THE beauty queen who had fallen from grace has quit.
Organisers of the local beauty pageant, ERM World, released an official statement saying that Miss Ris Low has resigned from her crown as Miss Singapore World 2009. This comes less than a week after her past conviction for credit card fraud was exposed.
The 19-year-old student will not represent Singapore at the international pageant in South Africa and the organisers will be interviewing a new representative to represent Singapore in the coming days.
Ms Low's resignation was an unanimous decision between the organiser and Ms Low's parents. ERM said: "[Her parents] have agreed to allow their daughter to resign from the crown as we feel is in the best interest for the Miss Singapore World Pageant and Singapore at large."
"We are accepting her resignation," said ERM.
The local beauty pageant organiser said that it did not comment earlier because they were taken aback by this incident.
"This is the first time in Singapore beauty pageant history that such an incident has occurred. We had to be careful with the approach."
With regards to Low's fraudulent past, ERM had this to say: "We feel sorry for her circumstances but we cannot compromise on our contest rules, regulations and the image of the Miss Singapore World Pageant."
ERM further explained that "there was no way of checking if a contestant has a criminal record or suffering from depression."
"We did not have any documentary evidence to justify the allegations and could be faced with legal implications later."
But the organisers praised Ms Low for her good performance and beauty, saying she was "determined, well-behaved and performed well" throughout the competition and had "excelled" in the competition. Low took home eight special awards other than the Miss Singapore World title.
But i dont even think she is remorseful. She gave remarks thats the probation case is not that serious and she was given a second chance. It seems she treats the second chance as a given and is not really thankful that she is not in jail now. Others are now in jail for the same kind of offence she did. Even lawyers have said that she was very lucky.
Now she better hope that the prosecuition does not reopen the case to ask for resentencing due to her lack of remorse. We have seen it happen to the condo manager who glued his neighbours doors and mail boxes.
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Ris Low isn't mature enough to make her own decisions? Just how incompetent is Ris Low?
This person was going to represent Singapore?
Ris Low needs to grow up. Be a responsible adult, take full responsibility and stop hiding behind her parents. How hard is it to say that it is your decision to resign?
Just imagine if you are a pretty and well articulated woman in the same contest as her. And the winner is her, Ris Low! :D
Don't look down on her poor english. She is quite skillful on managing the PR side. Now the attention is turn to the organiser. Nobody will mention her name now.
was it live telecast on any of the TV channels?