Model ordered to pay €6,000 penalty after pulling out of beauty contest

A model who enrolled herself with a local agency that organised Miss World-Malta in 2010 and later pulled out of the event, was ordered to pay a €6,000 penalty by a Court, which found her to be in breach of contract.

Despite claiming to have dropped out of the contest after developing bladder stones and had to seek medical care on a weekly basis,  21 year-old Diandra Agius of Hamrun was found to be liable to pay the full penalty because she was a signatory to a contract she did not honour.

In her ruling, Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera noted that although Agius had claimed to have gone to school, but did not know how to read or write well,  she still had a responsibility to towards the contract she signed for her participation in the 2010 Miss World-Malta contest.

The court noted that while Agius claimed to have had health problems, other models who attended the contest that year had made friends with her, and were disappointed to find out that she did not attend the pre-advised photo shoots because she had spent a night out and negligently wrote about it on her Facebook page.

Another breach of contract noted by the court, was evidence presented of Diandra Agius appearing on One TV's programme 'Singled Out' and also modelling for another agency run by Ivan Gaffiero.