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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/tvpatrol/08/07/20180809-celine.jpg"/><figcaption>Celine Pialago&#x27;s Instagram account. <em>Photo credit: Celine Pialago&#x27;s Instagram account</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><strong>(UPDATED)</strong> A former beauty queen has received a job promotion at the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).</p><p>Celine Pialago, who has been serving as spokesperson for the MMDA, has been promoted as an assistant secretary under the Duterte administration.</p><p>She will remain as MMDA spokesperson, according to her appointment paper shown to reporters.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/tvpatrol/08/07/20180809-rank.jpg"/><figcaption>A document confirming the appointment of former beauty queen Celine Pialago as assistant secretary. <em>Celine Pialago.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Pialago became Internet famous around four years ago when she competed in the Miss Philippines Earth pageant because of her &quot;she passed away&quot; gaffe during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I18pbhCRKQs">interview</a>.</p><p>She was appointed as spokesperson of the MMDA in September 2016. On her Instagram account, she <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BKKRtBng-cb/?taken-by=celinepialago">wrote about</a> how blessed she is to be working for the agency.</p>

<p>A former beauty queen has received a job promotion at the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).</p>

A former beauty queen has received a job promotion at the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).