Delyse Borley (née Nottle)
When newly-crowned Miss New Zealand Delyse Nottle touched down in Korea in 1980 to compete in the Miss Universe competition, she looked around at the other contestants and didn’t rate her chances. With the girls’ huge entourages and suitcases overflowing with designer gowns, the then 21-year-old student teacher from Tauranga realised this was a whole other league.
“You should have seen the other girls,” she recalls. “They were so
