Miss Earth 2010 Explained

Date:	4 December 2010
Entrants:	84
Placements:	14
Venue:	Vinpearl Land Amphitheater, Nha Trang, Vietnam
Winner:	Nicole Faria
Represented:	India
Congeniality:	Sue Ellen Castañeda, Guatemala
Best National Costume:	Marina Kishira, Japan
Photogenic:	Watsaporn Wattanakoon, Thailand
Before:	2009
Next:	2011

Miss Earth 2010 was the 10th edition of the Miss Earth pageant, held at the Vinpearl Land Amphitheater in Nha Trang, Vietnam, on December 4, 2010.^[1]

Larissa Ramos of Brazil crowned Nicole Faria of India as her successor at the end of the event. She was the first Miss Earth from India.^{[2] [3]}

Eighty-four contestants from various countries and territories competed for the Miss Earth 2010 title.^[4] The event was broadcast live by STAR World, VTV, ABS-CBN, Studio 23, The Filipino Channel, and other partner networks.

The Miss Earth winner serves as the spokesperson for the Miss Earth Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and other environmental organizations.^[5]

The event was hosted by Oli Pettigrew, host of AXN's Sony Style program, along with Marie Digby and Jennifer Pham with Boyzone lead singer Ronan Keating as the guest performer.^{[6] [7]} Vietnamese singer Mỹ Linh performed during the show.

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Earth 2010	– Nicole Faria
Miss Earth – Air 2010	– Jennifer Pazmiño
Miss Earth – Water 2010	– Watsaporn Wattanakoon
Miss Earth – Fire 2010	– Yeidy Bosques
Top 7	– Marina Kishira – Nondyebo Dzingwa – Mariángela Bonanni
Top 14	– Carmen Justová – Ilenia Arnolfo – Desiree van den Berg – Victoria Shchukina ∞ – Valentyna Zhytnyk – Danielle Bounds – Luu Thi Diem Huong

Special awards

Major awards

Awards	Contestant
Miss Friendship	– Sue Ellen Castañeda
Miss Photogenic	– Watsaporn Wattanakoon
Miss Talent	– Nicole Faria
Best in National Costume	– Marina Kishira
Best in Evening Gown	– Jennifer Pazmiño
Best in Swimsuit	– Luu Thi Diem Huong

Minor/Sponsor awards

Awards	Contestant
Miss CanDeluxe	– Luu Thi Diem Huong
Miss Diamond Place	– Nicole Faria
Miss Earth Sea-Links City Resort	– Marina Kishira
Miss PNJ	– Jennifer Pazmiño
Miss Saigon Elegance	– Tijana Rakic
Miss Vietnam Airlines	– Luu Thi Diem Huong
Best in Ao dai	– Tijana Rakic

Talent competition

The talent competition took place in Ho Chi Minh City on 9 November 2010. Nicole Faria from India won the Miss Earth Talent 2010 after beating 17 other finalists. The event raised VND100 million, which was donated to the Ho Chi Minh City Red Cross, to support flood victims in the central region.^{[8] [9]}

Result	Contestant
Winner	– Nicole Faria
Top 5	– Anastasiya Sienina – Marina Kishira – Maricelle Rani Wong – Lưu Thị Diễm Hương
Top 18	– Ema Golijanin – Onalenna Gaopalelwe – Luisa de Almeida Lopes – Sandra Marie Lees – Naiomie Jean Santos – Sue Ellen Castañeda – Soyini Fraser – Alesha Gallen – Ilenia Arnolfo – Kai Ayanna McDonald – Nondyebo Dzingwa – Watsaporn Wattanakoon – Glena Lavemai

Note: At that night, Miss Vietnam won a sponsor award which is Miss Vietnam Airlines while Miss India won Miss Diamond Place.

Best in National Costume

The National Costume competition took place at the Sea-Links Resort in Phan Thiết on 13 November 2010. Marina Kishira, from Japan, won the Best in National Costume at Miss Earth 2010 after beating other contestants.^{[10] [11]}

Result	Contestant
Winner	– Marina Kishira
Top 5	– Luisa de Almeida Lopes – Jennifer Pazmiño – Claudia Lopez Mollinedo – Nondyebo Dzingwa

Note: At that night, Miss Japan also won a sponsor award which is Miss Earth Sea-Links City Resort.

Miss Aodai

The Miss Aodai was held on 17 November 2010 in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa.^{[12] [13]}

Result	Contestant
Winner	– Tijana Rakic
Top 5	– Liu Hsing-Jung – Gui-joo Lee – Junieth Rosales – Psyche Resus

Note: At that night, Miss Serbia also won a sponsor award which is Miss Saigon Elegance.

Best in Evening Gown

The Best in Evening Gown was held on 17 November 2010 in Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa.^[14]

Result	Contestant
Winner	– Jennifer Pazmiño
Top 5	– Luisa de Almeida Lopes – Carmen Justová – Watsaporn Wattanakoon – Mariángela Bonanni

Note: At that night, Miss Ecuador also won a sponsor award which is Miss PNJ.

Best in Swimsuit

The Best in Swimsuit was held on 20 November 2010 in Phu Yen.^{[15] [16]} Miss Vietnam Lưu Thị Diễm Hương won the Best in Swimsuit.^{[17] [18]}

Result	Contestant
Winner	– Luu Thi Diem Huong
Top 5	– Luisa de Almeida Lopes – Jennifer Pazmiño – Iman Kerigo – Mariangela Bonanni

Note: At that night, Miss Vietnam won a sponsor award which is Miss CanDeluxe.

Winning answer

For the 10th anniversary of the contest, Top 7 will meet the questions of conduct from the previous year's competitions. Miss Earth 2010 drew a question in the behavioral contest of Miss Earth 2002: "For you, what is more important: sunrise or sunset?"^[19]

Answer of Miss Earth 2010:

Contestants

Country/Terr.	Contestant	Age	Height	Hometown
	Kelly Louise Maguire	24		Sydney
	Aquelle Plakaris	24		Nassau
	Melissa Vingerhoed	18		Etterbeek
		19		Santa Cruz
	Ema Golijanin	18		Sarajevo
	Onalenna Gaopalelwe	20		Serowe
	Luisa de Almeida Lopes	20		Porto de Galinhas
	Estelle Essame	26		Yaoundé
	Summer Anne Ross	26		Toronto
	Samantha Widmer	19		George Town
	Pamela Soprani	23		Santiago
	Zhao Shenqianhui	19		Beijing
	Liu Hsing-Jung	25		Taipei
	Diana Marin	22		Cali
	Allyson Alfaro	20		San José
		19		Simferopol
		25		Willemstad
	Carmen Justová	19		Sokolov
	Sandra Vester	25		Copenhagen
	Wisleidy Osorio	21		Samana
		22		Guayaquil
	Doaa Hakam	22		Cairo
		25		Birmingham
	Fanny Vauzanges	25		Paris
	Mihiatea Ruta	24		Papeete
	Reingard Hageman	25		Schwerin
	Golda Dayi	18		Accra
	Maïté Elso^[20]	23		Les Abymes
	Naiomie Jean Santos	18		Asan
	Sue Ellen Castañeda	24		Guatemala City
		20		Georgetown
	Zheng Xiaoyue	19		Hong Kong
	Nicole Faria	20		Bangalore
	Jessica Aurelia Tji	24		Jakarta
	Alesha Gallen	24		Donegal
	Ilenia Arnolfo	26		Cuneo
	Kai Ayanna McDonald	24		Kingston
	Marina Kishira	23		Chiba
	Miano Isabell Wangui	22		Njoro
	Gui-joo Lee	20		Jeollabuk-do
	Morena Taraku	18		Peje
	Eva Caune	22		Riga
	Jihane Nehme	26		Beirut
	Laureta Bardoniqi	18		Bettembourg
	Yi Tong Sun	23		Macau
	Alexandra Randrianarivel	23		Antananarivo
	Appey Rowena Januin	18		Kota Kinabalu
	Christine Mifsud	19		Valletta
	Christine Garçon^[21] ^[22] ^[23]	22		Le Vauclin
	Anne-Lise Ramooloo	21		Port Louis
	Claudia Lopez Mollinedo	18		Teapa
	Bayaarkhuu Gantogoo	24		Ömnögovi
		21		Kathmandu
	Desirée van den Berg	23		Santpoort
	Lisa Davids	20		North Shore
	Junieth Raquel Rosales	21		Managua
	Inara Isaiah	18		Bayelsa
	Judith Keys	18		Belfast
	Iman Kerigo	18		Kløfta
		20		Panama City
		22		Lima
	Psyche Resus^[24] ^[25]	22		Infanta
	Beata Polakowska	24		Ostrów Mazowiecka
		22		Mayagüez
	Andreea Capsuc	19		Bucharest
	Viktoria Shchukina	22		Moscow
	Faaselega Oloapu	25		Apia
	Cora Buchanan	24		Edinburgh
		23		Kruševac
	Maricelle Rani Wong	20		Singapore
	Tímea Szaboová	20		Bratislava
	Ines Draganovič	19		Ljubljana
	Nondyebo Dzingwa	24		Roodepoort
		22		Juba
	Liza Andrea Küster	24		Bern
	Rose Shayo	21		Dodoma
		23		Chiang Rai
	Glena Lavemai	19		Nukualofa
	Döndü Şahin	24		Nuremberg
	Valentina Zhytnyk	18		Kharkiv
		25		Kansas City
		22		San Cristóbal
		20		Ho Chi Minh City
	Louise Hinder	19		Swansea

Judges

No.	Judge	Background
1	Ella Bella	Founder of Generation Earth^[26]
2	Nenad Bratic	Architecture
3	Marie J.Y.E. Collart	Hollywood Actress
4		Hollywood Actress
5		Miss Earth 2008 from Philippines
6	Michael Jeffrey Rosenthal	Fashion Photographer
7	Eddy Tan	President of STAR World
8	Chau Sanh Pham	Head of the Culture, External Relations and UNESCO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietna
9	Thanh Dai Hoang	Editor-in-chief of Thoi Trang Tre Magazine
10	Nhu Quynh Nguyen	Fashion Designer

Background music

• Opening: Mash-up of "Only Girl (In the World)" by Rihanna, and "Some Chords" by Deadmau5
• "Trống cơm" by Mặt trời mới (Live performance)
• "Lời mẹ hát" (English version) by Mỹ Linh^[27] (Live performance)
• "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Ronan Keating (Live performance)
• "When You Say Nothing at All" by Ronan Keating (Live performance)

Schedules

Miss Earth 2010 was held in Vietnam. The announcement was made in a ceremony at the Legend Saigon Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 28 January 2010.^[28]

The delegates from various countries arrived in Vietnam on 4 November 2010 and participated in a range of activities covering Ho Chi Minh City, Phan Thiet, Hoi An, and Nha Trang. The delegates attended a press conference and various environmental activities in Ho Chi Minh City from 4–13 November. The delegates travelled to Phan Thiet and joined environmental activities and a festival to advertise Vietnam's sports from 15 to 17 November. In the ancient town of Hoi An, they competed in Miss Ao Dai, attended the Earth Hour and the Lantern Festival, to call for fuel saving and natural resource protection from 17 to 19 November. The delegates went back to Nha Trang for charity works, cycling, street cleaning, met with the local residents to talk about environmental protection and participate in various environmental activities, and prepared for the finale night.^{[29] [30]}

• In Ho Chi Minh City: (7–11 November)
  • 7 Nov.: 28 The delegates officially started the activities in Vietnam as the first medication dispensing charity, and also visited Saigon river, and then the Aodai fashion fitting.
  • 8 Nov.: Meet and Greet with the organizers, the delegates also visited the Da Phuoc Waste treatment – Binh Chanh and Trung Nguyen coffee.
  • 9 Nov.: Miss Talent Competition
  • 10 Nov.: Press Presentation – the delegates attended the first official press conference at the White Palace (City) and participated in charity, gifts auction to raise funds for charity.
  • 11 Nov.: At 6 pm, Gala Dinner which was broadcast live on VTV3 and HTV7 (Ho Chi Minh City Television).
• In Central Vietnam: (12 November – 4 December)
  • 12 Nov.: Provincial tour at Phan Thiet (Binh Thuan) The delegates engaged in environmental protection; attended the Golf Business Review; evening welcome party for the candidates.
  • 13 Nov.: National Costume Competition – At 9 am, 84 contestants rehearsed for the national costumes competition and competed on the same day at 6.30 pm, and then the delegates listened to the public address through the Image Beauty, Beauty and auction Friendly items.^[31]
  • 17 Nov.: Miss Aodai and Best in Evening Gown were held in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa.
  • 20 Nov.: Best in Swimsuit was held in Phu Yen.
  • 4 Dec.: Final night – At 8pm (GMT +7), Miss Earth 2010 final night was held in Vinpearl, Nha Trang. Broadcast live on VTV1 and VTV4, ABS-CBN, The Filipino Channel (Philippines), STAR World.^[32]

Notes

Returns

• Last competed in 2005:
  • ^[33]
    • Last competed in 2006:
      • • • • • • • • Last competed in 2007:
            • Last competed in 2008:

Replacements

• – Jessica Van Moorleghem was replaced by Melissa Vingerhoed for personal reasons.
• – Aline Bruch was replaced by Luisa de Almeida Lopes.
• – Ding Wenyuan was replaced by Zhao Shenqianhui.
• – Alejandra Alvarez was replaced by Allyson Alfaro.
• – Christelle Demaison was replaced by Fanny Vauzanges due to family emergency.
• – Anna Julia Hagen was replaced by Reingard Hagemann because of her studies.
• – Liza Elly Purnamasari was replaced by Jessica Aurelia Tji.
• – Andreea Dorobantiu was replaced by Andreea Capsuc.
• – Okelsandra Nikitina was replaced by Valentina Zhytnyk.

Designations

• – Anastasiya Sienina was appointed to represent the autonomous territory. She was the 2nd Runner-up of Miss Ukraine 2010.
• – Tijana Rakić was appointed to represent Serbia. She entered Top 5 Miss Serbia 2010.
• – Mariángela Bonanni was appointed as Miss Earth Venezuela 2009 by Osmel Sousa, the president of Miss Venezuela Organization after the organization took over the franchise from Sambil Model Venezuela Organization. She was the 1st Runner-up of Miss Venezuela 2009.
• – Lưu Thị Diễm Hương was appointed to represent Vietnam this year. She was Miss Vietnam World 2010.

Did not compete

• – Isolina Boero
• – Kinley Yangden
• – Sarai Calderón
• – Taliko Shubitidze
• – Dilrufa Mohamed
• – Pierra Akewro

Withdrawals

• • • – No national pageant held
    • – Original contestant Jennifer Kalo ended up competing at Miss World 2010 due to Agnes Dobo injury.
      • • – Lack of funding and sponsorship
• – No national pageant held; lack of funding and sponsorship

External links

• • Miss Earth 2010 official website
• Special page for Miss Earth 2010 on VnExpress
• Miss Earth Foundation website

Notes and References

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