80’s Saturday, Miss Holland PV

This item is called Miss Holland PV. But what does that mean, PV? PV stand for Plaats Vervangend, in english: replacement.  When Angela Visser won Miss Universe 1989, she was no longer Miss Holland, as she would represent not only Miss Holland but all the countries of Miss Universe.
Because of that Angela was replaced by her runner-up Nandy Hendrikx.  Nandy was at the time of the Miss Holland 1988 pageant the one to beat, in fact the largest newspaper in the Netherlands “De Telegraaf” was already working on an article about her while she was not even crowned.
When Nandy didn’t win the pageant and she was “just” first runner-up, she was quit disappointed and she refused to go to the Miss World 1989 pageant. The newly crowned Miss Holland would represent our country at the Miss Universe 1989 pageant and the first runner-up would go to the Miss World pageant. But because Miss Hendrikx didn’t want to go, the Miss Holland organization asked the Miss World organization if it was ok to send the second runner-up, Deborah Kiela to the finals. Miss World declined as they didn’t accept a second runner-up and therefore Angela Visser went to Londen and represent the Netherlands and just missed the top 10.
Although Nandy refused to go to the Miss World pageant she did accept the Miss Holland crown after Angela was crowned Miss Universe and she became Miss Holland PV. In some of the papers it is said that she would go to the Miss Europe 1989 pageant, that would be held in Greece, but there is no information on that pageant.
In 1990 she was crowned Mrs Holland and she was the assistant of Jack van Gelder for the television show “Sweethearts”.