Two girls who proudly raised Taguig of their respective and profitable nationwide pageant runs — The Miss Philippines-Supranational Katrina Llegado and Miss Cosmo Philippines Ysabella Ysmael — have impressed among the aspirants within the metropolis’s personal magnificence contest this 12 months.
The 2026 Mutya ng Taguig delegates representing town’s totally different barangays had been offered to members of the media and on-line content material creators at Alta Guia in Taguig on Monday morning, Could 18. And amongst them are girls who expressed admiration for the 2 nationwide titleholders that town has produced.
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“We imagine in them a lot. And quite a lot of the women right here, together with myself, we glance as much as them,” Barangay Bambang’s Angela Okol advised Inquirer Leisure on the sidelines of the occasion.
“They’re an inspiration not simply to Taguigeñas however [to] quite a lot of girls across the Philippines as a result of they by no means gave up. They know their strengths and discovered to nurture it. I’m positive they’ll nurture it much more on the worldwide stage,” she added.
Danna Ashley Mayo from Cembo, a former Makati barangay, stated she, too, admires Llegado and Ysmael, who gave Taguig nationwide pageant titles two years in a row.
“You actually encourage the youth of in the present day, particularly the ladies, as a result of each of you worth sure traits and traits that uphold the group, that may be very influential. And I look as much as you po. Good luck for the worldwide pageant and I do know that you’ll thrive as people onstage,” she stated.
Each Okol and Mayo are usually not new to pageantry. In reality, the 2 of them had already taken half in nationwide competitions earlier than throwing their hat within the Mutya ng Taguig contest.
Okol represented Siargao within the 2021 Miss Universe Philippines pageant, whereas Mayo joined the Miss Teen Philippines and Miss Teen Earth Philippines pageants in 2014.
Each of them had additionally competed in numerous metropolis magnificence contests. Okol joined the 2023 Miss Manila pageant the place she was topped Miss Manila Tourism. Mayo, alternatively, represented Cembo within the 2018 Miss Makati pageant when her barangay was nonetheless a part of Makati.
Thirty-seven delegates representing Taguig Metropolis’s totally different barangays are competing to succeed reigning Mutya ng Taguig Krisha Enaje from Barangay Hagonoy. The organizers haven’t but launched the main points of the ultimate competitors. /edv
