Mutya ng Pilipinas Klyza Castro wants to crown a fellow ‘hometown girl’

MANILA, Philippines—Davao City lass Klyza Castro received the Mutya ng Pilipinas crown in 2019. Three years on, she still holds it. And now that the time has finally come to relinquish her title, she says she feels a “sense of relief” that she will get to pass it to a new winner, who she hopes will be just like her.

“I remember Mutya’s branding of trying to find hometown girls. I want to retain that. I want to find someone who really knows the culture of where they came from, at the same time the values and the core principles of the province or the hometown that they represent, transcending the beauty that we have,” she told the Inquirer at the sidelines of the press presentati…

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