The twenty-six (26) Official Candidates of Miss Manila 2015
Miss Manila 2015 will be crowned on Araw ng Maynila itself, June 24
My Top 10 Picks for Miss Manila 2015, in random order.
In order of preference now, above are my Top 5 ladies
Miss Manila 2014 KC Halili (Photo credit: Edmund Chua)
And as far as the Top 5 finalists are concerned, I would be happy seeing a quintet made up of Anna Karmina Conanan, Regina Malana, Patrixia Sherly Santos, Franchesca Diaz and Christine Balaguer. One of them would make an excellent successor to Miss Manila 2014 KC Halili who has completed such a mission and charity-filled reign that would be relatively hard to follow.
Good luck in the finals, ladies. May the best Manileña win! ;-)
Pageant tidbit: Did you know that the full name of the candidate tagged as the ‘granddaughter’ of Gloria Diaz is Franchesca Diaz Floirendo? Talk about having the surname and married surname of our two former Miss Universe titleholders in her name. The Floirendo part was temporarily dropped for competition purposes. :-)
