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The top five winners included: 1st Runner
Up, Stacie Burns (representing Hooters.com),
2nd Runner Up Randi Jackson (representing
Jacksonville, FL ), 3rd Runner Up, Kat Longa
(representing Miss September in the Hooters
Calendar), and 4th Runner Up, Sarah Coggin
(representing the Southwest). Rounding out
the top ten finalists in no particular order
are Ambar Martinez (representing Venezuela);
Beverly Mullins (representing Brandon, FL);
Natalie Pandorf (representing the Original
Hooters in Clearwater, FL); Nicole Del Valle
(representing Las Vegas) and Linsey Toole
(representing Miss December in the Hooters
Calendar).
Contestants from Australia,
Taiwan, Germany, Canada, Venezuela, Mexico,
Costa Rica and Guatemala traveled a long way
to Las Vegas to compete for over $150,000
in cash and prizes. Trisha Gledhill, representing
Calgary, Canada was selected from the international
contestants to represent Miss Hooters World.
She received $5,000 cash with her new title.
This is the 10th year of
the pageant and it continues to grow and become
more competitive with an increasing amount
of new Hooters locations and better prizes
each year. “It is hard to believe Hooters
has held 10 pageants,” explained Mike
McNeil, VP of Marketing for Hooters of America.
“We came from relatively humble beginnings
into what, I believe, is the best pageant
by far of any kind.” The first pageant,
held in 1997, offered $2,500 to the pageant
winner. This year’s Miss Hooters International
received $50,000. |