Beauty pageant titleholder | |
Miss World 2009, Kaiane Aldorino at the Shanghai Expo, 10 August 2010
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Born |
Kaiane Aldorino Lopez 8 July 1986 Gibraltar |
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Occupation | Human resources clerk |
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
Hair color | Brown |
Eye color | Brown |
Title(s) |
Miss Gibraltar 2009 Miss World 2009 |
Major competition(s) |
Miss Gibraltar 2009 (Winner) Miss World 2009 (Winner) (Miss World Europe) (Miss World Beach Beauty) |
Kaiane Aldorino Lopez, GMH (née Aldorino; born 8 July 1986) is a Gibraltarian politician, dancer and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She previously won Miss Gibraltar 2009 She was the first Miss Gibraltar ever to reach the semifinals of the Miss World.
In 2014 she was appointed as the Deputy Mayor of Gibraltar and on 5 April 2017 she became the Mayor of Gibraltar.
Aldorino was born in Gibraltar where she still resides. Prior to becoming Miss Gibraltar 2009, she had been working as a human resources clerk at St Bernard's Hospital in Gibraltar for five years.
As with most Gibraltarians she is bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish. She enjoys playing netball and training at the gym.
She has been a dancer since the age of 14 with Urban Dance Group, and has experience performing locally and abroad. She has performed in Gibraltar and Spain, and has trained in modern, hip hop, contemporary and commercial styles. The highlight of her dancing career, and an experience she has mentioned for many Miss World interviews, has been when she participated at the 2008 International Dance Organisation World Showdance Championships, in Riesa, Germany, where she represented Gibraltar in the Formation category as part of the Gibraltar National Dance Team. They obtained a 17th place, and made history by being the first time Gibraltar passed the first round, in the Formation category.