Miss Teen World – PAGEANTOPOLIS – A look at beauty pageants – past and present – pageantopolis.net https://pageantopolis.net The most important beauty pageants across the world Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:52:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://pageantopolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pageantopolis_iconpng-150x150.png Miss Teen World – PAGEANTOPOLIS – A look at beauty pageants – past and present – pageantopolis.net https://pageantopolis.net 32 32 Miss Grand South Africa 2023: Gugulethu Mayisela https://pageantopolis.net/2023/07/22/miss-grand-south-africa-2023-gugulethu-mayisela/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:35:00 +0000 https://pageantopolis.net/?p=2295

A 19-year-old former Miss Teen World was elected the winner.

Gugulethu Mayisela, 19-year-old model from Johannesburg, Gauteng, was crowned Miss Grand South Africa 2023 in the eighth edition of the Miss Grand South Africa beauty pageant, held on July 22, 2023, at the Atterbury Theatre in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria. Her hobbies include baking, reading and karate.

She is the first ever Black Miss Grand South Africa. She was Miss Teen World South Africa 2022 and also the winner of Miss Teen World 2022 in Ecuador.

The grand final of the pageant was hosted by a Pretoria-based model, Tumelo Matela, and former Mister Global South Africa, Ruan Scheepers.

Gugulethu will represent South Africa at Miss Grand International 2023 to be held in Vietnam in October 2023.

]]> 2295 Gugulethu Mayisela wins Miss Teen World 2022! https://pageantopolis.net/2022/10/20/gugugulethu-mayisela-miss-teen-world-2022/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://pageantopolis.net/?p=797

SA’s beauty queen Gugulethu Mayisela becomes the first Black woman to win the Miss Teen World crown in Ecuador.

The 18-year-old Gugulethu Mayisela was crowned as Miss Teen World 2022 on October 19 in the city of Guayaquil, in Ecuador.

Marina Wang, Canada, and Estrella Cisneros, from Mexico, have taken up the first and second runner-up positions respectively.

Before bringing home the Miss Teen World crown, Gugulethu Mayisela, won the title of Miss Teen Earth Air in October last year.

SA beauty queen Gugulethu Mayisela made history by becoming the first Black woman to win the Miss Teen World crown.

This is South Africa’s 5th crown in the world competition (the previous winners to have won the title were Kaylan Hamel, Miss Teen World 2003, Noele Joubert, Miss Teen World 2004, Charlotte Smith (2005) and Tayla Robinson, who was elected Miss Teen World 2010).

Gugulethu Mayisela, Miss Teen World 2022, joined an impressive roster of black women who won some of the world’s most prestigious teen pageants: Stefany Calero (Curaçao) Miss Teen Intercontinental and Frany Delgado (Ecuador) Miss Teen Supranational.

Mayisela, who is in her final year of high school, said she would like to study accounting science, and be in the fashion industry and strut the runways. “I hope to join Miss South Africa and be crowned Miss Universe one day,” she said.

We congratulate Gugulethu Mayisela, Miss Teen World, and wish her a great year of reign.

]]> 797 Colombian Luna Velandia wins Miss Teen World 2021 https://pageantopolis.net/2021/10/24/luna-velandia-from-colombia-wins-miss-teen-world-2021/ https://pageantopolis.net/2021/10/24/luna-velandia-from-colombia-wins-miss-teen-world-2021/#respond Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:43:00 +0000 https://pageantopolis.net/?p=154

On October 23rd, Luna Velandia became the first Colombian to win the ‘Miss Teen World’ title.

The beautiful model from Arauca is 16 years old, she is studying grade 11 at the “La Enseñanza” school and seeks through her beauty and intelligence to transmit to all a message of hope.

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