Show us your brain
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Fresh-faced Sydneysider Jesinta Campbell is the latest home-grown beauty to be given the chance to represent Australia at the annual Miss Universe contest, and while there aren’t many who’d deny the delightful 18-year-old is up to the task, her campaign for world beauty-pageant domination was almost derailed thanks to a bizarre line of questioning at the Miss Universe Australia finals last week.
Bafflingly, Campbell had to answer a query on effective skin protection, and after some early verbal staggering, she blurted out an answer on the need to protect oneself from the cruel Australian sun. “It’s important to have a good skincare routine, so even when we’re outdoors, we need to use sunscreen and drink lots of water,” she said.
Presumably, Jesinta’s initial struggle to find a reply was born of confusion. Why was she being asked a question akin to something Happy Healthy Harold might ask of a bunch of first-graders?
Okay, so we won’t deny we enjoy seeing the Miss Universe contestants in bikinis, but we also want to know a little something about what’s going on in their heads. What kind of information are we supposed to learn about Jesinta from this? That she paid attention in P.E.?
Surely there are questions we can ask the contestants that are a little more personal and will give us at least some idea of who they are. And we don’t mean, “If you could wish for one thing what would it be?” because we can only hear “world peace” so many times before we get the urge to punch a wall.
Even just “What’s your favourite book/movie and why?” would surely be better than this thinly veiled public-service-announcement drivel.
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