{"id":14622,"date":"2026-03-23T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=14622"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:39:12","slug":"the-scandal-that-ended-marjorie-wallaces-reign-as-miss-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=14622","title":{"rendered":"The scandal that ended Marjorie Wallace\u2019s reign as Miss World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tom Jones and Marjorie Wallace: The Affair That Cost Miss World Her Crown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What once looked like a simple photo of a couple on vacation hides one of the most talked-about celebrity scandals of the 1970s. Behind the smiles were singer Tom Jones and beauty queen Marjorie Wallace \u2014 whose brief romance sparked controversy around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the height of his fame in the 1960s and \u201970s, Jones had a reputation as one of music\u2019s biggest womanizers. The Welsh superstar later admitted he slept with hundreds of women during his touring years, despite being married to his childhood sweetheart for nearly six decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wallace, meanwhile, had just made history in 1973 by becoming the first American to win the Miss World title at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two met backstage at the London Palladium later that year and quickly began a secret relationship. Their romance became public in 1974 when they were photographed kissing on a beach in Barbados \u2014 a scandal that led to Wallace losing her Miss World crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation grew even more tragic when Wallace\u2019s fianc\u00e9, racing driver Peter Revson, died during practice for the 1974 South African Grand Prix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after the affair ended, Wallace was hospitalized after taking an overdose of sleeping pills, which she later said was not a suicide attempt but the result of exhaustion and emotional stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decades later, Wallace and Jones have reportedly remained on friendly terms \u2014 closing the chapter on one of the most dramatic celebrity romances of the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Jones and Marjorie Wallace: The Affair That Cost Miss World Her Crown What once looked like a simple photo of a couple on vacation hides one of the most talked-about celebrity scandals of the 1970s. Behind the smiles were singer Tom Jones and beauty queen Marjorie Wallace \u2014 whose brief romance sparked controversy around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}