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London: A 21-year-old human resources graduate from Venezuela won the 2011 Miss World beauty pageant even as India's hope Kanishtha Dhankhar failed to make it to the top 15 at the star-studded event held at London's Earls Court.
Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares currently works for a broadcasting company. The second place went to Philippines while Puerto Rico grabbed the third spot.
The top seven finalists were from Korea, Venezuela, England, Philippines, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Scotland. India's disappointment came early as Dhankhar failed to grab a spot in the top 15. Actor Priyanka Chopra won the Miss World crown in 2000. Since then no Indian contestant could get the title.
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Former Miss World winner Helen Morgan who won the title for Wales in 1974, was reported to be back to watch the competition in London today, almost 40 years after she gave up her crown following a media controversy.
Just days after winning the title in 1974, tabloids reported that she was an unmarried mother and had an affair with a married man. She denied those allegations and resigned, becoming the first Miss World to quit.Morgan told the Independent: “I was very naive. I thought everything you read in the paper was true. That was the biggest shock to me, the way that the media worked. It was a bit of a circus.”
She continued: “I was exhausted, and felt physically ill. When something like that happens you'd rather go away for a while, dig a little hole and jump into it.”
She told the Independent how she had talks with the contest’s organizers Eric and Julia Morley: “I went into the Miss World office and we all came to the conclusion that it was better if I quit.”
After her resignation, she laid low and met her future husband Ronny Lamb and had two children aged 25 and 23. She had not told her friends about her title.
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