Beauty who beat hundreds of women to final of modelling competition revealed to be a manhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9274694/Beauty-who-beat-hundreds-of-women-to-final-of-modelling-competition-revealed-to-be-a-man.html10:59AM BST 18 May 2012
Angkookrat Warangnam beat hundreds of women to make it into the final of a modelling competition - and then shocked organisers by revealing she was a man. Thai lady boy Angkookrat, known as Toon, was one of 200 'women' to enter the Brighton's Next Hot Model contest.
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"The competion is based on approach, looks and personality and Toon has all of that. It is about beauty pure and simple regardless of whether Toon was born male or female.
"We believe beauty is more than skin deep and would be honoured to have Toon in our final."
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Leggy Toon, who is mid-way through the group's nationwide 'Carnival Queens' show, is still listed as 'male' on her passport, which still features her birth name.
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