Gaelebale faces intense battle at Miss World

The race for the Miss World 2017 title is intensifying with Botswana’s Nicole Gaelebale and other contestants getting into activities that will see some of them getting eliminated.

ByDUMISANI NCUBE Tue 07 Nov 2017, 18:00 pm (GMT +2) 

Miss Botswana Gaelebale now has a huge task of avoiding elimination PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

The grand finale of the international pageant will take place on November 18 in Sanya, China. Locally all eyes are on Gaelebale, Miss Botswana 2017, who is representing the country this time around.

One of the activities that the contestants have recently gone through is the head-to-head challenge, which puts contestants into groups of five or six.

“Miss World’s exciting new Head to Head Challenges kicked off this week as the groups were introduced to the global audience after the draw, which determined the 20 groups. For this round of the competition, each contestant’s introduction video is followed by a question about their video from host Frankie Cena.

The contestants all answer a final question, which they receive before the show at the end of the segment. Voting is then opened to the public who can like a contestant’s Facebook page or vote for them on Mobstar or the Miss World website. The winner of each group will advance to the Miss World top 40,” one of the Miss World 2017 organisers explained.

Gaelebale is in group six which has contestants from Canada, Ethiopia, Botswana, Brazil, Bangladesh and South Africa. The group was presented last Sunday. On her presentation she spoke about Botswana, her journey as a model and how she struggled to win the national pageant before she could contest on the Miss World stage.

The voting from the general public for the head to head challenge closed last night. Miss World officials are yet to make official communication on what will take place when the results are announced.

Immediately after group six’s Gaelebale went on Facebook, she pleaded with her followers to help her get into the top 40, “Every like on this page counts as a vote so kindly invite your family and friends to like the page, (sic)”.

Without any results officially announced by the pageant Gaelebale’s group six has Miss Bangladesh leading the polls due to the many Facebook page likes she has, with Miss South Africa on her heels and Gaelebale trailing them as third on the polls.

The Facebook page likes as of 06/11/2017 11:46 am;

• Botswana 30,098

• South Africa 45,913

• Canada 7,462

• Ethiopia 12,927

• Bangladesh 72,491

• Brazil 14,304.

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