An old tweets has returned to haunt Miss South Africa 2020 Finalist, Schoombee, IgbereTV reports.
This comes after Schoombee began trending on Twitter as a favourite potential finalist among the public after posting photos of herself as part of her Miss SA entry.
However, the love soon turned into disappointment and outrage, on Wednesday when offensive tweets posted by her over six years ago were dug up and widely shared.
The model went on to apologised for the tweets, stating that they were shared when she was still a teenager and that she had since changed but people on social media refused to believe.
The tweets also saw her followers droop from 8000 to 700.
The Miss South Africa company stated on its website that any semifinalist or finalist may not have been involved in any unsavoury or unethical incidents or conduct that may bring the organisers or the Miss South Africa pageant into disrepute.
Further report from Modeling agency Sync Models disclosed that the agency and Bianca Schoombee have pulled out of the contest as it was the best thing to do.
The agency, however, throw it weight behind the model as it stated that the tweets were written when she was still young but she has grown as a woman and had changed her ways
Sync Models said that it and Schoombee had decided that her pulling out of the contest was best for all involved. It also came to her defence, saying she has grown as a woman and has changed her ways.
She and her agency have asked that she be forgiven.
