Venezuela's mother and daughter tandem at Miss World

In 1955, Venezuela participated for the first time at the Miss World pageant in London. Luckily, Carmen Susana Duijm Zubillaga who traveled alone and lost in London won the title - the first of 5 Miss World crowns for this South American country.

Carmen Susana also competed at Miss Universe 1955 and reached the Top 15.

After 28 years in 1983, Carmen Susana's daughter, Carolina Cerruti Duijm, tried to duplicate her mother's achievement also at Miss World but she failed to advance to the finals.

Here are pictures of Carmen Susana during the Miss World 1955:

"Miss Vietnam Võ Hoàng Yến is like a beautiful Miss Tiffany" - Ines Ligron

Just hours ago, I made a blog entry about Ines Ligron's honest opinion on Miss India Universe Ekta Chaudhary. She called the beauty queen as someone "who can't speak and a little immature" based on a video the National Director of Japan had watched on Youtube.

Ines is the most interesting and most vocal among all the pageant directors in the world. She is very transparent but very sincere and sweet. She is actually my most favourite. If there was a Miss Universe contest for all the national directors, this Frenchwoman could have been definitely the clear runaway winner.

She's also a very good source of beauty pageant news and gossips. Anything that comes out from her mouth makes headlines. That's the reason why I love her aside from being an excellent pageant coach who has high taste for fashion.

I continue updating you on Ines' thoughts on any beauty queens or beauty pageants for that matter. Thus, let's continue.  She is not actually frugal in her thoughts about Misses Vietnam, Colombia, Turkey and Venezuela. Let's hear it from her.

On Miss Vietnam - Võ Hoàng Yến is indeed special, but she need to seriously start to look more sophisticated. I saw many pictures of her and she looks like a beautiful Miss Tiffany to me sometimes. She is a beautiful girl but she needs urgent styling. I wish her the best because I want Asian girls to do great. Methinks. Meilleurs voeux le Vietnam!

On Miss Colombia - Michelle Rouillard is special, a pretty face with an angel-aura and a killer body!

Ines agreed on a fan who commented that Miss Colombia's background as a Colombo-French makes her unique. She has a strong personality and amazing look. She is herself and doesn't look like anyone.

On Miss Turkey - According to Ines, Ebru Sam did not include Miss Turkey because to her, she is just a little girl, not a woman yet. But she added that of course she can be wrong.

On Miss Ukraine - Kristina Koz-Gotlib is gorgeous but her hair is too 70’s.

On Miss Venezuela - Estefania Fernandez has such a pretty face when she wears no make-up. She likes her very much. Venezuela has a killer body again!

Mister International 2008 ngo Tien Doan Latest Photos

Honestly, this blogger was one of those who were disappointed when Vietnam's Ngo Tien Doan was proclaimed the winner of Mister International 2008 that was held last November in Taipei, Taiwan. I truly believe there were more deserving and more handsome candidates in that edition of the popular male pageant.

But, as days passed by, upon seeing pictures of Ngo Tien Doan in the net, I started to feel for him. Though he may not be one of my all-time favourites, he will always get my respect for the fact that he was a winner of Mister International.

Recently, Ngo Tien Doan is touring the world as part of his prize for winning the title. He was in Venezuela last month to judge the Mister Venezuela contest.

He has been also a favourite model for different photographers and here are pictures of him in one of his photo sessions. Tell me if you like them.