Nielsens: 'Miss USA' is a big winner: NBC's Miss USA Pageant Sunday claimed 7.4 million viewers, its biggest total since 2006. Against it, CBS' Daytime Emmy Awards drew a mediocre 5.5 million, down slightly from last year. (usatoday.com)
Being beauty queen is about character: Sushmita: Good height and an attractive face are just not enough to get a place in Sushmita Sen's Wadhawan Lifestyle I Am She contest. The former beauty queen and actress says the most important criterion for selection is a person with "good character".
"When I say character, I mean that a lot of women who come are very beautiful but some of them can do anything to achieve what they want. Such girls don't belong to I Am She," Sushmita told in an interview. (ibnlive.in.com)
Miss Brazil robbed at gunpoint : Miss Brazil was robbed at gunpoint outside her Sao Paolo home Sunday night, the beauty queen confirmed on Twitter. Debora Lyra, 21, tweeted: "For how long will these criminals keep doing this? I was just robbed at the door of my house."
She added she wasn't injured. The 2010 pageant winner was robbed of her car, purse, credit cards and cellphone, she said. The car was reportedly awarded to Lyra for winning the crown. The Miss Universe competitor will pass on her crown to this year's winner later this month. (torontosun.com)
I AM She 2011: 40 beauties gear up: The hunt for this year’s Miss India has started as forty participants qualified the audition round of the “I AM She 2011″, the official preliminary to the 2011 Miss Universe pageant to groom themselves up for the next level. The forty gorgeous candidates from all over the globe were selected from almost 1800 plus entries received from.
Paula Shugart, President, Miss Universe Organization, said: “I am extremely pleased to welcome Tantra Entertainment as our new licensee in India. I am thrilled to work directly with Sushmita Sen who represented the Miss Universe Organization so elegantly as the first Miss Universe from India. I am certain that she will bring the grace, the glamour and the intelligence to I AM She.” (calcuttatube.com)
Pageant winner Katie Blair reshapes her reputation: Redemption is the theme of Blair's story of her return to the pageant circuit. "I swore up and down I wasn't going to do a pageant again," she said during a phone interview from Los Angeles, where she now lives. "But I wanted the opportunity to recover from my term as Miss Teen USA."
Her reign was marred by massive media coverage surrounding the carousing of the then-Miss USA, Tara Conner, who went into an alcohol abuse rehab program to retain her title. Blair, who admitted to underage drinking but denied other accusations made in the tabloid press, was dropped as a spokesperson for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Blair was part of Donald Trump's MTV reality show "Pageant Place," which also followed the lives of Miss USA and Miss Universe. (billingsgazette.com)
No drama Miss Botswana: By this time next week Botswana will have a new beauty queen who will become the jewel of the nation and will represent us at the Miss World pageant. This year’s pageant’s significance is at an all time high since it comes of the backdrop of last year’s amazing rising of Emma Wareus who became Miss World first princess.
The Miss Botswana pageant has gone through a lot of challenges over the years. At some point the pageant was threatened by irrelevance as many failed to relate to it. In the year 2008, Leapfrog and 63 Entertainment took over the organisation of the pageant and it was instantaneously transformed into a glitz and glamour affair where all of Gaborone’s flamboyance is paraded. Even this make over brought it’s own salvo of controversy and drama, some questioned the judging and a participant threatened to take the pageant to court for an interdict to stop it from going on. Thankfully, it seems like this year Miss Botswana will go on without a hitch. (gazettebw.com)
Natalija Prica is new Miss Universe Croatia: Beautiful 22-year-old Natalija Prica is new Miss Universe Croatia.
"I have to admit that I was in shock when they announced me the winner because there were so many beautiful girls," says the 22-year-old Zagreb resident. Croatian Miss Universe will compete in the worldwide Miss Universe pageant held on 12 September in Brazil. (croatiantimes.com)
Back after 15 years: Miss Guam World pageant returns in August: After being gone for the past 15 years, the Miss Guam World crown is out again and looking for a beautiful young woman's head to sit upon. The pageant is slated for Aug. 31 and is in need of contestants to compete for the chance to serve as the island's ambassador in the international beauty competition. (guampdn.com)
Krista Kleiner is 2010 Miss Doll International: In his report, Celso mentioned that Krista Kleiner, Miss Doll Philippines 2010, was crowned Miss Doll International 2010 last June 12 in a glittering ceremony held in Venice, Italy.
“She’s the first ever Filipina and Asian doll to win the coveted Miss Doll International crown and title,” noted Celso.
Doll Krista bested 28 other international dollegates from the same number of countries. Her runners-up were dollegates from Marigona Dragusha (Kosovo, first), Cynthia Momumba (Nigeria, second), Karla Carillo (Mexico, third) and Claudia Moro (Spain, fourth and Best Evening Gown). Those who made it to the Top 15 were dollegates from Australia (Rachel Finch), Colombia (Carolina Gonzales, also Best Figure), Italy (Pia Valentina Cerati, also Miss Elegance), Greece, (Alexandra Patsayas), Thailand (Rujinam Panseethum, also Miss Photogenic), Paraguay (Amada Guada Aranda), Venezuela (Consuelo Adler, also Most Beautiful Face), El Salvador (Ingrid Martinez, also Best Style), Puerto Rico (Mara Rui Sanchez) and Guatemala (Monique Kop). (philstar.com)
Riza Santos: From Miss Earth to PBB to Miss World: Remember Riza Santos, the Canadian TV personality of Filipino lineage who competed at the 2006 Miss Earth Pageant in Manila and second place winner at "Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2?"
Well, Riza is back on the pageant scene and will represent Canada at the 61st Miss World Pageant in London in November.
Riza won the Miss World Canada 2011 title last month in Richmund, British Columbia to take a second crack at an international beauty title. In 2006, Riza also represented Canada at the Miss Earth Pageant in Manila where she won the Miss Photogenic and Miss Fontana awards. (malaya.com)
The new Miss Gibraltar: Michelle Gillingwater Pedersen, 23, is the new Miss Gibraltar. She was crowned on Saturday night at a show in the Alemeda Gardens. She had always had an interest in entering, now her aim is to make Gibraltar proud as Miss Gibraltar. She goes on to represent Gibraltar in the Miss World contest. Her mother Louise was also Miss Gibraltar in 1982. (panorama.gi)
