Miss Universe Pageant Confirmed To Be Held In The Philippines
The Miss Universe pageant will again be held in the Philippines after two decades.
The announcement was made on Thursday, July 28 at a press conference in Makati by Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo.
Miss Universe was held in Manila for the first time in 1974, when Miss Universe 1973 Margarita Moran crowned Amparo Muñoz of Spain. The pageant came back to the country In 1994 where India's Sushmita Sen was crowned by Miss Universe 1993 Dayanara Torres.
"I would like to inform everybody that the Miss Universe pageant will be on January 30, 2017 in the Philippines. The government is not going to spend any single centavo. It will be the private sector who would shoulder the expenses", said Teo.
"We were planning to set up a press con for the announcement earlier, but I said let us just wait for the administrative order. But because of the news release, I said we should come out and announce," according to Teo.
The reigning Miss Universe, the Philippines' own Pia Wurtzbach, will crown her successor in 2017.
