Zamboanga representative Bellatrix Tan was asked to explain a trending topic #ElninoLanina during the question and answer portion for the top 12 of “Miss Earth Philippines 2016” on June 11 (Saturday) at the UP Theater in Diliman, Quezon City.
Host: Hashtag El Niño La Niña.
Miss Zamboanga: El Niño is what we are experiencing now. If we do simple things like planting trees then we will not be experiencing drought, right? So if we start now, we will achieve La Niña!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwfgotVwfc
Instead of congratulating the newly crowned Ms Philippines Earth 2016 Imelda Schweighart from Puerto Princesa City, the attention was shifted to Bellatrix Tan. The Zamboanga representative, clearly has a misconception about El Niño and La Niña but it doesn’t mean we need to bash her or say something stupid about the unfortunate incident.
A video uploaded by netizen Eddie Fernandez has been viewed over 1.4M times with over 35,000 shares as of this writing.
APOLOGY: LionhearTV expresses its sincerest apologies to Charinna Barro, her family and the people of Cagayan de Oro City for the thumbnail error committed by our team in this articles about Miss Zamboanga Bellatrix Tan’s viral answer at the Misss Philippines Earth 2016.
In our effort to stop the netizens from shaming Miss Zaboanga, we mistook the photo of Miss Cagayan de Oro we only got on google. We immediately corrected this right after we were alerted about the mistake on June 12. Unfortunately, Facebook saved the old thumbnail as we fail to debug to refresh it with the correct thumbnail.
