Miss Hong Kong Pageant


The Miss Hong Kong Pageant, or Miss HK for short, is an annual beauty pageant organised by local Hong Kong television station, TVB.
The current Miss Hong Kong is Carmaney Wong, who was crowned at the 2019 Miss Hong Kong Pageant on 8 September 2019.

Recruitment

All participants have to have a Hong Kong ID or be born in Hong Kong. The age requirement is 17–27 as of 2011, though the upper age was previously up to 25. While there has been other Miss Hong Kong pageants in prior years producing notable titleholders such as Judy Dann, Virginia June Lee, Michelle Mok, Laura da Costa and Mabel Hawkett, the current annual TVB pageant began in 1973. Apart from the top prize winner, first runner-up and second runner-up prizes, the pageant also has other consolation prizes that vary slightly from year to year. Many Miss Hong Kong contestants have gone on to have movie careers as it is quite typical for the top contestants to garner television contracts from TVB.
The pageant is traditionally televised into two events, although this is not always necessarily the case in recent years. First, a preliminary event is held where 12 finalists are selected from a group of candidates, the number of which is usually around 20–25. Then a final event is held, culminating in the announcement of the winner and the first and second runners-up from the 12 finalists. In some years, the field is narrowed down to a final 5, from which the runners-up and winner are chosen. Often several contestants dropped out of the pageant before the televised preliminary, thus there would be a candidate with #30 assigned to her, but only 25 or so contestants.

Summary of winners

Overseas contestant awards list

Starting from 1991, the Miss Hong Kong pageant greets delegates from overseas. They include Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San Francisco. Local contestants coming from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, London, and more enter at Hong Kong. In 2006, there was a top 16 contestant from the Netherlands. The overseas delegates wait for the notification of their regional sponsors of TVB and if they are chosen, they fly to Hong Kong to compete. The following is a record of overseas delegates' performance at Miss Hong Kong.
Notice that Vancouver has the most Miss Hong Kong winners from the overseas. They had a record of four consecutive winners from 1997 to 2000, and three consecutive winners from 2012 to 2014. In 2012, the top 3 delegates were all from Vancouver. Even though the 2007 pageant had the top 3 all from the US and Canada but Grace Wong and Lorretta Chow travelled to Hong Kong to compete in the pageant, so they are recognised by TVB to be local delegates not overseas delegates. They did however come from the overseas.

Miss Hong Kong at International pageants

Miss Universe

In 2001, TVB lost the franchise for Miss Universe.
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Miss World

In 1989, TVB lost the franchise for Miss World to ATV, and held it back from 1992 to 2015.
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Miss International

In 2015, TVB lost the franchise for Miss International.
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Miss Chinese International Pageant

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Year represented at MCIRepresentative of Hong KongPlacement Special awards won Notes
1988Michelle Reis 李嘉欣WinnerMiss PhotogenicCompeted at Miss World 1988, withdrew from competing at Miss Universe 1989.
1989Monica Chan 陳法蓉1st runner upLater competed at Miss Universe 1990, placed 23rd.
1991Anita Yuen 袁詠儀1st runner upLater competed at Miss Universe 1991, placed 60th.
1992Amy Kwok 郭藹明1st runner upBest Ethnic DressOriginally Kwok was supposed to compete at Miss Universe 1992, but was disqualified due to being a US citizen.
1993Emily Lo 盧淑儀1st runner upLater competed at Miss Universe 1993, finished at 45th place.
1994Hoyan Mok 莫可欣Top 10 Semi-finalistFirst Miss Hong Kong not to place in the top 3. Later competed at Miss Universe 1994 and placed 45th.
1995Halina Tam 譚小環Top 5 FinalistTam was the big favourite to win that year. She later competed at Miss Universe 1995 and placed 45th.
1996Winnie Young 楊婉儀Top 10 Semi-finalistMiss FriendshipSecond Miss Hong Kong not to place in top 5. Was supposed to compete at Miss Universe 1996, but did not compete for being a US citizen.
1997Lee San San 李珊珊1st runner upLater competed at Miss Universe 1997 and placed 45th.
1998Virginia Yung 翁嘉穗Top 5 FinalistTop 5 in viewer's voting. Later competed at Miss Universe 1998, placed 2nd overall in the online internet polls.
1999Anne Heung 向海嵐2nd runner upLater competed at Miss Universe 1999 and finished in the top 7 online Miss Photogenic polls.
2000Sonija Kwok 郭羨妮WinnerMiss Internet Popularity
Miss Vegas Gorgeous		Later competed in Miss Universe 2000 and finished in top 10 online Miss Photogenic polls and was featured in the front image of the Miss Universe website during that time. Kwok, as of now, is the last representative from Hong Kong at Miss Universe.
2001Vivian Lau 劉慧蘊2nd runner up
2002Shirley Yeung 楊思琦Top 5 FinalistMiss Modern China
Fragrance Car Beauty Award
2003Tiffany Lam 林敏俐1st runner upCousin of Miss Hong Kong 2009, Sandy Lau.
2004Mandy Cho 曹敏莉1st runner upMiss Friendship
2005Kate Tsui 徐子珊Top 5 FinalistMiss Gorgeous
2006Tracy Ip 葉翠翠UnplacedCeramic Culture AmbassadorFirst Miss Hong Kong not to place in the semi-finals. Previously competed at Miss World 2005 and made Beach Beauty top 19.
2007Aimee Chan 陳茵媺Top 10 Semi-finalistPreviously competed at Miss Chinese Toronto 2004. Third Miss Hong Kong not to place in the top 5. Oldest Hong Kong representative.
2008Kayi Cheung 張嘉兒1st runner upPreviously competed at Miss Chinese Vancouver 2005 and won Miss Vivacious Beauty. Cheung also placed in the top 16 at Miss World 2007 and won the Beauty with a Purpose award.
2009Skye Chan 陳倩揚1st runner upMiss FriendshipFirst non-winner to compete at Miss Chinese International. Previously competed at Miss World 2008.
2010Toby Chan 陳庭欣Top 6 FinalistAs Miss Chinese International Pageant 2010 was postponed until November, Miss Hong Kong 2009, Sandy Lau was unable to compete because she had already crowned her successor.
2012Rebecca Zhu 朱晨麗Top 10 FinalistGreater China Region Classic Elegance AwardThe 2011 competition was postponed to January 2012.
2013Carat Cheung 張名雅2nd runner up
2014Grace Chan 陳凱琳Winner
2015Veronica Shiu 邵珮詩1st runner up
2016Louisa Mak 麥明詩Unplaced
2017Crystal Fung 馮盈盈2nd runner up
2018Juliette Louie 雷莊?2nd runner up
2019Hera Chan 陳曉華Winner