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Carmen Stamboli, 27,  (center) was crowned Miss Austria 2011 at the pageant event held on March 26th at the Grand Casino Baden. The beauty from Vienna stands 1.76m. She might represent Austria in Miss World 2011 if she will be allowed by the Miss World Organization due to her age.

First runner-up is Julia Hofer and the second runner-up is Anna Fleiss.

Photo by Miss Thailand Universe and CH7

Twenty year-old stunner Fah Chanyasorn Sakornchan was crowned Miss Thailand Universe 2011 at the pageant finale held at the Royal Paragon Hall in Bangkok on March 26, 2011. The Thai beauty from Chonburi stands 1.75 m. and she is expected to represent Thailand in Miss Universe 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011.

Meanwhile, Niratcha Tangtisanon was declared 1st Runner Up and she has the privilege to represent her country at the Miss Earth 2011 competition to be held in Vietnam. Other runners-up include: Nuttamon Krisnakupt (2nd Runner Up), Kanyarut Pongkumpanat (3rd Runner Up) and Passaraporn Konkamhaeng (4th Runner Up).

Photo by Miss Thailand Universe and CH7

Twenty year-old Johanna Solano was crowned Miss Costa Rica 2011 yesterday, March 25, 2011 at the Children’s Museum Auditorium in San Jose. The Costa Rican beauty stands 5’9” and will represent Costa Rica in Miss Univese 2011 pageant.

First runner-up was Mariana Loranca while the 2nd runner-up was Natalia Gómez.

Rodrigão waves his hands to the fans after being eliminated from Big Brother Brasil 11.

Rodrigo Gomes Simoni, or “Rodrigão”, was eliminated from Big Brother Brazil 11 a week before the end of the most watched Brazilian reality show. With 51% of millions of votes, he left the house yesterday night.

Gomes spent 74 days in the house, and finished in 5th place (19 finalists competed).

In 2010, Rodrigo was elected Mister Paraná and finished as 2nd runner-up in Mister Brazil. He was supposed to compete in Mister International last year, but gave up the title to enter the most watched house in Brazil.

After leaving the house, Rodrigo said he wants to study to become an actor.

GLOBAL BEAUTIES

Elizabeth Taylor who was considered as one of the most beautiful women of all times.

Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose violet eyes, tumultuous love life and passion for diamonds epitomized Hollywood glamour, died on Wednesday at age 79.

The star of “Cleopatra” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles surrounded by family after a long battle with congestive heart failure that sent her to the hospital six weeks ago.

In a career spanning seven decades, Taylor first gained fame in 1944′s “National Velvet” at age 12 and was nominated for five Oscars. She won the best actress award for “BUtterfield 8″ (1960) and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966) with actor Richard Burton, whom she would marry twice.

Taylor’s eight marriages, health problems, prescription drug addiction and ballooning weight often overshadowed her career, but she overcame adversity and used her fame to advocate for causes such as AIDS education and research.

Her death triggered an outpouring of tributes from Hollywood luminaries like Barbra Streisand, recording stars such as Elton John and politicians including former president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Speaking for her family was her son, Michael Wilding, who called his mother, “an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love.”

“It wasn’t just her beauty or her stardom. It was her humanitarianism. She put a face on HIV/AIDS,” Streisand said. John called her “a Hollywood giant” and an incredible human being.

In a joint statement, the Clintons called her “thoroughly American royalty.”

GLAMOROUS HOLLYWOOD LIFE

Taylor was born on February 27, 1932, in London to American parents. She moved to the United States as a child and soon after her 10th birthday landed the lead in the 1942 film “Lassie Come Home,” followed by her turn as a young girl who tames the fury of a wild horse in “National Velvet.”

She confirmed her star power in 1958 in Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and cemented her reputation as among the greatest actresses of her generation playing a foul-mouthed alcoholic in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

She continued working through the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, taking a variety of roles in movies and on television. In 1992, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave her its humanitarian honor. Her last movie was the 1994 live action comedy “The Flintstones.”

But Taylor’s fame went far beyond her screen life. After marriages to hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, British actor Michael Wilding and film producer Mike Todd, she found herself in a scandalous love triangle with singer Eddie Fisher and his wife actress Debbie Reynolds, before marrying Fisher.

Reynolds, 78, was gracious in remembering Taylor on Wednesday, calling her career long and productive and saying “no one else could equal Elizabeth’s beauty and sexuality.”

While filming the lavish “Cleopatra”, at the time the most expensive movie ever made, in Rome in 1961, Taylor started a torrid affair with her married co-star Burton. The pair first wed in 1964 and Burton lavished her with furs and diamonds, including a $1 million pear-shaped jewel.

But the actors were as famous for their tempestuous relationship as they were for their love. They divorced in 1974, only to remarry in 1975 and divorce again in 1976.

“We enjoy fighting,” Taylor once said. “Having an out-and-out, outrageous, ridiculous fight is one of the greatest exercises in marital togetherness.”

She also married U.S. Senator John Warner and construction worker Larry Fortensky. “She was my ‘partner’ in laying the foundation for 30 years of public service in the U.S. Senate,” Warner said. “We were always friends — to the end.

TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH

As she grew older, the Hollywood legend began drinking heavily and grew addicted to prescription drugs. Her weight ballooned and she was lampooned by comedians. In 1983 she entered the Betty Ford Center in California for treatment.

Yet, she overcame those problems, and when her friend Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985 she began a crusade to raise awareness and money to treat the deadly disease.

“She was among the first to speak out on behalf of people living with HIV when others reacted with fear and often outright hostility,” said The American Foundation for AIDS Research, of which Taylor was founding national chairman.

In May 2000, Taylor received the title “Dame,” the female equivalent of a knighthood, from Queen Elizabeth.

When her friend Michael Jackson was tried and acquitted on child molestation charges in 2005, she defended him in public.

In her final few years, the once legendary beauty took to using a wheelchair in public to cope with crippling back pain, but she was still making appearances at charity events.

She was first diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She also had three hip replacement operations, a benign brain tumor, skin cancer, pneumonia and heart surgery.

Taylor died surrounded by her children, Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton. In addition, she is survived by 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

BOB TOURTELLOTTE/ REUTERS (Additional reporting by Daniel Trotta and Jill Serjeant; editing by John Whitesides and Phil Barbara)

Radio dzBB’s Manny Vargas reported the incident occurred at Primerose Street in a subdivision in Cainta, Rizal at around 3 a.m. Sunday.

Apacible, 38, Enrique Rustia Apacible in real life, died on arrival at a nearby hospital. He expired from two gunshot wounds in the chest.

Apacible’s mother Aurora said John’s 61-year-old uncle Armando Rustia had sent surrender feelers and may turn himself in soon, maybe even Sunday afternoon.

“Susuko siya, kukuha lang ng makasama. Hindi ko alam ano dahilan. Sa sobrang lasing nila di ko alam ano kinagalitan nila (He will surrender, he is just looking for someone to accompany him. But I do not know what caused the shooting, both appeared drunk),” she said in an interview on dzBB radio.

Apacible had starred in several ‘teleserye’ or television soap operas, such as GMA-7’s “Totoy Bato” and “Darna”.

His acting career started in 1996 as one of the featured models in Regal Films “Nights of Serafina.” He delved into sexy films such as “Phone Sex” opposite sexy actress Ara Mina.

GMA NEWS

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Driving out of control while intoxicated, ex Miss Peru Universe 2007, Jimena Elías Roca, was arrested by police early this morning.

Around 3:00 a.m., the model raised alarm in the Lima district of San Borja after crashing into several cars, including a serenazgo (local security) vehicle. She was taken to the Surquillo police station.

She tested positive for blood alcohol content, meaning that in keeping with regulations, she will not be able to drive for one year.

Police stated that Elías was driving a cherry-colored Honda Civic and was with a friend. Both women had left a night club in San Borja, heading for Surco. The model was released also on that day from police custody.

LIVING IN PERU NEWS

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Another contender has been removed from the list of the official 2011 Binibining Pilipinas candidates. Maria Paula Bianca Paz is the latest victim of the contest’s disqualification spree since the selection of official candidates began in February.

The 22-year-old Paz, former flame of actor Polo Ravales and is now being linked to model Andrew Wolfe, was originally assigned the number “28.” But a check with the pageant’s website (www.bbpilipinas.com) last Thursday revealed that no candidate bears that number and the model’s image has been removed from the webpage.

Paz confirmed her disqualification through her Twitter entry: “Goodbye Binibining Pilipinas, good luck to all the ladies.”

The Binibining Pilipinas Charities Inc. (BPCI) refused to reveal the reasons for disqualifying Paz, and instead issued a statement saying “we strive to be very thorough in our screening, but when violations or misrepresentations unravel, albeit deliberate or not, we call the candidates’ attention to the matter. The ladies were subsequently removed from the official roster.”

The organization added: “We hope that all speculations regarding this incident will cease. BPCI is not inclined to delve into the issue any further in order to preserve the integrity of the pageant and the reputations of all concerned parties.”

In her Facebook account, Paz clarified the matter. She said she was disqualified because of a photo shoot she did for a calendar two years ago.

“I made sure that the finished result would not be less than tasteful and even of editorial standard before being published. Unfortunately, BPCI did not have the same opinion of the said shoot,” she said.

Paz represented the Philippines in the Asian Supermodel search in China last year where she was proclaimed Miss Photogenic.

Just last month, the pageant removed two other models from the list of candidates, apparently because of nude photographs they did for the defunct “Philippines’ Next Top Model” search.

Grendel Alvarado and Jen Olivar made nude photo sessions for a breast cancer awareness campaign as part of the other search’s “challenges.” No sensitive body parts were revealed in their photographs, with their arms and legs strategically blocking any private parts. And the photos were used for a legitimate health advocacy.

Alvarado expressed her disappointed over her disqualification through her Twitter account. She posted the entries “we are models not porn stars. God help those with a limited capacity to decipher the distinction between those two” and “you call our photos sexy? What about parading the bikini clad candidates around the streets. Is that the definition of conservative?”

She was referring to the pageant’s yearly tradition of parading all its candidates, wearing two-piece bikinis, in the streets of Cubao, Quezon City.

Another candidate, Roxanne Cabañero, was also asked to leave the competition after nude photos, purportedly of her, surfaced on the Internet.

In a television interview, Cabañero said she made the first move of informing BPCI about the photos and denied they were hers. She also told the organization that she has taken action to clear her name and sought the assistance of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to determine who was responsible for these photos and to prove it was not her on the incriminating images.

The Davaoeña said BPCI lawyers asked her to leave the contest because they do not want the organization to be dragged into controversies.

BPCI subsequently replaced Alvarado, Olivar and Cabañero with Gerlie Lero, Bernadette Aguirre and Miss Philippines-Earth runner up Monique Manuel. The BPCI has yet to confirm if they will replace Paz to retain its 40-candidate format.

The pageant is not new to controversies. In 2009, the BPCI disqualified Sandra Inez Seifert, two days before coronation night, because of photographs published in a men’s magazine. Seifert then competed in the rival pageant Miss Philippines-Earth and later represented the country in the Miss Earth pageant where she placed second to Brazil’s Larissa Ramos.

Last year, the organization dethroned Maria Venus Raj for what it called “inconsistencies” between official records and actual details regarding her birth. The organization proclaimed second runner up Helen Nicolette Henson as her replacement to the Miss Universe pageant.

After a media clamor for Raj’s reinstatement and a barrage of petitions to give her back the crown, she was able to retain her title and went on to place fifth in the Miss Universe pageant.

Former would-be Miss Universe representatives Anjanette Abayari, Tisha Silang and Janelle Bautista were also dethroned because of citizenship issues and were replaced with other finalists.

Alou Gonzales and Jewel Mae Lobaton filled in for Abayari and Silang, respectively. Both substitutes failed in their bid for the international crown. But Bautista’s replacement, Miriam Quiambao, was proclaimed first runner up to Botswana’s Mpule Kwelagobe.

Though refusing to divulge specific reasons for its recent spree of disqualifications, the BPCI explained its move and said the pageant “is governed by stringent rules and policies that are acceptable internationally.”

The contest selects the country’s representatives to the Miss Universe and Miss International pageants. The coronation night is set on April 10.

Watch the controversial video here:

PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER

Claudia Schiess Fretz, Miss Galapagos, was crowned Miss Ecuador 2011 in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas on March 17th, 2011. Claudia is 20 year old and stands 1.73 m. She will represent Ecuador at the Miss Universe 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September. She also won the awards of Most Beautiful Face and Most Beautiful Hair.
Claudia, a student of Commercial Engineering, is fluent in Spanish, English and German; she is also a professional make-up artist and professional dancer, as well as her work as a print and runway model.
Claudia represented Ecuador in the Miss Supranational 2010 contest in Poland.
Maria Veronica Vargas was elected Miss Ecuador World, and also won the Miss Photogenic award. She will compete in the 2011 Miss World pageant to be held in December.
Maria Fernanda Cornejo was elected Miss Ecuador International and will participate in the Miss International 2011 pageant to take place in China in October.
Olga Alava and Leslie Ayala completed the Top 5 finalists. 19 beauties competed in the annual contest, which had the presence of Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez.

The new Ecuadorian Beauty Queens

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