Nuestra Belleza Latina

Nuestra Belleza Latina (English: Our Latin Beauty) is a beauty pageant and reality show produced by Univision.^[1] 12 young women selected by the judges compete for the title of Nuestra Belleza Latina, as well as winning cash prizes and becoming a personality for Univision. It's hosted by talk-show host and actress Giselle Blondet, who does the audition process and is also the mentor of the winner for the year of reign. The first season premiered on March 27, 2007 and was one of Univision's highest rated shows. The opening theme for casting till the finalist has been performed by past winners Alejandra Espinoza, Melissa Marty, Greydis Gil, Ana Patricia Gonzalez, Nastassja Bolivar and Vanessa De Roide. When the finalists are chosen, the opening theme changes showing each contestant, excluding eliminated contestants. It is distributed by Univision including Puerto Rico, it's also distributed in Mexico by Televisa.

The current Nuestra Belleza Latina crown holder is Marisela Demontecristo from El Salvador.

Format

Logo used in Nuestra Belleza Latina 2007-2010

After casting in six different cities in the United States and Puerto Rico between 12-14 finalists move to a mansion in Miami and live together where they receive different classes of dancing, runway, diction, teleprompter and physical training. The finalists then compete against each other every week in different challenges. After each episode of the show is over, the audience at home gets to vote for their favorite contestant by phone or text message. The audience is meant to vote based on the delegate, and not their nationality, therefore it is allowed to have more than one contestant from the same country or have the same nationality. Week by week the 3 finalists with the least votes are in danger, meaning that one is saved by the other contestants, another by the judges and the one left is eliminated, although in some rare cases, a contestant might be disqualified (2009 & 2011) and replaced by a semifinalist. Or a double elimination occurs (2011). The show runs between 11-13 episodes, having the auditions be in the first three episodes, or in some cases all castings in one. Following that the girls are narrowed down to six finalist (2007–2010), as of Season 5 only four finalist compete in the finale. The winner of the contest wins a contract to be one of the new personality faces on many of Univision's programs and award shows, as well as other contracts for different sponsoring companies, a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and prizes and be crowned and reign with the title of Nuestra Belleza Latina for a year. In 2010 as an added bonus the runner-up was given the opportunity to become a hostess of Sabado Gigante and a grand prize of $50,000 dollars.

Judges

As of the Eight Season, the current judging panel includes, head judge Osmel Sousa (Season 1-Present), followed by former Miss Universe Lupita Jones (Season 2-Present), celebrity stylist Jomari Goyso (Season 8-Present). Previous judges included former, Miss Universe 1996 Alicia Machado (Season 1), TV personality and co-conductor of Noche De Perros, Carlos Calderón (Season 1), Peruvian actor Jorge Aravena (Season 3) and Puerto Rican model/actor Julian Gil (Season 2, 4-7).

Current Judges/Past Judges

Judge	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Nationality
Osmel Sousa	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Cuba /  Venezuela
Lupita Jones	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mexico
Jomari Goyso	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Spain
Julian Gil	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Argentina /  Puerto Rico
Jorge Aravena	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Peru
Carlos Calderón	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Mexico
Alicia Machado	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Venezuela

Prizes and Sponsorship

Each year, after the winner is chosen they get to become the face of different brands of cosmetics, cars and clothing. Throughout the seasons, various sponsors have been changed and the grand total money prize has been raised. Overall Maybelline, JC Penney and Garnier Frutis, Colgate have awarded the winners with cash money and become the face of their brand.

• Maybelline New York, gave the winner $40,000 shopping spree in New York and an all Day Spa treatment in Miami plus one guest.

The Runner Up of each season gets:

Past Title Holders

Year	Country/Territory	Winner
2007	Mexico	Alejandra Espinoza
2008	Puerto Rico	Melissa Marty
2009	Cuba	Greydis Gil
2010	Mexico	Ana Patricia González
2011	Nicaragua	Nastassja Bolívar
2012	Puerto Rico	Vanessa De Roide
2013	El Salvador	Marisela Demontecristo
2014	TBA	TBA

Seasons

Ratings

Each season, the shows audience has grown. It started with 3.3 million viewers for the first episode in 2007. During the premiere of the 4th season, the audience was averaged to 4.2 million viewers. For the season 4 finale, the presenter announced a total of more than 8 million votes were counted for the finale, the most the show had ever received.

Since the beginning, the show has also grown with more and more sponsors, which has made the prize money increase, having them give out a total of $300,000 during the 4th season, and also offering many different contracts with the shows winner and also the finalists.

Contestants

By number of wins

Season	Season Premiere	Season Finale	Winner	Runner-up	Other Contestans in Order of Elimination	Number of Contestants	Winner's Country	Runner Up's Country
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2007	March 27, 2007	May 25, 2007	Alejandra Espinoza	Mayra Muñoz	Marlene Alvarez  · Lorraine Lara  · Joana Parra  · Martha Maria López  · Angie Chavez  · Madelis Soto  · Giselle Sousa  · Raengel Solis  · Elizabeth López  · Yara Lasanta	12	Mexico	El Salvador
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2008	February 29, 2008	May 27, 2008	Melissa Marty	Emeraude Toubía	Jannet Manzanarez  · Leana Astorga  · Dayanira Varela  · Aideliz Hidalgo  · Genesis Seguias  · Natalia Rivera  · Manuela Arbeláez  · Leticia Castro  · Zoila Ceballos  · Dayami Padron	12	Puerto Rico	Mexico
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2009	March 1, 2009	May 17, 2009	Greydis Gil	Marycarmen López	Francheska Mattei (La Intrusa-Eliminated)  · Stephanie Figueroa (Expelled)  · Vanessa Lotero  · Anna Valencia  · Susie de los Santos  · Chastelyn Rodriguez  · Jennifer Andrade  · Monica Pastrana  · Berenice Guzmán  · Janice Bencosme  · Mónica De León  · Catalina López	14	Cuba	Mexico
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2010	March 9, 2010	May 23, 2010	Ana Patricia González	Carolina Ramirez	Agostina Fusari  · Indiana Sanchez  · Cynthia Pina  · Mayra Zavala  · Rossibell Mateos  · Heidy Alvarado  · Fabiola Barinas  · Lisandra De La Cruz  · Barbara Moros  · Tatiana Delgado	12	Mexico	Colombia
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2011	March 6, 2011	May 22, 2011	Nastassja Bolívar	Gredmarie Colón	Yahaira Núñez  · Paulette Acosta  · Juliete Cabrera (Expelled)  · Jocell Villa  · Darla Delgado  · Maribel de Santiago[2]  · Diana Cano  · Patricia Corcino  · Miriam Hernandez  · Jenny Arzola  · Nicole Suárez	13	Nicaragua	Puerto Rico
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2012	March 4, 2012	May 20, 2012	Vanessa De Roide	Setareh Khatibi	Ligia De Uriarte  · Tatiana Ares  · Elizabeth Robaina  · Naomi Marroquin  · Chanty Vargas  · Ivanna Rodriguez  · Shalimar Rivera  · Fanny Vargas  · Nataliz Jimenez  · Karol Scott	12	Puerto Rico	Mexico
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2013	March 10, 2013	May 19, 2013	Marisela Demontecristo	Audris Rijo	Lilia Fifield  · Fernanda Loconsolo  · Karina Hermosillo  · Essined Aponte  · Zuleyka Silver  · Barbara Falcon  · Odaray Prats  · Marina Ruiz  · Barbara Turbay  · Viviana Ortiz	12	El Salvador	Dominican Republic
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2014	February 12, 2014	May 2014	TBA	TBA	TBA  · TBA  · TBA · TBA  · TBA  · TBA  · TBA  · TBA  · TBA  · TBA	12

Country/Territory	Title	Winning year(s)
Puerto Rico	2	2008, 2012
Mexico		2007, 2010
El Salvador	1	2013
Nicaragua		2011
Cuba		2009

Semi-finalists

Rank	Country/Territory	Nuestra Belleza Latina	1st runner-up	2nd runner-up	3rd runner-up	4th runner-up	5th runner-up	6th runner-up	7th runner-up	8th runner-up	9th runner-up	10th runner-up	11th runner-up	Top 18/20/24/30	Total
1	Mexico	2	3	0	1	4	1	2	3	1	4	3	3	15	42
2	Puerto Rico	2	1	3	0	0	2	3	1	4	0	2	0	17	35
3	El Salvador	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
4	Cuba	1	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	11	19
5	Nicaragua	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	6
6	Colombia	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	9
7	Dominican Republic	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	5	14
8	Venezuela	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	5	9
9	Ecuador	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
10	Honduras	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
11	Guatemala	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
12	Argentina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
13	Chile	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
14	Peru	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
15	Panama	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
16	Brazil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Grand Finale

Year	Winner	1st Runner-Up	2nd Runner-Up	3rd Runner-Up	4th Runner-Up	5th Runner-Up
2014	TBA TBA	TBA TBA	TBA TBA	TBA TBA	TBA TBA	TBA TBA
2013	El Salvador Marisela Demontecristo	Dominican Republic Audris Rijo	Puerto Rico Viviana Ortiz	Colombia Barbara Turbay	Mexico Marina Ruiz	N/A
2012	Puerto Rico Vanessa De Roide	Mexico Setareh Khatibi	Venezuela Karol Scott	Dominican Republic Nataliz Jimenez	N/A	N/A
2011	Nicaragua Nastassja Bolívar	Puerto Rico Gredmarie Colon	Colombia Nicole Suarez	Cuba Jenny Arzola	N/A	N/A
2010	Mexico Ana Patricia González	Colombia Carolina Ramirez	Puerto Rico Tatiana Delgado	Venezuela Barbara Moros	Cuba Lissandra de la Cruz	Dominican Republic Fabiola Barinas
2009	Cuba Greydis Gil	Mexico Maricarmen Lopez	Ecuador Catalina López	Mexico Monica De Leon	Dominican Republic Janice Bescome	Mexico Berenice Guzman
2008	Puerto Rico Melissa Marty	Mexico Emeraude Toubia	Cuba Dayami Padron	Dominican Republic Zoila Ceballos	Mexico Leticia Castro	Colombia Manuela Arbeláez
2007	Mexico Alejandra Espinoza	El Salvador Mayra Muñoz	Puerto Rico Yara Lasanta	Cuba Elizabeth Lopez	Dominican Republic Raengel Solis	Colombia Giselle Souda

• Nuestra Belleza Latina 2007-2010 had 6 finalist in the Grand Finale
• Nuestra Belleza Latina 2011-2012 had 4 finalist in the Grand Finale
• Nuestra Belleza Latina 2013 had 5 finalist in the Grand Finale

References

• Univision names sponsors for "Nuestra Belleza Latina"

External links

• Nuestra Belleza Latina - Official Page (Spanish)
• Nuestra Belleza Latina at the Internet Movie Database

Sources

• Nuestra Belleza Latina at Univision.com (Spanish)