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Pinay Energy: Miss Universe Philippines Chelsea Manalo (second from proper) with (from left) Christina Chalk, Victoria Vincent, and Shereen Ahmed / MISS UNIVERSE PHILIPPINE FACEBOOK PHOTO
The Miss Universe 2024 pageant is seeing a number of delegates of Filipino heritage, with the Philippines’ Chelsea Manalo reunited with two of her nationwide competitors sisters now representing totally different nations, and an Arab girl who has roots in Cavite. However this isn’t the primary time for it to occur within the international tilt’s Mexican staging.
The earlier time that Mexico hosted the Miss Universe pageant, in 2007, there have been three delegates among the many roster who’re of Filipino heritage, Miss Philippines and two part-Filipino bets representing different nations.
Binibining Pilipinas Anna Theresa Licaros, then finding out regulation on the College of the Philippines who was additionally a summa cum laude graduate in Broadcast Communication, took half within the competitors, the place she was aso proclaimed as Miss Photogenic.
She was joined in Mexico Metropolis by part-Filipino delegates Angelina Glass from Germany, and Kirby Ann Basken from Norway.
Basken was nonetheless presently reigning as Mutya ng Pillipinas at the moment, and the nationwide pageant group within the Philippines gave in to her request to pursue the Miss Norway crown again in her father’s dwelling nation.
However the three girls’ bid for the Miss Universe crown was thwarted by Riyo Mori, the second Japanese girl to carry dwelling the crown to the “Land of the Morning Solar.”
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This yr, Manalo is joined by her 2024 Miss Universe Philippines batchmates Victoria Velasquez Vincent and Christina Chalk, who efficiently gained their nationwide crowns in New Zealand and Nice Britain, respectively. Additionally with them is Bahrain’s Shereen Ahmed whose mom is from Cavite.
The 73rd Miss Universe coronation evening can be held on the Enviornment CDMX in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, on Nov. 16 (Nov. 17 in Manila).
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