By Gina Gomez
Las Vegas, Aug 23, (THAINDIAN NEWS) As many as 83 beauty queens from countries across the world are gearing up to participate in the much-anticipated finale of the Miss Universe pageant which is all set to be held tonight. The Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort in the sin city of Las Vegas would be hosting that gala beauty contest which reaches its 59th year this time. The ravishing beauties from different countries would be giving their best shot in the event to impress the judges with the aim of being crowned Miss Universe 2010.

The beauty queen who would be successful in emerging victorious in the much-coveted pageant would be succeeding Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez, who took home the crown last year enabling her country Venezuela to win the pageant for the second consecutive year and taking that total number of crowns won by the country to six. Naturally, the expectations from the this year’s Miss Venezuela Marelisa Gibson is skyrocketing owing to the fact that if the Venezuelan beauty is able to clinch victory then it would be an unprecedented win in the third successive year for the South American country.

The gala event that is gearing up to take place on Monday night would be aired live on NBC and Telemundo and at the same time would be distributed in as many as 190 countries all across the globe. Some of the celebrities who would be seen taking care of the judging responsibilities in the main event are actor Chazz Palminteri, illusionist Criss Angel, Olympic Gold Medal skater Evan Lysacek, actor William Baldwin, singer Chynna Phillips, model Niki Taylor, to name a few.