Sharing with you now the entire third episode of Pageantry Norms focusing on the unsung heroes of the backstage, or the individuals who prepare everything that we see onstage before an actual live show is presented before an audience or spectators.
My guests included KF’s Rodgil Flores who is also a Live Events Director who runs a tight ship in mounting big productions, NIB’s Nic Soriano who is a Hair and Makeup Professional who is now an official partner of Miss Universe Philippines, Celebrity Stylist Francis Chee who has worked with several showbiz personalities and beauty queens and Designer Bea Bianca who dresses up TV actors/actresses as well as local/national/international Beauty Queens.
It all started from humble beginnings. Back in the mid-90s, the group fielded a sole candidate – Sonia Santiago – for Bb. Pilipinas 1996. In between, more beautiful Filipinas started undergoing training and polish for bigger beauty competitions. And in the process, a good number of the ladies started winning national titles left and right, until their successes were justly rewarded when Precious Lara Quigaman was crowned Miss International 2005 – their very first claim to grand slam fame.
Below is a rundown of the KF alumni who went on to win their international pageants, either here or abroad:
I can remember during one of his past interviews (watch below) for Assignment Asia of the China Global Television Network (CGTN) how Rodgil called beauty aspirants – “beauty athletes” – because all the learnings are continuously practiced in their individual lives outside the confines of the camp itself. I could not think of a more appropriate term that could better that.
Here are some photos and a video clip of #Binibini32 Danica Joy Peralta Acuña of Romblon during her successful meet-and-greet dinner with the pageant media last night at the Penthouse of Platinum 1000.
This Theater Arts graduate of Miriam College is as enthusiastic and as ready as she can be in proving to everyone that she has what it takes to be one of the annointed winners for Bb. Pilipinas 2020. She also has one of the more unique advocacies for a Binibini, and a very doable one at that – to use puppetry/ventriloquy to reach out more effectively to young minds about her environmental causes alongside the importance of education and preservation of core human values – much like a modern version of “Sesame Street” caravan that she will bring to the grassroots.
Danica is enjoying every minute of her journey. And if she is fated to win any Bb. Pilipinas crown, then her commitment to serve and represent the country is a given she has long thought of the day she signed up for the competition.
Here now is your #Binibini12 Vianca Louise Marcelo – Bocaue, Bulacan sash bearer in Bb. Pilipinas 2020. And she is one fine example why the lovely Bulakeñas of the province are some of the most represented in the national beauty pageant this year. 
There’s a Doctor in the Bb. Pilipinas 2020 house and she is now #Binibini22 from Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.
Ms. SCUAA region III 2015(regional division)
Now this is one teaser that I am dead serious about actually happening in 2020. And it’s not just because she could be one of the most gorgeous faces that any of our national beauty pageants will have next year. She also has such a spontaneous personality that blends with an engaging physical presence. 
If you have watched the trailer of the upcoming teleserye of ABS-CBN titled “Make It With You”, Daisha somehow reminds me of the Billy/Belinda character that lead female star Liza Soberano is playing. Now it comes as no coincidence that I am making a comparison here. There simply is a striking semblance between these two. But that’s as far as I would describe the former because she has a marked identity all her own.
Rodgil Flores of KF is finally in Atlanta, Georgia for Miss Universe 2019 as well.
