MAKATI CITY—The young pageant Miss Grand International’s battle cry is “Stop the War!” And the person in charge of grooming the country’s representative for the current edition of the said pageant hopes Filipino pageant fans would take this to heart as well.
“Let us all live in peace,” Rodgil Flores told the Inquirer in an exclusive interview at his beauty pageant training camp in Quezon City recently.
Flores mentored Samantha Bernardo, a Binibining Pilipinas aspirant who unexpectedly found herself traveling to Thailand for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to bear the country’s colors on the international stage.
However, as with many other national and international pageants, f…
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