Ris Low, the now infamous Miss Singapore World 2009, has thrown in the towel!
The media confirmed that she decided to give up her crown. This was after much brouhaha over her poor spoken English skills displayed on Razor TV, which was repeatedly mocked and satired by the Singaporean netizens. But what finally broke the proverbial camel’s back was when news broke of Ris Low’s conviction for credit card fraud which was committed when she was considered a “young offender”.
The organiser of the local beauty pageant, ERM World Marketing, said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon she will no longer represent Singapore at Miss World 2009 in South Africa.
ERM said it will be interviewing a new representative to represent Singapore at Miss World 2009 in the coming days and will announce her shortly.
The organiser said it has met Ms Low and her parents and ‘they have agreed to allow their daughter to resign from the crown as we feel is in the best interest for the Miss Singapore World Pageant and Singapore at large’.
‘We are accepting her resignation,’ said ERM.
On Ms Low’s conviction in May and her bipolar disorder, ERM said there was no way of checking if a contestant has a criminal record or suffering from depression.
‘Ris Low was determined, well behaved and performed well throughout the 2 month competition and even went on to win eight special awards. This is not easy task to accomplish from a group of 22 contestants. With her good performance and beauty, she excelled in the competition.’
On her command of English language, which has been criticised by the public, the organiser said: ‘We felt that person who made fun of her on YouTube was malicious and did not do her justice. The video clip was presented in a way to ridicule her.
‘The incident was a one-time interview which misled the Singapore public to believe she spoke English poorly. During the Grand Finals competition held at the Shangri La hotel on the July 31, she spoke perfectly good English, had a good answer (short, sharp and sweet) and performed very well to impress the 11 judges that she was good enough to win.
‘So perhaps her spoken English could also be an effect from her Bipolar disorder.’
ERM said it felt sorry for Miss Low but added: ‘We cannot compromise on our contest rules, regulations and the image of the Miss Singapore World Pageant.’
Source: Straits Times
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i believe and hope she will come back as a better person after all these.
i fully support her even though she has a not-so-clean record. after all, who has not failed at some point in his/her life?
singapore has alot to learn in being gracious even when they do not support some people. at this point, it is no doubt that projects like yellow ribbon and so on will see a more difficult up-hill task than before.
singaporeans simply need to change…for the better if we are to become a real first world country. let’s stop living in a “developed” country status but having a third world country mentality or worse.
Think she is the worse Miss SG ever.
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