Category Archives: Beauty

MISS COLOMBIA’S APOLOGY TO MISS PHILIPPINES: LOST IN TRANSLATION

December 25, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Miss Philippines, left, and Miss Colombia: both wore the Miss Universe crown Sunday night in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles) – As we wrap up our amazing and unbelievable coverage of the 2015 Miss Universe beauty pageant live from Las Vegas, we now bring you our final report.

Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez has finally broken her silence regarding criticism about how she and some of her fellow Latina Miss Universe contestants reacted to the crowning of Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach.

By now, the whole universe knows what happened Sunday night when pageant host Steve Harvey erroneously announced Miss Colombia as the new Miss Universe and later corrected himself (after Ariadna had already been crowned) that it was actually Wurtzbach who had won.

Miss Colombia has issued an apology to Miss Philippines.

Gutierrez, in both question and answer portions for the top five and the top three finalists, chose to use a Spanish interpreter, despite being able to speak in English.

Again, she chose to use Miss Philippines’ native language to apologize, using an interpreter.

In her statement, Miss Colombia wanted to say to Miss Philippines: I sincerely apologize for the attitude I and some of my fellow Latina candidates gave you on Sunday.

The following was the Tagalog translation provided to her by an amateur linguistics student: “Humihigik ako ng tuwid sa ginhawang binigay ko at ng ibang kandidating Latina sa iyo noong linggo.”

Roughly translated, it said: “I am giggling straight for the relief I and other (former?) Latina candidates gave you last Sunday.”

A classic case of “lost in translation.”

The gracious Miss Philippines, understanding what Miss Colombia really wanted to say to her, accepted the apology nevertheless.

See you all in Belize, dear readers, for the 2016 Miss Universe!

Beauty, International, Politics

PRESIDENT AQUINO SECRETLY WISHED MISS PHILIPPINES DIDN’T BECOME MISS UNIVERSE

December 23, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – On the night of December 20 (December 21 morning, Philippine time), millions of Filipinos were glued to their television sets hoping and praying that their candidate, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, would be crowned 2015 Miss Universe.

The rest is history. Despite the initial mix-up in the announcement of the 1st runner-up and the new Miss Universe, the pageant-fanatical Filipinos celebrated with gusto soon after Steve Harvey corrected himself to say that it was Miss Philippines, not Miss Colombia, who had won the crown.

Now, it can be told. There was one Filipino who had been secretly wishing that Wurtzbach didn’t win the crown — Philippine President NoyNoy Aquino.

It is no secret that Aquino had supposedly dated Wurtzbach soon after she won the local crown as Miss Philippines-Universe. Aquino’s sister Kris even talked about it on her television show, promising Wurtzbach that she would try to be a nice sister-in-law.

The president, a bachelor, had been wanting to bring a First Lady to the presidential palace before his term expired in 2016. He had wished that First Lady to be Wurtzbach.

But alas, that is not going to happen.

As Miss Universe, Wurtzbach has an exclusive year-round contract with the Miss Universe Organization. She has to remain single in order to retain her crown. That means the end of her one-year reign would be too late for Aquino who steps down as president on June 30, 2016.

As a consolation to Aquino, he will go down in Philippine history as the only bachelor to occupy Malacanang Palace!

Beauty, Film and TV, International

WME/IMG: NO CHOICE BUT TO BRING BACK STEVE HARVEY AS MISS UNIVERSE HOST

December 23, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles) – Despite the blunder committed by host Steve Harvey in crowning the wrong Miss Universe, the comedian and game show host will be coming back next year in Belize and several more years after that.

WME/IMG, the new owners of the Miss Universe Organization, said that they have no choice — Harvey signed a multi-year contract to host the annual international beauty pageant.

A source close to production tells Entertainment Tonight (ET) that the 58-year-old Family Feud host signed a multi-year contract to host Miss Universe just days before the pageant aired Sunday, and that his paycheck is “more than they’ve ever paid before for a host.”

The source says the deal is for at least three years, possibly even as many as six or seven.

But not to worry, WME/IMG has taken steps to prevent a repeat of this year’s pageant fiasco.

In future editions of contest, the new Miss Universe will not be crowned for at least four minutes following the final announcement by Harvey. During that time, the top three finalists will be shown the cue card which contains the names/countries of the 2nd runner-up, 1st runner-up and Miss Universe. Once all three have confirmed the results, they will all give a thumbs up. Only then will the crown be placed on the head of the new Miss Universe.

All’s well that ends well.