Poor thing. As if being one of the most disfavored winners up-to-date wasn’t already a setback to the good ol self-esteem (and I sure don’t see why, girl’s cute. She might not be a Mai Phuong Thuy in terms of bod, nor Duong Truong Thien Ly in terms of features, but she rocks her own charms. Isn’t that enough?), Ngoc Han was also recently chewed and spit out by the public for owing her absence justification to traffic jams.
According to plans, Ngoc Han would wear a pink ao dai to play a young Hanoian lady from the early 20th century to perform on the stage. This is the highlight of the ao dai show in the closing ceremony.
Without the beauty queen, the organizing board had to find another model as replacement.
After that, Ngoc Han cried and explained to correspondents that she could not go to My Dinh stadium because of gridlock. However, many people didn’t sympathize with her explanation and the incident has since then become a hot topic on many online forums.
Netizens commented that Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary is a great national event and Ngoc Han, as Miss Vietnam, was not allowed to miss the event. They questioned why other people were able to attend the ceremony, and yet she couldn’t? One VietNamNet reader wrote, “She said that she left home to My Dinh stadium at 5 and she couldn’t move because of traffic jams. At 5.45pm that day, I could still go from Me Tri to My Dinh though the speed was very slow.”
“If she understood her responsibility, she would have known what to do to fulfil her role,” another reader commented. More similar comments read: “That is not a proper reason for a newly-famous person. You can’t simply excuse yourself like this.” “You are unprofessional!” “You said you didn’t represent Vietnam at the Miss World pageant to prepare for Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary, but now…”
From VietNamNet
Pictures from the rehearsal:
October 18, 2010 at 12:23 AM
In some countries, you can get sued for not attending an event. When producers have invested so much time and money into something so big, and you excuse yourself.. expect a lawsuit!
The anniversary was such an important event and Miss Vietnam is a representative of our country, she should have been there. No excuses.
Even though she cried, I felt no remorse reading her reply. She has a duty and failed to meet it. If she’s the most disfavored winner, she should try her best not to let people down. But she did.
That was very irresponsible and unprofessional of her. She should have left earlier than 5. Someone introduce this girl to a phone. The least she could’ve done is call the producers/directors and tell them she’s stuck in traffic. They could have stalled the show until she arrives. Wait.. did she even show up to the event? If that netizen left at 5:45 and made it, it should be no problem for Ngoc Han.
Her excuse is not good enough. If she were late for a beauty pageant because of gridlock, most likely, she would be disqualified. No matter all the excuses she gives, it wouldn’t get her back into the pageant. I doubt any of the pageant directors would care about her so I don’t blame netizens for being disappointed with her.
October 18, 2010 at 1:09 AM
OMG..get the F over it
get a life. jesus christ. a pageant queen missed some lame fashion show and you act like she shot someone, which btw the same netizens have been bashing the govmt for overempashizing a wasteful anniversary party when central vietnamese are suffering due to flooding
take away her title. who cares. if I was her I would give it away at this point.
October 18, 2010 at 2:09 AM
I got to say, emyeuVpop, you blew off a lot of steam over nothing. your point could have been made in 3 sentences. the problem with vietnam is that it has way too many beauty pageants, spends too much fretting over the significance of those things, and heaps too much attention and expectations on their beauty queens.
October 18, 2010 at 2:21 AM
i mean it is kinda bad you didn’t make sure timing, since anyone could’ve figured traffic on an anniversary of 1000 years would be bad
October 18, 2010 at 2:45 AM
Sorry if I irritated you guys. I’m not mad or anything, I have a tendency to say whatever is on my mind. And I just have a lot to say, I can’t help it.
I thought it was very wrong for her to skip out on a big event like that. Excuse or not.
Apparently, I’m not the only one dissatisfied with Ngoc Han’s actions (proven by those netizens posts).
@hoarnoa
I have to disagree with you completely. I (along with many) do not think this is a lame fashion show). It’s something much more than that. And if it weren’t, VN wouldn’t be celebrating it for ten days and online forum wouldn’t be filled with such topics criticizing NH. Obviously the people cared and they were disappointed.
October 18, 2010 at 5:00 AM
I completely agree with emyeuVpop.
October 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM
watever…this girl just prove the judge decision was WRONG once again! i love it. Also, she doesn’t even has the look to back up her stupid action..Huynh Bich Phuong should’ve win!
October 23, 2010 at 10:44 PM
I don’t know much about her… but yeah poor thing!! Hopefully things get better for her. How can one do great things, if there’s no support.
January 28, 2011 at 12:09 AM
Frankly the whole event was a complete mess and waste of money. It’s wasn’t just Ngoc Han who missed the event, there were government officials and foreign ambassadors stuck in their cars for hours trying to get to My Dinh. The organisers were obviously too stupid to realise how many people were likely to attend, and should have organised several events throughout the city to ease the congestion in the area. Personally, it would have been better spending all the money on improving the city’s infrastructure as anniversaries come and go, but the city’s roads remain the same