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Ann Van Elsen Profile |
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Birth Date: December 27, 1979
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Birth Place: Mol, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Birth Name: Ann Eduard Simonne Van Elsen
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Ann Van Elsen is a model and TV personality from Mol,
Antwerp in Belgium. She was crowned Miss Belgium in 2002.
After finishing her Marketing studies, Van Elsen obtained
her Masters degree in the Commercial Sciences in 2006.
Van Elsen first appeared on the cover of a magazine when
that magazine had chosen a photograph of a reader to appear
on the cover. This inspired her to enter beauty pageants
like Miss Antwerp, Miss Belgium and Miss Universe.
In 2002 Van Elsen won both the Miss Antwerp and Miss Belgium
pageants. This allowed her entrance to the Miss World and
Miss Universe competitions.
Van Elsen is one of the candidates that refused to
participate in the Miss World election in Nigeria in 2002,
in protest of the conviction of Amina Lawal.
On television, Van Elsen has presented several programs on
Belgian channels TV1 and VT4, including Mediamadammen (since
October 2002), Huizenjacht, Onder Hoogspanning, De Brandkast
(2005), Supertalent In Vlaanderen (2007) and Summerdate. In
June 2005 Van Elsen signed an exclusive television contract
with VT4, where she performed the tasks of an in-vision
continuity announcer (since 2003) and hosted several other
tv-shows as well.
In 2006, Van Elsen presented the first prize to the winner
of the "Pinanti is Pinanti" penalty taking competition in
TV1 sports program Studio 1 op zondag, football player
Désiré Mbonabucya. During the ceremony in the Koning
Boudewijnstadion, she showed to have some footballing skills
as well.
For two years Van Elsen regularly appeared on the TV1 music
show Het Swingpaleis, where she was assigned as the team
captain. |
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Other
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She was Miss Belgium 2002. Along with others, she refused to
participate at Miss World in Nigeria due to their bad human
rights record. |
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since November 14, 2008