Anneline Kriel
| Anneline Kriel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 28, 1955 EMalahleni, South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of Pretoria |
| Title | Miss South Africa 1974 |
| Spouse(s) |
Peter Bacon (1993) Phillip Tucker (1989-1994) Sol Kerzner (1980-1985) |
 MISS WORLD - COLOUR 1974 Miss World at the Albert Hall. AP Archive - British Movietone News footage. |
Anneline Kriel (born July 28, 1955) is a South African actress, model and beauty queen. She became Miss World 1974 representing South Africa after the UK's Helen Morgan resigned only four days after her victory. She became the second woman from her country to hold the title. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom. Thereafter she became an ambassador for several beauty brands, completing public relations activities.
She has also starred in several Afrikaans Movies and soap operas and the international hit-film, Kill and Kill Again which debuted at no.2 at the US Box Office.
Kriel was only 19 years old when she became Miss World in 1974. This marked a tumultuous period in South Africa's history, as the international boycott of South Africa continued to take pace. As a result, Kriel sometimes caught the fire of international media that depicted her as a face of the apartheid state. In support of the boycott, the US and Australia refused to accept her as part of the obligatory world tour of a Miss World.
Singer Shirley Bassey also protested against her crowning. However, the US later relented and Kriel made television appearances there. In South Africa, her crowning received a rapturous response from the public and local media.
In 1981 she released the pop single, 'He Took Off My Romeos'
Kriel was born and brought up in the mining town of Witbank, the daughter of a prison officer.
As a student, she lived in Huis Asterhof, Vergeet-my-nie back then, while studying drama at the University of Pretoria. Kriel has also made efforts to learn French. and Italian.
In March 1976, Kriel was embroiled in a scandal over nude photographs that were leaked and appeared in the media and on the front page of the Sunday Times. Roy Hilligenn, Mr. South Africa of 1943, 1944, 1946, and 1976, and Mr. America of 1951, took the photographs and sold them to a British newspaper for R100 000. The photos revealed Kriel on vacation sunbathing nude and the nudism of those around her such as her boyfriend, Richard Loring and Hilligenn and his family.
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