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Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza Crowned Miss Universe 2008

Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza Crowned Miss Universe

Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza has been crowned Miss Universe 2008. The first runner-up went to Miss Columbia Taliana Vargas. The pageant was hosted by Jerry Springer and took place at the Crown Convention Center in Nhr Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam.

After winning Mendoza said she discovered how to stay poised after being kidnapped as a little girl in her homeland.

An elated Dayana Mendoza received the crown from her predecessor, Riyo Mori of Japan, and then prepared to meet a gaggle of reporters. Miss Venezuela, 22, was once kidnapped in her homeland and says the experience taught her to remain poised under pressure.

Miss USA Crystle Stewart just like last year’s Miss USA fell down during the pageant when she got tangled up in her dress (watch video of the fall).

Tension got under the skin of Crystle Steward of Texas, the second Miss USA in a row to fall down during the Miss Universe pageant. She tripped on the train of her bejeweled evening gown as she made her entrance.

The pageant was hosted by Jerry Springer and judged by Donald Trump, Jr., Robert Cavalli, Nadine Velazquez, Louis Licari, Jennifer Hawkins, Taryn Rose, Nguyen Cong Khe, Joseph Cinque and Eesha Koppikhar.

Here is a look at the Top 10 Contestants:

  • Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza
  • Miss USA Cyrstle Steward
  • Miss Italy Claudia Ferraris
  • Miss Russia Vera Krasova
  • Miss Dominican Republic Marianne Cruz
  • Miss Kosovo Zana Krasniqi
  • Miss Australia Laura Dundovic
  • Miss Spain Claudia Moro
  • Miss Mexico Elisa Najera
  • Miss Columbia Taliana Vargas

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4 comments:

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    Beauty Confessional | July 14th, 2008 9:42

    She looks like a Victoria Secret girl

     
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    marianne | July 15th, 2008 22:02

    so another surgically enhanced beauty from venezuela grabbed the miss universe crown!

     
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    jil | July 18th, 2008 10:46

    look here, before had her nose fixed:

    In my opinion she looked better before the surgery and without much makeup.
    A miss cannot be done with surgery, she has to be born beautiful first. If it wasnt this way, then anyoe who had a nose job would look like a Miss Universe, which is not the case.
    Girls are gorgeous in Venezuela because of the mix of the many races, Dayana has indigenous features, with green eyes and feline face bone structure.
    Venezuela has gorgeous girls with or without sugeries, if you dont believeme look at Patricia Velazquez who is 100% natural, as well as Alicia Machado and Jacqueline Aguilera!!
    MISS UNVIERSE IS VENEZUELA 2008!!!!

     
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    Nena | July 22nd, 2008 12:51

    Stop the jealousy, Venezuela Has beautiful women, that is why Venezuela has 5 Miss Universe, 5 Miss World, etc.

     

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