The 2017 Edition of Miss Universe will finally happen in January 30.
It is the third time that the pageant will be held in Manila. First was in 1974 (when Miss Universe 1973 Margarita Moran crowned Amparo Muñoz of Spain) and in 1994 (when India’s Sushmita Sen was crowned by Miss Universe 1993 Dayanara Torres).
Wanda Teo, PH Tourism Secretary, confirmed on Thursday July 28th that the 65th Miss Universe Pageant will take place in the Philippines. “I would like to inform everybody that the Miss Universe pageant will be on January 30, 2017 in the Philippines,” said Teo. “The government is not going to spend any single centavo. It will be the private sector who would shoulder the expenses.”
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The private sector will be shouldering the expenses. “Private sector will handle the expenses. The president’s concern was the gastos. But when we assured him that there will be no funding from the government. He said, okay. ‘This is already okay’ So we don’t know where the news report came from that he did not like it. He never said that,” Tourism Undersecretary Kat de Castro said on the sidelines of a press briefing in Makati City on Thursday, July 28.
An official statement is yet to be issued by the Miss Universe Organization.
