September 2, 2009
STATEMENT FROM PAULA M. SHUGART, PRESIDENT OF THE MISS UNIVERSE ORGANIZATION, REGARDING INACCURATE ALLEGATIONS REGARDING THE PRELIMINARY JUDGING PROCESS FOR THE MISS UNIVERSE COMPETITION
In response to an inaccurate and incomplete account of The Miss Universe Organization judging process, I would like to clarify the following:
As disclosed at the top of each broadcast, members [...]

By THOM WALKER (AP) – 3 days ago
CARACAS, Venezuela — The newly crowned Miss Universe returned to her native Venezuela on Saturday to celebrate her historic selection, saying the nation would go for its third consecutive win at next year’s pageant.
Stefania Fernandez, 18, was welcomed at the airport with a red carpet and flowers.
“Nothing is [...]

by Ed Dominguez
The gown competition brought us many interesting elements. The North American debut of French DJ David Guetta (who has been pleasing us with his great music since 2004), who, with the collaboration of former Destiny’s Child alumni Kelly Rowland put together one of the best songs of the year.
HOWEVER…
What was up with Kelly [...]

by Pasquale “Patrick” Tripoldi
[Disclaimer: This is an "epic" two-part read. A diatribe, if you will. It takes on many voices and accents and uses lyrics and dialogue from the musical “Wicked: The Story of the Witches of Oz” (with a few adaptations here and there LOL!). It is worth downloading the soundtrack or even just [...]

Editorials will continue about this edition of the Miss Universe pageant. In the meantime, you are still welcome to voice your opinion!

by Joseph Vitug

If we based solely on the performance of the evening gown round, all ladies in the Top Five deserve to belong in this hallowed group. But I still wish that one of the slots be given to an extra Mocha Babe (you readers know which Mocha Babe I am referring to — I [...]

by Henrique Fontes
The beauty of democracy and freedom of expression, is that we can all have different views and opionions on a same subject, even in the same vehicle (in this case, Global Beauties). Here is my take on Miss U 2009…
I was in China covering the Miss Tourism Queen International pageant when it all [...]

by Joseph Vitug

Much has been said that this year’s Top 15 seemed to be overly laden with Eastern European contestants and that despite at least three worthy and competitive Asians, there was an Asian shut-out this year (the first total shut-out since 1991) – Australia, even if it lately associates itself with the Asian region [...]

by Joseph Vitug
 
 The intro to the telecast of this year’s Miss Universe Pageant sounded different than the usual. In lieu of the usual professionally trained voiceover, a distinctively brash-sounding Brooklyn-accented male voice is overheard introducing the pageant. Turns out, part-owner Donald Trump is performing the introduction. Some might wonder if the Miss Universe Organization could [...]

by Pasquale “Patrick” Tripoldi

Miss Venezuela WON????? Well, shut my mouth and call me Myrtle!  How did that happen? It’s been a week and now that everyone has gotten their say in, let me say mine. The conspiracy theories abound….and many of those are almost comical if they didn’t feel so…..real! Was I the only one [...]

Click here to see photos of the 58th Miss Universe pageant telecast held at the Atlantis Resort in Paradise Island, Bahamas

In a surprising turn of events, Miss Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez, was crowned Miss Universe 2009 marking the first back-to-back wins for the same country in the history of Miss Universe.
18-year old Fernandez, who had been criticized for her “off” styling during the 3 weeks of the contest, struggled to maintain the legacy of Venezuelan beauty [...]

4th Runner-up: Puerto Rico
3rd Runner-up: Australia
2nd Runner-up: Kosovo
1st Runner-up: Dominican Republic
MISS UNIVERSE 2009: VENEZUELA, Stefania Fernandez
Congratulations to Venezuela on their 6th Miss Universe crown: 1979, 1981, 1986, 1996, 2008, 2009
6) FRANCE
7) SOUTH AFRICA
CZECH REPUBLIC
9) SWITZERLAND
10) USA
11) ALBANIA
12) BELGIUM
13) SWEDEN
14) CROATIA
15) ICELAND

COME JOIN THE FUN WITH GB!

This is the place to join your fellow posters, pageant fans, extremists, budding missologists, and probably an entire country or two. Below is a link for the telecast from the same company that brought us the preliminaries as well as a link to a Spanish speaking telecast. Please open it [...]

Miss Congeniality - China
Miss Photogenic - Thailand
Also, Dayana Mendoza reveals that the new Miss Universe crown -elected by voters- is the “Peace” model