Jessica Magdalena Therese Almenäs (born 16 November 1975) is a Swedish television presenter and reporter. She presents the horse racing show Vinnare V75 and between 2008 and 2016 the celebrity dancing show Let's Dance, both broadcast on

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. Almenäs finished first runner-up in

Miss Sweden Miss Sweden or Miss Universe Sweden (in Swedish: ''Fröken Sverige''), is the title of the Swedish beauty pageant, qualifying delegates to the Miss Universe competition. In 2009 the pageant renamed as Miss Universe Sweden and the first national ...

1998 and went on to represent her country in Miss World that year. She has presented

Nyhetsmorgon ''Nyhetsmorgon'' is a Swedish morning news and talk show that is broadcast every morning on TV4. ''Nyhetsmorgon'' started airing on 14 September 1992. References External links * * TV4 (Sweden) original programming 1992 Swedish tel ...

. Along with Adam Alsing she presented the football awards show Fotbollsgalan in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. She presented

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in 2008, and was the reporter interviewing the celebrity guests at Kristallen 2014. In 2011 and 2012, Almenäs presented the show ''

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'' on

. She is a former basketball player and has played at elite level for Brahe Basket. In September 2016, Almenäs revealed that she would start to work for Kanal 5, and would end her contract with TV4.

Personal life

Almenäs was earlier in a relationship with , with whom she has a son, born in 2005. She also has a son born in 2009 with the

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horse rider Tony André Hansen. She is cousin with the

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player Oskar Sundqvist.

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