Venezuela Re-Takes Miss Universe Crown : K Street Magazine

SPOILER ALERT: If you Tivo’d the Miss Universe pageant, Miss Venezuela wins again. Her gown was just incredible… and her onstage answer was as well. Incredible in the I-Can’t-Believe-She-Just-Answered-That-Way way. I’m not sure she answered the question at all. Good thing we can always blame it on potential translation error.

The top competitors were a mish-mash of countries that were probably as shocked to be in the Top 15 as we were to find them there. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall backstage when the strong (and usually consistent) top contenders were sent packing. Rehashing the results over the phone with one friend, she asked of the Top 5, “Kosovo? I don’t think I’ve heard of that one. Where is Kosovo?” Kosovo, friends, is a landlocked Eastern European country in the Serbian region. This whole exercise takes us back to Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss SC Teen USA 2007…and we realize she was right! Most Americans don’t have maps…

It came down to Venezuela and Dominican Republic, who we thought was winning from the moment she stepped on stage. Gorgeous! Maybe was a bit surprised too, because when she went to crown her successor, that crown dropped right out of her hand and fell SPLAT. No word on if any of the stones were missing… Stefania Fernandez wore it proudly, if unemotionally, for her first walk as Miss Universe.

*I was watching the pageant at a fabulously thought-out party where each viewer took on the role of competitor (complete with sash and title), and our predictions and tabulated scores at the end of the evening resulted in a a winner – and crowning of our own. I was Miss (e)Spain… what happened!?? In the end, it was our own Miss (Mr.) Puerto Rico who predicted the most correctly – and thought Miss Venezuela would take it all!) and was crowned ‘Miss Whirled Peas.’ Because that’s what we pageant girls really all want, whirled peas!