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Tatana Kucharova, Miss Czech crowned Miss World 2006 Pageant
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Tatana Kucharova, 18-year-old student Miss Czech Republic took the Miss World 2006 beauty contest crown on Saturday in Poland’s capital Warsaw, the first city in ex-communist East Europe to host the pageant. Kucharova, a blue-eyed blonde wearing a tight-fitting white gown, defeated 103 other contestants in voting among a panel of judges and from television viewers around the world during a two-hour finals ceremony in the Polish capital. She fought back tears as the Miss World sash was draped over her shoulder and a glittering crown placed on her head.
First runner-up in the 56th edition of the annual beauty pageant was Joana Valentina Boitor, a 17-year-old from Romania. Australia’s Sabrina Houssami, 20, was third.

Tatana Kucharova, the beauty Czech was born in Trnava and grew up in the town of Opocno. She is a high school student with ambition to attend university, graduate, have a modelling career that she hopes will enable her to travel; and to be a good parent one day. Her motto is “Always be an optimist.”
Her hobbies are tennis, volleyball, horse riding, ice-skating and many other sports. She enjoys dance and listening to music with a nice melody. Tatana likes to spend time with her many pets, she has: cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, a bird and a turtle.

Wearing a long white dress, a teary Kucharova blew kisses to the 2,500 audience members in Warsaw’s Congress Hall after she received her diamond crown from Miss World 2005, Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir of Iceland. A few white-red-and-blue Czech national flags floated in the cheering audience after the verdict was announced.
The two-hour pageant was held in Warsaw’s Palace of Culture, a skyscraper built as a gift by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, spruced up with red carpets, flowers and floodlights. Kucharova is the third Eastern European to win the Miss World crown. The first, Poland’s Aneta Beata Kreglicka, was one of three moderators at the Palace of Culture on Saturday.
The 104 contenders for the crown performed choreographed routines, responded to question-and-answer sessions and posed in bathing suits and evening dress during the gala celebration at Warsaw’s stately Palace of Culture that was “gifted” to Poland by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Topnotch musical entertainment at the Miss World 2006 Final came in the form of internationally-successful Irish band Westlife and Bee Gees singing legend Robin Gibb. The pop opera quartet Amici also performed. Hosted by top Chinese TV presenter Angela Chow and British host Tim Vincent, both of whom make a return to the Miss World stage after carrying last year’s show. They were joined by leading Polish TV presenter Grazyna Torbicka.
Miss Iceland’s Unnur Birna Vilhajalmsdottir was Miss World 2005 in China. In a last minute twist, the judges were unable to decide between contestants in the Asia Pacific continental group, so three girls, including Miss India, from that group went through to the final 17 semi finalists, not the proposed 16.

Beamed around the globe to 200 countries, the Miss World beauty contest is one of the world’s most popular live annual television events, rivalling both the football World Cup finals and the Olympics, according to contest organizers. Viewers were able to help select the Miss World 2006 winner using a special instant message service (SMS) system. The organizers of the pageant said this year’s finals offered the widest-ever participation of voters around the world via the Internet. Votes were also submitted in text messages sent from mobile phones.
Last month, a white scarf was added to an artist’s depiction of a mermaid with an exposed nude breast on a poster advertising the contest, after officials in Warsaw’s conservative administration deemed it too suggestive. A think tank calculated exposure from the pageant would help draw 5 million extra tourists to the country by 2010.

The line-up of official judges at the Miss World 2006 Final was: Julia Morley, Miss World Organisation Chairman and Chairman of the Judges; Aneta Kreglicka, Poland’s only former Miss World, who held the title in 1989; Denise van Outen Prolific actress and TV presenter known for her style and personality; Karan Johar, Indian director known worldwide for his award winning movies; Dame Kelly Holmes, multi-Olympic gold medallist and British heroine, Dame Kelly Holmes; Krish Naidoo, Miss World Organisation International Ambassador; Louis Walsh, Irish mastermind behind some of the world’s leading pop acts; Mike Dixon, West End and Broadway award-winner musical director; Wilnelia Forsyth, Puerto Rican Miss World and designer of the Miss World beachwear range.

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