A former Miss Universe title holder who previously accepted an invitation from a teenage boy for a date for his school dance only to call it off later, finally made up for her misdeed by visiting the spurned boy in his school.

Jennifer Hawkins, a former Australian beauty queen-turned TV presenter, initially agreed to be 17-year-old Daniel Dibley's partner to the end-of-year dance at Bathurst High School, west of Sydney.

She later pulled out however, saying she feared that the publicity it would generate would overshadow the party for the school's final year students.

Wanting to make up with Daniel, she visited the school and went for lunch with the boy.

Hawkins also apologized before the school assembly for the fuss the incident created.

"I didn't want you guys to think I didn't want to come to Bathurst, or I didn't want come to the formal dance," an apologetic Hawkins said.