ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Former Miss America winners and state pageant officials are split over the leadership and direction of the organization, which was rocked by a 2017 email scandal that ...

Former Miss America Mallory Hagan is hopeful that the email scandal surrounding the pageant “signals the reinvention” of the organization moving forward, she told Good Morning America.

Staff writers Nicholas Huba and Erin Serpico are joined on the podcast by Lauren Carroll, who is part of the Press' Miss America Team, to talk about the scandal and what is next for the pageant.

Even more than who takes home the crown, America will watch to see which contestant pushes the proverbial envelope just a bit farther than before, just as Rebecca Ann King did in 1974.