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Morpeth model Indeya Passfield will find out today if she is the hottest ginger in Australia. The 22-year-old was set to travel to Brisbane this morning for the final of the Buderim Ginger Hot for Ginger competition and was down to the last two competitors in the female section. “Since when is it cool to be a ginger?” Ms Passfield asked. “I fell into this competition when my friends tagged me on Facebook and I have just embraced it. “It is not often you see something celebrating gingers.” Ms Passfield had previously competed in pageants and now models and plays music. The competition has given her a platform to get her name out to the public and this week she was on both radio and television. “Everything I do I want there to be a good intent behind it,” she said. “This makes being ginger less dorky and quirky, it’s going to be great.” While she hopes to win the competition and the $15,000 first prize, just being in the finals is not too bad either. Each finalist is in Brisbane today at King George Square in a PR exercise for the media and the public, and will be whisked away to Noosa to spend time at a ginger beer factory. “It is really cool that we get to go to the ginger beer factory because I am from Morpeth and we have our own ginger beer factory,” she said. If Ms Passfield wins the ginger crown it will be the second for the area. Tamaruke Chilli, the therapy dog from Telarah Public School, won the Buderim Ginger competition to find Australia’s hottest ginger pet just last month.

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