Iona Gibbs from Bataan is Mutya ng Pilipinas 2022

MANILA, Philippines — Three years after it last staged a competition, the Mutya ng Pilipinas pageant has crowned a new queen, and she is Iona Gibbs from Bataan.

She bested 37 other aspirants for the top prize at the coronation night of the national pageant’s 52nd edition staged at the FilOil EcoOil Center in San Juan City on Dec. 4, and inherited the title from Klyza Castro who won the national pageant in 2019.

Several other queens were proclaimed — Mutya ng Pilipinas-Tourism International Jeanette Reyes from Camarines Sur, Mutya ng Pilipinas-World Top Model Arianna Kyla Padrid from Northern California, and Mutya ng Pilipinas-Overseas Communities Jesi Mae Cruz from Californ…

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