miss flavour 2008
nalist
Miss Flavour 2008 talks stage nerves, making an entrance
and shar
es her car
eer aspirations of becoming a jour
For 6 years I was an entertainment
editor for one; it’
s just an
. I
opportunity to go a bit further
S
asha Shantel Bennett, the
recently cr
owned Miss didn’
t meet people and conduct
ecently
,
Flavour 2008, exudes class,
interviews with them until r
e!
and I’d love to do this mor
confidence – and a bit of comedy ,
too. As well as having beauty
Now
, as far as the night of the
brains, and a body any woman
, but I

pageant went… Sorry
would be envious of and any man
have to bring this up…
would find difficulty to look at and
e gonna
Oh… I know what you’r
walk at the same time our one-on-
say – I think – but… go on.
one interview was one of most e to
fun ones I’ve had the pleasur
Now
, you wer
e the last
cover
, and the photoshoot after
e’s
contestant to come on, right?
was well worth the wait! Her
I wasn’
t happy about that – the
what Queen Sasha had to say…
fact that I was last on, was I?
So when did you find out about
Why is that?
Miss Flavour 2008 and why did
you mentioned that you had
I didn’
t want to be last. I’ve been
you finally decide to enter?
the combination of beauty and
in other stuf
f and I was last and it
I read about it on Facebook. I told
brains and… t want to
didn’
t work out, so I didn’
myself I wouldn’
t enter [pageants] ‘Pretty face and body!’ (Sasha
have that bad association again.
anymor
e, because I thought, ‘too
gives me a coy
, flirty look.)
much, no mor
e’, but I thought this
But you actually made an
time, ‘okay
, one mor
e’. It felt quite
Is that what you said?
entrance—the lights all went out
a positive step and I thought I
Yes, specifically
. (laughing)
befor
e they called your name! It
could possibly go far in this one.
e’s no
was a big moment! (laughing)
So I enter
ed it – and her
e we ar
e!
Well, to the first part ther
question, but what makes up
Yeah (laughing) the lights went out!
How long was the initial
the ‘brains’ part of you?
ecor
d, you had
So this is for the r
selection pr
ocess, then?

It’s not just education, I mean…
s just
Well, I went to casting and then .
I’ve got that, but I think it’
nothing to do with that, did you?
mor
e to do with common sense; It is a conspiracy
, yes. I actually
got a call-back two weeks later
and to think in those terms, and
turned out the lights by hand

I’ve got that ability
.
(laughing har
der). No, seriously
, I
Did you get along with
didn’
t! I was just wondering what
the other contestants?
ou know
Out of curiosity
, what is your
ound?
happened but no – the darkness
Everyone was nice! Y e
educational backgr
e and
had nothing to do with me!
when you’r
e wondering if they’r
gonna be nasty with their claws
Well, I’m not gonna sit her
, but suffice to
e
boast about my CV
Did you think that you wer
out and all that …but no. On the
say, it’
s pretty impr
essive.
going to win that night?
night, I was saying to people how e;
Ther
e’s no point entering if you
inspiring the other girls wer
Please, impr
ess me!
don’
t think you’r
e gonna win. I had
they’ve pr
ogressed further than I
Okay
, education-wise, I’ve got to be confident, but I had a list of
have. Some have websites, some
no gaps, I went fr
om secondary
three people I could possibly lose
have their own clothing lines, s
e was always
straight to four years of college,
to in my mind. So ther

they’ve been in magazines – that’
three years of uni, I got 5 A-levels,
the chance I could’ve been fourth.
inspiring to me what they’ve done!
10 GCSEs A-star to C. I got my
ee jobs at
degr
ee while working thr I lear
ned that you’r
e seeing

I remember in the question and ,
the same time so… not bad.
someone, so what did he say
answer period of the show

or do to win you over?
Not bad at all! So what did
ee in?
Okay
, I was 15, it was science
you get your degr
class, he sat next to me, he put his ou
I have a BA Honours in English
hand on my hand and said, ‘Y
Literatur
e and Drama. are beautiful’, and I said, ‘Thank s
you’ and thought, ‘Oh, wow – he’e
So what ar
e some of the things
amazing!’ And 7 years later her
you’d like to accomplish in this
we ar
e (she says this, laughing, but
new r
ole as Miss Flavour 2008? the men pr
esent just shake their
I just want be involved in
heads slowly in disbelief).
magazines and to write for one.
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