Jesus “Jessie” Guinto is heading into Mister Glam International this December with something he didn’t have the last time he stepped onto an international pageant stage: time. In 2023, he processed his Schengen visa to go to Spain as a host, not a competitor. He’d already won his own title, Mister Tourism Globe Philippines, at the Mister Grand Philippines 2023 national pageant, and the Filipino organizer behind that year’s international edition — where the national winner would normally compete — asked Guinto to hold the microphone instead, at the show in Huelva and Seville. He said yes, started prepping his hosting lines, and packed for a trip where the hardest thing on his plate would be pronouncing 21 countries’ names correctly. Roughly two weeks before the coronation, the original titleholder’s visa fell through. Guinto’s was already in hand. Overnight, the assignment changed from hosting the show to representing the Philippines in it. When Mister Grand International 2023 actually crowned its winner that January in 2024, Guinto placed fifth runner-up — on zero pageant prep. Mister …