Gabriella Demetriades Miss IPL of Bollywood

Gabriella Demetriades is a profession model. Gabriella Demetriades became one of the finalists of Miss IPL Bollywood contest in 2009. The winner of Miss Bollywood IPL South Africa Competition will win Rs. 50,000 in cash, a business class airticket to India, attend the screen of a Bollywood movie and if fortunate would play a role in Bollywood and win other prizes. But later, it was clarified that the winner will get a guided tour of Bollywood. Gabriella Demetriades said that if she won the contest she would donate the money to charity.

A Johannesburg student, prior to modeling, Gabriella Demetriades worked as a promoter for a company. Currently, she is a popular South African model. Based in Cape Town, Gabriella Demetriades hails from Parsons Hill in Port Elizabeth. She has been working as a model since the age of 16. She entered the Weekend Post’s Faces of the Future competition in her home town. Together with her high school friend, Kimberley Wood, 23 year old Gabriella runs a communications and marketing company named Satin Soldier in Cape Town. In 2009, Gabriella Demetriades joined the competition for the Miss Bollywood SA title along with 48 South African women from different walks of life. She represented the Deccan Chargers after being picked from the crowd of spectators who were watching the cricket match between Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals. Unfortunately, Dune Kossatz was named Miss Bollywood IPL South Africa in an event at the Montecasino entertainment complex in Johannesburg.

Right now the relationship between Lalit Modi and Ministry of Foreign Affairs appears to touch new lows every new day. However, there was a time when Modi was so sure about his relationship with Ministry of  Foreign Affairs that he made a request to ministry to deny visa extension to Gabriella Demetriades, one of the contestants of Miss IPL Bollywood. Indian Express reported that the E-mails between Modi and the Minister’s office in January show that the model’s visa was due to expire in February 2010 and Modi wanted Tharoor’s office to make sure that her request for the visa’s renewal be rejected.

However, the ministry acted with its own prudence without paying any heed to unsolicited advice of Lalit modi and extended the visa of Gabriella. Although, when asked by the Indian Express correespondent why did he want to stall the visa of  South African model he declined to comment over it. Right now there are many stories going on over this issue and most of them insinuate that there was something brewing between the model and IPL Commissioner Modi.