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Date Posted: 20:30:20 03/17/11 Thu
By Marc Weisblott | Daily Brew – Thu, 17 Mar, 2011 12:00 PM EDT
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/sun-news-network-newly-minted-morning-host-once-20110317-090017-895.html
The newest Sun News Network host got an early start at celebrity status when she scored the tiara of Miss Canadian Universe, a fact left out of the channel's press release.
Neelam Verma will assume the role as host on the early morning "First Look" show on the channel that launches across Canada on April 16.
But the Sun Media newspaper chain hasn't downplayed the fact Verma once held that title.
The existence of a national beauty pageant had become fairly obscure when Verma won in 2002, though. An item in Maclean's magazine noted the 26-year-old made it to the top 10 at the international Miss Universe competition in Puerto Rico, although Verma admitted she needed grooming help from consultants beforehand.
Still, there was something of a stigma attached to the pageants, which were considered a relic by the time the original Miss Canada contest ended its 44-year run in 1992. A smaller organization, Miss Canada International, launched three years later to pick up the slack.
The contest gained infamy after 1996 winner Danielle House of Daniel's Harbour, Nfld. was stripped of her crown for punching her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend in a bar. The following year she sported her tiara, a pair of boxing gloves, and nothing else, on the cover of Playboy magazine.
Some glamour returned to the pageant scene in 2003 when a new one was launched to send a Canadian representative to Miss Universe. Natalie Glebova, who won the international title in Thailand in 2005, earned global celebrity status while advocating for HIV and AIDS awareness.
When she returned to Toronto, though, she was barred from attending an event for the Thai community while wearing her sash, due to the enforcement of a bylaw designed to prevent the stereotyping of women at municipal events.
A couple of 2010 Miss Universe Canada candidates made news, however, for reasons that had nothing to do with congeniality.
Speaking to high school students about the pageant last year, Tiffany Munro of Edmonton mentioned how pageant organizers didn't want the competitors looking anorexic, "like some African child with the ribs going on."
And another hopeful, Sophie Froment of Ottawa, was evicted from the contest after it was revealed she posed in lingerie for a commercial for infidelity dating website Ashley Madison.
Sun News has emphasized its new hire graduated from York University's Schulich School of Business, four years before she won the pageant, and Verma's journalism career was initiated with an internship at CNN International in India.
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Former Miss Canada to host Sun News Network’s morning show
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Sun News Network’s newly minted morning host once wore Miss Canadian Universe crown
