Get to know The Miss Philippines titleholders: Katrina, Chelsea and Gabriella

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The Miss Philippines queens (from left) Katrina Llegado, Chelsea Fernandez and Gabriella Carballo. Image: Facebook/Miss Universe Philippines

Three more queens were chosen from the roster of Miss Universe Philippines 2025 candidates after Ahtisa Manalo snagged the crown, the winners of the titles under the national pageant’s sister brand The Miss Philippines.

Right after the conclusion of the ceremonies at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City at around midnight, the five remaining finalists and the rest of the contestants stayed on stage for the proclamation and coronation of the other titleholders.

Crowned as The Miss Philippines-Supranational 2026 was Ma. Katrina Llegado from Taguig City, a 27-year-old financial management cum laude graduate from the De La Salle University in Manila.

She was a returning candidate in the Miss Universe Philippines pageant, finishing as second runner-up in her first participation in 2022. Celeste Cortesi who won the crown that year was one of the judges in Friday’s competition.

But Llegado’s first national competition was the 2019 Miss World Philippines pageant won by Michelle Marquez Dee, who eventually became Cortesi’s successor as Miss Universe Philippines.

Llegado received the Reina Hispanoamericana Filipinas title that year, and was sent to Bolivia for the Reina Hispanoamericana pageant, where she was proclaimed as Quinta Finalista (fifth runner-up).

Another seasoned “kontesera” with international experience snagged one of the crowns, Chelsea Fernandez, who was proclaimed as The Miss Philippines-Cosmo 2025, succeeding Manalo for the title.

The 25-year-old representative of the province of Sultan Kudarat holds a mass communication degree, major in boadcasting. She has also won in all of the national pageants that she participated in.

Her first national title was from the 2018 Reyna ng Aliwan contest, where she represented Tacloban City’s Sangyaw Festival. The next year, she joined the Miss Philippines Earth pageant and was crowned as Miss Philippines-Water.

Fernandez still remained active in pageantry even during the COVID-19 pandemic, and won the virtual competitions Miss ECQ and Miss Bikini Philippines conducted in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

In 2022, she joined the Binibining Pilipinas pageant, where she earned the right to represent the country in The Miss Globe competition in Albania. She landed a Top 15 spot in the international contest, and topped the “Head-to-Head” challenge.

Cebu City’s Gabriella Mai Carballo was crowned as The Miss Philippines-Eco International 2026 by newly crowned Miss Eco International Alexie Mae Brooks, the third Filipino woman to bring home the global title.

Born in Miami to first-generation Visayan migrants, Carballo followed the family’s path to medicine and became a doctor herself, pursuing her profession in the Queen City of the South.

The 2025 Miss Universe Philippines pageant was 26-year-old Carballo’s first national competition. And of the three queens, she is the only one who does not have any international experience.

But Carballo has never gone home empty-handed in all of the competitions she has joined, collecting crown after crown in numerous pageants in Cebu, first as Miss Valentine 2017 from a contest held by  the Cebu Doctors’ University’s College of Nursing.

In 2018, she was crowned as Miss Mandaue, then transitioned to the provincial stage in 2022 via the Miss Cebu pageant where she also won. In December last year, she won the Miss Universe Philippines-Cebu crown that sent her to the national stage.

Carballo will not only aim to bring home the Philippines’ fourth win in the Miss Eco International pageant next year, but also try to post a second consecutive victory for the country.

Llegado will also have to wait a year before getting on another international pageant stage. Her predecessor Tarah Valencia is set to compete in the 2025 Miss Supranational pageant in Poland next month.

Fernandez is the earliest to compete among the three. And although the Miss Cosmo organizers have not released any detail about the 2025 contest, the competition is expected to happen later this year. She will try to surpass Manalo’s Top 10 finish in the global tilt last year and score the country’s first win.