Featured Pageant - December 2007

CONTESTANTS

ARGENTINA - Leonor Celmira Guggini

ARUBA - Maureen Ava Vieira

AUSTRALIA - Yasmin May Nagy

AUSTRIA - Eveline Engleder

BAHAMAS - Agatha Elizabeth Watson

BELGIUM - Anne Marie Sophie Sikorsky

BERMUDA - Joyce Ann De Rosa

BOLIVIA - Teresa Isabel Callau

BRAZIL - Sandra Guimarães de Oliveira

CANADA - Deborah Tone

CHILE - Jeannette Rebecca González

COLOMBIA - Ella Cecilia Escandón Palacio

COSTA RICA - Rebecca Montagné

CURACAO - Catherine Adelle de Jongh

CYPRUS - Andri Tsangaridou

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Jacqueline Candina Cabrera

EL SALVADOR - Ana Carlota Araújo

ENGLAND - Kathleen Ann Celeste Anders

FINLAND - Riita Johanna

FRANCE - Brigitte Marie Flayac

GERMANY - Ursula Faustle

GREECE - Lena Cleopa Agemanon

GUAM - Elizabeth Clara Tenorio

HOLLAND - Nicoline Maria Bodreaux

HONDURAS - Etelinda Mejía Velásquez

HONG KONG - Jojo Cheung Man-Ying

ICELAND - Anna Bjornsdóttir

INDIA - Shailini Bhavnath Dholakia

INDONESIA - Nia Kurniasi Ardikoesoema

IRELAND - Yvonne Costelloe

ISRAEL - Edna Levy

ITALY - Loretta Persichetti

JAMAICA - Lennox Annie Black

JAPAN - Eriko Tsuboi

KOREA - Kim Eunjung

LEBANON - Lody Salim Gabbache

LIBERIA - Maria Yatta Johnson

LUXEMBOURG - Giselle Anita Nicole Azzeri

MALAYSIA - Lily Chong Swee Lian

MALTA - Josette Pace

MEXICO - Guadalupe del Carmen Elorriaga Valdéz

NEW ZEALAND - Dianne Deborah Winyard

NICARAGUA - Francis (Fanny) Duarte de León Tapia

PANAMA - Jazmine Panay

PARAGUAY - María Angela Medina Monjagata

PHILIPPINES - Guadalupe Cuerva Sanchez

PORTUGAL - Anna Paula da Silva Freitas

PUERTO RICO - Sonia María Stege Chardón

SCOTLAND - Catherine Robertson

SENEGAL - Thioro Thiam

SINGAPORE - Angela Teo Bee Luang

SPAIN - Amparo Muñoz Quesada

SRI LANKA - Melami Irene Wijendra

SURINAME - Bernadette Werners

SWEDEN - Eva Christine Roempke

SWITZERLAND - Christine Lavanchy

THAILAND - Benjamas Ponpasvijan

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO - Stephanie Lee Pack

TURKEY - Simiten Gakirgoz

URUGUAY - Mirta Grazilla Rodríguez

USA - Karen Jean Morrison

VENEZUELA - Neyla Chiquinquirá Moronta Sangronis

VIRGIN ISLANDS - Thelma Yvonne Santiago

WALES - Helen Elizabeth Morgan

YUGOSLAVIA - Nada Jovanovsky

This is the first Miss Universe Pageant to be held in the continent of Asia and the first one to be held in the morning.

The favorite among all 65 delegates that year by the Filipino audience was Miss Aruba, Maureen Ava Viera. After the pageant was over, Maureen stayed in the Philippines and became an actress.

Amparo Munoz is the first and still the only Spaniard to ever win the Miss Universe title. Incidentally, the Philippines was colonized by the Spaniards for over 300 years. Because of this, Spanish is the 3rd language in the Philippines and the only predominantly Catholic nation in Asia. To this day, a part of southern Philippines still speaks a dialect derived from Spanish called Chabacano. Becasue of the Spanish influence in that country, most Filipinos bear Spanish names.

After a few months of her reign, Amparo Munoz resigned as Miss Universe to marry her Filipino boyfriend but the title was not offered to the first runner-up. The first runner-up was Helen Morgan of Wales who was also fired after revealing that she was a single mother.

There were 5 delegates that year that also competed at Miss World. They were Misses Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Nicaragua and Wales. Helen Morgan of Wales won the Miss World title that year but was dethroned because it was discovered that she was a single mother.

There were supposed to be 67 contestants that year. However, two delegates withdrew, namely Miss Denmark, Jane Moller and Miss Norway, Wenche Steen.

Both hosts, Bob Barker and Helen O'Connell wore native Philippine outfits that year. Bob wore a Barong Tagalog while Helen wore a Philippine Terno.