MISS UNIVERSE 1987 SEMI-FINALIST
Monday, December 31, 2007
GERALDINE ' PEBBLES' ASIS-BB. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1987
GERALDINE ASIS -BB. PILIPINAS UNIVERSE 1987
MISS UNIVERSE 1987 SEMI-FINALIST
MISS UNIVERSE 1987 SEMI-FINALIST
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
NINI RAMOS-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1968
NINI RAMOS-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1968
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1968-SEMI-FINALIST
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1968-SEMI-FINALIST
Monday, December 17, 2007
MA. MYRNA PANLILIO-BB. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1964
MYRNA PANLILIO-BB. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1964
She was the first to hold the title Bb. Pilipinas-Universe. Before the title used to be Miss Philippines.
From Ricky Lo July 2009
Myrna Panlilio-Borromeo, the first ever Bb. Pilipinas-Universe (1964), died of a massive heart attack Friday night at the Makati Medical Center where she was scheduled to undergo a gall-bladder surgery. She was 65. Her remains, to be cremated, lie at the Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati City. A widow, Myrna is surived by children Mitzi and RJ. Her daughter Patricia died of cancer a few years ago.
The Borromeo family is requesting donations to the Trisha P. Borromeo’s Legacy Association, Inc. in lieu of flowers.
Funfare’s “beauty expert” Felix Manuel relayed the sad news from New York where he’s working (as a nurse).
Here’s Felix’s brief report:
The pageant world bids a fond farewell to the first Bb. Pilipinas title-holder, Ma. Myrna Sese Panlilio-Borromeo.
We always saw her on TV gracing the pageant and I have, of course, collected her pictures from her Binibini and Miss Universe pageants. I first met her during the 1994 Bb. Pilipinas pageant held earlier, Oct. 1993, in preparation for the 1994 Miss Universe pageant.
We requested to have a photograph taken with her and we had to let her sign her 1964 picture. She was shocked that there were people who collected her pictures. “My God this was ages ago, I am glad you guys still know me. Most of you were not born yet when I won Binibini,” she would say.
From then on, we kept seeing her every year during the pageant. She was very nice to us everytime we saw her. In fact, she was looking for her album for us to copy old photos from. “I kept it in the bodega,” she apologized. “I can’t find it now. Mabuti na lang you have my pictures pa.”
During the Estrada Administration, Myrna organized the Dambana Ng Kagandahan at the Nayong Pilipino which showcased pictures, articles, gowns and other memorabilia of former Filipina beauties. It was fabulous!
She was the first to hold the title Bb. Pilipinas-Universe. Before the title used to be Miss Philippines.
Myrna Panlilio-Borromeo, the first ever Bb. Pilipinas-Universe (1964), died of a massive heart attack Friday night at the Makati Medical Center where she was scheduled to undergo a gall-bladder surgery. She was 65. Her remains, to be cremated, lie at the Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati City. A widow, Myrna is surived by children Mitzi and RJ. Her daughter Patricia died of cancer a few years ago.
The Borromeo family is requesting donations to the Trisha P. Borromeo’s Legacy Association, Inc. in lieu of flowers.
Funfare’s “beauty expert” Felix Manuel relayed the sad news from New York where he’s working (as a nurse).
Here’s Felix’s brief report:
The pageant world bids a fond farewell to the first Bb. Pilipinas title-holder, Ma. Myrna Sese Panlilio-Borromeo.
We always saw her on TV gracing the pageant and I have, of course, collected her pictures from her Binibini and Miss Universe pageants. I first met her during the 1994 Bb. Pilipinas pageant held earlier, Oct. 1993, in preparation for the 1994 Miss Universe pageant.
We requested to have a photograph taken with her and we had to let her sign her 1964 picture. She was shocked that there were people who collected her pictures. “My God this was ages ago, I am glad you guys still know me. Most of you were not born yet when I won Binibini,” she would say.
From then on, we kept seeing her every year during the pageant. She was very nice to us everytime we saw her. In fact, she was looking for her album for us to copy old photos from. “I kept it in the bodega,” she apologized. “I can’t find it now. Mabuti na lang you have my pictures pa.”
During the Estrada Administration, Myrna organized the Dambana Ng Kagandahan at the Nayong Pilipino which showcased pictures, articles, gowns and other memorabilia of former Filipina beauties. It was fabulous!
Friday, December 14, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
EVANGELINE PASCUAL-Ms. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILS. 1973
EVANGELINE PASCUAL-Ms. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILS. 1973
MS. WORLD-First Runner-up
MS. WORLD-First Runner-up
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
LOUISE AURELIO VAIL -BB. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1965
LOUISE AURELIO VAIL -BB. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1965
MISS UNIVERSE 1965 SEMI-FINALIST
In 1965, another American mestiza from Iloilo, Louise Aurelio Vail, competed in the Miss Universe Pageant in Miami Beach, Florida. She joined Bb. Pilipinas contest and the Miss Universe Pageant as Louise Vail Aurelio in an attempt to Filipinize her name. That year, another Asian woman was crowned as Miss Universe, Apasra Hungsakula of Thailand (the first Asian to win the crown, in 1959, was Akiko Kojima of Japan). Louise was a semi-finalist.
source: Lo FUNFARE by Ricardo F. Lo
MISS UNIVERSE 1965 SEMI-FINALIST
In 1965, another American mestiza from Iloilo, Louise Aurelio Vail, competed in the Miss Universe Pageant in Miami Beach, Florida. She joined Bb. Pilipinas contest and the Miss Universe Pageant as Louise Vail Aurelio in an attempt to Filipinize her name. That year, another Asian woman was crowned as Miss Universe, Apasra Hungsakula of Thailand (the first Asian to win the crown, in 1959, was Akiko Kojima of Japan). Louise was a semi-finalist.
source: Lo FUNFARE by Ricardo F. Lo
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007
CECILIA PINKY AMABUYOK-Ms. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILS. 1968
CECILIA PINKY AMABUYOK-Ms. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILS. 1968
MISS WORLD 1968-Fourth Runner Up
MISS WORLD 1968-Fourth Runner Up
Friday, November 30, 2007
CLARINDA SORIANO-Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1966
CLARINDA SORIANO-Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1966
MISS UNIVERSE 1966 Semi-finalist
A nursing student from Barrio Aniban in Bacoor, Cavite, Maria Clarinda "Arlin" Garces Soriano, was named Bb. Pilipinas-Universe in 1966. The 20-year-old UE nursing student, who slightly resembled the First Lady, Imelda Romualdez Marcos, was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe Pageant.
MISS UNIVERSE 1966 Semi-finalist
A nursing student from Barrio Aniban in Bacoor, Cavite, Maria Clarinda "Arlin" Garces Soriano, was named Bb. Pilipinas-Universe in 1966. The 20-year-old UE nursing student, who slightly resembled the First Lady, Imelda Romualdez Marcos, was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe Pageant.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
PILAR PILAPIL- Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1967
PILAR PILAPIL- Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1967
Pilar Pilapil (born 12 October 1950 in Liloan, Cebu) was the Binibining Pilipinas-Universe 1967. A beauty queen and a movie star at the age of 17, she was prominent in the Philippines in the 1970s. Her acting career spanned for three decades, winning two major acting awards. Presently, she is active as a Born Again Christian missionary.
EXCERPT FROM HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The youngest of six girls (with four brothers after her) recalled that childhood, spent with a spinster aunt since age five, with an overtone of bitterness toward a father who, she insists, didn’t love her, citing an incident when she was 14 and starting to be "mischievous" with the guys: She obeyed terrified when her father, depressed after losing his job at a tire company, summoned her to his room and, she narrated, "shut the door behind me and I learned just how very cruel my father could be."
What that "cruelty" was she didn’t elaborate. But after that incident, she says, "My life was never again the same."
Faking her age (18, she indicated in the application when in fact she was only sweet sixteen), she won as Bb. Pilipinas-Universe in 1967. After representing the country in that year’s Miss Universe Pageant, Pilar succumbed to the lure of showbiz, rising above being "a mere beauty" by winning a Best Actress award (for Imelda, ang Uliran) at the Manila Film Festival.
And she fell in love with, you guessed it, older men, first with Dolphy (who, according to some sources, she almost married) and then with a man whom she identifies only as Doy, father of her only child Pia who married a handsome blind model. Pilar recalled that on their first meeting, the man Doy tried to seduce her ("...the fact that he was proposing sex without romance was a big turn-off to me..."), so she ran out of the back entrance and down the stairs because the elevator of the apartment building was out of order, much like "Cinderella running away from my Prince Charming."
Well, to make a long story short, Pilar fell deeply in love with the man Doy, "even though he was married with several children," convinced that "I believed I learned to love him, and I believed that he loved me," foolishly desiring that they would be together forever even if she knew that that could never happen.
One of Pilar’s poignant recollections of the man Doy was when he fought with his wife (unidentified in the book) and he stayed with Pilar for one week: Midnight came and my helper used the intercom and told me that Doy’s two daughters were downstairs. I went down to see them while Pia (then only about three years old) and her dad were fast asleep. As we talked, his daughter told me, "You finally found what you wanted." I replied, "It’s not a matter of what I want, it’s a matter of how many people get hurt in the process. There are eight of you, nine including your mother. There are only two of us." They both became quiet and asked if they could see their father. I led the elder daughter to our bedroom upstairs and she woke her dad, saying, "Dad, mom is already home." He woke up and told me, "Mama (our term of endearment), I’ll go home first."
SOURCE:Ricki Lo
Pilar Pilapil (born 12 October 1950 in Liloan, Cebu) was the Binibining Pilipinas-Universe 1967. A beauty queen and a movie star at the age of 17, she was prominent in the Philippines in the 1970s. Her acting career spanned for three decades, winning two major acting awards. Presently, she is active as a Born Again Christian missionary.
EXCERPT FROM HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The youngest of six girls (with four brothers after her) recalled that childhood, spent with a spinster aunt since age five, with an overtone of bitterness toward a father who, she insists, didn’t love her, citing an incident when she was 14 and starting to be "mischievous" with the guys: She obeyed terrified when her father, depressed after losing his job at a tire company, summoned her to his room and, she narrated, "shut the door behind me and I learned just how very cruel my father could be."
What that "cruelty" was she didn’t elaborate. But after that incident, she says, "My life was never again the same."
Faking her age (18, she indicated in the application when in fact she was only sweet sixteen), she won as Bb. Pilipinas-Universe in 1967. After representing the country in that year’s Miss Universe Pageant, Pilar succumbed to the lure of showbiz, rising above being "a mere beauty" by winning a Best Actress award (for Imelda, ang Uliran) at the Manila Film Festival.
And she fell in love with, you guessed it, older men, first with Dolphy (who, according to some sources, she almost married) and then with a man whom she identifies only as Doy, father of her only child Pia who married a handsome blind model. Pilar recalled that on their first meeting, the man Doy tried to seduce her ("...the fact that he was proposing sex without romance was a big turn-off to me..."), so she ran out of the back entrance and down the stairs because the elevator of the apartment building was out of order, much like "Cinderella running away from my Prince Charming."
Well, to make a long story short, Pilar fell deeply in love with the man Doy, "even though he was married with several children," convinced that "I believed I learned to love him, and I believed that he loved me," foolishly desiring that they would be together forever even if she knew that that could never happen.
One of Pilar’s poignant recollections of the man Doy was when he fought with his wife (unidentified in the book) and he stayed with Pilar for one week: Midnight came and my helper used the intercom and told me that Doy’s two daughters were downstairs. I went down to see them while Pia (then only about three years old) and her dad were fast asleep. As we talked, his daughter told me, "You finally found what you wanted." I replied, "It’s not a matter of what I want, it’s a matter of how many people get hurt in the process. There are eight of you, nine including your mother. There are only two of us." They both became quiet and asked if they could see their father. I led the elder daughter to our bedroom upstairs and she woke her dad, saying, "Dad, mom is already home." He woke up and told me, "Mama (our term of endearment), I’ll go home first."
SOURCE:Ricki Lo
Monday, November 19, 2007
JAYE MURPHY-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1975
JAYE MURPHY-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1975
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1975 SEMI-FINALIST
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1975 SEMI-FINALIST
Saturday, November 17, 2007
DIANA JEAN CHIONG-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1980
DIANA JEAN CHIONG-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1980
Friday, November 16, 2007
CRISTINA PACHECO-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1953
CRISTINA PACHECO-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1953
1953 — Miss Philippines Cristina Monson Pacheco left Manila for L.A. via Honolulu on July 6, 1953 by Pan American Airways Strato Clipper. Cristina and her co-delegates visited the Universal International Studio and met top Hollywood actors including Jeff Chandler.
source: by Ricardo F. Lo
The Philippine Star
June 2006
1953 — Miss Philippines Cristina Monson Pacheco left Manila for L.A. via Honolulu on July 6, 1953 by Pan American Airways Strato Clipper. Cristina and her co-delegates visited the Universal International Studio and met top Hollywood actors including Jeff Chandler.
source: by Ricardo F. Lo
The Philippine Star
June 2006
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
ABBYGALE ARENAS-Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1997
ABBYGALE ARENAS-Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1997
MISS UNIVERSE 1997-MS. PHOTOGENIC
MISS UNIVERSE 1997-MS. PHOTOGENIC
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
BLESILDA OCAMPO-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1954
BLESILDA OCAMPO-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1954
MISS UNIVERSE 1954-SEMI-FINALIST
954 —In 1954, Ma. Candida Blesilda "Bessie" Mueler Ocampo, a UST architecture freshman, was the first Filipina to land among the 15 semi-finalists. She was in London as part of her prize for winning the Boys Town Miss Philippines contest when she was asked to represent the country in the 1954 Miss Universe Pageant.
Miss Philippines Maria Blesilda Mueller Ocampo was in London when Boys Town Philippines received the confirmation from Oscar Meinhardt, executive producer of Miss Universe Pageant, that she was an official delegate to the pageant. From London, Bessie flew to L.A. and arrived there on July 11 with the European delegates. Bessie was adjudged one of the 16 semi-finalists, the only delegate who listed in her bio that she’s a professional cook. After the pageant, Bessie, Miss Japan Mieko Kondo and Miss Texas Betty Lee and 12 other delegates were offered jobs as showgirls at $150 a week in a fancy Hollywood nightspot, Moulin Rouge Supper Club. Only Lee accepted the offer.
source: FUNFARE Ricki Lo
MISS UNIVERSE 1954-SEMI-FINALIST
954 —In 1954, Ma. Candida Blesilda "Bessie" Mueler Ocampo, a UST architecture freshman, was the first Filipina to land among the 15 semi-finalists. She was in London as part of her prize for winning the Boys Town Miss Philippines contest when she was asked to represent the country in the 1954 Miss Universe Pageant.
Miss Philippines Maria Blesilda Mueller Ocampo was in London when Boys Town Philippines received the confirmation from Oscar Meinhardt, executive producer of Miss Universe Pageant, that she was an official delegate to the pageant. From London, Bessie flew to L.A. and arrived there on July 11 with the European delegates. Bessie was adjudged one of the 16 semi-finalists, the only delegate who listed in her bio that she’s a professional cook. After the pageant, Bessie, Miss Japan Mieko Kondo and Miss Texas Betty Lee and 12 other delegates were offered jobs as showgirls at $150 a week in a fancy Hollywood nightspot, Moulin Rouge Supper Club. Only Lee accepted the offer.
source: FUNFARE Ricki Lo
Thursday, October 25, 2007
LUZ POLICARPIO-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1978
LUZ POLICARPIO-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1978
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1978
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1978
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
COLETTE CENTENO GLAZER-Bb. PILIPINAS-INT. 1998
COLETTE CENTENO GLAZER-Bb. PILIPINAS-INT. 1998
MISS INTERNATIONAL 98 SEMI-FINALIST
MISS INTERNATIONAL 98 SEMI-FINALIST
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
AILEEN DAMILES-Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1996
AILEEN DAMILES-Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1996
MISS UNIVERSE 96- MS. PHOTOGENIC
MISS UNIVERSE 96- MS. PHOTOGENIC
Sunday, October 7, 2007
LILIA ANDANAR-Bb. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL -1989
LILIA ANDANAR-Bb. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL -1989
MISS INTERNATIONAL 1989 -MISS FRIENDSHIP
MISS INTERNATIONAL 1989 -MISS FRIENDSHIP
Thursday, October 4, 2007
DOLORES ESCALON-BB. PIIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1976
DOLORES ESCALON-BB. PIIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1976
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1976 SEMI-FINALIST
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1976 SEMI-FINALIST
Sunday, September 30, 2007
ARMI BARBARA CRESPO-Bb.PILIPINAS 1972
ARMI BARBARA CRESPO-Bb.PILIPINAS 1972
MISS UNIVERSE 1972 SEMI-FINALIST
Before Martial Law was proclaimed in 1972, Armi Barbara Quiray Crespo was selected as one of the 12 semi-finalists in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
MISS UNIVERSE 1972 SEMI-FINALIST
Before Martial Law was proclaimed in 1972, Armi Barbara Quiray Crespo was selected as one of the 12 semi-finalists in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
CARMEN TUAZON-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1958
CARMEN TUAZON-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1958
DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE PAGEANT due to parental objection.
DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE PAGEANT due to parental objection.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
CRISTINA ALBERTO-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1977
CRISTINA ALBERTO-BB. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL 1977
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1977-WITHDREW
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1977-WITHDREW
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Cristina Matias-Miss Philippines 1959
Cristina Matias-Miss Philippines 1959
She did not participate in the Miss Universe Pageant because she had commitment with Bayanihan Dance Troupe.
She did not participate in the Miss Universe Pageant because she had commitment with Bayanihan Dance Troupe.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
VIDA DORIA-Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1971
VIDA DORIA-Bb. PILIPINAS-UNIVERSE 1971
MISS UNIVERSE -Miss Photogenic
MISS UNIVERSE -Miss Photogenic
Sunday, September 9, 2007
PATRICIA BETITA-Bb. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL-1991
PATRICIA BETITA-Bb. PILIPINAS-INTERNATIONAL-1991
MISS INTERNATIONAL 1991-SEMI-FINALIST
MISS INTERNATIONAL 1991-SEMI-FINALIST
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
ISABEL RODRIGUEZ-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1956
ISABEL RODRIGUEZ-MISS PHILIPPINES-UNIVERSE 1956
• 1956 — Miss Philippines Isabel Escobar Rodriguez paid a courtesy call to President Ramon Magsaysay in Malacañang Palace before she left for L.A. via Honolulu on July 10, 1956 at 11 p.m. by Pan American Airways.
1956- Miss Philippines Edith Noble Nakpil, daughter of Anita Noble, opted not to represent the country in the Miss Universe pageant. Isabel Rodriguez, Miss Benevolence in a red Cross tilt, was chosen to replace her.
• 1956 — Miss Philippines Isabel Escobar Rodriguez paid a courtesy call to President Ramon Magsaysay in Malacañang Palace before she left for L.A. via Honolulu on July 10, 1956 at 11 p.m. by Pan American Airways.
1956- Miss Philippines Edith Noble Nakpil, daughter of Anita Noble, opted not to represent the country in the Miss Universe pageant. Isabel Rodriguez, Miss Benevolence in a red Cross tilt, was chosen to replace her.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
PEACHY SACASAS-BB. PIIPINAS-INERNATIONAL 1981
PEACHY SACASAS-BB. PIIPINAS-INERNATIONAL 1981
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1981 SEMI-FINALIST
MS. INTERNATIONAL 1981 SEMI-FINALIST
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