Boy gets Miss Universe dream date
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-09-27 15:11
SYDNEY - A plucky Australian schoolboy who asked a former Miss Universe to
his school dance, only to be rebuffed, has finally had his dream date over
lunch.
Miss Universe 2004 Jennifer Hawkins
gestures during a promotional event for a new property in Hong Kong August
24, 2005. A plucky Australian schoolboy who asked the former Miss Universe
to his school dance, only to be rebuffed, has finally had his dream date
over lunch. [Reuters] |
Daniel Dibley, 17, needed a partner for the school dance in the Australian
country town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, and he decided to aim high.
He wrote to Australia's best-known beauty queen, Jennifer Hawkins, to ask her
to the dance, and was stunned when the 2004 Miss Universe accepted.
But in a decision that would break a schoolboy's heart, Hawkins later pulled
out of the date because the overwhelming publicity had overshadowed plans for
the end-of-year dance, which is for students in their final year of high school.
Instead, the Seven television network said Hawkins visited Dibley's Bathurst
High School on Tuesday for a private lunch date with Daniel, and to speak to the
school assembly, where she apologized for all the fuss.
"I didn't want you guys to think I didn't want to come to Bathurst, or I
didn't want come to the formal (dance)," Hawkins, now a television presenter,
told the school assembly.
"I did. It just became too big. I just wanted a low-key thing."
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