{"id":23515,"date":"2017-11-28T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T00:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=23515"},"modified":"2017-11-28T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:17:26","slug":"miss-south-africa-demi-leigh-nel-peters-crowned-miss-universe-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/miss-south-africa-demi-leigh-nel-peters-crowned-miss-universe-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss South Africa Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters crowned Miss Universe 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The woman that reigned in this year&#8217;s Miss Universe pageant came from <strong>South Africa. Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters<\/strong> is only the second to bring home the Miss Universe crown to South Africa after Margaret Gardiner in 1978.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Miss Universe 2017 Crowning Moment\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GlMnbkH0564?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 22-year-old native of the Western Cape province in South Africa was crowned Sunday at the AXIS Theater at Planet Hollywood casino-resort in Las Vegas. She was followed by Miss Colombia Laura Gonzales as the first runner-up and Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett as the second runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MissUniverse\/status\/934983757211172864<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During the final Q&amp;A portion, the top three finalists were asked about their quality that they are most proud of, to which Nel-Peters answered being confident and being able to overcome many fears, &#8220;a woman that nothing is ever too much to ask for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MissUniverse\/status\/935276654896779264<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Before that, Nel-Peters had already impressed the judges and audience with her answer during the Top 5 Q&amp;A. When asked about the most important issue facing women in the workplace today, Nel-Peters talked without hesitation about the issue of gender pay gap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, while many Filipinos were looking forward to how Miss Philippines would fare during the question and answer portion, Rachel Peters&#8217; journey had ended in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As the Miss Universe 2017, Nel-Peters will advocate HIV\/AIDS awareness and women&#8217;s self-defense.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2017\/11\/26\/miss-south-africa-demi-leigh-nel-peters-crowned-miss-universe-2017\/894556001\/\">USA Today<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2017\/11\/26\/miss-south-africa-demi-leigh-nel-peters-crowned-miss-universe-2017\/894556001\/\">TIME<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/life\/11\/27\/17\/rachel-peters-ends-miss-universe-2017-journey\">ABS-CBN News<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four decades, the victory of Nel-Peters has put South Africa back on the map!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4574,4575,1835,4577,4576],"class_list":["post-23515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-demi-leigh-nel-peters","tag-miss-south-africa","tag-miss-universe-2017","tag-miss-universe-2017-winner","tag-south-africa"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/11\/DPnIP1rXkAEs26N-e1511841172863.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23524,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23515\/revisions\/23524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}