Neil Gussey photographs Miss Universe New Zealand 2010, Ria van Dyke
Neil Gussey Photographer Neil Gussey is the latest lensman to shoot Miss Universe New Zealand 2010, Ria van Dyke. The latest photographs were made available to the pageant yesterday, and can be found on the official site. The pageant’s Facebook fan page also has the images. Above is a selection of the newest. […]
Miss Universe New Zealand 2010, Ria van Dyke, photographed by Angela Scott
Angela Scott Miss Universe New Zealand 2010, Ria van Dyke, has had her first photo shoot—if you do not count press ones—with Angela Scott. These are stunning shots, confirming many of the positive comments found here at Lucire’s web edition as well as other pageant-oriented websites. Ria’s win is drawing extra support from companies […]
Museum Hotel gives Miss Universe New Zealand an Apprentice setting
Above The Miss Universe New Zealand 2010 judging panel: Samantha Hannah, Evana Patterson, Jack Yan (in the chair), Dina Janse van Rensburg and Carl Manderson. If you caught my last post, you’ll know that I wasn’t with our Miss Universe New Zealand 2010 contestants until the evening. I awaited the arrival of Evana Patterson, with […]
Day 5: Miss New Zealands, unite!
Top Uma Lele with Rosie de Malmanche (sponsored by A Team Debt Consultants) at Farmers Lambton Quay. Above Miss Universe New Zealand 2009 Katie Taylor fields questions from this year’s entrants from the penthouse suite at the Museum Hotel. The Miss Universe New Zealand 2010 contestants might not have stopped Parliament today (see the parliamentary […]
Miss Universe New Zealand 2010 contestants arrive in Wellington
These are a few quick cellphone snapshots from the fun today at Miss Universe New Zealand 2010, made during the shooting of the official photographs at the Museum Hotel. Jin Cowan photographed the official images, and the contestants were posing for them in these shots. Contestants began arriving Saturday, with the bulk of them […]
A positive feeling for this year’s Miss Universe New Zealand contest
Miss Universe Above Katie Taylor, Miss Universe New Zealand 2009. The author says he looks forward to a strong competition in 2010 as he and his fellow judges find Taylor’s successor on June 5 in Wellington. Last year, the Miss Universe New Zealand pageant was one of the best natured ones I’ve judged here. What […]
The final of Ashes to Ashes: a cultural phenomenon
Above Keeley Hawes as DI Alex Drake and Philip Glenister as DCI Gene Hunt in Ashes to Ashes, concluding tonight on BBC One. Tonight on BBC One, the final of Ashes to Ashes airs in the UK. Of all the TV shows we have covered in Lucire, Ashes to Ashes seems to be one […]
Surprising trends from Lucire’s stats
After 1,000 posts at Lucire’s ‘Insider’ section—a relative latecomer in terms of fashion magazine blogs—we thought it might be fun to go into statistician mode and reveal which were the top articles and figures over the last two and a half years. There were reasons we avoided blogging. First, Lucire had an active forum […]
‘Iranian Cyber Army’ hacks Twitter
Above The Iranian Cyber Army’s page, which has replaced the Twitter one at this time. For those trying to get on to the Twitter website presently, one need not bother: a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army claims to have hacked the site. Users on the micro-blogging service were presented with a new […]
Stephen Fry and brumplum: it’s a good-news story
Despite Stephen Fry and fellow Tweeter, brumplum, settling their differences four hours ago, many media outlets are content to spread the bad news that the actor–writer is poised to quit Twitter this morning. Yesterday, brumplum called Fry ‘boring’, which the actor took to heart while he felt down. Brumplum later apologized for the remark. […]
