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Olivia Culpo
Miss USA, Olivia Culpo has been crowned as Miss Universe 2012 at a gala
event in Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Olivia
Culpo defeated stunning divas from across 89 states to win the crown.
As many as 89 beauty queens from around the world descended to compete
for the title of Miss Universe.
The first and the second runners up are Janine Tugonon from Philippines and Irene Esser from Venezuela.
Miss Universe 2011, Leila Lopes of Angola, crowned the successor amidst a round of loud applause.
Miss India, Shilpa Singh could not go beyond the 16th round.
Participants
have already completed the evening gown round, the swimsuit
competition, the national costume competition and the National Gift
Auction. Miss Great Britain 2012, 21-year-old Holly Hale from Swansea,
displayed an impressive level of confidence and style in all the
segments.
Miss
Universe is an annual international beauty pageant run by the Miss
Universe Organization. Next to with its rival contest - Miss World -
this pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world. You
can see the display of Universe's Beauties representing their countries.
California
clothing company Pacific Mills founded the contest 1952. The pageant
became part of Kayser-Roth and then Gulf and Western Industries, before
being acquired by Donald Trump in 1996.
It
was until 1998 when Miss Universe changed its name from Miss Universe,
Inc. to Miss Universe Organization. Its original headquarters moved
from Long Beach, LA to New York City same year. Mr. Donald Trump
brought in a new team of professionals to the contest headed by its new
CEO, Molly Miles, and president Maureen Reidy. Redefined for Today",
this is the slogan coined by Mills for promotion of the pageants. In
the same year, the new Miss Universe logo was born: The Woman with the
Stars, which is still being used today.
How Contestants are selected?Miss
Universe organizers received proposals each year from organizations who
wish to decide on the Miss Universe contestant for a country. This
permits competition between different pageants to hold a country's
license, as happened for Miss Italy and Miss France for example, when
the licenses for their respective traditional organizations were
revoked (the usual Miss France competition returned in 2004).
Typically
a country's candidate selection involves a lot of pageants in major
cities, with the winners contending in a national pageant, but not
always happening. Take this as a mirror for example; in 2000
Australia's national pageant was stopped as a remnant of a bygone era,
with Australian delegates instead chosen by a modeling agency. But of
course the organization does not permit this one as the pageant is to
promote and preserve aura of respectability and competition.
Main PageantOver
a two week period in May and July the main Miss Universe Pageant is
held. Previously, in the 1970s through the 1990s, the contest was a
month long. This allowed time for rehearsals, appearances, and the
preliminary competition, with the winner being crowned by the previous
year's titleholder during the final competition.
The Miss
Universe contest is more than a beauty pageant: women aspiring to
become Miss Universe must be intelligent, well-mannered, and cultured.
Most of the times a candidate has not won because she did not have a
good answer during the question responses rounds; although this segment
of competition has held less weight during recent pageants than it did
in the twentieth century. Delegates also participate in swimsuit and
evening gown competitions
