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Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach [4] [5] was born in Stuttgart, Germany, to a German father and a Filipina mother, [6] and has a sister. [7] The family later moved to Northern Mindanao region in the Philippines, first in Iligan city, then settled at Cagayan de Oro city, where she attended kindergarten at Kong Hua School and primary school at Corpus Christi School.
Cortesi became interested in pursuing pageantry as a career and exploring her Filipino roots after being informed by her mother of Pia Wurtzbach's win representing the Philippines at Miss Universe 2015, and watching her performance during the event. At 18 years old, she was motivated by Wurtzbach's win to go into pageantry.
On March 15, 2015, Lastimosa crowned Pia Wurtzbach as her successor at Binibining Pilipinas 2015, held at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Philippines. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Miss Universe 2014
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However, after Gutiérrez's crowning, Harvey realized that he had misread the result and should have announced her as the 1st runner-up and Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines as the winner. [6] This was originally the second time having a back-to-back victory after Venezuela from 2008–2009, since Paulina Vega is also from Colombia.
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On January 18, 2018, Star Cinema announced that Pia Wurtzbach is set to do a new film with Gerald Anderson after her successful MMFF film Gandarrapiddo: The Revenger Squad with Vice Ganda and Daniel Padilla. It was announced Thursday shortly after a story conference where the lead stars were in attendance.
The casting of Piolo Pascual and Pia Wurtzbach served as their reunion project after Wurtzbach, then credited as Pia Romero, had a brief appearance in the 2005 sitcom Bora. ABS-CBN initially selected Angelica Panganiban for the role of Tere, but instead gave the role to Wurtzbach.