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MANILA, Philippines – Catriona Gray is a familiar face on the runway, and in commercials and magazines, having been a professional model for many years now. She won the Miss World Philippines pageant last October, succeeding Hillarie Danielle Parungao. At the pageant’s finale in the US Sunday, December 18, she ended her Miss World journey with a top 5 finish and won the multimedia award in the pre-pageant rounds.
Aside from modeling, Catriona, 22, is also a singer, blogger, and philanthropist.
Here are more facts about Catriona:
1. Catriona is very hands on in making her Miss World video updates. Catriona personally updates all of her followers on the Miss World Philippines Facebook page by posting short videos. For her Miss World introduction video, pageant blogger Norman Tinio reported that Catriona wrote the script.
2. She was part of Pantene’s “Labels Against Women” campaign. Remember the woman walking along the street where the word “show-off” was flashed? That was Catriona.
Check out the video below starting 0:39.
3. On why she decided to finally join the pageant. In an interview with Rappler during the screening last August, Catriona said she didn’t expect to join the contest. However, she saw the advocacy of the Miss World pageant, and this was what pushed her to join.
“I don’t know. I was even kind of surprised myself. I didn’t expect it because I kind of looked at the whole pageantry thing in a certain light before. And all of a sudden, parang overnight, I saw it in a different perspective and I looked at it as the heart of it, is the advocacy. So that’s what made me fall in love with it. So that’s why I’m joining Miss World,” she said.
Catriona is currently busy with the Paraiso Bright Beginnings Project, with which she hopes to raise funds to build school buildings for kids.
4. She loves to travel. On her Miss World Philippines biography, Catriona listed countries such as USA, England, Australia, France, Thailand, Vietnam, and China as some of the places she’s been to. She has also traveled extensively around the Philippines, documenting it in her blog cat-elle.com.
Check out some of her photos from her US travels as she prepared for the contest.
5. She is in a relationship. Catriona has been in a relationship with model and Century Tuna Superbod 2016 1st runner-up Clint Bondad for a while now. He even posted photo of how proud he was of her accomplishment.
“So proud of my heart!!! OMG Q&A was amazing!” he wrote after she won the title last October.
In another post after the pageant, he wrote: “I look like SUCH a fan boy… Omg, my only picture with you [Catriona Gray] and I look like this! Haha.”
6. She is a great singer. Catriona loves to sing. She joined the talent portion of the Miss World competition where she sang two songs – “Moon River” and “I Believe.”
7. Getting used to being Miss World PH. “I think I’ve learned how to carry myself in a certain way,” she told Rappler during her send-off party last November 22. “Because I’m a very simple girl, I’m a very low-maintenance. I love being outdoors and I’m kind of very low-maintenance in that aspect. So learning kind of to be a lady and always to present myself every single day is something I really have to adjust to.
“And also adjusting to people calling out my name because as a model, that would never happen. People know my face but they don’t know necessarily who I am. So that’s really a huge adjustment for me.”
8. On getting to know Miss World 2015 Mireia Lalaguna, Mr World Rohit Khandewal. Last October 11, Mireia and Rohit arrived in the Philippines as part of their charity visit for the organization. They went to the Tuloy Foundation and Philippine General Hospital, where Catriona accompanied him.
When asked about meeting the current titleholders, Catriona said she had a wonderful time with them and got to interact with the children.
“It’s such an amazing setting to be in PGH because not only are they doing such amazing things there, but it’s such as impactful place, because there are children there who are facing immense challenges. And going into that location itself enough was to make me feel kind of overwhelmed.
“But to be in the company of people who are really setting out a great example for others, and giving a symbol of fund-raising with Mr and Miss World, it was amazing to be in their company and I was really curious about what they’ll be like in person because I’ve only seen them in photos. But they were very charismatic and very charming and very approachable,” she said, adding that they would even ask her about the Philippines.
“I just want to lift people up. I want them to end the year on a very high note, and if I can conribute to that in any small way, I’ll make my countrymen proud and I’ll be happy to do that,” she said. – Rappler.com
More Miss World 2016 on Rappler here:
- FULL LIST: Winners, Miss World 2016
- Puerto Rico’s Stephanie del Valle crowned Miss World 2016
- Top 5 finish for PH’s Catriona Gray at Miss World 2016
- WATCH: PH bet Catriona Gray’s Miss World 2016 journey
- PH bet Catriona Gray wins multimedia challenge in Miss World 2016
- Miss World 2016 predictions: Will PH’s Catriona Gray win the crown?
- WATCH: Catriona Gray sings ‘Moon River’ for Miss World talent audition
- WATCH: Catriona Gray sings ‘I Believe’ for Miss World talent semifinals
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