Shanira Blanco Colón (born August 1, 1981) is a

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n TV presenter and model, social media

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and former national director of Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico and

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Personal life

Shanira Mariette Blanco Colón was born in

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to a Puerto Rican mother, María Colón, and a Dominican father, Ángel Blanco. Blanco is the oldest of three children from that marriage. In 2013 Blanco married longtime boyfriend Dr. Augusto Ayala. They had a son in 2015, Mateo Ayala Blanco.

Beauty pageants

When she was 19 years old, she started competing in different beauty pageants, which made her travel the world to places like Venezuela, France, Germany, Turkey and the Philippines among others, and won Miss Amber World 2001 and Miss Folklore World 2001.

Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2004

Blanco represented

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municipality at

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pageant, where she finished second runner-up to

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Miss Earth 2004

Blanco represented Puerto Rico at the

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. She won the Miss Leonardo award.

Pageant director

Blanco was the previous national director for the Miss World Puerto Rico, Miss Earth Puerto Rico, and Miss Grand International Puerto Rico franchises. Under her direction, Puerto Rico won the first Miss Grand International 2013 crown with beauty title holder Janelee Chaparro.

Television career

After pageants, the doors to the world of television opened up for Blanco, receiving the opportunity from Puerto Rico's producer

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in 2005, to join and co-host with his team, the television show “Que Suerte” which was transmitted through the

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Puerto Rico Network. It is there were Blanco grows as a TV personality, obtaining the chance to collaborate in other TV Shows like “ El Gordo y la Flaca" and "

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", both directed to the Puerto Rican audience as well as the Hispanic market in the United States. At the same time, this young woman received the “Paoli Award” for “Outstanding New TV Talent of the Year ”, was elected as “The Most Beautiful Face on TV” by the readers of Teve Guia Magazine and was hired by the Mirta de Perales beauty company as their Hispanic market spokesperson. She has been Mirta de Perales Spokesperson since 2005. After “Que Suerte”, her TV career continued, where she received an offer from Univision PR to host the show “Flashazo VIP”, one that she accepted and continued doing it until 2012. After Flashazo VIP, Blanco continued to appear in Univision Puerto Rico shows like Tu Mañana, Tu Mediodia and Ruben & Co. Blanco was a presenter for Paparazzi TV. Shanira joined Loteria Electrónica televised Live at WIPR in 2012. She is currently one of the television hosts. 2017, Univision Puerto Rico announced Blanco was returning to the network to be part of their new project " Despierta Puerto Rico". She currently hosts the "UNICAM" In 2019, Blanco returned to daytime television hosting the new TV show “ Aqui Estamos” which means, We are Here! With Puerto Rican merengue sensation host,

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. The show currently airs daily from 2:00pm to 3:00pm on WIPR Television Network.

Social media

Shanira has over 500,000 followers on her social media accounts (See External Links for validation). Campaigns posted on her social media includes collaboration with brands like Walgreens, Dannon, Goya, Mastercard, Simon Malls, Quaker, Disney, Frito Lays, Ford, Colgate, Mc Donalds, MDA and Mirta de Perales among many more.

Actitud Modeling Academy and Agency

After acquiring a bachelor's degree in marketing and a

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in business, Blanco established Actitud, a modeling academy and agency, in 2007. Actitud Modeling Academy and Agency prepared delegates to the Miss World Pageant such as Ivonne Orsini, currently WAPA TV Hosts, which placed in the semifinals in 2008 and Amanda Vilanova, which became Miss World Caribbean and second runner-up in London in 2011. Actitud also trained Miss World Puerto Rico 2012

Janelee Chaparro Janelee Marcus Chaparro Colón (born September 12, 1991 in Barceloneta), known professionally as Janelee Chaparro, is a Puerto Rican model and beauty queen who represented Puerto Rico at Miss World 2012 where she finished in the Top 30 and at ...

, who placed as quarter finalist in Miss World 2012 and eventually represented Puerto Rico in Miss Grand International 2013 where she won the first edition of this event. Valeria Vazquez Puerto Rico's first

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2018, was a student at Actitud in her early years as a forming model.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blanco, Shanira 1981 births Living people People from San Juan, Puerto Rico Miss Earth 2004 contestants Puerto Rican people of Dominican Republic descent Puerto Rican female models Social media influencers