Miss Universe Asia 2024 Chelsea Manalo (proper) and Miss Universe 2013 third runner-up Ara Arida/ARMIN P. ADINA
Magnificence queen-turned-host and actress Ara Arida didn’t mince phrases when she expressed her ideas concerning the just lately concluded staging of the 2024 Miss Universe ultimate competitors present, saying the delegates deserved extra.
The 2013 Miss Universe third runner-up, endearingly referred to as “Mars Ara” by many pageant followers, shared this commentary when she delivered her message for newly proclaimed Miss Universe Asia Chelsea Manalo on the latter’s homecoming press convention held at Empire Studio on the Estancia Mall in Pasig Metropolis on Dec. 14.
“Really, we’re so pleased along with your efficiency; I’m simply not pleased with the stage,” Arida mentioned with a hearty snort, additionally addressing the journalists and on-line content material creators who attended the occasion.
“I do know you deserve a greater manufacturing as a result of I understand how you actually carried out, and I need to see all of your pasarela (pageant stroll). Nakakapanghinayang (it was such a waste), however I do know that you just did so properly,” she continued.
Netizens additionally expressed their frustration at what they claimed was the worst version of the Miss Universe pageant, beginning with the very restricted out of doors actions for the delegates, who simply largely stayed of their lodge.
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The last-minute addition of the night robe phase to the preliminary competitors present was additionally panned as a result of it gave the women just a few seconds every, simply standing of their attire for his or her devoted air time. Earlier editions had the women parading individually on stage.
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The ultimate competitors present was additionally obtained poorly by many pageant followers, who didn’t hesitate to share their disdain on social media. This was the primary staging of the pageant with Mexican entity Legacy Holdings as a co-owner of the Miss Universe Group, equally sharing the corporate with JKN International Group of Thailand.
Arida mentioned she is aware of how Manalo feels now after competing in a very powerful worldwide pageant for Filipinos. “After all of the coaching, all of the laborious work, all of the strain, the great and the dangerous of the expertise, lastly you may breathe higher now,” she mentioned.
“I’m so pleased with what you will have achieved, our first-ever Miss Universe Asia. I do know you deserve it,” continued Arida, who was one of many judges within the 2024 Miss Universe Philippines pageant in Might, the place Manalo gained her nationwide title that introduced her to Mexico.
Manalo additionally recalled Arida’s recommendation to her earlier than embarking on her worldwide pageant journey. “She informed me to embrace each second that you’d really feel once you’re in Miss Universe. So once you get there, you will note the opposite candidates; there are such a lot of of them, all so stunning. You type of really feel, ‘Oh my God, it’s actually nerve-wracking,’ and you are feeling the competitors,” she shared.
“However within the later a part of the competitors you embrace what’s occurring, that you just really feel your energy, the place you’re coming from. So being there, it’s probably not the opposite women which are your competitors, however your self,” she added.
Manalo mentioned she determined to have enjoyable. “Mexico was a dream place for me to go to, so it’s a dream for me to be there. To signify our nation has been such an honor on the identical time,” she mentioned.
Followers of the Filipino queen could have the possibility to see her in particular person at her homecoming and victory parade scheduled on Friday afternoon, Dec. 20, on the Mall of Asia complicated in Pasay Metropolis.
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Manalo may even participate in a “Parade Stroll” on the TLC Park, Decrease Bicutan, in Taguig Metropolis on Saturday night, Dec. 21.
