MUPh 2022

National pageant organizer to start screening pageant applicants next month

By Earl D.C. Bracamonte

The Miss Universe Philippines organization, in a social media post last January 3, wrote "Another year, another set of queens. The most prestigious pageant in the country will start its screening in February 2022. Get your profiles and papers ready, aspiring queens! We're brewing something phenomenal! MUPh 2022 this coming April."

The first three months of the year are always the screening and selection period for entrants to the country's several pageant platforms. This is where they sift the 'chaff from the grain,' and the Miss Universe Philippines organization is one of, at least, four pageant systems scouring the archipelago for the best contestants. 

After Beatrice Luigi Gomez's impressive finish as Top 5 finalist in the 70th Miss Universe in Eilat, Israel last month, hopes are high that the Philippines will re-enter its winning form, once again. And so, the search for our next brilliant representative goes on.

Among the past titleholders and young popular celebrities, pageant fans listed who they want to join the competition. Among the names that popped up in the many surveys are those of:

- Miss Eco International 2018 Thia Thomalia

- Miss Universe Philippines 2020 3rd runner-up Pauline Amelinckx

- Miss Universe Philippines 2021 2nd runner-up Steffi Rose Aberasturi

- Victoria Secret model Kelsey Merritt

- Miss International 2018 1st runner-up Ahtisa Manalo

- Binibining Pilipinas InterContinental 2019 Emma Mary Tiglao

- Miss Universe Philippines 2020 1st runner-up Ysabella Ysmael, and

- Celeste Cortes

According to the rumor mill, the 71st Miss Universe edition will unfold in France in mid-July or December. Stay tuned!