Le Au Ngan Anh will not be allowed to compete internationally.

On the morning of April 24, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a press conference on the first quarter results of 2018. At the event, the controversy related toLe Au Ngan Anh had plastic surgery but was still crowned Miss Ocean 2017.

In response to reporters' questions, Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Pham Cao Thai said:"Any handling by state agencies of Miss Ocean must be based on the law. The law does not stipulate the right to strip the crown and only stipulates the revocation. The Ministry has requested the company to revoke it and whether or not to revoke it is the business of the organizing unit. For state management agencies, Le Au Ngan Anh is no longer Miss Ocean.The fact that the organizer still recognizes her as Miss is their business, we cannot force them to do as we wish."However, heThai affirmed that the Ministry will not approve the application if the organizer of Miss Ocean 2017 - Mr. Vo Viet Chung's company - requests permission for Le Au Ngan Anh to compete in a beauty contest abroad.

Previously, in January 2018, Mr. Nguyen Quang Vinh - Acting Director of the Department of Performing Arts - sent a document to Vo Viet Chung International LLC of designer Vo Viet Chung. The document clearly stated that, to ensure the fairness of the contest, the Department requested Vo Viet Chung's company to strictly fulfill the obligations of the organizing unit committed in the contest organization project and cancel the results for Le Au Ngan Anh, due to not ensuring the conditions for participating in the contest according to regulations. At that time, Le Au Ngan Anh's representative said that they had received the decision and were looking for a way to handle it. However, since then, the organizing committee of Miss Ocean 2017 as well as Le Au Ngan Anh have not made an official statement on this issue. The beauty still occasionally wears the crown to attend entertainment events.

Le Au Ngan Anh was born in 1995 in Tien Giang, 1.74 m tall.After the Miss Ocean 2017 final, many sources reported that Ngan Anh had undergone cosmetic surgery. The beauty explained that she had had a nose job but had removed the cartilage before the competition. She reported it to the organizing committee and it was approved. The Inspector of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism fined the organizing committee.Miss Ocean 2017 amount4 million VND for allowing unqualified candidates to take the exam.

The Miss Ocean Vietnam 2017 contest was held from June 1 to October 28. This is a beauty contest held nationwide, first held in 2014. The contestto find ambassadors for the Blue Ocean World project founded by the Vietnam Environmental Protection Fund.