MISScellanea: Teresa Scanlan

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Miss America 2011: Press Junket

Foreign Press Interview

The Ad Council

The Wendy Williams Show

Miss America, Teresa Scanlan, was on the Wendy Williams Show Tuesday, January 18th. If you go to the show's WEBSITE you can currently watch the video, but it looks like it will probably disappear soon.

Opening the NASDAQ

The View

I can't find a code to embed the video, so CLICK HERE to watch it. Teresa joins the ladies at about the seventh minute.

FOX & Friends

FOX & Friends "After the Show"

This year Miss America got an impressive amount of national attention! Obviously The View and Joy Behar Show promoted the pageant since Joy was a judge. Miss America was also mentioned in SNL's Weekend Update, The Soup, The Chelsea Handler show, Jay Leno's monologue (boo!) and David Letterman did a Miss America Top 10 list and is has 1st Runner-up, Miss Arkansas, on his show tonight. Click here for a list of video links from Miss America week.

All the photos in this post were copied from Miss America's Facebook page.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Miss America 2011: Media Tour

The newly crowned Miss America, Teresa Scanlan is now in New York City for her media tour! Tune in to see her on The View on ABC and FOX and Friends on cable Monday morning, January 17. She'll open the stock market Tuesday and visit The Wendy Williams Show. The Joy Behar Show is in there somewhere as well; in years past Miss America has done Regis & Kelly but I haven't heard about that yet this year.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Miss America 2011: Meet Teresa!

I'll be honest, I was disappointed that some of the more talented women were excluded from the top five and after the onstage questions I though the placement would go like this: Hawaii, Oklahoma and/or Washington, Nebraska and then Arkansas as Miss America. When it came to the final two Miss Arkansas looked more like the winner and my viewing party was a little underwhelmed with the crowning. I wasn't excited about and did not closely follow the reigns of either Miss America or Miss USA in 2010 and was sad that 2011 would be another lackluster year... However, my opinion was immediately changed as soon as I started watching Teresa Scanlan's post-pageant interviews!

She is warm, charming, well-spoken, intelligent and obviously wise beyond her years!

She is the middle of seven children from a small town in Nebraska. Her mother is a first generation citizen; her grandparents escaped communist Yugoslavia. Teresa began pageants when she was 13, but was always told she was "too mature" for the teen programs. As soon as she turned 17 she entered and won her first Miss local pageant, obviously she won her first time at Miss Nebraska, and now is the youngest Miss America (since the first pageant in 1921). She aspires to be a politician, has played the piano for 11 years and advocated eating disorder awareness. Does she have a boyfriend? "No. Seventeen year old boys... enough said!" Watch the press conference below to see the face she made to go along with this answer!

At this press conference each judge spoke briefly about the new Miss America. Dancer Tony Dovolani dipped her and said she is everything he wants his daughter to grow up to be like. Former Miss America Debbye Turner Bell's admission speaks volumes, "I remember asking her, 'convince me you're not too young to do this job' and I will tell you, by the time she finished answering that question, I was embarrassed for having asked it."

I think if you watch just a few moments of this press conference you will be impressed, or at the very least be surprised that she is only 17!