{"id":208437,"date":"2019-04-05T05:16:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=208437"},"modified":"2019-04-05T05:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:16:17","slug":"jonas-gaffud-announces-role-in-miss-universe-ph-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/05\/jonas-gaffud-announces-role-in-miss-universe-ph-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Gaffud announces role in Miss Universe PH team"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_208438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208438\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-06.04.39.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-208438 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-06.04.39.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-06.04.39.png 572w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-06.04.39-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-06.04.39-17x20.png 17w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: &#8220;At the Miss Universe Philippines | Binibining Pilipinas 2019 Press Presentation.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bv0ebvkAywH\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jonasempire.ph\/\">@jonasempire.ph<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\">Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After declaring his resignation from Philippine beauty camp Aces and Queens, Empire Studios Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jonas Gaffud reveals on Thursday, April 4, that he will be pursuing a new endeavor as the creative and events director for the country\u2019s franchise of Miss Universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Jonas, known as \u201cMama J\u201d to his talents, he will be working hand-in-hand with IMG Universe and the Araneta Group, \u201cresponsible for elevating the level of Miss Universe Philippines further through his innovative and groundbreaking pageant creative concepts and ideas.\u201d In his Instagram post pertaining to the job, Jonas elaborates, \u201cWith a long term plan of evolving it into more than a one day television special, the modernization and growth of these powerful brands will place an emphasis on women empowerment and philanthropy, culminating in the selection of the candidate who is the embodiment of the modern day Filipina.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He adds, \u201cNew beginnings. Thank you, Lord. For the Universe!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonas also specifies in an interview with TV5 that he \u201chad to leave [Aces and Queens] because it&#8217;s like new beginnings for me and I have to concentrate on the brand (of Miss Universe Philippines),\u201d stating that his job title includes raising funds for charity and promoting tourism as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Responsible for the success of international titleholders like Miss World 2013 Megan Young, Miss International 2016 Kylie Verzosa, and Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, Jonas believes that the Philippines will continue to have successes in the beauty pageant industry despite not being able to train aspirants anymore, stating, \u201cI think we will be stronger as a country of beauty pageant lovers. Now we can see that there are different groups being informed. There are so many people involved now. So, I think we will be stronger.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He concludes, \u201cWe are Team Philippines after all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After declaring his resignation from Philippine beauty camp Aces and Queens, Empire Studios Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jonas Gaffud reveals &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":208438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208530,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208437\/revisions\/208530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}