After two consecutive year success of the Philippine delegates to the Miss Universe pageant with Venus Raj and Shamcey Supsup becoming 4th and 3rd runner-up respectively, news about the country hosting next year’s edition has surfaced. Manila Bulletin has mentioned on their website that Department Of Tourism’s Secretary Ramon Jimenez met with Gabby Lopez of ABS-CBN about the possibility of hosting the Miss Universe come 2012. Here’s the LINK.
The Philippines is known to be a pageant-crazed nation that adores their beauty titlist as if they’re the biggest superstar in the world. The country has already produced two Miss Universe winners in the name of Gloria Diaz in 1969 and Margarita “Margie” Moran in 1973. It is also one of the few countries that hosted the pageant more than once, in 1974 where Amparo Munoz of Spain was crowned and in 1994 with Sushmita Sen of India winning the crown.
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| Amparo Munoz Of Spain crowned as the 1974 Miss Universe |
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| Sushmita Sen winning the 1994 Pageant held in the Philippines for the 2nd time. |
Pictures via Missosology
Here are the possible venues of the 2012 Pageant if this news were to materialized.
1. Smart Araneta Coliseum
2. Philippine International Convention Center
3. The Mall Of Asia Arena that is expected to open on May next year.
Would this be a good thing for the Philippines? Who will be the successor of Shamcey Supsup who gave a stellar performance this year? Will she finally be the one?
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