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Preeti Desai replaced Danielle Lloyd after she was stripped of Miss Great Britain title. From interview...

.....But when Danielle Lloyd was stripped of her title late last year, Preeti was voted the new Miss Great Britain.

Until now, Preeti has maintained a dignified silence about the events that followed when Lloyd, 23, went on to be accused of racist bullying during her disastrous appearance on Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother in January.

The antithesis of Lloyd, who infamously said she assumed that everyone in India ate with unwashed hands, Preeti is articulate, considered and determined not to become 'your typical beauty queen who goes out with a footballer and only does it to pursue a modelling career'.

She says: "I was disgusted by the way Danielle acted in the house. She was like a schoolground bully who wanted all the attention.

"Fifty thousand people complained about it [to Ofcom] and that's because they go through that sort of racism every day.

"Shilpa Shetty [the Indian actress who was the target of the abuse] was able to fly back home to a nice apartment in Bombay and forget it all but other people can't walk away. They have to live with it all the time.

"I don't think Britain is a racist country, and I have never experienced racism myself, but there is a tiny minority of uneducated people - and it's not just whites - who spoil it for everyone else."

Lloyd's loss was Preeti's gain and her crowning as Miss Great Britain, she says, made her parents immensely proud.....

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