[1] At the end of the event, Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana crowned Lara Dutta of India as Miss Universe 2000.

The competition was hosted by Sinbad, with Miss USA 1996 Ali Landry and Julie Moran providing commentary and analysis throughout the event.

Elvis Crespo, Dave Koz, Montell Jordan, and Anna Vissi performed in this year's pageant.

[3] Conservative Cypriot church leaders protested the decision to hold the pageant on the island, claiming that millennium celebrations of the birth of Christ were more important and that the event was scandalous and would promote female nudity.

[4] Miss Universe Hungary 2000, Ágnes Nagy couldn't participate for personal reasons, her first runner-up Izabella Kiss took her place.