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By Iza Iglesias, TMT February 29, 2020
Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach has indeed inspired a lot of people with her story. A girl with perseverance, she made it her mission to win the coveted Binibining Pilipinas crown three times — and she definitely outdid herself every single time.
Her win in Miss Universe became memorable after breaking the 42-year drought for the Philippines.
Pia Wurtzbach’s advice to pageant hopefuls is to veer away from changing themselves.
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Since then, she continues to champion in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the Philippines, became UNAids Ambassador for Asia and The Pacific, while juggling her acting career.
The 30-year-old’s life definitely changed forever because of her desire to represent the Philippines in the international stage. And now because of the successful streak of the country topping off the ladder in Miss Universe, a “new” pageant in the Philippines has officially started — it’s namesake pageant called Miss Universe Philippines (MUP).
The MUP organization last December took over the Binibining Pilipinas Charities Inc.’s task to look for the country’s representative to the yearly Miss Universe pageant. Recently, they have introduced 52 candidates vying for this year’s first ever Miss Universe Philippines crown.
Miss Universe 2013 Third Runner-Up Shamcey Supsup-Lee is named the national director of the organization. Apart from her, other members of the Miss Universe Philippines board are Albert Andrada as the Design Council Head, pageant mentor Jonas Gaffud as the Creative Director, Lia Ramos as Head of Women Empowerment Committee and Charity, lawyer Nad Bronce as Head of Legal Affairs, and Mario Garcia as Business Development/ Marketing Head.
With the separation of the Miss Universe franchise, the current titles under Binibining Pilipinas are Bb. Pilipinas International, Bb. Pilipinas Supranational, Bb. Pilipinas Intercontinental, Bb. Pilipinas Globe, and Bb. Pilipinas Grand International.
Forever a Binibini
With this big news in the mind of the pageant fans, many are wondering if Wurtzbach have a role in this new pageant, most especially that her friends Lee, including her mentor Gaffud and Andrada — the designer of her iconic blue gown, have parts in the organization.
In an interview at the sidelines of her launch as the newest endorser of Jollibee’s Tuna Pie, Wurtzbach answered, “Right now I don’t have any role in Miss Universe Philippines because I’m trying to focus on my career and other things I want to do. This year I want to pursue business, I want to get into business. So those are the things I’m focusing on right now.”
“But I offered my time, like if ever they need me to come in and do a pep talk with the girls or just to give a session just to talk to them or give them motivational talk maybe, then I’m up for that as long as kaya ng schedule,” she added.
Despite the separation of Miss Universe from Binibining Pilipinas, the 30-year-old queen promises to still support the leading national beauty pageant in whatever way she is needed.
Despite the separation of Miss Universe from Binibining Pilipinas, the beauty queen still expressed her full support for the Stella Marquez Araneta-led national beauty pageant.
“Of course [I will still support], galing ako sa Binibining Pilipinas and they’ve been around for more that 50 years. Sa kanila ako lumaki so I really still owe a lot to them,” Wurtzbach pointed out.
Be proud of Filipino lineage
Filipinas without a doubt dominate the world of beauty pageants here and abroad. However, some of the country’s win raised long-simmering debates not only about beauty standards and race, but about class and colonialism.
More and more foreign-sounding names are being added to the already growing list of Filipina beauty queen. Some of them include Wurtzbach who was born in Germany, Miss Universe 2018 and half Australian Catriona Gray, Miss World Megan Young — who is half American, Filipino-Indian Venus Raj, Miss Intercontinental 2018 Karen Gallman, also Filipina-Australian and more.
But according to Wurtzbach, she is more Filipino than any other people than she is German. And lineage should not be a hindrance especially to those beauties who will compete in different pageants.
“I am more a Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn’t be ashamed to say that kasi dito ako lumaki. I grew up here, I grew up in the province — in Cagayan de Oro and I spent most of my life here. So I adopted to a lot of Filipino culture, tradition and manners. Lahat yun na adopt ko na,” Wurtzbach told the members of the press.
“The number one thing when I was in the States as reigning Miss Universe is the way I speak. I have a very Filipino accent. And back in the States they actually like it. They find it endering kasi ako minsan I get conscious because people here back home I feel like I need to tone it down a little bit and sound more American. But over there, they don’t really care so much about your accent, not even you having a perfect english or grammar. It’s more about the personality, how you present yourself, your wit,” she continued.
“I think this also applies to the other beauty queens, other aspirant of Miss Universe Philippine or any pageant of that matter kahit Binibini pa — don’t focus too much on changing your accent or trying to have perfect English because that’s not what they’re looking for. They’re looking for somebody who can express themselves whether perfect or not in English by showing your wit, your humor and your grace. So there’ were the things,” Wurtzbach ended.
Acting plans
Meanwhile, since Wurtzbach is not busy on helping out in Binibini nor Miss Universe Philippines, she said she is focused on the milk tea shop she built with her best friends, actress Pauleen Luna and chef Niña Almoro.
“We haven’t done a proper grand launch of Bestea yet but that’s what we’re working on for the next few months. We’re also thinking of opening a few more branches around Metro Manila before we start franchising them out. So that’s our plan. Other businesses in the works I’ll talk more about it when I’m ready,” informed Wurtzbach.
She also updated the press that she is preparing for a movie come back, this time with comedian Vhong Navarro.
“Right now we’re working on reshooting the movie with Vhong. That was put on hold for a while. Kahit kami we’re waiting on the go signal to continue shooting again. No title yet. It’s not our fault ni Vhong. We’re ready for this project for a while now. It’s just something internal, they’re just fixing something with the script and other things. But hopefully we’ll get going soon,” she said.
“I have fun with this role because I play a crazy girlfriend. Like sobrang selosa, yung talagang gone girl pero comedy. Yung talagang selosa. I have fun with this role because I get to do things that I otherwise would never try to do in real life,” Wurtzbach ended.
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