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Blue-eyed blonde American teen Alexandria Mills has won the Miss World crest for 2010, beating more than 100 other hopefuls at a glittering observance in south China.

Mills, an 18-year-old from the south US state of Kentucky, wept as outgoing Miss World Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar put the tiara on her head and directed her to a diamond-shaped throne assessing the pageant’s 60th anniversary.

The 1.75-metre attractiveness in white – a expert form recorded with the Elite Models bureau – signalled to the barracking gathering at the 2000-capacity Beauty Crown Theatre in the holiday resort village of Sanya on Hainan island.

During the two-hour affray, which every year sketches a international TV assembly of about one billion, Mills said her month expended exploring China with the other 114 Miss World hopefuls had made a “big impact” on her life.

Botswana’s Emma Wareus was second, and Venezuela’s Adriana Vasini put third in the pageant, which was first held in 1951.

The pageant got off to a colourful start with a presentation by dancers and drummers from China’s Li ethnic few assembly, who mostly reside on Hainan isle, which was hosting the happening for the fifth time in eight years.

Before the contestants whirled in nationwide costume for the “Dances of the World” segment, viewers were treated to a video montage of the women’s whirlwind trip of China – from the Great Wall to the buying malls.

Early very well liked Mariann Birkedal of Norway, recorded by British bookmaker William Hill as the woman to trounce before Mills, completed in the peak seven.

A win for Norway could have initiated a mix in Beijing, where the government is angry that the Oslo-based Nobel managing assembly bestowed this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Aldorino, 24, said she had relished her year as Miss World, saying that in all the nations she had travelled to, one thing had stayed the same: “The grin on a child’s face, and that’s what has apprehended the moment”.

The affray emphasises the significance of benevolent humanity work.

Miss “Beauty with a Purpose” – Kenya’s Natasha Metto, who has worked on combatting an outbreak of parasitic Jigger fleas in her homeland – acquired a “fast-track” location in the last assembly of 25, but was then eliminated.

Ireland’s violin-playing Emma Waldron, who won the gifts challenge and completed in the peak five, wowed the assembly by welcome them in Chinese, while Miss China, Xiao Tang, talked mostly in English.

The happening competitors the Miss Universe pageant belongs to by US tycoon Donald Trump, which was won by Mexico’s Jimena Navarrete in August.

In 1951, Sweden’s Kiki Hakansson became the first Miss World. Oscar-winning American player Halle Berry was a finalist in 1986.

Venezuela and India have made the most Miss Worlds, with five titleholders each. Bollywood celebrity Aishwarya Rai took the crest in 1994.

In 2002, the pageant was shifted from Nigeria to Britain after more than 200 persons past away in clashes sparked when a bulletin proposed the Muslim prophet Mohammed would have selected a wife from amidst the contestants had he been alive.