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13 unusual facts about Miss USA


Allison Paganetti

Allison Paganetti (born February 21, 1984) is a beauty queen from North Kingstown, Rhode Island who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.

Amanda Mitteer

Amanda Lee Mitteer (born November 20, 1978) is a beauty queen from Brattleboro, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.

Danelle Gay

Danelle Marie Gay (born c. 1981) is a beauty queen from Lapeer, Michigan who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.

Jacqueline Quinn

Quinn has worked in association with New Balance to raise breast cancer awareness by constructing a gown made entirely from shoe material which was then worn by Miss USA.

Kristin Morrison

She assists both winners in their preparations for their national competitions, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.

Lauren Lanning

On April 21, 2006, The 55th Annual Miss USA Competition was seen live from the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, M.D. on NBC.

Mercedes Lindsay

Mercedes Catherine Lindsey (born February 9, 1981) is a beauty queen from Washington, D.C. who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007.

Paula Trickey

In 1985 she was crowned Miss Oklahoma in the All-American Teen Pageant (a Miss USA production) only to lose in the finals to an unknown Halle Berry.

Robyn Watkins

Robyn Michelle Watkins (born 1981) is a beauty queen from Norman, Oklahoma who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.

Terry Huntingdon

Terry Lynn Huntingdon (born on May 8, 1940) is Miss USA 1959.

Timeline of San Bernardino, California history

The Miss USA Pageant is held in San Bernardino on July 25, and televised on CBS.

Viennese Opera Ball in New York

The Debutante procession is typically led by either the reigning Miss USA or the reigning Miss Universe.

Wade Hayes

On April 4, 1999, Hayes married former Miss USA runner-up Danni Boatwright, who appeared in the video for Hayes' single "Tore Up from the Floor Up".


Alysha Harris

Alysha Noel Harris (born December 25, 1987) is an American beauty queen from La Grange who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2008.

Amber Copley

Amber Brooke Copley (born August 2, 1985) is a beauty queen from Abingdon, Virginia who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants.

Brooke Angus

Brooke Elizabeth Angus (born February 14, 1982) is a beauty queen from Essex, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA 2002 and Miss World 2006 pageants.

Crystal Hayes

Crystal Hayes (born September 25, 1984) is a beauty queen who has held the title Miss Michigan USA and competed at Miss USA.

Gretchen Polhemus

As the official representative of her state to the 1989 Miss USA pageant, held in Mobile, Alabama, Jensen captured the crown of Miss USA, becoming its 38th titleholder, and the last of five consecutive winners from Texas during the 1980s.

Helen O'Connell

O'Connell co-hosted the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants with Bob Barker from 1972 to 1980 and was nominated for an Emmy award in 1976 for her coverage of the Miss Universe pageant.

Holly Allen

Holly Katherine Allen (born January 11, 1988) is a beauty queen from Lander, Wyoming who will compete in the Miss USA pageant in the summer of 2012.

Jennifer Sherrill

Other Alpha Sigma Tau sisters from the same university include Terri Utley (Miss USA 1982) and Jessica Furrer (Miss Arkansas USA 2005).

Jineane Ford

Overall, Ford finished first runner-up to Miss South Carolina USA Shawn Weatherly, which gave her the right to assume the Miss USA title should Weatherly be unable to complete her reign.

Joy Robinson

Joy Robinson is a beauty queen who has held the title Miss Iowa USA and competed at Miss USA.

Katherine Connors

Katherine "Katie" Anna Connors (born May 31, 1989) is a model and beauty queen from Bettendorf, Iowa who holds the Miss Iowa USA 2010 title and who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.

Katie Rees

She was to compete in the 2007 Miss USA pageant but was dethroned in December 2006 following the release of sexually charged pictures of her taken at a Florida nightclub three years prior.

Kayne Gillaspie

While appearing on Project Runway, Gillaspie won the "Fit for a Queen" challenge that required designers to create an evening gown for Miss USA Tara Conner to wear in the Miss Universe pageant.

Kristen Johnson

Kristen Lynn Johnson (born March 16, 1982) is an American beauty queen who has represented Kentucky at both Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.

Mary-Margaret Humes

Humes competed as Miss Thousand Islands in the 1973 Miss New York State contest, and she won the Miss Florida USA pageant and was third runner up in the 1975 Miss USA pageant behind eventual winner and fellow actress Summer Bartholomew of California.

Micah Jesse

In January 2012, Jesse was a judge at the Miss New York USA pageant, helping to select the 2012 representative for the state of New York in the Miss USA pageant.

Miriam Stevenson

Miriam Jacqueline Stevenson (born July 4 July 1933, in Winnsboro, South Carolina), won the Miss USA pageant as Miss South Carolina USA in 1954.

Nikkie Groat

As Miss North Carolina Teen USA, Groat was the "sister" titleholder to Chelsea Cooley, who was Miss North Carolina USA for five months before she won the Miss USA title.

Orion, Bataan

She placed first runner up in the Binibining Pilipinas 2011, but won in Binibining Pilipinas 2012, and became the representative of the Philippines in Miss Universe 2012 and placed first runner-up behind Miss USA, Olivia Culpo.

Sara Brooks

Sara Brooks (born December 9, 1987) is a former American pageant titleholder from Houston, Texas who won the Miss Louisiana USA title and competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2010.

Stefanía Fernández

She also traveled to Cannes, France, on 9 December 2009, for the Five Star Diamond awards, with Miss USA Kristen Dalton, and to Willemstad, Curaçao and Barquisimeto, Venezuela, as well, in early January 2010, for the Procesión de la Divina Pastora (Procession of the Holy Shepherdess).

Tanya Lehman

Tanya Justine (Lehman) Jarrett (born August 14, 1983) is a beauty queen, model, and actress from York, Pennsylvania who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.

Tara Gray

She is also a former beauty queen originally from Birmingham, Alabama who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants.

Wendy Dascomb

Wendy Dascomb (born c. 1949) is a pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana, who held the Miss USA 1969 title.