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EARLY FAVORITES TO WIN MISS WORLD PHILIPPINES 2015

September 29, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Twenty-seven candidates of Miss World Philippines 2015 were presented to members of the press at the Solaire Resort and Casino in Pasay City on Tuesday.

The winner of this year’s pageant will represent the country in the Miss World 2015 pageant to be held in Sanya, China.

Already, four contestants have emerged as early favorites to win the crown: Ma. Vanessa Wright, Jessica Rose Mc Ewen, Mia Allyson Howell and Janette Roanne Strum.

Notice that their surnames all suggest some mixed ethnicity.

Apparently, contestants gain extra points by having foreign-sounding surnames. After all, last year’s title holder was Valerie Weigmann who was preceded, of course, by the very first Filipina Miss World, Megan Young.

“This batch, they’re ready for the competition,” said Cory Quirino, national director of Miss World Philippines. “This batch is a representative of the Filipina from north to south, literally.”

And might we add, the “four corners of the globe!”

Beauty, International

VENEZUELA, U.S., PHILIPPINES ELEVATED TO BEAUTY PAGEANT HALL OF FAME, WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN 2015-16 CONTESTS

June 23, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

2013 Miss Universe Gabriela Isler of Venezuela

PUERTO RICO (The Adobo Chronicles®) – The Association of Beauty Pageant Franchise Holders (ABPFH) has just released the list of top 20 countries with the most number of titles and runners-up in the “big four” of international beauty pageants: Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.

At its annual meeting held this week in Puerto Rico, the ABPFH members signed a memorandum of agreement banning the top three countries on the list from participating in any of the big four pageants in 2015 and 2016.

“We wanted to give other countries a better chance to improve their standing in the beauty pageants,” a spokesperson for ABPFH told reporters.

The top three countries who will not be participating in the pageants for the next two years are Venezuela, the United States and the Philippines.

Venezuela tops the list with 21 crowns and 40 runners-up. The U.S. has 14 crowns and 55 runners-up, while the Philippines has 10 crowns and 21 runners-up.

ABPFH said that the three countries can again send representatives to the pageants beginning in 2017.

Film and TV, International

ASIAN AMERICAN GROUPS UPSET ABOUT THE CASTING OF EMMA STONE IN ‘ALOHA’ TURN THE HEAT ON BEAUTY PAGEANTS

June 5, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

From top left, clockwise: Stone, Miyamoto, Young and Wurtzbach

HOLLYWOOD, California ( The Adobo Chronicles) – Frustrated that their protest about the casting of Emma Stone as a quarter Chinese and quarter Hawaiian in the film, ‘Aloha’ is not getting as much mileage as they had hoped, Asian American groups are turning the heat on international beauty pageants to make their point.

The groups are crying ‘foul’ about director-writer Cameron Crowe’s decision to cast a red-haired, blue-eyed white actress to play the half Asian-Hawaiian and part Swedish Allison Ng in the film.

In a joint press statement issued today, the groups likened Stone’s casting to:

2014 Miss World from the Philippines, Megan Young, who looks more Caucasian than Filipino and whose name is anything but Filipino.
2015 Miss Universe-Japan, Ariana Miyamoto, whose features are more black than Japanese (Miyamoto was born to a Japanese mother and a black father).
2015 Miss Universe-Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach who, despite looking like a Filipina, is half-German, as evidenced by her surname.

“It’s about time films and beauty pageants reflect the true features and identities of the characters or contestants they are supposed to ethnically represent,” the groups said.

Neither Crowe nor the pageant organizers could be reached for comment.