I'm a beauty queen...but I spend my days doing spreadsheets

Blackpool Gazette

Meet Jodie Rose Smith - the Blackpool woman who has been crowned Miss Philippines GB.  Jodie, 20, was scouted while out shopping last year. She says before the pageant she really struggled with low confidence, and this has helped her to speak up for herself in every day life.  The accounting and finance student adds that her friends would never have guessed her new hobby, as she's always got her head in a spreadsheet - but she loves the world of pageantry.

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00:00I've just done a photo shoot in celebration of me winning Miss Philippines Great Britain

00:05and for me to advertise that I'm going forward to go for Miss Universe if I win Miss Great Britain.

00:11I was walking around a barrow fiesta we have in Philippines and we do them in England

00:16and I was just walking around the stalls seeing what there was and I got stopped and asked if

00:21I was interested in doing a pageant if I've ever done one before and then I had a talk with my

00:25mum and my family and they said go for it and so I ended up going for the pageant and by some

00:32miracle I won. At first I was flattered honestly I couldn't believe it I was like oh me because I

00:38was looking around there's so many stunning girls and I thought me out of everyone. All my friends

00:43are saying you'd never have guessed from the girl that we know going to her lectures getting all of

00:50her spreadsheets out and writing all these numbers in to then at the weekend putting on a ball gown

00:56and nice long heels and putting her hair up in a nice updo like it's such a nice change because

01:03it's a bit it's something different it's it takes you out of reality I feel like the pageant world

01:08it's it's an escape. Before I did pageants I couldn't speak to people I was so nervous couldn't

01:14do it but when I got on stage and they said here's a microphone I'm going to ask you any

01:21question at random and you give us your answer it did shove me in the deep end quite a bit

01:27but I feel like because I did it and I did it well it's giving me a reason to go why why am I

01:33not outspoken why am I not just speaking when I want to speak I've got a voice why can't I use it

01:40and so I definitely feel like pageants have taught me like

01:43you have your confidence within you you just needed that little push.

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