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Miss Teen USA 2002
Miss Teen USA is a beauty pageant that has been run since 1983 by the Miss Universe Organization for girls aged 14–19 years old as of January 1st of the competition year. They must be US citizens, and cannot have been married, pregnant, or have children. Unlike its sister pageants Miss Universe, which currently broadcasts on JKN18 and like its sister pageant Miss USA, it is televised on The CW television network starting in 2024, after being streamed online for several years. The Miss Universe Organization previously operated Miss Teen USA, as well as Miss USA, until 2020 when the rights to produce both pageants were licensed to Miss USA 2008 Crystle Stewart prior to her suspension in October 2022, thus returning the said pageants to the Miss Universe Organization. The parent company of all three pageants and the Miss Universe organization remains the same under the licensing agreement: JKN Metaverse Inc., a subsidiary of JKN Global Group. Prior to 1983, a beauty contest b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Teen USA 1983
Miss Teen USA 1983, the first Miss Teen USA pageant, was televised live from the RP Funding Center, Lakeland Civic Auditorium in Lakeland, Florida on 30 August 1983. The event was hosted by Michael Young (actor), Michael Young and included musical guests Air Supply and the Solid Gold Dancers. At the conclusion of the final competition, Ruth Zakarian of New York (state), New York was crowned Miss Teen USA, by Miss USA 1983 Julie Hayek and Miss Universe 1983 Lorraine Downes. Background The Miss Teen USA pageant was created by the owners of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants as a "natural extension" of those pageants. Originally, any winner over age 17 was automatically entered as a contestant-at-large at the Miss USA pageant. 1983 winner Ruth Zakarian competed at Miss USA 1984 and did not make the semi-finals. As host city, Lakeland and its residents contributed at least $500,000 in goods and services, with the intention that the publicity brought by the pageant would offse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystle Stewart
Crystle Stewart Sebrechts ( Stewart) (born September 20, 1981) is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Stewart began her acting career in 2011, when she played real estate agent Leslie Morris on the OWN/ TBS comedy-drama television series '' For Better or Worse'' until 2017. Shortly after, she appeared in the 2018 film '' Acrimony''. She also won Miss Texas USA 2008 and Miss USA 2008, she represented the United States at Miss Universe 2008, where she reached in the placed Top 10. From 2020 to 2023, Stewart was the national director of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA. She was suspended from the position following allegations of favoritism, rigging the results at Miss USA 2022, and sexual harassment at Miss USA 2021. She officially stepped down in August 2023. Life and career Early life Crystle Danae Stewart is an African American. Pageantry Stewart won the Miss Texas USA 2008 title in a state pageant held in Laredo, Texas on July 1, 2007, after competing against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Lachey
Vanessa Joy Lachey (née Minnillo; born November 9, 1980) is an American television host, model and actress. She was named Miss Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York–based correspondent for ''Entertainment Tonight'' and hosted ''Total Request Live'' on MTV. She has starred in two network sitcoms and hosted various competition and reality shows. Lachey portrayed the lead role in the CBS crime drama television series '' NCIS: Hawaiʻi'' (2021–2024) for three seasons. Early life Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born at the 13th Air Force Regional Medical Center at Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Philippines. Her father, Vincent Charles Minnillo, is an American citizen who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, while her mother, Helen Ramos Bercero, was born in Manila, Philippines. Minnillo has an adopted brother who is two years older. Her family moved frequently because of her father's service in the Air Force. She lived in Washington, California, Nevada, Florida, Germany, and Japan and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vermont
Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec to the north. According to the most recent U.S. Census estimates, the state has an estimated population of 648,493, making it the List of U.S. states and territories by population, second-least populated of all U.S. states. It is the nation's List of U.S. states and territories by area, sixth smallest state in area. The state's capital of Montpelier, Vermont, Montpelier is the least populous List of capitals in the United States, U.S. state capital. No other U.S. state has a List of largest cities of U.S. states and territories by population, most populous city with fewer residents than Burlington, Vermont, Burlington. Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans have inhabited the area for abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Ayanna
Charlotte Ayanna is an American actress, author and former beauty queen who won Miss Teen USA 1993. Early life Ayanna was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but moved to Vermont at an early age. She had a troubled childhood, spending sixteen years in foster homes after her mother, Emma, was judged to be mentally unfit to look after her children. In 1994, at age 17, she was adopted into a foster home. Career Her first national exposure was in 1993, when she became Miss Teen USA. Following her pageant career, she worked with author Susan Dworkin to write a book, ''Lost in the System'' (1996), about her experiences as a foster child and pageant winner. Ayanna then transitioned into acting, making guest appearances on episodes of various television series, including three episodes of ''Weird Science'' and one episode of ''Entourage''. Her first acting credit, after changing her name to Charlotte Ayanna, was her appearance in an October 1998 episode of '' Profiler''. She also appeared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon
Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. The 42nd parallel north, 42° north parallel delineates the southern boundary with California and Nevada. The western boundary is formed by the Pacific Ocean. Oregon has been home to many Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous nations for thousands of years. The first European traders, explorers, and settlers began exploring what is now Oregon's Pacific coast in the early to mid-16th century. As early as 1564, the Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, Spanish began sending vessels northeast from the Philippines, riding the Kuroshio Current in a sweeping circular route across the northern part of the Pacific. In 1592, Juan de Fuca undertook detailed mapping a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgette Wilson
Bridgette Wilson Sampras (born September 25, 1973) is an American former actress, singer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Teen USA 1990. She began her career in acting, playing the character of Lisa Fenimore on the soap opera '' Santa Barbara'' from April 1992 to January 1993. She appeared in a number of films including ''Last Action Hero'' (1993) in her film debut, '' Higher Learning'' (1995), ''Mortal Kombat'' (1995), and '' Billy Madison'' (1995). She had roles in '' I Know What You Did Last Summer'' (1997), '' House on Haunted Hill'' (1999), '' The Wedding Planner'' (2001), and ''Shopgirl'' (2005). Early life Wilson was born in Gold Beach, Oregon, a small coastal town north of Brookings, the daughter of Kathy and Dale Wilson. She grew up there and was on the volleyball team for Gold Beach High School. She won the Miss Teen USA title in 1990 at the age of 16 in Biloxi, Mississippi, and was the second winner from Oregon. She graduated from Gold Beach High Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics. Hawaii consists of 137 volcanic islands that comprise almost the entire Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian archipelago (the exception, which is outside the state, is Midway Atoll). Spanning , the state is Physical geography, physiographically and Ethnology, ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. Hawaii's ocean coastline is consequently the List of U.S. states and territories by coastline, fourth-longest in the U.S., at about . The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niihau, Niihau, Kauai, Kauai, Oahu, Oahu, Molokai, Molokai, Lanai, Lānai, Kahoʻolawe, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii (island), Hawaii, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Hu
Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, 1968) is an American actress. She starred as Dr. Rae Chang on the American television soap opera '' Sunset Beach'' and as Michelle Chan on the American television police drama series '' Nash Bridges''. She has starred in numerous films including '' The Scorpion King'' (2002) as Cassandra, '' Cradle 2 the Grave'' (2003) as Sona, '' X2'' (2003) as Yuriko Oyama / Lady Deathstrike, '' The Tournament'' (2009) as Lai Lai Zhen, and '' White Frog'' (2012). She appeared as China White/Chen Na Wei in The CW series ''Arrow.'' Hu has had recurring roles as Pearl on The CW series ''The Vampire Diaries'', Hamato Miwa / Karai on ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', Stacy Hirano on the Disney Channel animated series ''Phineas and Ferb'', and as Adira in '' Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure''. She also voices Cheshire and Paula Crock / Huntress in Young Justice. Early life Hu was born on February 13, 1968, in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Juanita and Herbert Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PR Newswire
PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases headquartered in Chicago. The service was created in 1954 to allow companies to electronically send press releases to news organizations, using teleprinters at first. The founder, Herbert Muschel, operated the service from his house in Manhattan for approximately 15 years. The business was eventually sold to Western Union and then United Newspapers of London. In December 2015, Cision Inc. announced it would acquire the company. On January 1, 2021, Cision formally merged PR Newswire into the company. History PR Newswire was founded in March 1954 by Herbert Muschel, who ran the business from his town house in New York City for the first 15 years of its operation. The company used telecommunications lines and teleprinters owned by Western Union to distribute content to a dozen news organizations in New York. Its first customer was Trans World Airlines. In 1963, Muschel recruited David Steinberg of the New York Herald Tribune to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. It comprises more than 3,000 islands, cays and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and north-west of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Nassau, The Bahamas, Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama islands were inhabited by the Arawak and Lucayan people, Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-Taino language, speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau ( ) is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas. It is on the island of New Providence, which had a population of 246,329 in 2010, or just over 70% of the entire population of The Bahamas. As of April 2023, the preliminary results of the 2022 census of The Bahamas reported a population of 296,522 for New Providence, 74.26% of the country's population. Nassau is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country. It is the centre of commerce, education, law, administration, and media of the country. Lynden Pindling International Airport, the major airport for The Bahamas, is located about west of the city centre of Nassau, and has daily flights to and from major cities in Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States. Nassau is the site of the House of Assembly and various judicial departments and was considered historically to be a stronghold of pirates. The city was named in honour of William III of England, Prince of Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
