A kind-hearted Southport girl and talented performer has been chosen for next year’s Miss Teen GB Semi Finals – for the second time.
Ebony Barbé, aged 11, who loves acting, dancing and singing, has been chosen from hundreds of contestants across the nation.
She is thrilled to have been selected.
At the last event, Ebony was one of the few to receive a special award on stage.
She has been selected again as a semi finalist in Miss Teen Great Britain which will take place in October 2023.
She raised £500 for the Together For Short Lives charity last time and is hoping to raise a lot more this time around.
Ebony has been carrying out even more fundraising work recently, including delivering selection boxes to some local charities with Miss Liverpool Galaxy 2022.
Ebony was recognised thanks to her non-stop support of local good causes in Southport as well as raising funds and awareness for a cranio charity, inspired by her talented elder brother, Eden.
Her proud Mum Jenny Barbé said: “Ebony has been very busy the past year with lots of charity fundraising and appearances as Little Miss Teen Merseyside, including donating and helping out in local food banks, visiting homeless shelters, dancing in nursing homes, drawing the raffle at a charity piano concert, visiting Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, bag packing for Together For Short Lives, donating to clothes banks and charity shops, doing sponsored walks, helping at a charity Jubilee coffee morning, singing at the Southport Music Festival coffee morning and making cakes to sell at our school for the Macmillan coffee morning!
“She has raised £453 for the Together For Short Lives charity, did bag packing at Co-Op supermarket and raised awareness for Eden’s condition.
“Ebony loves to perform on stage and has been in professional pantomimes, and has danced in Ballroom and Latin competitions.
“She is an advocate for healthy looking girls, and doesn’t believe in body shaming.”
Ebony, a student at Stanley High School in Southport and a former pupil at Churchtown Primary School, has been a huge supporter of her brother throughout her life.
Eden is an award-winning ballroom dancer who was born with a rare condition which caused damage to his skull before he was born.
Ebony has been inspired by her brother to organise fundraising events and has also been a champion raising awareness of his condition.
In September she wrote about his experience during Cranio Awareness Month.
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