Celebrity queens
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Celebrityy beauty and homecoming queens
By Anneke Hak
In the world of celebrity acting like a queen is an everyday occurrence, if you\'re not pulling a tantrum then you haven\'t made it.
Here we discover which celebrities gained the most practice at being queens before they were famous- homecoming and beauty queens, that is.
See if you can guess whether these celebrities were homecoming or beauty queens.
Rachel Christie
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Rachel Christie
Linford Christie’s niece Rachel became the first black winner of the Miss England beauty contest in 2009. The 20-year-old also hopes to win the heptathlon crown at 2012 Olympics. Organisers had to defend the competition after it emerged that Rachel won with only nine votes from the public. Rachel was awarded first place by four of the six judges on the night, which included model Caprice. Angie Beasley, director of Miss England said, “When it gets to the top 15, they are judged on their confidence and their posture on stage and they are judged on their beauty and their personality. When it gets to the top 15 you cannot have the public voting on that, it has to be a professional panel.”
Paula Abdul
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Paula Abdul head cheerleader and homecoming queen
Paula Abdul was head cheerleader, homecoming queen and voted “most likely to succeed” at Van Nuys High School, California. The popular student then went on to become a Laker girl, a world-famous choreographer, a pop star and an American Idol judge. We wonder if her classmates were psychic?
Halle Berry
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Halle Berry: Miss Ohio
As well as being a Bond girl and winning a best actress Oscar for her role in
Monster’s Ball,
Halle Berry has been in more beauty pageants than we’ve had hot dinners. At just 18 years old she won the Miss Teen Ohio pageant, and later that year was named Miss Teen All-American. Then, in 1986 she was crowned Miss Ohio and was the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageants. She went on to become the first African American to represent the United States in the Miss World pageant, before taking a turn at acting.
Rosie O\'Donnell
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Rosie O\'Donnell homecoming queen
While she attended Commack High School, classmates voted funny-woman and American talk show host
Rosie O’Donnell homecoming queen, prom queen, senior class president and class clown. The latter award probably set her up for her career in stand-up comedy, which catapulted her into the world of movies and American talk shows.
Vanessa Williams
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Vanessa Williams beauty queen
Ugly Betty star
Vanessa Williams began taking part in Beauty Pageants in the 1980s. Williams won Miss New York in 1983 and went on to win the Miss America title in Atlantic City. The actress was the first ever African Miss America and, for the first time in pageant history, she suffered death threats and racist hate mail. Controversially, Williams resigned from her post prematurely after nude photographs of her surfaced and were published in Penthouse magazine.
Jessica Simpson
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Jessica Simpson homecoming queen
Popular in High School, singer
Jessica Simpson was nominated as homecoming queen twice in a row, but dropped out of JJ Pearce High School to follow her dreams, before completing her final year. Which explains some of the gems that she came up with on Newlyweds.
Eva Longria Parker
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Beauty Queen Eva Longoria
Desperate Housewife
Eva Longoria Parker has always been a beauty. She was crowned her hometown’s Miss Corpus Christie in 1998 and won the chance to compete in an LA talent show. After the show was over, Longoria stayed in Los Angeles to audition for acting roles, winning a part on
Beverly Hills 90210 in 2001 and
Desperate Housewives in 2004, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Tiffani Amber Thiessen
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beauty queen Tiffani Amber Thiessen
Beverly Hills 90210 and
Saved By The Bell star
Tiffani Amber Thiessen admitted in an interview with Instyle magazine that she is a ‘mutt’ with Welsh, Turkish, German and Greek ancestors. But, this didn’t stop her competing in beauty pageants from a young age. In 1987, when she was just 13, Tiffani was crowned Miss Junior America. The next year she took home Teen Magazine’s Great Model Search Award and in 1989 she became Cover Girl’s Model of the Year.
Michelle Yeoh
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Michelle Yeoh beauty queen
Bafta nominated for Best Actress in
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and a former
Bond Girl,
Michelle Yeoh started her career in the world of beauty contests. At 21 Yeoh was crowned Miss Malaysia 1983 and represented her home country at the 1983 World Pageant in London. It was from here that she appeared in a television commercial with Jackie Chan, which caught the attention of a film production company, leading to her career in the movies.
