York student Mariana Valente is the second York student to represent Canada in the Miss Universe pageant. (Photo by Pippin Lee, Excalibur Publications)
A few weeks back, I had a chance to interview Miss Universe Canada 2009, Mariana Valente. Valente is a York student, and I thought it would make a good feature piece in the paper. Valente competed in the Miss Universe competition in the Bahamas this year, and although she didn’t win, she has an interesting story nonetheless. From what I gathered in my research for the piece, there is lots of bits and pieces written about her, but nothing substantial. She was on ET Canada, she did a segment of eTalk Daily, and there were a few small articles here and there around the time of the pageant.
A few days ago, the Toronto Sun ran a similar piece on Valente. I think the author must be a close relative of hers (I hope), because it’s the only way I can possibly think of accounting for gems like these:
“Our little miss is an angel of mercy for the kids of Brazil.”
“You could sink a rainforest in those big, brown eyes.”
“Much more than a pretty face is our Mariana.”
Here’s the link to The Sun article, entitled “Our little miss is an angel”
Here’s the Excalibur version, printed a few weeks earlier than The Sun story.
Enjoy!
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Alex // December 6, 2009 at 6:20 pm |
Wow, I can hardly believe that story.