MUPH Dir. Shamcey Supsup-Lee (in black) with actress Ara Mina on her proper and reigning Miss Universe Philippines Pasig Selena Antonio-Reyes (in ombre costume) pose with the candidates of the 2025 metropolis pageant. Picture: INQUIRER.web/Armin P. Adina
Miss Universe Philippines (MUPH) Director Shamcey Supsup-Lee is conscious of how followers at all times clamor for recalibrating the nationwide search each time a brand new worldwide winner is topped. However for her, there is no such thing as a have to “sample” the choice primarily based on the brand new queen.
“I at all times say this, yearly is at all times completely different. Yearly there are at all times surprises. And I consider it’s not one thing that it’s important to change, or change route each time,” she informed INQUIRER.web on the sidelines of the Miss Universe Philippines Pasig 2025 press presentation in Mandaluyong Metropolis on Dec. 10.
“There are such a lot of elements concerned. Generally we simply base it on the winner, that if she is a sure means, our subsequent winner must also be like that. I don’t assume it ought to be that means,” she added.
Lee mentioned MUPH’s essential goal is to supply a platform the place girls can excel of their distinctive means. “And if that’s the best way she is, she stood out on the worldwide stage, then that’s her future. That’s how I believe. I can’t converse for the entire group,” she mentioned.
She mentioned there have been instances when the followers say advocacy ought to be the main target, then one other time runway expertise, and one other time they need somebody statuesque, and one other time somebody who seems like a doll.
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“What occurs there’s you outline girls in quite simple phrases, and she or he’s greater than that. It simply so occurs that it was what’s highlighted in regards to the winner, however there’s extra to her than simply that. Why will you set her in a field?” Lee requested.
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“You’ll discover that yearly is completely different in terms of bodily magnificence. Aside from [the 2023 pageant], I’ve seen all of the Miss Universe dwell (throughout MUPH’s tenure), and I noticed there’s one thing in regards to the [eventual] winner once they come out on stage. That’s one thing you can’t predict, or research. It simply occurs,” she shared.
As for the present Miss Universe Viktoria Kjær Theilvig, who competed with the Philippines’ Chelsea Manalo within the 73rd version of the worldwide pageant held in Mexico final month, Lee mentioned she seen her “x-factor” as early because the preliminaries.
“I mentioned I like Denmark. There’s one thing about this woman, she has ‘one thing.’ After which in the course of the finals she had one of many loudest cheers. How did that occur? It was in Mexico Metropolis with a Latin-dominated crowd. She had followers, it’s not simply us who seen her,” she shared.
However she additionally mentioned that she is not going to be as concerned within the 2025 nationwide search as she used to. Lee mentioned she had already spoken with MUPH Pres. Jonas Gaffud about mendacity low from the group due to her candidacy as Pasig Metropolis councilor for the 2025 elections.
“No matter are my objectives, no matter I needed to realize with MUPH, it’s nonetheless the identical, girls empowerment, pushing for the artistic industries, and I hope to do this in a much bigger stage,” Lee mentioned.
She mentioned she is going to nonetheless assist MUPH every time she will be able to. “However for positive I’ll be very, very busy by that point. That is what I can do for now, Pasig Metropolis, and we’re planning to have our coronation night time on Jan. 18 subsequent yr,” Lee mentioned of her assist for the Miss Universe Philippines Pasig 2025 competitors.
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Eighteen girls are vying for the primary native pageant for Pasig Metropolis’s Miss Universe Philippines consultant. Reigning queen Selena Antonio-Reyes, a 38-year-old mom of two, was appointed to characterize the town within the 2024 nationwide pagent, the place she completed within the Prime 20.
