Emma Tiglao crowned Miss Grand International Philippines 2025

August 26 ------ The “grandest” evening in the country concluded with the coronation of Emma Tiglao of Pampanga as Miss Grand International Philippines 2025, who bested 28 other aspirants for the title. Tiglao received the crown at the culmination of the grand finale of the national pageant held at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

Christine Juliane “CJ” Opiaza, the first Filipino woman to receive the “golden crown” as Miss Grand International, relinquished her national title to the new queen. She just came from the Miss Grand USA pageant in Las Vegas and watched the Miss Universe Thailand finals in Bangkok. Tiglao will now try to inherit the Miss Grand International crown from Opiaza at the staging of the global tilt’s 13th edition in Bangkok, Thailand, in October.

The veteran beauty queen has a long and colorful “career” in national pageantry that started in the 2012 Mutya ng Pilipinas pageant, where she emerged as first runner-up. She was Fourth Princess in the 2015 Miss World Philippines search, and was crowned Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental in 2019.

The Miss Grand International pageant will not be her first global competition, though. She had already participated in the 2019 Miss Intercontinental pageant, where she finished in the semifinals. The coronation was originally scheduled on Aug. 12 in the same venue, but the series of typhoons that hit the country in July prompted the organizers to move the date of the final competition.

The Miss Grand International pageant will not be her first global competition, though. She had already participated in the 2019 Miss Intercontinental pageant, where she finished in the semifinals. Four more national titleholders were crowned at the conclusion of the 2025 Miss Grand International Philippines pageant.

Source: inquirer.net