Isabella Agbor Ayuk was born on 10 May 1986 and is a Nigerian actress, entrepreneur, philanthropist and beauty pageant titleholder.
14 Facts About Isabella Ayuk
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Isabella Ayuk is renowned for winning the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2012.
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Isabella Ayuk studied Business Administration at the University of Calabar, graduating in 2011, and is currently serving as a youth corper.
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Isabella Ayuk was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria in a ceremony held at the Best Western Hotel in Benin City in May 2012.
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Towards the end of May 2012, it was reported that Isabella Ayuk had falsified her age in order to compete in the pageant, thus introducing the county's biggest pageant scandal since 2001 when Valerie Peterside was dethroned as Miss Nigeria for similar reasons.
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Isabella Ayuk did not represent Nigeria at Miss World, but was replaced by MBGN 2012 runner-up Damiete Charles-Granville.
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In 2012 Isabella Ayuk launched the Vanessa Manyor Memorial Foundation, a foundation she named after Vanessa Manyor Isabella Ayuk, her late sister who died of typhoid fever.
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Under IAF, one of her particular philanthropic acts that swept the internet was in 2018 when going after the aid of a certain widow who was thrown out of her home by the children of her late husband, despite being an ex- beauty queen Isabella Ayuk was said to have travelled the remotest part of Cross River even sailing by boat at some points to Bendeghe-Afi community, where the widow resides.
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Isabella Ayuk is known to be concerned about creating awareness about cervical cancer awareness and giving support to women living with the ailment.
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In 2018 Isabella Ayuk was among those who attended the United Nations Youth Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters, Manhattan, New York with the theme 'Innovation And Collaboration Of The Sustainable Development Goals'.
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Apart from pageantry, Isabella Ayuk is known to be a serial entrepreneur doing multiple businesses including running a fashion line.
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On February 27,2013, in Abuja, Nigeria's capital Ayuk launched her new fashion brand called Bellesabel, a coinage she made from combining the French word meaning beauty, and Sabel, a shortening of her name Isabella.
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On May 24,2014, Isabella Ayuk initiated Cross River Most Beautiful Girl, Pageant, the biggest state pageant in Nigeria to be run single-handedly by an individual in Nigeria.
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On her 27 birthday in 2013 at Clay Night club, Abuja, in a telephone interview with Obaji Akpet of the Nation Newspaper Isabella Ayuk announced plans to feature in a movie, Alok Monument, the pride within.