Yvonne Fumbles

MS YVONNE Nelson must have disappointed her sponsors in the grand finale of the LG Miss Ghana 2005 at the International Conference Centre on Saturday, as she wobbled and fumbled in a show that failed to live up to its billings.

Ms. Nelson, 19, prior to the Saturday final showdown, where she slugged it out with 20 other ?beauties? for the coveted crown, had launched a public relations blitz in two weekend newspapers, seen by observers as an attempt to influence the outcome of the beauty contest.

Wearing tag No 14, Ms Nelson was alleged to have employed the services of publicists to, simultaneously, slot in suggestive articles, eulogising her beauty in the Weekly Mirror and The Spectator of July 2, 2005, to promote her above her peers.

However, at the contest on Saturday, which spilled over to the early hours of yesterday, she could not convince the judges, as well as the disappointed audience that wearing the crown of Miss Ghana, does not take facial and body looks but a combination of brain power and natural wittiness.. She was terribly disappointed as she failed to pick up any of the tantalising prizes, reserved for the first three positions.

Miss Nelson?s un-doing was when she was asked to pose a question, she would have posed to the contestants, supposing she had found herself as judge on the show.

After an initial blabbing, she fired a ?ballistic missile?, which sent the audience scampering for cover.

Apparently, her answer was disjointed, and incoherent, making it difficult for the judges to make a head out of the tail, thus crushing her ambition to wear the coveted crown of LG Miss Ghana 2005, with mouth-watering prizes, including $10,000 for education, and career enhancement, state-of-the-art LG home appliances worth ?20 million, a return ticket to London, and a KIA saloon car.

A number of the equally disappointed contestants could not hold their tears, as they openly wept.