The latest winner of Miss Universe Singapore for 2015 has been competed with and crowned in an undisclosed close-door dinner ballroom. This is the first time a Miss Universe Singapore is picked without the television coverage and publicised selection done yearly since its inception in 1951. The decision to go private and closed-door for the recruitment, selection and crowning is made by the new national director Nuraliza Osman.
Nuraliza Osman is a 2002 Miss Universe Singapore winner and the lawyer blamed the main reason for having the closed-door selection is the lack of time:
”If you want to maximise your chances of placing in the top 15 in the Miss Universe pageant, what do you do with the limited time you have? Run a local show in a dinner ballroom — or get as many girls as possible, pick a winner and spend the most amount of time you can developing and training a strong delegate? That is our strategy… we’ve used the same formula year after year and it hasn’t succeeded.”
However, the closed-door selection may result in speculations of corruption and the lack of recruitment advertisement will definitely lower the standards in the beauty contest.
Here are the photos of the 2015’s Miss Universe Singapore, 22 year old Lisa Marie White a Malay-New Zealander mix:
Photo of Lisa Marie White from Lifestyletoggle
Photo of Lisa Marie White from Lifestyletoggle 2
Photo of Lisa Marie White from TGPC 2
Photo of Lisa Marie White from TGPC
Lisa will represent Singapore to compete in Miss Universe 2015.