MUST-SEE VIDEO: Pageant Queens

Love the one who's excited that he guessed so many of the Top 15

Every year, I'm forced to watch Miss Universe despite my HATRED of Donald Trump and my indifference toward pageants ever since the pesky little issue of lesbian softcore photos disqualified Miss America Vanessa Williams. Why? Because I'm a good partner, and my partner (from Puerto Rico, where Miss U is the World Cup) is obsessed with this pageant. Obsessed.

Every year, I worry along with him as he tracks Miss Puerto Rico's progress. This year, he almost went to the preliminaries in Vegas, but instead opted to fly his mom in from Texas so they could sit and watch them on my computer, and so they could spend last night watching the live broadcast.

Usually, Miss Puerto Rico seems to get called last, but more often than not makes at least the Top 15, if not the Top 10 or higher. Currently, Puerto Rico is in third place for the most winners of all time, behind only the U.S. and arch-enemy Venezuela. (A country that won the past two years in a row.)

Last night, Miss Puerto Rico looked like a softer Paulina Rubio and sailed into the Top 10 with ease. Unfortch, she then came out in an atrocious evening gown (nice front, laughable back) that we all knew immediately disqualified her. (She got the lowest score of all 10 women and therefore missed the Top 5.)

Bringing up the rear...

I do video their reactions, but since José would kill me dead if I uploaded them, instead enjoy this video—after the jump—of four Filipinos rooting for their beloved contestant Maria Venus Raj, a lovely girl who wound up being the last one called into the Top 15 (their reaction is HYSTERICAL) and who became fourth runner up after giving a sweetly idiotic answer to a supereasy question...

Comments

[WranglerMan]

Oh, you poor man! The Miss America pageant in September was always an annual event in my family. Like Bill Clinton, I feel your pain!

[apernett]

Hysterycal FUNNY! Love their faces and everything. LOL

[Chris in Irvine]

It's like deja-vu with my high-school friends when we used to watch this pageant! (But we would speak Spanish!)....

[Tomi Luka]

I love how the one on the left managed to jump, shriek, hug his friend and then tweet the world in joy in about 7 seconds flat.

[craig]

I watched five minutes of it ..only to see their girl BLOW IT with her dumb answer to her question.

Reminds me of when I was a young queer boy 40+ years ago with my pad and paper and tacky Aunt Jewel sitting in front of the TV being our own little judges.

[troy]

god, i love the gays.

[Jason]

Would like to see their reactions to top 10 and top 5. And then disappointment.

[Marco]

Aaah...young drag queens of tomorrow.

[PLAYLIFE]

major major madness!

[Obsessed Rican]

This is one of only two major international events where Puerto Rico is recognized as equal to other countries (the Olympics being the other time, in which PR rarely wins). Consciously or not, this contributes to the PRican "obsession" over these FABULOUS though culturally questionable pageants.

[leo]

mexico won ¡¡

you dont even mention that ¡¡

[Liam]

I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying. Seriously….OMG there are alot of people who are like this for pagents. What is that!

[Matthew Rettenmund]

Leo: Because I don't care, really. But when I watched the pageant, I picked her to win and was sooo happy she beat Jamaica, whose religious answer turned me off (even if I agreed with her on being against capital punishment). Mexico is gorgeous.

[Max]

Mexico one! :)

[Filipina Desire]

A heavy drama happened in this event even me I was carried away when Miss Philippines called from the top 15 of Miss Universe. And I was laughing when I saw this video a 4 people which is a diehard fans of Maria Venus Raj and now they have a commercial.