Miss Universe 2006Miss Puerto Rico, Zuleyka RiveraCome on girls, admit it...

Most of us have, at some stage, performed our own little tearful beauty contest win... in the privacy of our own bedrooms, at least.

But Miss Universe 2006 got the chance to do the whole thing for real - the crown, the flowers, the tears and the runny mascara.

And the lucky girl was Miss Puerto Rico, one Zuleyka Rivera.

As you can imagine, things got pretty tense once the bikinis and evening dresses had been paraded and the girls had chatted to the hosts about world peace.

The top five, including Misses Japan, USA, Paraguay and Switzerland, had an agonising wait before Miss Puerto Rico scooped up the top prize.

We have captured all the beauty, fashion, glamour, emotion and, of course, bikinis, in our perfectly elegant gallery above.