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Complaint Review: Upstage This! Productions Miss World Canada - Burnaby/Surrey British Columbia
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Upstage This! Productions Miss World Canada
4300 Still Creek Drive, Burnaby/Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Upstage This! Productions, Miss World Canada, Katherine Grefner, Upstage This Productions, MWC, Rigged pageant, complete scam, stole girls money Burnaby/Surrey , British Columbia Canada
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Katherine Grefner, Pageant owner, was witnessed yelling and belittling girls during
rehearsal week! at one point during the pageant she could be heard
yelling at Lena Ma (performer and Miss World Canada 2009)... Katherine
Grefner also "LOST" $4500 of charity money that Sherry Jobani
(contestant) raised for Variety Children's Charity... And there has
been no apology for any of that....
There is also record of Sastee Bachan ordering Katherine in advance that Denise Garrido should win because she was Miss Earth Canada and that if she did Canada would be better off to compete for the crown because of her experience.. 2 days before the pageant katherine told Denise to change her flight home in preparation for the win...
AND TALK ABOUT A LOW BUDGET PRODUCTION... this is supposed to be the Preliminaries to Miss World (the biggest pageant in the world)... yet they had poor choreography, no security, no media, a half-assed website, dollarstore pageant books, and to top all that off - they held it in a SCHOOL auditorium!
Upstage This! Productions should be ashamed of themselves.
another note is that Natasha Carr-Harris was not given her award and $4500 of Sherry Jobani's fundraiser charity money was 'lost' or 'misplaced' by Katherine Grefner.
Charity is great and I am all for helping kids - but you cant hide behind charity to commit your crimes! The woman even threatened to remove girls from the official DVD
There is also record of Sastee Bachan ordering Katherine in advance that Denise Garrido should win because she was Miss Earth Canada and that if she did Canada would be better off to compete for the crown because of her experience.. 2 days before the pageant katherine told Denise to change her flight home in preparation for the win...
AND TALK ABOUT A LOW BUDGET PRODUCTION... this is supposed to be the Preliminaries to Miss World (the biggest pageant in the world)... yet they had poor choreography, no security, no media, a half-assed website, dollarstore pageant books, and to top all that off - they held it in a SCHOOL auditorium!
Upstage This! Productions should be ashamed of themselves.
another note is that Natasha Carr-Harris was not given her award and $4500 of Sherry Jobani's fundraiser charity money was 'lost' or 'misplaced' by Katherine Grefner.
And if THAT WASNT ENOUGH....Six (6) semifinalists among the 12 were supposed to be reserved for the category award winners: Talent, Top Promotions, Top Fundraising, Best International Costume, Swimsuit and Peoples Choice. Sarah Davidson-Gurney (talent), Dona Sharma (Promotions), Poonam Punni (Fundraising), Sofia Teleguina (International Costume), Denise Garrido (Swimsuit) and Ziyah Karmali (Peoples Choice). But Ziyah was not announced to stand among the semifinalists, did not get a chance to answer the semifinalist position to move forward and was not recognized along her peers to the audience. The oversight was immediately brought to the judges attention by audience members but the judges remained unconcerned and the show moved forward without Ziyah. So who were the 12 semifinalists? 5 of the award winners ( Sarah, Dona, Poonam, Sofia and Denise) and 7 others (Angel Bhathal, Sherry Jobani, Sapna Seheravat, Jessica Tsang, Deanna Gold, Sidney Shindle and Lacey Budge).
Taking part as a semifinalist would have allowed her to compete for an additional 100 points which, potentially, could have changed the entire winner/finalist lineup according to their scoring criteria. In a fair pageant. When questioned, the auditor (a woman identifying herself only as Christine) refused to comment. Ron Wear, Mr. World Canada 2010 and judge for the competition, said he was shocked and described Ziyah as a top contender.
To add insult to injury, the plaque awarded to Ziyah for being the Peoples Choice was misspelled to read Peopls Choice and at a small ceremony this morning organized by Upstage This! Productions (to give the award to the winners) the oversight was not disclosed by pageant organizers to those in attendance and instead was brought to the audiences attention by the pageant host, Tanya Memme (who felt that this was an injustice), and Ziyahs supporters.
The ONLY good thing to come out of this ridiculous scam is that the whole operation is slowly being revealed and the organizers are being exposed. just Google search miss world canada controversy.Charity is great and I am all for helping kids - but you cant hide behind charity to commit your crimes! The woman even threatened to remove girls from the official DVD
