Bb. Pilipinas 2013: The Curious Case of Lourenz Grace Remetillo

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Bb. Pilipinas 2013 Official Candidate #21 Lourenz Grace Remetillo (Photo credit: R. Lacanienta)

Lourenz Grace Remetillo is a unique Bb. Pilipinas 2013 Official Candidate, I must say.

Lourenz Grace Remetillo is a unique Bb. Pilipinas 2013 Official Candidate, I must say.

I can’t recall the last time (if any) where a Bb. Pilipinas Official Candidate had previously represented the country in an international beauty competition being currently offered as possible national title (or pageant assignment for one of the runners-up if you will). A precedent would have been set two decades back had the Mutya ng Pilipinas-World winners of 1990 (Antonette Ballesteros) or 1991 (Gemith Gemparo) taken part in Bb. Pilipinas 1992 or 1993. That didn’t happen, though.

lg1 And so, Lourenz Grace Remetillo, Miss Supranational Philippines 2011 and Bb. Pilipinas 2013 Official Candidate #21, is looking at the curious chance of becoming 1st Runner-Up and possibly representing the country once more in the Central Europe-based contest she joined and lost in Plock, Poland. Of course, with the strong line-up, I have justified reservations if she will indeed place in the Top 5. But I don’t want to rub that in and prematurely rob her of equal opportunity.

But just for argument’s sake and Ms. Remetillo ends up showing Grace under pressure and gets ranked for Supranational purposes, methinks she will have the delicadeza to beg off and give the other runner-up the right to participate in Miss Supranational 2013. And the Madame won’t even lift a finger to intercept. ;-)

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5 thoughts on “Bb. Pilipinas 2013: The Curious Case of Lourenz Grace Remetillo

  1. for sure she will decline it not because she competed at the pageant before, but because she had a negative experience. There’s a thread in missosology that talked about her experience in supranational that was not so pleasant.

  2. Norman — If Lourenz gets the Supranational title it will be the first ever occurrence in pageant history that a candidate gets to compete in the same international pageant TWICE. If this happens it would truly be one for the books with the Philippines setting the precedent that could potentially change how countries field their delegates to international pageants in the future.

      • The question is will the Miss Supranational organizer even a allow a second-timer as Philippine entry?And if Ms.Remetillo happens not to be the favorite,the old witch will do some black magic again—so that’s really most unlikely for this exotic Pinay stunner,I think. :)

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