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Miss Hong Kong Pageant
香港小姐競選

Abbreviation	MHK, MSHK, 港姐
Formation	1946; 78 years ago (1946) (Original) 1972; 52 years ago (1972) (TVB acquirement)
Type	Beauty pageant
Purpose	Annual beauty pageant to crown the best representative of Hong Kong beauty
Location	Hong Kong
Membership	Miss Universe Original (1952―1972) TVB (1973―2000) Kimmy Low (2024―present) Miss World Original (1959) TVB (1973―1989, 1992―2015, 2017) Miss International Original (1967―1969) TVB (1975―2015) Miss Chinese International (1988―present)
Official language	Cantonese
Current title holder	Ellyn Ngai (倪樂琳) (Miss Hong Kong 2024)
Parent organization	TVB
Website	misshk.tvb.com

Miss Hong Kong Pageant (Chinese: 香港小姐競選), or Miss HK (港姐) for short, is an annual beauty pageant organised by local Hong Kong television station, TVB. The pageant was established in 1946, and acquired by TVB in 1973.

Regulations

Recruitment

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All participants have to have a Hong Kong ID or be born in Hong Kong (with a valid birth certificate). 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 Dan (1952), Virginia June Lee (1954), Michelle Mok (1958), Laura da Costa (1967), Mabel Hawkett (1970) and Shirley Yu (1974, contest organized by Miss Pearl of the Orient Company and overlapping with TVB's), 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.

• Overseas Recruitment: Applications are available in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, any TVB rental store in the US, Fairchild TV station, Ontario, Richmond, British Columbia, and any TVB rental store in Canada. Delegates have to send in their applications before the deadline. TVB, organisers of the pageant travel to cities in the US and Canada. They include: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Vancouver. TVB would choose a certain amount of delegates to interview and would call them to interview. Besides personal interviews, delegates have to wear swimsuits chosen by themselves and walk around in it. Delegates are chosen and return to Hong Kong in late May to compete.
• Local Recruitment: Hong Kong. Applications are available in Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom, and Europe. Delegates have to send in their applications before the deadline. Weeks later, primary and secondary interviews are conducted. Top interviewed finalists are chosen and they record a reality TV show (like 2006) to choose the deserving semifinalists to compete. They joined the overseas delegates to form the top event finalists.

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 (with 30 being the maximum). 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 five, 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.

Titleholders

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. 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.

• 1991 – 7. Amy Kwok 郭藹明 (Los Angeles)
  • Winner
  • Miss International Goodwill
  • Miss Humorous Conversation
• 1991 – 13. Maur Yeung 楊凱斯 (Los Angeles)
  • Miss Congeniality
• 1992 – 8. Patsy Lau 劉殷伶 (Los Angeles)
  • 1st runner-up
  • Miss International Goodwill
• 1992 – 14. Carol Lee 李秋林 (Los Angeles)
  • Miss Congeniality
• 1993 – 20. Christina Lau 劉飛飛 (Los Angeles)
  • Miss International Goodwill
• 1994 – 18. Dorothy Ng 吳素珊 (Los Angeles)
  • Miss International Goodwill
• 1995 – 12. Winnie Young 楊婉儀 (San Francisco)
  • Winner
  • Most Standard Figure Award
• 1997 – 2. Virginia Yung 翁嘉穗 (Vancouver)
  • Winner
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Miss Oriental Charm
  • Miss Cosmopolitan
• 1997 – 12. Vivian Lee 李明慧 (Vancouver)
  • 1st runner-up
  • Miss International Goodwill
• 1998 – 20. Anne Heung 向海嵐 (Vancouver)
  • Winner
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Global Beauty Award
  • Miss Hospitality
• 1998 – 14. Josephine Yan 殷莉 (Los Angeles)
  • Miss International Goodwill
• 1999 – 12. Sonija Kwok 郭羨妮 (Vancouver)
  • Winner
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Miss International Goodwill
  • Miss Millennium Wisdom
• 1999 – 15. Cindy Wong 王倩 (Los Angeles)
  • Miss Beautiful Legs
• 2000 – 11. Vivian Lau 劉慧蘊 (Vancouver)
  • Winner
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Miss International Goodwill
  • Miss Millennium Charm
• 2000 – 17. Margaret Kan 簡佩堅 (Toronto)
  • First runner-up
• 2000 – 5. Maree Lau 劉嘉慧 (Sydney)
  • Second runner-up
• 2002 – 11. Tiffany Lam 林敏俐 (San Francisco)
  • Winner
  • Miss International Goodwill
  • Miss New Generational Beauty
• 2002 – 20.Cerina Da Graça 嘉碧儀 (Phoenix)
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Breakthrough Natural Skin Award
  • Slimming Beauty Award
• 2003 – 2. Mandy Cho 曹敏莉 (San Francisco)
  • Winner
  • Miss International Goodwill
  • Miss Swimsuit Charm
  • Diamond Skin Award
  • Perfect Group
• 2003 – 11. Rabee'a Yeung 楊洛婷 (Vancouver)
  • 1st runner-up
  • Tourism Ambassador Award
• 2003 – 18. Selena Li 李詩韻 (Toronto)
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Miss Talent
• 2004 – 1. Queenie Chu 朱慧敏 (Seattle)
  • 1st runner-up
  • Tourism Ambassador Award
• 2006 – 13. Aimee Chan 陳茵媺 (Toronto)
  • Winner
  • Miss International Goodwill
  • Audience Favourite
• 2006 – 15. Janet Chow 周家蔚(Toronto)
  • 1st runner-up
  • Miss Photogenic
• 2007 – 3. Kayi Cheung 張嘉兒 (Vancouver)
  • Winner
  • Miss Vitality Ambassador
• 2007 – 9. Grace Wong 王君馨 (New York City)
  • 1st runner-up
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Miss International Goodwill.
• 2007 – 7. Lorretta Chow 周美欣 (Vancouver)
  • 2nd runner-up
  • Most Attractive Legs Award
• 2008 – 7. Hilda Leung 梁雅琳 (Toronto)
  • Miss Trendy Vision
• 2009 – 10. Germaine Li 李姿敏 (New York City)
  • 1st runner-up
• 2009 – 8. Mizuni Hung 熊穎詩 (Vancouver)
  • 2nd runner-up
  • Miss Trendy Vision
• 2010 – 9. Crystal Li 李雪瑩 (London)
  • Miss Photogenic
• 2011 – 14. Hymen Chu 朱希敏 (Toronto)
  • 1st runner-up
• 2011 – 3. Whitney Hui 許亦妮 (London)
  • 2nd runner-up
  • Miss Photogenic
• 2012 – Carat Cheung 張名雅 (Vancouver)
  • Winner
  • Aviation Ambassador
  • Miss International Goodwill
• 2012 – Jacqueline Wong 黃心穎 (Vancouver)
  • 1st runner up
• 2012 – Tracy Chu 朱千雪 (Vancouver)
  • 2nd runner up
• 2013 – 17. Grace Chan 陳凱琳 (Vancouver)
  • Winner
  • Miss Photogenic
• 2014 – 15. Veronica Shiu 邵珮詩 (Vancouver)
  • Winner
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Miss Friendship
• 2016 – 2. Tiffany Lau 劉穎璇 (Los Angeles)
  • 1st Runner up
  • Miss Photogenic
• 2016 – 7. Bonnie Chan 陳雅思 (Toronto)
  • 2nd Runner up
• 2017 – 5. Juliette Louie 雷莊𠒇 (Edmonton)
  • Winner
  • Miss Photogenic
• 2017 – 4. Emily Wong 黃瑋琦 (Miami)
  • 2nd Runner up
• 2018 – 7. Sara Ting 丁子田 (Chicago)
  • 2nd Runner up
• 2018 – 8. Claudia Chan 陳靜堯 (Auckland)
  • Miss Friendship
• 2019 – 6. Blossom Chan 陳熙蕊 (Brisbane)
  • Miss Friendship
• 2020 – 8. Lisa Tse 謝嘉怡 (Scotland)
  • Winner
  • Miss Photogenic
• 2022 - 4. Cecca Xu 許子萱 (New York City)
  • 1st Runner Up
  • Miss International Goodwill
• 2022 - 14.Joey Leung 梁超怡 (Los Angeles)
  • 2nd Runner Up
  • Miss Photogenic

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.

Hong Kong beauty queens at Grand slam beauty pageants

Miss Universe Hong Kong

• In 2001, TVB lost the franchise for Miss Universe.
• Beginning in 2024, Hong Kong was allowed to compete in Miss Universe after many years of being disallowed by MUO, due to area status, "SAR of China".

•   : Declared as Winner
•   : Ended as runner-up or top 5/6 qualification
•   : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
•   : Ended as special awards winner

Miss World Hong Kong

•   : Declared as Winner
•   : Ended as runner-up or top 5/6 qualification
•   : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
•   : Ended as special awards winner

See also

• Miss Asia Pageant
• Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant
• Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant
• Mr. Hong Kong – The male pageant.
• "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" – The adapted theme song for the pageant

References

1. "Born in 1946, popular in 1973, what are the shady scenes of Hong Kong beauty pageants after 75 years?". www.laitimes.com. 27 October 2021. Archived from the original on 10 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
2. "Race for beauty's crown|Society|chinadaily.com.cn". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
3. Lee, Sherry (9 April 2002). "Diamonds aren't forever". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 23 June 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
4. "人物素描：一代豔星變蘭桂坊小販". Apple Daily (in Chinese). 15 April 2002. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.

External links

• Official homepage
• Johnny's Pageant Page—A Complete Listing of Miss Hong Kong Contestants & Award Winners
• Wai Yin Association

• 1946 establishments in Hong Kong
• Beauty pageants in Hong Kong
• Hong Kong-related lists
• Miss Hong Kong Pageants
• Miss Universe by country
• TVB original programming