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Miss Kentucky has secured the win as Miss USA. Elle Smith, a multimedia journalist, was topped Miss USA in the course of the pageant on Nov. 29.
Smith was a crowd favourite all through the pageant, her dwelling station WHAS11 famous. Not solely did she flip heads in the course of the night robe and swimsuit portion, however her reply about how companies may be extra environmentally acutely aware impressed the viewers and obtained a serious spherical of applause.
Smith is the second Miss Kentucky to win the Miss USA pageant.
Smith graduated from the College of Kentucky in 2020 with a bachelor of arts in broadcast journalism and a minor in political science. Throughout her time on the College of Kentucky, she served because the vp of their Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists chapter, was a reporter for the UK Scholar Information Community and a videographer for UK Athletics and SEC Community. She additionally studied overseas in Florence, Italy for one semester. After graduating, she took her skills to WHAS 11 in Louisville, Kentucky the place she works as a reporter.
Now that she is Miss USA, she would be the face of the nation. She advised WHAS11 that working within the journalism subject has helped to organize her for brand spanking new position.
“A Miss USA, her job is to attach with folks,” Smith mentioned. “She ought to have the ability to communicate with a three-year-old, she ought to have the ability to communicate with a 90-year-old veteran or the CEO of a enterprise, and we do that each single day at work. You’re talking to a variety of personalities and assembly completely different folks with completely different views, and so I believe that’s the large factor that I take from work after which translate it to Miss Kentucky USA, which I hope I can translate to Miss USA.”
Subsequent up, Smith will compete for Miss Universe in Israel on Dec. 12.
