Photo: Miss Mexico Karla Carrillo
This is our first pageant coverage of the Miss Universe. It has been the first time we provided here in SHELU89 various breaking news and information about the pageant, and we are very proud that our pageant coverage is very successful.
Now, as part of our on-going report on the Miss Universe pageant, SHELU89 brings its fealess forecast on the candidates who will be called in for the Top 15.
Here are the countries who we believe have the strong chance of clinching the coveted crown.
1. Russia – Sofia Rudieva
* She’s pretty and very sexy. Her swimsuit presentation is outstanding and her evening gown is also quiet impressive. Her smile is very sweet and mesmerizing, and a certified photogenic.
2. Dominican Republic – Ada de la Cruz
* She’s a queen in the making. Her cat walk is very professional and she had the Miss World 2007 semi-finals attached to her belt.
3. Australia – Rachael Finch
* A plain beauty but her catwalk is a delight. She had a consistent swimsuit and evening gown presentation. I adore her during the evening gown.
4. France – Chloé Mortaud
* She’s a true beauty. Her ancestral mix is great. Beautiful face and a toned sexy body. MUO needs a black queen for the decade and she’s a perfect choice.
5. Philippines – Bianca Manalo
* Very beautiful. She’s refreshing face in the midst of a pageant dominated by Latinas and Caucasians. She nailed the swimsuit preliminary but her evening gown presentation is just so-so. I have this feeling I had on 1999 so Bianca should do her best.
6. Netherlands – Avalon-Chanel Weyzig
* I am not really a fan of her body and I’m not impressed by her swimsuit presentation. But her evening gown is great. I love her sensual smile which can be attributed to her Dutch-Indonesian descent.
7. South Africa – Tatum Keshwar
* Not really outstanding in terms of beauty but her performances are consistent. Her wardrobes are outanding. She even looks like Filipino celebrity Bebe Gandanghari. She is very sexy though.
8. USA – Kristen Dalton
* She can be in the Top 15 because she’s Miss USA. I’m not really rooting for her but she’s a polished beauty queen. She’s every inch a regal queen.
9. Mexico – Karla Carrillo
* She’s stunning and gorgeous. She’s very tall and queenly. Her swimsuit presentation is breathless. But her evening gown is somewhat like a dip though she was able to pull the performance amidst the fugly gown she wore.
10.Puerto Rico – Mayra Matos
* She will be in the Top 15 because of the sash factor but her stage presence and tone sexy body will be her key to the finals. Her performances, though not that striking, its consistent.
11.Indonesia – Zivanna Letisha Siregar
* Very beautiful. Her swimsuit and evening gown are also good. She’s a fresh take among the candidates like Miss Philippines. She’s young and vibrant as opposed to most Latina and European candidates.
12.Venezuela – Stefanía Fernández
* She is very beautiful and very sexy. But she has the slimmest chance of winning since its common in the Miss Universe that countries who won the previous year will not win but she is definitely in the Top 15.
13.Vietnam – Võ Hoàng Yến
* Her catwalk killed the other candidates during the evening gown. She is not outstandingly beautiful but her fierceness is very visible. Her greatest asset is her catwalk and long legs. She is even way better than Vietnam’s 2008 representative.
13.Kosovo, Marigona Dragusha
* The body is well-toned. Her swimsuit and evening gown presentation is very good. She’s a supermodel with the beauty queen charm. She is performing consistently. According to a pageant expert, she looks like Audrey Hepburn. If she will perform great in the finals, she might eventually grab the crown.
14.Spain – Estíbaliz Pereira
* A true beauty. Her body is very sexy and it indeed pulled her swimsuit presentation. Her evening gown presentation is quiet lame. I definitely love her smile. She’s also way better than Spain’s candidate last year.
15. Bahamas – Kiara Sherman
* The host country deserves its first semi-finalist this year. She has the grace during the evening gown presentation and her catwalk is also good. The stage presence is there and love to see her in the semi-finals.
I want to include favorites like Czech Republic, Iceland and Hungary but I just feel that my list should not be filled with too much blonde.
Pinoy TV Critic 