The Mutya ng Pilipinas 2016 Pre-Judging and Coronation Night

Posted by Norman on July 28, 2016
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During the Mutya ng Pilipinas 2016 Pre-Judging

My Top 12 selection for Mutya ng Pilipinas 2016


Yesterday, the Pre-Judging of Mutya ng Pilipinas 2016 was held to select the ladies who will make it to the crucial first cut of the finals this coming Saturday, July 30 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater of Resorts World Manila. The thirty (30) candidates gave their individual best to the panel of judges in hopes of making the first big step towards claiming one of the crowns or an important placement for that matter.

My short-list includes a dozen of the contenders and they are: Lynette Bradford, Loudette Ali-poon, Joanna Rabe, Michelle Thorlund, Marielle Cartagena, Angela Yagaya, Dianne Lacayanga, Rianne Charlotte Kalaw, Mary Theresa Erna Gomez, Justine San Jose, Ganiel Krishnan and Renelyn Deguit.

Among the twelve ladies I named, my bets are on Justine San Jose for Mutya Asia Pacific International, Ganiel Krishnan for Mutya Tourism International and Michelle Thorlund for Mutya Overseas Communities.

Will these three fire it up all the way to the top crowns? We’ll see!

The TV telecast of Mutya ng Pilipinas 2016 will be aired iver at ABS-CBN the late morning (or 10am July 31) after the winners are crowned.

Good luck, ladies! 🙂

18 comments on “The Mutya ng Pilipinas 2016 Pre-Judging and Coronation Night”

  1. Wow. Tito norman predicted the top 3. Nagkapalit lang si justine at Ganiel ng title. Pero tumama sya kay thurland. Congrats tito norms

  2. Meet the winners of Mutya ng Pilipinas 2016

    Mutya ng Pilipinas Asia Pacific International 2016: Ganiel Akrisha Krishnan (Manila)
    Mutya ng Pilipinas Tourism International 2016: Justin Mae San Jose (Calabarzon)
    Mutya ng Overseas Communities 2016 Michelle Thorlund (California)
    1st runner up Lynette Bradford (Melbourne)
    2nd runner up Ashley Nicole Singh (Central Luzon)

    Special awards:

    Best In Evening Gown
    Justin Mae San Jose

    Best In Terno
    Ashley Nicole Singh

    People’s Choice
    Thalia Coronico

    Hannah’s Mutya ng Pilipinas
    Rianne Charlotte Kalaw

    Mags’ Mutya ng Pilipinas
    Ganiel Akrisha Krishnan

    Cynas’ Mutya ng Pilipinas
    Jannie Loudette Alipo-on

    MISS VIVA DISCOVERY:
    Candidate #30 Ashley Nicole Singh, Mutya ng Central Luzon

    MUTYA NG RESORTS WORLD:
    Candidate #4 Jannie Alipo-on, Mutya ng Navotas

    The event was hosted by Arci Muñoz, Richard Gutierrez, and Bela Padilla. The panel of judges included television host and model Diana Meneses, Resorts World Manila Operations Officer Stephen James Riley, columnist Tessa Prieto-Valdez, and Mexican ambassador Julio Camarena Villaseñor, among others.

    • Thanks for the update . Whherever Norman is , I hope he’s fine. It seems like Norman has acquired. The pulse of Philippine pageantry. He successfully predicted the top 2 winners.
      I’m glad Thorlund and Bradford did not win the top 2. I hope they join BP. We need facially beautiful reps to be competetive internationally .

  5. I wonder bakit wala pang post si Tito Norms with the recent news of MU hosting here in Manila… Busy? or may ibang scoop pa? hihihi Hi Tito Normms!

  6. Parang walang ingay mutya this year unlike last year. Press presentation last week tapos finals agad agad. Kakaloka #AllTeaAllShade

  7. It’s official: Miss Universe 2017 will be held in PH

    ABS-CBN News

    Posted at Jul 28 2016 04:20 PM

    MANILA – Filipino pageant fans, rejoice: the next Miss Universe pageant will be held here in the Philippines.

    On Thursday, Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo announced that Miss Universe will be held in the country on January 30, 2017.

    “We have a president who comes from Mindanao, and our Miss Universe is from Mindanao, so I think this is the best time for us to do the Miss Universe here in the Philippines,” she said.

    “So I would like to inform everybody that the Miss Universe beauty pageant will be on January 30, 2017 here in the Philippines.”

    Teo went on to assure that the government “is not going to spend a single centavo” on the international pageant.

    “It will be the private sector that will shoulder the expenses,” she said, citing a budget of $11 million.

    Reigning Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach recently met with President Rodrigo Duterte at Malacañang to discuss the possibility of holding the next edition of the pageant here in the country.

    The Philippines has so far hosted the Miss Universe pageant twice – in 1974 and 1994.

    Wurtzbach is the third Filipina to win the crown, along with Margie Moran in 1973 and Gloria Diaz in 1969.

    The country will be fielding Maxine Medina, a 25-year-old interior designer who has been modelling since 2008, in next year’s pageant. She will attempt to succeed Wurtzbach, the first Filipina to win the title in over four decades.

  9. This year’s Mutya batch is a really strong facial-wise. Had they’ve been two inches taller, they can definitely compete neck and neck with the current binibini queens. Good luck, ladies!

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