Surfers everywhere rally around Miss England as she competes in Miss World beauty pageant

Ultra heart-warming surf candy.

In a heart-warming story taking the globe by surprise, surfers everywhere including Huntington Beach, California, Australia’s Gold Coast and Sao Paulo, Brazil have rallied around Miss England as she gets ready to compete in the Miss World beauty pageant. Milla Magee, 24, is currently in Hyderabad, India training for the May 31st competition but her spirit, likely, bobbing in the tasty waves of her hometown of Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Magee, you see, is, herself a surfer, having taken up the Sport of Queens after moving to the coast from south London at 16 and parlaying it into a sponsorship. She never thought about the beauty pageant life, telling The Sunday Times, “I was into wetsuits, I didn’t wear lots of makeup or do my hair so I had never thought of Miss England.” That changed, though, when she submitted a video application to last year’s England-wide search for their champion. Her goal to prove “that beauty queens can be lifeguards, surfers and activists.”

Well, she won and is now in India ready to take on all-comers. As you certainly know, contestants each have a social issue that they make their own. Magee’s is Surfers Against Sewage. “When you’re surfing and come up from a wave and the garbage and sewage is floating in front of you, you just can’t help but feel so passionate,” she shared, continuing, that “the ocean is crying out for our help.”

The goofy foot understands that beauty pageants have a somewhat problematic image, seeming to reduce beauty to skin depth, but focuses on the positive, declaring, “In a world where everything feels so divided, here you have 112 women united to talk about helping the world. I feel like that is the sort of legacy we should be leaving for our younger generations.”

Surfers everywhere, including Raglan, New Zealand, New Smyrna Beach, Florida and Cape Town, South Africa also united.

Ultra heart-warming surf candy.