Stars and actresses who should be beauty queens

Since the ‘60s and ‘70s when Filipinas took the world beauty contest arena by storm, the country became the pageant-crazy people that they are proud to be today, and always on the look out for possible queens to follow in the footsteps of 1964 Miss International Gemma Cruz; 1969 Miss Universe Gloria Diaz; 1970 Miss International Aurora Pijuan; 1973 Miss Universe Margie; and 1979 Miss International Melanie.

After a long gap when Philippine beauties placed in the runners-up roster every so often, the 2000s saw two Miss International winners in Precious Lara Quigaman (2005) and Kylie Verzosa (2016); the first Miss World winner in Megan Young (2013); and of course, a third Miss Universe in Pia Wurtzbach (2015).