If there is Global there must be Globe. Yes there
is also Mister Globe pageant based in France and the first run was held only
January of this year through internet voting. Ismael Aiaz, the representative
from Madagascar emerged the eventual winner. Selection was 50% internet vote
and 50% judges vote. Reportedly the internet voting resulted to a tie for the
first place between Aiaz and French Thibault Marchand who was consequently
awarded the title “Mister Model of the World 2015.” The other finalists were
Toumi Taher of Tunisia and Rui Neto of Portugal. The contest was participated in
by 24 contestants through “virtual” competition, including Philippine representative
Paolo Lester Caballero.
Ismael Aiaz bears a name that does not sound Malagasy
and a face that does not look Malagasy nevertheless is confirmed a native of
Madagascar. He was born in 1987 in Toliara. Madagascar is an island country in
the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Southeast Africa and is known for its
biodiversity with 90% of its unique wildlife found nowhere else on Earth - probably
why Ismael Aiaz is just as unique.
Our Mister Globe titlist speaks French, English
and Hindi. Some think he does not speak Malagasy, but he does. He has a passion
for bodybuilding and boxing and spent most of his childhood in the country. He
left the Big Island in 2010 and moved to Montpellier, a city in southern
France. "I am proud of my origin,
my country. That's why I defended the Malagasy colors. I wanted to represent
the Big Island internationally.”