I always thought Pia Wurtzbach more interesting than our recent spate of beauty queens.

She seemed more rakenrol, less bound to the rhetoric of pageants, with more personality than most. Case in point: a dominant narrative about her Bb. Pilipinas-Universe win was how she had joined the pageant three times before taking home a crown; she wouldn’t be the first to do that, but she was the one who didn’t mind discussing this as fact.