Denise Quiñones, MUPR National Director

Former Miss Universe Denise Quiñones confirmed to Primera Hora that she was in talks with WapaTv for the possibility to be the National Director of Miss Universe Puerto Rico. And yesterday, she was officially announced as such.

WapaTV programming president, Jimmy Arteaga, introduced the new national director of the Miss Universe Puerto Rico pageant, Denise Quinones, in a press conference yesterday. According to Primera Hora, the local pageant will be held in September at the Luis A. Ferré Fine Arts Center and applicants can now begin to register through www.Wapa.tv/missuniversepuertorico as of February 19 until the 15th March.
In a separate news article by El Vocero, Denise said she is willing to count on the advice of veteran beauty pageant, Magali Febles (National Director of Miss Universe Dominican Republic), if conversations with the management of Wapa TV are successful.  She further says, “Magali is excellent at what she does, I trained with her and I definitely learned a lot. She has a lot of experience and it would not be bad to talk to her and learn a little more about this world…”

A week ago Desirée Lowry and partner Luisito Vigoreaux lost the franchise of Miss Universe Puerto Rico to WapaTV. Vigoreaux indicated that he does not see himself as part of the new MUPR team. Although he commented that whether Desiree would be a part of the new team would be up to her.