Janine Mari Tugonon was crowned Miss Universe Philippines during the Binibining Pilipinas coronation night Sunday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
She knew it was going to be a momentous night for her when pageant host Xian Lim called out her number—18—as a semifinalist in Sunday’s Binibining Pilipinas contest and told her in a show seen by millions of television viewers: “Tonight is your big night, Binibini 18.”
Each year, the Binibining Pilipinas pageant aims to search for the finest women to represent the country in the best international pageants.
Mutya Johanna Datul, Binibining Pilipinas representative to the Miss Supranational 2013, took home the crown in the beauty pageant in Minsk, Belarus Saturrday (Manila time).
On shoot day, Binibining Pilipinas first runner-up Pia Wurtzbach arrived first, wearing a black mini-dress with a sweetheart neckline.
Although Rodgil Flores and Jonas Gaffud, two of the country’s leading beauty queen makers, insist they’re “friends,” their respective supporters, including a number of current protégés, are threatening to tear that friendship apart.
Dubbed as Binibining Pilipinas’ “golden girls” after they were crowned during the pageant’s 50th edition, last year’s batch of beauty queens constitutes one of the most successful groups of winners in the annual contest’s history.
Did Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara’s question affect Pia Wurtzbach’s chances at Bb. Pilipinas?
“I thought it was a good answer,” Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said Monday of Pia Wurtzbach’s response to his question at the Bb. Pilipinas pageant.
Finalists in the recent Binibining Pilipinas pageant extolled incessantly the confidence of the Filipino woman in the Q&A. Truth is, that kind of self-confidence holds true for only 7 percent of Pinays, if the result of survey commissioned by global beauty brand Dove is anything to go by.
