Miss Florida USA bon voyage party in Hollywood

Miss Florida USA, Brittany Odelhoff, held a bon voyage party at Tel Air studios in Hollywood, Friday, where partygoers were asked to bring their own sash and crowns. Odelhoff, who hails from Oakland Park, was joined by her friends, family and Florida pageant titleholders.

My big fat gypsy beauty pageant: Spain celebrates Miss Gypsy 2014

By AFP REPORTER

A Mister and Miss Gypsy competition has been launched in Spain - and claims it will be a 'helping hand' to young gypsies because it judges them on intelligence as well as just looks. The pageant, which is currently auditioning in the Spanish capital Madrid, includes elements of beauty contests but also judges contests on their education, interests and ambitions. According to organisers, the competition - particularly the female portion - is a response to the reduced opportunities which gypsies in Spain received, and hopes to persuade girls that there is more to life than marrying young and having babies.

Maria Jimenez of the Northern Flamenco Association is involved in organising the contest, which she hopes will encourages gypsy women to 'be a bit more independent'. She said: 'For a gypsy woman, the aim is always just to get married very young, at 14 or 15, and have children. I want the gypsy woman to study and become independent so she doesn't depend on her husband to give her €10 so she can eat.' Perched on high heels in tight, bright dresses, crowds of girls line up hoping to become Spain's first 'Miss Gypsy' in a new pageant aimed at empowering a neglected minority. The five judges of the competition will be non-gypsies, and are supposed to judge contestants on their minds and personality as much as their looks. Contestants will hope to make it to the final in October, before going on to win the crown. One hopeful, 17-year-old Libertad Barrull, said: 'I want to be a model. I love it.' Her mother Rosario said: 'It gives them a helping hand to become something in life, like our generation couldn't be'.


Another attendee added: 'People have started to realize now that you can't get married so soon because you're tying yourself down to being a housewife when you're still a child.' The unemployment rate for the 725,000-strong minority is painfully high, however: 36 percent in 2011, according to the rights group. That was way above Spain's already high national rate of 26 percent. Jesus Heredia, a contestant for the male element of the competition, said: 'I'm in it to show that we gypsies are people, just like the rest.'

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Brie-zing to the top

by Camber Clemence

Brie Gabrielle has been comfortable in front of an audience for as long as she can remember; as a toddler, she appeared in Downy and K-Mart ads before finding her first true creative outlet, dance. Brie was not picky about type and began performing ballet, jazz, and hip-hop on stage whenever possible (and Brie, as many of us did in the ‘90s, spent some time cornering friends and family while belting out her own renditions of all her favorite Spice Girls songs). As Brie grew older, her interests expanded and she began to travel between Florida and Los Angeles with her mother and sister to give acting and modeling a chance. At 13, Brie left public school and began homeschooling and attending community college in order to attain her high school degree by the time she was 16. It was at this time that she began to book guest appearances on television shows before landing a lead role in “Forget Me Not,” an independent horror film.

Shortly after the filming of “Forget Me Not”, Brie enrolled at Pepperdine University; it was during her years at Pepperdine that Brie became involved in pageants. Brie won Miss Malibu 2012, placed first runner-up at Miss California 2012 and was Miss Wellington USA 2014. Brie recently won Miss Jupiter USA 2015 and is looking forward to what the Miss Florida USA pageant will bring in July. Brie is currently working as co-host of the Chevy Florida Insider Fishing Report, which airs on FOX Sun Sports every Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

Interested in learning more about Brie? Follow her on Facebook (shesbriegabrielle), Instagram (BrieGabrielle) and Twitter(@BrieMGabrielle) or visit her website (www.briegabrielle.com).

Titus for the title

by Camber Clemence

Natalie Titus, 17-year-old vocal student at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, recently took the title of Miss Teen Jupiter and will compete for the title of Miss Florida Teen USA in October. Natalie began modeling when she was 12 and got into pageantry shortly thereafter. “My mom asked me one day, after visiting the rec center one day, if I’d be interested in doing a pageant,” said Natalie. “I was playing video games at the time and I was like, ‘No, Mom! Get out!’”

Natalie declined because she felt that here were too many negative connotations surrounding pageantry but after some careful consideration, she decided to at least give it a chance. “I thought they had fake tans, big hair, and extensions – that just wasn’t really my thing,” Natalie explained. She competed for Miss Palm Beach County two years ago and didn’t think she was going to win – as she put it, her heart wasn’t completely in it initially. “The day of the pageant I finally realized that I had put a lot of time and effort into preparing for the pageant and that I might as well give it my all,” Natalie said.

She did – and she won. After that, Natalie was hooked. And she learned a lot about the true world of pageantry. “Pageantry isn’t at all like what you think it is – it is such a positive experience,” she gushed. “You learn so much about yourself – figure out who you are – and it really helps build character and improve self-confidence.”

Brie Gabrielle, Miss Jupiter USA and Natalie’s “big sister,” and is an ideal role model for the path Natalie has chosen. “I feel like this year is going to be different,” Natalie said wistfully. “I want this to be my year.”

Annora Bourgeault Crowned Miss World Canada 2014

Source: http://beautypageantnews.com

Annora Bourgeault was crowned Miss World Canada 2014 at the conclusion of the pageant held on May 11, 2014 in Vancouver. The beauty from Regina will represent Canada in the Miss World 2014 pageant, scheduled for this November in London, England.

Annora Bourgeault was crowned Miss World Canada 2014 at the conclusion of the pageant held on May 11, 2014 in Vancouver. The beauty from Regina will represent Canada in the Miss World 2014 pageant, scheduled for this November in London, England.

Annora Bourgeault was crowned Miss World Canada 2014 at the conclusion of the pageant held on May 11, 2014 in Vancouver. The beauty from Regina will represent Canada in the Miss World 2014 pageant, scheduled for this November in London, England.