, broke her silence last Friday about her sudden dethroning, suggesting her conservative, religious beliefs may have played a part.

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