Miss Universe Stefania Fernandez attends the 14th Annual People En Espanol “50 Most Beautiful” issue celebration at Guastavino’s on May 20, 2010 in New York City. Last year’s Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza, also from Venezuela, made the list as well.

(May 19, 2010 - Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images [...]

LAS VEGAS, NV – 1991: Miss Universe contestants from around the world pose in front of the Mirage Hotel for a 1991 group photo in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

The 2010 Miss Universe competition will take place this year at the Mandalay Bay Events [...]

Miss and Mister Brazil in Toronto.

Miss World Brazil Luciana Bertolini and Mister Brazil Jonas Sulzbach attended the traditional Brazilian Ball gala event, in Toronto, Canada. In addition to Miss and Mister Brazil, Gustavo Gianetti, Mister World 2003, Marlon de Gregory, Mister Brazil’s 1st runner-up, Rodrigo Gomes, Mister Brazil’s second runner-up, Khrisley Karlen, Miss World [...]

Manila Times – DFA grants passport to dethroned beauty queen

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is set to issue a Philippine passport to dethroned Binibining Pilipinas Universe Ma. Venus Raj. In a text message sent to reporters, Foreign Affairs department spokesman Eduardo Malaya decided to make the move after an [...]

Mmegi, Botswana

Mos Syde set to revive Miss Universe Botswana

GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer

Mos Syde World Entertainment Group, otherwise known as Mos Syde, is set to revive the Miss Universe Botswana beauty pageant. Speaking to Showbiz in an interview in Gaborone yesterday , Koketso Moremi, who is the director of [...]

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Sheryl Wolfe’s dreams were coming true.  She was crowned Miss Hawaii Teen United States and her modeling career was blossoming, all to be stopped in a second.

“I would trade my life in a heartbeat. I should be the one there she shouldn’t be,” said [...]

Previously announced to be held inside the grounds of the Shanghai 2010 Expo in China, the Miss International organization announced that the 2010 event will return to Chengdu, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this beauty contest.

The Miss International Beauty contest was created in Long Beach, California, USA in 1960 after [...]

National and international beauty queens served as guests of honor during the opening festivities of the San Marcos Fair in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The Feria Nacional de San Marcos (San Marcos Fair) is a national fair held in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes every year for three weeks. Most of the events related to [...]

Guangzhou, host city of Miss Tourism Queen International 2010.

Miss Tourism Queen International 2010 will be crowned in Guangzhou, on September 26. Over 100 beauties from around the globe will start arriving in China on September 3.

Guangzhou, also known as Canton and host city of Miss Tourism Queen for the first time, is located in southern [...]

Brazilian website UOL – which literally means Universe On Line – the most visited portal in Latin America, has created a website for Miss World Brazil 2010 candidates. As they are elected to represent their states and islands, the candidates receive a password and start blogging, leaving their comments, opinions, stories and photos. Recently launched, it became an instant hit. [...]

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MANILA, Philippines – Dethroned 2010 Binibining Pilipinas-Universe Maria Venus Raj can now reclaim her title. She only needs to get a valid Philippine passport.

In a statement released Saturday, the Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. (BPCI) announced that “for humanitarian reasons,” they are allowing [...]

Brazil could host Miss Universe

As reported by Terra Brazil and other media outlets, the Vice President of RedeTV!, Mr. Marcelo de Carvalho, is interested in bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Brazil.

Mr. Carvalho travelled to New York with his wife, host and model Luciana Gimenez, and Trump’s associate in Brazil, [...]

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND – Cody Yerkovich, 17 years old, 1.82 m-tall and from the town of Kaitaia, was crowned Miss World New Zealand 2010 during a contest held April 3rd in Auckland.  The new Miss New Zealand is part Maori, part German and part Croatian. She speaks English and Croatian.

The 1st runner-up, Georgia Easter [...]

Bible-toting beauty queen Carrie Prejean is back in the headlines as the defendant in a lawsuit brought by a “Christian-focused” public relations company that says Prejean contracted their services to promote the “Biblically correct message” that gay and lesbian families should be denied civil equality–but that Prejean never paid [...]