Miss Universe 2018: The Philippines bags crown, India fails to make Top 20 India had pinned high hopes on Nehal Chudasama, 22, to end a long drought for the country at the pageant as Lara Dutta had last brought back the crown in 2000.
Miss Universe 2018: The Philippines bags crown, India's Nehal Chudasama fails to make Top 20 on Business Standard. India had pinned high hopes on Nehal Chudasama, 22, to end a long drought for the country at the pageant as Lara Dutta had last brought back the crown in 2000.
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Top 20 of the Miss Universe 2018 pageant, where Catriona Elisa Gray from Philippines pipped 93 contestants from around the world to emerge the winner — as chosen by an all-women jury. India had pinned high hopes on Nehal, 22, to end a long drought for the country at the pageant as Lara Dutta had last brought back the crown in 2000.
But South Africa’s Tamaryn Green, a medical student, and Venezuela’s Sthefany Guterrez, studying to be a lawyer, secured the first runner-up and second runner-up spots at the gala ceremony, where Spain’s Angela Ponce made history as the first transgender woman to contend for the title of Miss Universe. Hosted by Emmy Award-winning Steve Harvey, the show here on Sunday saw Gray taking an ecstatic first walk as Miss Universe in a dazzling red gown with a thigh-high slit. She was crowned by Miss Universe 2017 Demi Leigh Nel-Peters, who comes from South Africa. Gray holds a Master Certificate in Music Theory. An adventure junkie, she is an HIV/AIDS advocate and volunteers as a Teacher’s Assistant to the students at an NGO according to the official Miss Universe website. In the final question round, Gray was asked about the most important lesson she has learnt in life and how would she apply it in her time as Miss Universe. She said: "I work a lot in the slums of Manila and life there is very poor and sad. I have always taught myself to look for the beauty in it, to look for the beauty in the faces of the children, and I would bring this aspect as a Miss Universe to see situations with a silver lining and to asses where I could give something and provide something".
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