Chanel (above) is representing San Antonio, Nueva Ecija, while Diana Mackey is competing for Cabanatuan City
They could have easily represented the Filipino Communities of their respective cities in Australia and New Zealand. But instead, Chanel Olive Thomas and Diana Mackey are vying for the Miss Philippines Earth 2015 crown as the bets of San Antonio, Nueva Ecija and Cabanatuan City, respectively.
Chanel was raised in Cairns (Queensland), while Diana grew up in Auckland. But never have they forgotten their Filipino roots. In fact, they have already started “filipinizing” themselves long before their entry to the competition.
If you check out the pageant website, the organizers are actually doing away with putting a foreign community sash on the candidates who came from abroad. Perhaps, this is a way of actually putting a more localized appreciation of ladies like Chanel and Diana, and not getting tagged as foreigners all throughout.
Let’s see if they can go head-to-head with their homegrown counterparts. ;-)
