Tegan Jade Martin (born 7 September 1992) is an Australian model, hairdresser and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned

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on 6 June 2014 and represented her country at the

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pageant.

Early life

Tegan Martin grew up in the suburbs of Charlestown and Jewells in the city of Newcastle NSW. Martin attended St Joseph's Primary School Charlestown and then St Mary’s High School Gateshead until Year 10 when she left school to became a full-time hairdressing apprentice at Pandora's Hair Witchery. Martin has been living in Sydney for the last few years in order to further her modeling career. She is now studying a Bachelor of Health Science and is a qualified hair and make-up artist.

Career

Pageantry

Miss Universe Australia 2011

Martin finished as the 1st Runner-up at Miss Universe Australia 2011 represented

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. Meanwhile, the official winner was

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from Watermans Bay,

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crowned as 2011 winner and competed at

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. She placed in Top 10.Perth beauty Scherri-Lee Biggs crowned Miss Universe Australia, 8 July 2011, Herald Sun
accessed 9 July 2011

Miss Universe Australia 2013

Martin finished as the 1st Runner-up at Miss Universe Australia 2013 represented

. Meanwhile, the official winner was Olivia Wells from

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crowned as the 2013 winner and competed at

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where she did not place in the top 16.

Miss Universe Australia 2014

Martin was crowned as Miss Universe Australia 2014 represented

on her third attempt.

Miss Universe 2014

Martin represented Australia at

where she placed among the Top 10. Her roommate was Miss USA, Nia Sanchez who placed first runner-up.

Television

Celebrity Apprentice

In 2015, Martin appeared as a celebrity contestant on the fourth season of Nine Network's Australian reality series ''

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''. Martin was fired in the 7th task, but raised $130,782 for her charity The Sydney Children's Hospital Westmead (Metabolic Clinic).

I'm a Celebrity

In January 2017, Martin was revealed as a celebrity contestant on the third season of Network Ten's Australian reality series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. On 5 March 2017, Martin was the 6th celebrity eliminated from the series after 38 days in the jungle coming in 9th place.

References

External links

Miss Universe Australia Official website
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