- Tara Gray
Pageant titleholder bio
title=Miss Alabama Teen USA 1997Miss Alabama USA 2002
nationalcompetition=Miss Teen USA 1997Miss USA 2002
location=Birmingham, Alabama , U.S.
birthname= Tara Tucker
eye color= Brown
birth = birth date and age|1979|2|8
hair color=AuburnTara Gray (née Tucker) (born
February 8 ,1979 ) is a former beauty queen fromBirmingham, Alabama who has competed in theMiss Teen USA andMiss USA pageants. She is also a local journalist, reporter and entertainment presenter.Pageantry
Gray won the
Miss Alabama Teen USA 1997 title in 1996 and went on to representAlabama in theMiss Teen USA 1997 broadcast live fromSouth Padre Island, Texas onAugust 20 ,1997 , the first time the pageant was held in this location. She failed to place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won byShelly Moore of Tennessee.In 2000, Gray competed in the
Miss Alabama USA pageant for the first time and placed first runner-up to Laura Hoffman. She returned the following year and won the Miss Alabama USA 2002 title, becoming the third Miss Alabama Teen USA to win the Miss title.Gray competed in the
Miss USA 2002 pageant held inGary, Indiana in March 2002, and made the top twelve. She placed seventh in swimsuit during the final competition and tenth in evening gown, placing ninth overall. The pageant was won byShauntay Hinton of theDistrict of Columbia .Journalism
Gray attended
Pelham High School and worked as a reporter and anchor for the school's broadcast journalism department. She later attendedAuburn University and continued with similar roles in the field of journalism. She graduated in 2000 with a major in Mass Communication and a double minor in Psychology and Spanish.Gray got her first job as a reporter for
FOX6 ,WBRC in Birmingham in 2000 and later fronted forMY68 in 2003 while working forMetro Networks /Westwood One , where she provided daily local news reports to a number of radio stations throughout Alabama. She also worked as a traffic reporter for FOX6 News’ Daybreak and Good Day Alabama, and as a traffic and news reporter for COX Radio stations, 95.7 JAMZ, 98.7 KISS FM, and Heaven 610 WAGG.Gray anchors MY68’s entertainment news segment, Tara Talk, and has her own feature segment as anentertainment reporter for CW21 News at Nine. She is also a spokesperson for
MY68 andWABM . Tara also hosts a number of local television shows.Personal
Gray enjoys volunteering for her favorite charities such as March of Dimes, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association of Greater Alabama, and the American Diabetes Association, all charities she was associated with as a pageant titleholder.
External links
* [http://premierpageants.com/Index_AL_TUSA.htm Miss Alabama Teen USA official website]
* [http://premierpageants.com/Index_AL_USA.htm Miss Alabama USA official website]
* [http://www.missteen usa.com Miss Teen USA official website]
* [http://www.missusa.com Miss USA official website]
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