First, she had to lose 25 pounds. Then she had to learn how to walk like Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly.
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.
While Filipinos the world over waited with bated breath some time last November for Miss Universe hosts Thomas Roberts and Mel B. to announce the five finalists in Moscow, celebrated Filipino beauty queen maker Jonas Gaffud of Aces & Queens was running to the nearest men’s room of the huge Crocus City Hall, the event’s venue.
Beauty queen maker Jonas Gaffud of Aces & Queens felt Pia Wurtzbach’s loss. He and his team have been responsible for helping prepare the frustrated beauty queen for almost two years now.
An insider revealed that less than 24 hours earlier, Stella Marquez-Araneta, Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. chair, and Jonas Gaffud, Wurztbach's manager and pageant mentor, were still debating on what gown the Philippine bet should wear during the crucial preliminary judging Wednesday night.
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ON the night of Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach’s now infamous coronation, my good friend, photographer Nigel Barker, e-mailed to tell me that we should feature Pia in Philippine Tatler. And so I promptly called her manager, Jonas Gaffud, who helped arrange the shoot and interview in New York.
