THE PRETHOUGHTS
THE RESULTS (Jan. 30, 2017)
Vive la France! Of all the countries that have won Miss Universe, France is the country that has had to wait the longest for a second win. Christiane Martel won the Miss Universe crown for France way back in 1953 and now the gorgeous and charming Iris Mittenaere, the new Eyeful Tower, has finally won the second Miss Universe crown for the fashion capital of the world. Europe has struggled in recent years to get the crown. The last winner representing a European country was Oxana Fedorova of Russia in 2002 who got dethroned a few months after winning after being unable to fulfill her obligations as Miss Universe and Oxana was replaced by Panama's Justine Pasek. Therefore, the last full term Miss Universe from Europe was Norway's Mona Grudt who won the Miss Universe crown way back in 1990! Iris is only the 3rd French representative to make the top 5. Last year, Flora Coquerel managed to place in the top 5 so even though France has placed in the semifinals many years, only Christiane, Flora and now Iris are the only 3 representatives to make the top 5 for France. France is also one of 3 countries that have competed in EVERY Miss Universe pageant since its inception in 1952. Canada and Germany are the other two and USA was disqualified in 1957.
How did I do with my predictions? Well, I picked 7 of the top 13 plus 2 alternates (USA and Colombia). The 4 ladies that missed my list were: Panama, Kenya, Canada and Haiti. Panama, Kenya and Canada were all mentioned my next tier below honorable mentions but the main surprise this year was Haiti who got all the way to 1st runner up matching the placement of the last Haitian to place at Miss Universe, Gerthie David back in 1975!
My full commentary on Miss Universe 2016/17 will be posted on February 6.
Call this leap year the second as 2016 becomes the second calendar year to not have a Miss Universe pageant in it just like 2014 so instead the 65th Miss Universe pageant is being held in January 2017 so Miss Universe ’16 is going on ’17! The 2014 Miss Universe pageant was pushed to January 2015 just like this year’s pageant which is technically the 2016 Miss Universe pageant is being held in January 2017. Of course, I must reiterate my fear that this could be become a permanent skip and we might end up post-dating some previous Miss Universe titles and 2014 might forever remain a skipped year and Pia Wurtzbach, who was crowned near the end of the year 2015 could technically be named Miss Universe 2016 instead of 2015. It is quite possible that the cause of these post-dated pageants is due to ratings. The 63rd Miss Universe pageant held in January 2015 enjoyed decent ratings in the U.S. but the pageant in December 2015 experienced a dip in the ratings by 1.5 million viewers compared to the one held in January which is deemed a significant loss these days so for presumably higher ratings, they are having the Miss Universe pageant during awards season at the end of January and the week before the Super Bowl which is traditionally the event that gets the highest ratings in the U.S. If the 2016/17 Miss Universe pageant gets over 7.5 million U.S. viewers then that will probably mean that could mean that 2014 will be a forever skipped year and we may end up having post-dated Miss Universe titles like they did in the 1950s. The first official Miss Universe pageant was held in 1952 but that winner, Finland’s Armi Kuusela’s sash read 1953 on it as the winners of the 50s had their titles postdated. As of the 1960s, the winners would be named the titleholder of the year in which they won the title. The USA’s Linda Bement was named Miss Universe 1960 and crowned during that year. The post-dated title is a common practice of the Miss America pageant, excluding the years of 2006 to 2013 when the Miss America titleholders where held during the year they reigned but they went back to their traditional method of post-dating titles in 2013 when New York’s Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America 2014 in September 2013. This begs the question will the next Miss Universe pageant be held in 2017 or will it be held in 2018 causing a possible permanent post-dating of the Miss Universe title? Philippines’ Pia Wurtzbach now becomes the second Miss Universe to reign over three calendar years being crowned on December 20, 2015 and giving up her crown on January 29, 2017. Venezuela’s Gabriela Isler was the first Miss Universe to reign over three calendar years being crowned in November 2013 and giving up her crown in January 2015. This gives the Philippines’ Pia Wurtzbach the fourth longest reign in Miss Universe history as she reigns from December 20, 2015 to January 29, 2017 which equals 13 months and 1 week. The longest Miss Universe reign still belongs to Miss Universe 2011, Angola's Leila Lopes who reigned from September 12, 2011 to December 19, 2012 = 15 months and 1 week. Miss Universe 2013, Venezuela’s Gabriela Isler's reign from November 9, 2013 to January 25, 2015 was 14 months and 2 weeks and Miss Universe 2005, Canada's Natalie Glebova had the third longest reign from May 31, 2005 to July 23, 2006 = 13 months and 3 weeks.
The 1974 Miss Universe pageant was the third pageant to be held off mainland United States. With television satellite development, it became possible to broadcast live events from other countries. After years of holding the Miss Universe pageant in California and Florida, the 1972 pageant was held on the island of Puerto Rico, then the 1973 pageant won by the Philippines’ own Margarita Moran was held in Athens, Greece and the 1974 pageant was held in the Philippines for Margarita to crown her successor in her home country, Spain’s Amparo Munoz who tragically passed away in 2011 of brain cancer making Amparo the second Miss Universe to enter mortality after Miss Universe 1955, Sweden’s Hillevi Rombin Schine passed away in a plane crash in 1996. Spain’s Amparo Munoz was the only Miss Universe to have never been invited back to a succeeding Miss Universe pageant as she did not technically complete her reign and was rumored to be hard to handle and even punched her chaperone, perhaps a behavior learned from her father who was a boxer! To add to the drama in 1974, Amparo’s runner up at Miss Universe was Helen Morgan of Wales who would later that year win the Miss World title only to resign shortly after it was discovered that Helen was an unwed mother of an 18-month old child which is technically was not a violation of the rules at the time which stated that participants had to never have been married but didn’t say anything about having children. Helen felt pressured to resign and the Miss World pageant later included the rule that participants should not have had a child. The 1974 Miss Universe crown was not given to the 2nd runner up, Finland’s Johanna Raunio but coincidentally Finland would win the 1975 Miss Universe crown thanks to Anne Marie Pohtamo who was crowned in El Salvador by Miss Universe 1972, Australia’s Kerry Anne Wells. The Miss Universe pageant would return to the Philippines in 1994 with a much beloved pageant hosted by Bob Goen and featuring one of the best top 3s in pageant history with India’s Sushmita Sen taking the crown with Colombia’s Carolina Gomez finishing as 1st runner up and Carolina still holds the record for the highest recorded evening gown score in the Miss Universe pageant’s history (a whopping 9.897) and the 2nd runner up was the revered Photogenic-award winner with the fabulous name, Venezuela’s Minorka Mercado. The 1994 pageant is considered a must-watch for those who want to experience the glory of pageants past. What treasures will be revealed from the 65th Miss Universe pageant which is the third being held in the pearl of the Orient, the Philippines?
When the bee stings, when I’m feeling sad. I simply remember my favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad. Call it a sign of the times if you will. The presidential race in the United States came to a conclusion in 2016 and the world learned the results on November 8, 2016. As of January 20, 2017, the new president of the United States will be none other than Donald Trump! Trump selected Indiana governor Mike Pence to be his vice president. Of course, pageant fans are very aware that Trump purchased the Miss Universe family of pageants in 1996 and then sold part of his stake in 2003 to NBC, then bought back the entire pageant in 2015 and then sold it to WME/IMG who took ownership of the pageant prior to the 2015 Miss Universe pageant prior to Pia Wurtzbach’s win. On June 16, 2015, Trump made the official announcement that he was running to be the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency and during his speech, he made some controversial remarks about Mexicans and this resulted in a near derailment of the 2015 Miss USA pageant that was set to air a month later on July 12, 2015. The original performers, hosts, judges and the network NBC all boycotted the pageant resulting in a chaotic scramble to get the pageant back on track and it all came together with the network Reelz stepping in to air the pageant. Donald Trump seemed to have amended his relationship with NBC after buying back his share in the Miss Universe pageant from them as Trump was invited to host NBC’s Saturday Night Live on November 7, 2015 and Trump serves as a producer of the show he once hosted, ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ which began airing on NBC in January 2017 but with a new host, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Of course, controversy has been the name of the game in the publicity of pageants while Trump owned them and that even continued after he left with the last Miss Universe pageant with the infamous uncrowning of Colombia’s Ariadna Gutierrez. 
Controversy was also very much a part of his run for president and he took it all the way to the Whitehouse. Trump’s rival in the run for president was Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton (the wife of former U.S. president, Bill Clinton) who many thought would become the first female president of the United States and even though Hillary had over 2.8 million more votes than Trump, the U.S. election is determined by the Electoral College system so whoever has more than 270 electoral votes becomes the president and Trump got 306. This caused some to question the fairness of the Electoral College system which sees a state like Wyoming with a low population have more voting power than a highly populated state like California. The last time the winner of the popular vote lost due to this system was in 2000 when a super tight race saw George W. Bush get just a few more electoral votes than Al Gore. During the presidential race, since Trump was involved, pageantry got in the mix with some former delegates supporting Trump and others accusing him of being inappropriate doing things like walking into changing rooms and a tape from 2005 was even revealed of Trump making lewd remarks talking with Billy Bush (who hosted the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 2003 to 2005 and 2009) on an Access Hollywood bus. 
Access Hollywood was the show Billy hosted at the time. Trump passed it off as locker room talk but that ended up getting Billy Bush to resign after being suspended from his job on NBC’s Today Show. One central figure during the presidential debates was Miss Universe 1996 herself, Venezuela’s Alicia Machado who gained weight during her reign as Miss Universe and she said Trump called her names like Miss Piggy and Miss Housekeeping and an eating machine. I, of course, was very familiar with the situation as many of you know, I have written about it multiple times. Alicia is even Honoree #3 in my Shrine article written in 1998 when I started this website. Naturally, I got all giddy when, to my surprise, Hillary Clinton mentioned Alicia Machado’s name during the presidential debates saying that Alicia had just become an American citizen and she would be voting. Alicia was seen supporting Hillary Clinton during various campaigning events and Alicia, while making the media rounds, said she was very hurt by what Trump said to her. Trump’s defense was that with his comments, he was trying to help her and show Alicia some tough love. Of course, the Donald-Alicia connection runs deeper as the pattern-finder in me had to reveal this little gem of a pattern I found. Donald Trump took over the Miss Universe pageant in 1996 while the 45th Miss Universe who was Venezuela’s Alicia Machado reigned and now Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States and not only are both Alicia and Donald the 45th holders of their respective titles but they both also succeeded biracial winners - Donald Trump succeeded Barack Obama and Alicia Machado succeeded Chelsi Smith! These parallels have a way of emerging and further my belief that pageants are very relevant. So the United States have yet to crown a female president but perhaps, people voted for a businessman like Trump because they were sick of the politics of politics and wanted to see how America would be if it was run like a business… However, there has been a lot of repulsive behavior exposed so people need to remain vigilant. Who knows what the future holds but one thing is certain, the next four years are going to be very interesting so we shall see how it all plays out. The first Miss USA to be crowned since Trump sold the pageant to WME/IMG will be competing for the Miss Universe crown in the Philippines. The nation’s capital of the District of Columbia was represented by Deshauna Barber whose story of serving in the U.S. Armed Forces propelled her to the win at Miss USA but can she do it at Miss Universe? Deshauna is the District of Columbia’s third Miss USA succeeding Bobbi Johnson in 1964 and Shauntay Hinton in 2002 who both did not make the top 10 at their respective Miss Universe pageants although Bobbi was among the top 15 so if Deshauna can at least make it to the top 10, she could surpass her capital predecessors.
You might notice some of these headlines are a play on some songs from the film, ‘The Sound of Music,’ which came out in “1965” and this is the “65th” Miss Universe pageant after all so here’s a wild attempt to rewrite a famous song from that film, “In-A Way to Enter Through. Do-A Deer, A Female Deer. Ne-A Horse Bray or a Vote to Reject. Si-A yes, a Spanish Yes. A-An expression of delight or fear...” – So this one’s a bit of a stretch but you get where I’m going with this! I thought we would focus on Indonesia’s delegate, Kezia Roslin Cikita Warouw who is currently my winner for Miss Universe 2016/17. Indonesia is the 4th most populated country in the world after China, India and the USA so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they are looking for their moment of glory and Kezia could become a hero by getting a win for these 13,000 spectacular islands. Indonesia regularly invites Miss Universe winners to assist in crowning their Miss (Puteri) Indonesia winners and although, relatively quiet in terms of pageant performance for years, Indonesia is a country that does have a lot of pageant fans. Their first placement was in 2005 and they have placed 3 consecutive years from 2013 to 2015 so will Kezia not only bring Indonesia their 4th placement in a row but also the coveted win?? Remember that Indonesia did win the National Costume award for 2014 and it was determined by an Internet vote and in recent years, Internet voting has become an important part of the selection process of the winner so I can see it happening for Kezia who is unusually tall for an Indonesian woman standing at 6 feet tall with her fabulous long legs and she works as a model and she has very striking features.
Nicknamed Keke, she is also very smart as she holds a degree in Informatics Engineering and worked as a head of Accounting and Finance. Kezia volunteers for Smile Train Indonesia which is a charity that provides free cleft lip and palate surgery and care to children in need which is a cause that has garnered much attention in the Miss World pageant in recent years and cognizance of this may cross over to the Miss Universe pageant. Kezia also hopes to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS which is one of the main causes Miss Universe works for throughout her reign. Another interesting factoid to note was that in the last Miss Universe pageant to be held in the Philippines in 1994, Venna Melinda was supposed to be representing Indonesia but she could not participate in the pageant due to some of her country’s members’ religious disagreement at the time with the swimsuit competition and so Venna only watched the pageant as an audience member. Will the Philippines lift up Indonesia in a big way this time around?? Also remember that the Philippines has crowned first time winners of major countries before like Spain in 1974 and India in 1994 so will the 4th most populated country in the world, Indonesia experience its first win in the Philippines?
You just work in a little of Osmel Sousa’s Venezuelan magic and voila! Instant glamazon! Mariam Habach is the pageant powerhouse nation of Venezuela’s bet for the Miss Universe crown and no country can compare to Venezuela when it comes to the international pageant scene. Venezuela has more international pageant crowns than any other country and Mariam has an opportunity to become the eighth Miss Universe for the gateway of South America. Venezuela is the only country to have won the Miss Universe title two years in a row and their seven Miss Universe titleholders are Maritza Sayalero (1979), Irene Saez (1981), Barbara Palacios Teyde (1986), Alicia Machado (1996), Dayana Mendoza (2008), Stefania Fernandez (2009) and Gabriela Isler (2013). Now we have Mariam representing this pageant powerhouse and as expected, she certainly has the body and the long legs standing at 6 feet tall. She also has the moves and her strong stage presentation is bound to make a powerful impact on this year’s competition. Mariam’s mother is Italian and Mariam’s father is from the ravaged nation of Syria which is a country in crisis after the Syrian civil war and now many refugees are seeking shelter in other countries around the world so this may come up when Mariam tells her story. Mariam is studying to be a dentist and speaks four languages: Spanish, English, Italian and Arabic. Venezuela is currently a country that has experienced a significant amount of economic turmoil recently so one can only wonder if this will garner some sympathy for their nation's representative to give hope to that nation. Can Mariam do it?
Every morning you greet me… It is very rare that a woman of color wins the Miss Brazil title but when one does, you better believe she will be universally adored. Such is the case with Raissa Santana from Parana with whom the world seems to be madly in love including myself which is why Raissa is currently among my top 3 picks for the Miss Universe crown. Another Miss Brazil of color was Deise Nunes de Souza who stunned her way to a 6th place ranking at the 1986 Miss Universe pageant and while this was a respectable finish, many people feel that Deise should have placed even higher. Now we have Raissa Santana who has a strong chance of capturing the Miss Universe crown and maintaining the land of samba’s streak in the semifinals as they have placed every year since the year they hosted the Miss Universe pageant which was in 2011 and three of those years were placements in the top 5 but Brazil seems to have dipped in the last two Miss Universe pageant even though they placed among the semifinalists so Raissa, with her stunning and fabulous exotic looks is being counted on to bring on a resurgence for the fifth most populated country in the world. Raissa stands 5 feet 9 inches tall and holds a Marketing degree. She also loves to cook and play basketball. Brazil has won the Miss Universe crown twice – Ieda Maria Vargas (1963) and Martha Vasconcellos (1968) so will the beautiful flower of noble Raissa get a third win for this tropical paradise?
The island nation of Barbados from which the popular singer Rihanna hails sends a very strong delegate this year, Shannon Harris seems to be a favorite on many lists and she could very well become this country’s first semifinalist in Miss Universe history. Shannon is competing in the Philippines for the Miss Universe crown and she will certainly ‘work’ and show us ‘this is what she came for’. Lightning strikes every time she moves or at least, it feels like lightning when she electrifies the stage with her jawdropping beauty and glamour. Shannon works as a professional model and she wants to demonstrate how confidently beautiful she is by encouraging young girls to love themselves and advising that being true to yourself is the best thing you can do, similarly to the words from a very notable Shakespearian. Barbados doesn’t often compete for Miss Universe. In fact, their last participant competed 9 years ago in the 2007 Miss Universe pageant. Will Shannon make a huge name for herself and for her country? Another strong contestant for the Miss Universe crown is the representative of the land of the Incas, Peru! Valeria Piazza is a stunning beauty who is also well prepared. Valeria holds a degree in Communications from Universidad de Lima. Peru hasn’t won the crown since their only titleholder, Gladys Zender did it back in 1957. Peru’s placements have been sporadic in recent years but their titleholders do receive strong preparation from Jessica Newton, Miss Peru 1987 who was a top 10 semifinalist at Miss Universe who has been active in Peru’s pageant scene for several years. Peru hasn’t placed since 2012 so will Valeria bring the land of Machu Picchu back in a very big way?
Canada, the land of the maple leaf, is being represented by Siera Bearchell, who is no stranger to the pageant world and has quite the pageant resumé. Not only was Siera 1st runner up to Miss Supranational 2015 but she was also 2nd runner up at Miss Teen World 2009. She was also 1st runner up at that controversial year of Miss Universe Canada 2013 where the wrong winner was originally crowned but the results were corrected and Riza Santos was declared the actual winner. It was an episode similar to what happened with Pia Wurtzbach's crowning. Another instance in the past where the wrong winner was crowned only to be corrected later was at Miss California USA 2008 when there was a tabulation error and Raquel Beezley was later declared the winner even though Cristina Silva was crowned on the night of the pageant. Siera hails from the central Canadian province of Saskatchewan which is a province that hasn’t produced many pageant winners. In 2009, shortly before she was a Saskatchewan teen titleholder, Siera’s family lost their home in a fire but her family received assistance from the Canadian Red Cross and this experience led Siera to compete in pageants to use her platform as an opportunity to give back and help others. Siera has even done volunteer work with charities in other countries like Kenya and Nicaragua. Siera also wears a lot of hats (or crowns?) as she also studied law at the University of Saskatchewan and she also runs her own clothing business called Watered Down Apparel. She is also very athletic and this competitive spirit coupled with her achievements and charity work should help Siera in the Miss Universe pageant. Canada hasn’t placed at Miss Universe since 2006 and has won the Miss Universe crown twice (1982 and 2005) so will Siera bring the true north, strong and free, back to the semifinals in a big way and will she climb every Rocky mountain until she finds her dream?
In true telenovela style, there has been a lot of Puerto Rican drama in the pageant world. Puerto Rico was originally supposed to be represented at Miss Universe by Kristhieelee Caride who was dethroned after an interview with Venezuelan entertainment reporter Patricia Vargas in which Kristhielee appeared rather nonchalant and unenthusiastic. Desiree Lowry, Miss Puerto Rico 1995 and top 6 finalist at Miss Universe 1995, is now the national director for Miss Universe Puerto Rico. She gave a televised announcement regarding Kristhielee being fired due to her attitude with the reporter and later it was said she was missing scheduled appearances. Beauty queens are normally expected to be regularly on the ball in many cases but Kristhielee’s defense was that she was having a bad day. Even after an apology letter, this case went to court but the judge did not side with Kristhielee. Call it a case of Caribbean Blue turned Caride-‘n’ Blue as I’m sure Kristhielee feels blue that she will no longer be representing the shining star of the Caribbean. Kristhielee was originally my winner after she was crowned but the new representative for Puerto Rico, who is Brenda Jimenez is a bit of a question mark. This was not the only case of dethronement involving a Puerto Rican beauty queen. Genesis Davila has quite the pageant resumé as she was Miss Puerto Rico World 2014 (unplaced at Miss World 2014), she was 1st runner up to Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2013, Monic Perez and she was also 1st runner up to Miss Intercontinental 2012. Genesis would originally win the Miss Florida USA 2017 pageant only to be dethroned after she was alleged to have hired professional hair and make-up artists for the state pageant which is apparently against that pageant’s rules giving her an unfair advantage. Linette De Los Santos who was Davila’s runner up at Miss Florida USA will now represent Florida at Miss USA 2017 this summer. Interestingly enough, given all this Puerto Rican drama, they managed to win the Miss World crown in December! Stephanie Del Valle won the 2016 Miss World crown and it is quite a feat for a country to hold the Miss Universe crown and Miss World crowns in the same year but it has actually happened several times with countries like France (1953), Australia (1972), Venezuela (1981), India (1994 and 2000) so will Brenda Jimenez be the next to achieve this feat and possibly get a 6th Miss Universe crown for Puerto Rico?
However, since this website focuses on the Miss Universe family of pageants, there was a notable death when Alan Thicke, who hosted the 1988 Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, tragically passed away after suffering a heart attack while playing hockey with his son Carter who is the son of pageant royalty himself. Carter is Thicke’s youngest son with his second wife, Gina Tolleson who was Miss World 1990 and 1st runner up to Miss USA 1990, Michigan’s Carole Gist. From 1981 to 1991, a runner up at the Miss USA pageant would automatically become the United States representative at Miss World whereas the winner of Miss USA represents the United States at Miss Universe. Other Miss USA 1st runners-up that would later compete at Miss World included Shauna Gambill in 1998 and just recently, Audra Mari (1st runner up to Miss USA 2014) won the right to represent the United States at the 2016 Miss World pageant. Both Shauna and Audra finished in the top 10 at their respective Miss World pageants. Alan Thicke had quite a storied career as a songwriter of some very notable songs including the theme songs for hit American sitcoms, ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ and ‘The Facts of Life’. He would later host a Canadian talk show ‘Thicke of the Night’ and he was even a judge at the 1984 Miss Universe pageant in Miami (won by Sweden’s Yvonne Ryding) before landing the role that made him famous: Jason Seaver, the father on the hit 80s sitcom, ‘Growing Pains.’ Thicke’s fame at the time would land him the role of succeeding long-time Miss Universe host, Bob Barker who hosted Miss USA and Miss Universe for 21 years which is the longest period of any host (from 1967 to 1987). Thicke would succeed Barker who left the pageants due to his disagreement with awarding pageant winners with furs. Thicke would host the 1988 Miss USA pageant in El Paso, Texas which saw host-delegate Texas’ Courtney Gibbs winning the 4th of 5 consecutive Texas wins at that pageant. Thicke would later host the 1988 Miss Universe pageant in Taiwan which saw Thailand’s Porntip Nakhirunkanok take the crown. Thicke was replaced the following year with Dick Clark at Miss USA 1989 and John Forsythe at Miss Universe 1989. Even though 1988 was Thicke’s only year to host the Miss USA and Universe pageants, he would host other pageants including the 1992 Miss World America pageant along with his soon-to-be second wife, Gina Tolleson. Thicke also hosted the 2004 Miss Universe Canada pageant which was won by Venessa Fisher but included a notable delegate, Natalie Glebova as 3rd runner up who would go on to win Miss Universe Canada the next year and subsequently Miss Universe 2005! Thicke also hosted the Mrs. World 2006 pageant in Russia which saw a similar crowning debacle to the one Steve Harvey unleashed on the world for Miss Universe 2015. However the Mrs. World 2006 incident was not the fault of Thicke, rather it was a former Mrs. World who mistakenly sashed and crowned the 1st runner up Mrs. Costa Rica leading to a dramatic episode which was later corrected as an 18-year-old married Mrs. Russia (who was also the host delegate) was named the winner of the 2006 Mrs. World crown. Sadly, it seems that a controversial incident is needed these days for media publicity as a regular scandal-free pageant win is rarely covered in today’s media. Alan’s son Robin Thicke is a noted musician whose song ‘Magic’ was the 2008 Miss Universe evening gown competition song and Robin would later go on to score one of the biggest hits of 2013, ‘Blurred Lines.’ May the multi-talented and handsome Alan Thicke rest in peace.