Archive for the ‘Miss Universe 2007’ Category
Many commentators have said how unfortunate it was that Honey Lee’s question AND answer were both so poorly translated by her Korean interpreter. This is a very common problem at Miss Universe pageants. Many of their interpreters do a pretty sorry job, mostly because they are even more nervous than the competitors! Poor them – [...]
Riyo Mori started a blog long before she won the Miss Universe pageant. You can read her latest posts here. It will be fascinating to see how long she will be able to keep posting her experiences as Miss Universe. I’m thinking that the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) has some policy about title-holders blogging, much [...]
People.com ran an interesting article. Apparently, back in Feb Oprah wore the same Gucci dress that Riyo Mori wore when she was crowned last week. People has pictures, and there are a tonne of comments about which one wears the dress better.
Seventy-seven of the most beautiful women in the world begin leaving Mexico City after a month of intense competition filled with laughter, tears, camaraderie, quesadillas, and margaritas! But for one them, Miss Japan Riyo Mori, who was crowned in front of a televised audience of over one billion people, her journey will be to New [...]
And the debates begin about which candidate is more beautiful – Miss Korea Honey Lee or Miss Japan Riyo Mori. The Internet is rife about how the translator messed up Miss Korea’s answer and cost Honey Lee her Miss Universe tiara. We’ll never know the judges reasoning as to why Miss Korea placed 3rd runner-up, [...]
And so we have our second winner from Japan! Riyo Mori is the second Japanese woman to win the pageant. The first Japanese, and indeed the first Asian, to win the Miss Universe pageant was Akiko Kojima in 1959. It took almost 50 years for another Japanese woman to be crowned Miss Universe. It was [...]
Thank you to all who have kept me company these last 2 hours! It was a wonderful 2 hours. I love it that Japan has won. Please email me at paul.rozario@gmail.com if you have any questions at all about everything!
HOW FABULOUS IS THAT! I love it! The first Miss Universe from the Far East since Miss Thailand in 1988!
In fifteen minutes, we will begin. In the meantime, here’s Miss Korea in national costume
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