We’ve
just about recovered from a phenomenal night on Tuesday this week (26th
July) at the grand finale of this years’ prestigious Miss England competition,
held at the Athena in Leicester. Having
judged the semi-finals just a couple of weeks back we have been looking forward
to this night for a while. The
competition itself has been, as always, exciting, interesting, lots of fun and
we’ve been privileged to be involved.
We’ve met some great personalities along the way.
After
a delicious three course meal in the gold VIP area we were ready to watch the
show, and it really is a show. All the
finalists came out in either red or white matching dresses to represent the
colours of the English flag. During the
second round, Andy Abraham who was the X Factor 2005 runner up, performed a
medley of songs whilst the girls came out in their evening wear and for the
sportswear round, Streetdance Crew showed off what they’re made of!
Charlotte
Holmes beat 59 other amazing finalists to take the crown. Charlotte, who is just 23 years old, has been
an old friend of Fresh for a long while now and we’ve welcomed her through our
doors many times. We have always backed Charlotte, and this was the third time
she entered Miss England to finally win. Charlotte is no stranger to publicity; she came fourth in Britain’s Top Model in 2010 as well. We are over the moon that she will be
representing England in the Miss World competition, not only is she beautiful,
she’s intelligent, gracious and we always enjoy having her at our fashion
studios.
Charlotte
was always one of the favourites to win the competition, along with another one
of our clients, and our friend, Amy Willerton who won Katy Price’s television
show Signed recently.
Representing Miss
Devon, Charlotte, who now lives in London said “I am so proud and privileged to
win the crown, and my ambition during my reign is to show young people that
they can achieve if they put their mind and soul into their ambition.” Charlotte had our vote, looking especially breath-taking
in a thigh-high split blue sparkly dress, every inch the superstar! The
catwalk included an eco-catwalk show where the finalists had to showcase their
own eco-friendly “number”, this replaced the outdated bikini round a few years
back
Following
her win, as part of her prize, she’ll be jet setting to Mauritius today for 9
days where she’ll also be promoting a campaign for Fiesta. Incredibly, Charlotte’s grandmother was from
Mauritius so the trip will hold special meaning to her as she has never visited
the country.
The
Miss World finals will be held in Inner Mongolia later this year, and we feel
confident that Charlotte will be the best ambassador for our country and could
go on to win the Miss World title. We’ll
certainly be backing her.
Of
course, we must give a big mention to the the two gorgeous runner’s up, Miss
North Yorkshire Anastasia Smith came second and coming in third was Tamzin
Cummings, Miss Sunderland. We have to
say that we are particularly pleased for Anastasia Smith who also won Fresh
Modelesque and we presented her with a stunning wall canvas as her prize.
Charlotte
takes over from last year’s Miss England, Alize Mounter.
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