| Subject: One more and then we'll take a break until after USA. I present to you - the trio of 1992! |
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 Elin
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Date Posted: 10:46:15 05/11/12 Fri
1992
  
Jamie Solinger - Iowa ~ Shannon Marketic - California ~ Michelle McLean - Namibia
1992 was stormy year and a year of fun statistics. Only three former teens competed at Miss USA which is one of the lowest numbers ever. Miss USA had a top 11 due to a tie. At Miss Universe Iceland placed eleventh, after a very low interview score, and was separated by one ten-thousandth (!) of a point from the Top 10 and Miss Sweden, Monica Brodd, who became the 10 semifinalist. Miss Universe was held amidst a political crisis in Thailand that culminated on 17 May in the Black May protests against the government of General Kraprayoon and was almost cancelled. At Miss Teen USA only 50 girls competed since the District of Columbia didn’t send a delegate. The pageant had to be held prior to the orginal date due to hurricane Andrew and it was the first time ever that the pageant wasn’t broadcast live. During the pre-recorded competition the crownings of both Jamie Solinger and first runner-up Oklahoma’s Angela Logan were filmed in an attempt to keep the result secret until the eventual broadcast of the event. Angela Logan was told one hour before the evening telecast that Solinger had won and that she was the first runner-up. The taping of two crownings became known as the "hurricane option" and would nearly be repeated at Miss Teen USA 1998 because of a live presidential address by Bill Clinton.
When Jamie made the Top 12 it was the first time that Iowa was called. Jamie win is therefore Iowa’s first as well. For the 1992 competition the teens wore their swimsuit for the Top 12 announcement and due to that swimsuit also became the first semifinal competition in which Jamie placed second. She then won both interview and evening gown. After her reign she worked as a model for several years before returning to the Miss stage. In 1998 Jamie won the title of Miss Iowa USA. Being one of several favorites that year she failed to make the Top 10. When she gave up her Iowa title she got to crown her sister as the next Miss Iowa USA for 1999. In 2005 she competed in Mrs. America under her married name Jamie Patterson and placed 3rd runner up.
  
Shannon’s pageant career started ingloriously as she was crowned Miss Arizona Teen USA 1989 but held the title for only a week and a half after it was discovered an error had been made and she had actually placed first runner-up. When she won Miss California USA her crown was undisputed.
Shannon’s win at Miss USA is a perfect example to prove the theory “different night, another outcome”. She was the last and 11th woman to make the Top 11. Shannon was fifth in preliminary interview, 15th in swimsuit and 14th in evening gown. For the final night she was second in interview and sixth in both swimsuit and evening gown. But as many of the other semifinalists also scored all over the place she made the Top 6 as the second girl. She also won the photogenic award and in doing so she became the 4th Miss Photogenic to be crowned as Miss USA after winning the award. She then travelled to Bangkok, Thailand to compete in Miss Universe. She made the Top 10 and finished 8th.
After her reign Shannon has made the headlines more than once. Five years after giving up her crown, in 1997, Shannon filed a lawsuit against a prince of the ruling family of Brunei, alleging that he had compelled her into performing sexual acts for guests at a party he had organized. She has also written many books about Christian subjects. She has worked as a movie actress and a broadcaster, media director and P.R. Director. In 2010 it was time again; Shannon was arrested in August, in Denton, Texas and charged with shoplifting several cosmetic items valued at just under $90 from a Target store. She denied the charges and was released the next day.
The Miss USA class of ’92 has had its share of sorrows. Seven months after the pageant Miss North Carolina USA, Tess Elliot, who had made Top 10, died in a freak sky-diving accident. In 2007 they lost another delegates as Miss West Virginia USA, Vickie Myers, was found dead in her home.
  
Michelle McLean was the first titleholder from Africa since Margaret Gardiner in 1978, and the first Namibian to place in the pageant in the six years her nation had been competing. Venezuela’s Carolina Izsak was a huge favorite to the title and Michelle placed second to Carolina in the preliminaries. During the final night Michelle once again placed second after the semifinal competition. This time behind India’s Madhu Sapre. Carolina Izsak had fallen to 4th place. Before she became Miss Universe, Michelle competed in Miss World 1991 where she finished 4th runner up to Venezuela’s Ninbeth Leal. Lisa de Montalk, Miss New Zeeland also competed at Miss World 1991 and she was also among the Top 10 in Miss Universe 1992.
In 1992 Michelle founded the Michelle McLean Children's Trust in Namibia, which focuses on the education and care of under-privileged children. She continued to work with the foundation after her reign. In 1995 Michelle was instrumental in bringing the Miss Universe pageant to her country. She married her longtime boyfriend, Neil Bierbaum, but they divorced in 2006. In 2009 she co-hosted the Miss World pageant held in South Africa.
  
Well board, what do you remember of the stormy year that was 1992?
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- I have to admit. 1992 was a lackluster year for me. I thought Oklahoma deserved the Teen crown and Shannon herself admitted it was pretty much interview that won her the crown. I do think Shannon was the prettiest of the 3 however. Michele McLean won one of the weakest Miss Universe pageants IMO. This trio is not one of my favorites overall but each did well during their reign (NT) -- Pageantnut, 13:43:59 05/11/12 Fri
 I was not a child in 1992, but even so, Jamie looks like my mother . . . (NT) -- NEQueen, 20:59:56 05/11/12 Fri
- This is an uninspiring trio for me. I can't remember anything about Teen USA. I never understood Shannon. The later sultan story is about as unbelievable - "I didn't know you wanted me to be a whore!" - as, well, Namibia's win, which was a plain "No!" for me (as opposed to a "WTF No" or a "Hell No.") (NT) -- Wayne, 10:08:47 05/12/12 Sat
- 1992 was pre-fan time for me but of course I have the pageants in my DVD collection and I think that I might have watch them twice at best. I am not overly impressed by any of the winners. I think the trio over all is very uninspiring. And Jamie Solinger's evening gown has got to be the ugliest of all times. It can't even have been good back in the days, it simply can't! (NT) -- Elin, 15:58:16 05/12/12 Sat
- I like two of this trio. Yeah, Jamie's pit stains were so embarrassing, and second place in SS was too generous; but I thought she looked like Brooke Shields, she was the most natural onstage, and I loved the color of her gown. I hated Oklahoma that year; her cutesy act made me want to reach through the TV and slap her. I think it's a shame Jamie didn't get an actual winning reaction. Isn't it interesting that Iowa was the first state to achieve the MUO triple crown? I also love Michelle, even though she wasn't the most beautiful. I loved her elegance, her figure, her poise, her gown, her intelligence. Obviously, Carolina was the most beautiful, but she was so flat that morning. Madhu would've won had her final answer not been so stupid. Paola was pretty, but I thought her final answer was less sincere than Michelle's. As for Shannon, she was a great interview, but I thought she was otherwise totally blah. I'd have crowned Candace Brown since she was SO much prettier. (NT) -- CAguy, 01:37:20 05/13/12 Sun
- I don't remember watching Miss USA or Universe that year, but I do remember watching Teen USA and rooting for Jamie for purely selfish reasons - we were the same age and she looked a lot like me, and I imagined that was me up there. I was thrilled when we won. :D (NT) -- Scarlett, 09:36:27 05/13/12 Sun
- Eh, I'd have crowned someone else in each of these pageants. Danielle Boatwright, of Kansas, was my favorite at Teen USA that year. Jennifer Prodgers, of Georgia, and Angela Hines, of Kentucky were my two favorites at Miss USA and although both made Top 6, neither made the Final 3 so I was kind of over Miss USA at that point. And, the 1992 Miss Universe competition is one of several in which I thought the first runner-up from Colombia should have one. Regrettably, though, this one said, "orientate," in her final answer delivered in English and I have always thought that if she'd gone with a translator she'd have won. Oh, well... (NT) -- Marylander, 21:29:23 05/13/12 Sun
- Unnecessary Pageant Knowledge: The evening gown Michelle is wearing in her official crown shot is the same as Miss Texas USA wore in the semifinal evening gown competition the same year. (NT) -- Elin, 15:14:23 05/14/12 Mon
- The only one of these pageants I watched was Miss Universe. I remember being uncertain about Michelle's win. She wasn't my favorite. (NT) -- BamaMan, 15:15:00 05/14/12 Mon
- I was all about Katie Young at USA in 1992, and I have no idea how she went from winning the prelims by a landslide to missing out the Top 6 cut. I also equally loved Audra Wallace, and she was easily my pick among the final 3. Shame it didn't quite pan out for her. At Universe, Carolina was light years ahead of the competition, and she is to this day perhaps the most gorgeous woman ever to grace that stage. I didn't necessarily have a problem with her Top 6 answer, but her delivery was unfortunately a Lunesta commercial. And! I will defend Madhu's final answer until the end of time, and I will always pick the girl who gives the most realistic, sincere, practical and reasonable answer over anyone who blabbers about children and world peace. Remember too little about Teen to discuss Jamie's win, but she's easily one of the most memorable winners ever crowned. (NT) -- Fra, 21:04:07 05/15/12 Tue
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(Meemaw, forgive me......) But, it happened 30 years ago today.....
The scene at Meemaw's house today for the 30th anniversary
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