Miss America 2012, the 85th
Miss America
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pageant, was held at the
Theatre for the Performing Arts
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of
Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino
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on the
Las Vegas Strip
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in
Paradise, Nevada
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on Saturday, January 14, 2012.
Miss America 2011
Miss America 2011 was the 84th Miss America pageant. Since the first Miss America pageant was held years ago, in 1921, the Miss America Organization was celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2011.
It was held at the Theatre for the Performing Art ...
,
Teresa Scanlan
Teresa Michelle Scanlan (born February 6, 1993) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Gering, Nebraska who was named Miss Nebraska 2010, subsequently winning Miss America 2011 at age 17 and becoming the youngest Miss America since Bette ...
from
Nebraska
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, crowned her successor
Laura Kaeppeler
Laura Marie Kaeppeler (born March 2, 1988) is an American beauty pageant titleholder crowned Miss America 2012 on January 14, 2012, representing the state of Miss Wisconsin, Wisconsin. Kaeppeler was the first woman representing Wisconsin to win M ...
from
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
at the end of this event. It was broadcast live on
ABC
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[ All 50 states plus the ]District of Columbia
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, Virgin Islands
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, and Puerto Rico
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competed for the title.
Chris Harrison
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Brooke Burke
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, for the second year in a row, hosted the pageant.
Results
Placements
* - America's Choice
** - Saved by eliminated delegates after Swimsuit Competition to compete in Evening Gown as a "wild card"
Order of announcements
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Awards
Preliminary awards
Quality of Life award
Duke of Edinburgh awards
Other awards
Judges
The seven judges for the competition were:
* dancer and musician Mark Ballas
Mark Alexander Ballas Jr. (born May 24, 1986) is an American dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter, musician, and actor.
Ballas is a professional ballroom dancer on the ABC program ''Dancing with the Stars''. He began competing on the show ...
* television personality Raúl De Molina
Raúl "El Gordo" De Molina (born March 29, 1959, in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American television presenter, best known as the co-host of the Univision Network entertainment news show '' El Gordo y la Flaca'', for which he won multiple Emmy Awards. ...
* television producer Mike Fleiss
Mike L. Fleiss (born April 14, 1964) is an American television producer and writer.
Early life
Fleiss was raised in Fullerton, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
He is the creator, producer and writer of '' ...
* television personality Kris Jenner
Kristen Mary Jenner ( Houghton , formerly Kardashian; born November 5, 1955) is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She rose to fame starring in the reality television series ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'' (2007†...
* actress Teri Polo
Theresa Elizabeth Polo (born June 1, 1969) is an American actress. She starred as Pam Byrnes-Focker in the ''Meet the Parents'' trilogy and played the role of police officer Stef Adams Foster in the Freeform series '' The Fosters'' (2013–201 ...
* personal trainer Chris Powell
Christopher George Robin Powell (born 8 September 1969) is an English football coach and former player, who is currently head of coaching at Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur's Academy and a coach for the England national team. As a left b ...
* television personality Lara Spencer
Lara Christine Von Seelen (known professionally as Lara Spencer; born June 19, 1969) is an American television presenter. She is best known for being the co-anchor for ABC's ''Good Morning America''. She is also a correspondent for '' Nightline ...
Delegates
Replacements
* Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...
- Veronika Ohlinger was originally the 1st runner-up but later was crowned Miss Montana
The Miss Montana competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the U.S. state of Montana in the Miss America pageant.
Unlike most state pageants in the Miss America system, Montana does not use preliminary local pageants t ...
2011 to replace the original winner Taryn Chuter, who resigned due to a knee injury that required surgery.
References
External links
Miss America 2012
Miss America official website
{{Miss America
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