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Miss Hong Kong Pageant

The Miss Hong Kong Pageant (Chinese: 香港小姐競選), or Miss HK (港姐) for short, is an annual beauty pageant organised by local Hong Kong television station, TVB. The pageant was established in 1946,[1] and acquired by TVB in 1973.[2]

The current Miss Hong Kong is Hilary Chong (莊子璇) who was crowned at the 51st Miss Hong Kong 2023 Pageant on August 27 2023.

Recruitment

All participants have to have a Hong Kong ID or be born in Hong Kong (with a valid birth certificate). The age requirement is 17–27 as of 2011, though the upper age was previously up to 25. While there has been other Miss Hong Kong pageants in prior years producing notable titleholders such as Judy Dan (1952), Virginia June Lee (1954), Michelle Mok (1958), Laura da Costa (1967), Mabel Hawkett (1970) and Shirley Yu (1974, contest organized by Miss Pearl of the Orient Company and overlapping with TVB's),[3][4] the current annual TVB pageant began in 1973. Apart from the top prize winner, first runner-up and second runner-up prizes, the pageant also has other consolation prizes that vary slightly from year to year. Many Miss Hong Kong contestants have gone on to have movie careers as it is quite typical for the top contestants to garner television contracts from TVB.

The pageant is traditionally televised into two events, although this is not always necessarily the case in recent years. First, a preliminary event is held where 12 finalists are selected from a group of candidates, the number of which is usually around 20–25 (with 30 being the maximum). Then a final event is held, culminating in the announcement of the winner and the first and second runners-up from the 12 finalists. In some years, the field is narrowed down to a final 5, from which the runners-up and winner are chosen. Often several contestants dropped out of the pageant before the televised preliminary, thus there would be a candidate with #30 assigned to her, but only 25 or so contestants.

Summary of winners

Overseas contestant awards list

Starting from 1991, the Miss Hong Kong pageant greets delegates from overseas. They include Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San Francisco. Local contestants coming from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, London, and more enter at Hong Kong. The overseas delegates wait for the notification of their regional sponsors of TVB and if they are chosen, they fly to Hong Kong to compete. The following is a record of overseas delegates' performance at Miss Hong Kong.

Notice that Vancouver has the most Miss Hong Kong winners from the overseas. They had a record of four consecutive winners from 1997 to 2000, and three consecutive winners from 2012 to 2014. In 2012, the top 3 delegates were all from Vancouver. Even though the 2007 pageant had the top 3 all from the US and Canada but Grace Wong and Lorretta Chow travelled to Hong Kong to compete in the pageant, so they are recognised by TVB to be local delegates not overseas delegates. They did however come from the overseas.

Miss World

In 1989, TVB lost the franchise for Miss World to ATV, and held it back from 1992 to 2015.

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Miss Universe

In 2001, TVB lost the franchise for Miss Universe.

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Miss International

In 2015, TVB lost the franchise for Miss International.

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Miss Chinese International Pageant

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See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Born in 1946, popular in 1973, what are the shady scenes of Hong Kong beauty pageants after 75 years?". www.laitimes.com. 27 October 2021. Archived from the original on 10 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Race for beauty's crown|Society|chinadaily.com.cn". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  3. ^ Lee, Sherry (9 April 2002). "Diamonds aren't forever". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 23 June 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  4. ^ "人物素描：一代豔星變蘭桂坊小販". Apple Daily (in Chinese). 15 April 2002. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Hoa hậu Quốc tế Hồng Kông 2021 chỉ có 5 thí sinh, nhan sắc của tân Hoa hậu gây tranh cãi" (in Vietnamese). Tiền Phong. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

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