Four Miss Grand International titleholders are coming together to share the stage at the 2026 pageant’s National Costume Competition and Preliminary Competition.
Reigning queen Emma Tiglao will share hosting chores with her predecessors, fellow Filipino queen Christine Juliane ‘CJ’ Opiaza from 2024, Luciana Fuster of Peru from 2023 and Isabella Menin of Brazil from 2022.
This is the first time that the four international titleholders will be hosting together for the Miss Grand International pageant. Fuster and Menin are already in Thailand for the 2026 competition, and have sat with Tiglao for the closed-door interview panel.
The National Costume Competition, one of the most anticipated events of the annual pageant, will be held at MGI Hall at Bravo BKK in Bangkok on Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. The crucial preliminary competition will follow at 8 p.m.
Seventy-six delegates from different countries and territories around the world are competing this year to succeed Tiglao, the second Filipino woman to receive the pageant’s ‘golden crown.’
Reina Filipinas Angelica Lopez is representing the Philippines in this year’s competition, and is on a mission to give the country a rare ‘three-peat’ and become the third Filipino woman in as many years to bring home the Miss Grand International title.
Tiglao will crown her successor at the conclusion of the ‘Grand Final,’ which will also be held at MGI Hall. The program will be on Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. and will be streamed at the Grand TV YouTube channel.
The Miss Grand International Organization still has not announced who will host the Grand Final, but Thai-Australian TV presenter Matthew Deane has been hosting the Grand Final since the 2020 competition.