Ma. Ahtisa Manalo is topped Miss Universe Philippines 2025. Screenshot from Empite.Ph YouTube
After the mud settled from the hotly-contested Miss Universe Philippines 2025 competitors, one girl reigned supreme, and he or she is Ma. Ahtisa Manalo of Quezon Province.
Manalo bested 65 different aspirants in a contest dubbed “puksaan” (eradication) by fervent pageant followers due to the highly-competitive roster of candidates, together with women with worldwide expertise and nationwide titleholders.
The brand new queen inherited the Miss Universe Philippines’ “La Mer en Majeste” crown from final yr’s winner, Chelsea Manalo, on the end result of the coronation present held on the Mall of Asia Enviornment in Pasay Metropolis on Friday night, Might 2.
Manalo edged out 5 different women within the remaining spherical of competitors — pageant veterans Chelsea Fernandez of Sultan Kudarat, Yllana Marie Aduana of Siniloan, Laguna, Winwyn Marquez of Muntilupa, Ma. Katrina Llegado of Taguig, and Gabriella Mai Carballo of Cebu Metropolis,
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Manalo is a returning candidate, who completed third general in final yr’s competitors. She subsequently bought The Miss Philippines-Cosmo title and was despatched to the inaugural version of the Miss Cosmo pageant in Vietnam final yr, the place she completed within the Prime 10.
Her first nationwide competitors was the Reyna ng Aliwan search in 2017, representing the Niyogyugan Pageant of Quezon Province, ending as second runner-up. In 2018, she was topped as Binibining Pilipinas-Worldwide and was despatched to the Miss Worldwide pageant in Japan the place she was proclaimed as first runner-up.
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Dramatic fall
Manalo, a former Binibining Pilipinas titleholder, has been among the many pageant’s high favorites, impressing each in preliminary segments and in her night robe presentation regardless of her dramatic fall.
Throughout her efficiency, Manalo was a masterclass in poise and beauty underneath strain when she slipped and fell onstage through the night robe occasion — solely to rise, smile, and win the gang’s admiration.
The 26-year-old magnificence queen and entrepreneur was carrying a shimmering pink, bead-encrusted robe when she misplaced her steadiness on the slippery stage ground on the Mall of Asia Enviornment. Photographs captured the sequence: Manalo initially on her palms and knees, then bracing herself, and at last rising with a composed smile as she resumed her stroll.
The viewers erupted in cheers as Manalo stood tall and confidently completed her flip onstage. On-line, followers rapidly hailed her restoration because the mark of a real queen, with clips and pictures flooding social media platforms.
“Madadapa pero babangon,” Only a Random Man posted on X. Slipping is human, rising gracefully is queen habits,” one fan posted on X (previously Twitter). Others known as her a “true contender” and praised her resilience and professionalism, noting that stage mishaps can rattle even seasoned rivals.
The celebration of the Miss Universe Philippines 2025 was made much more particular with the presence of reigning Miss Universe Victoria Kjær Theilvig, who was joined by the continental queens–Miss Universe Asia Chelsea Manalo, Miss Universe Africa and Oceania Chidimma Adetshina, Miss Universe Americas Tatiana Calmell, and Miss Universe Europe and Center East Matilda Wirtavuori.
As Miss Universe Philippines 2025, Ahtisa Manalo bears the accountability of representing the nation within the 74th Miss Universe pageant in Thailand in November.
To this point, 4 Filipino girls have introduced dwelling the Miss Universe crown–Gloria Diaz in 1969, Margie Moran in 1973, Pia Wurtzbach in 2015, and Catriona Grey in 2018.