Alyse Cynthia Eady (born March 15, 1988) is an American news anchor and beauty pageant titleholder who was

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2010. Eady was named first runner-up at the

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pageant, which was won by

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2010

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Biography

Eady is from

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, and was a caretaker for both of her parents, who were ill when she was growing up. Eady's father became blind and her mother had

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and had multiple surgeries when Eady was younger. Eady helped out by learning to cook, and assisting her mother to bathe and dress. During high school, she worked as a tutor for the local

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. Eady graduated from

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with a

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and

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. In 2004, she won the title of Miss Teen Arkansas-America 2004, which is now known as Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen. She performed in the Variety Act as a special guest during one of the Preliminary Competitions at

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including her

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abilities. In 2010, she was named

2010 while competing as Miss South Central

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2010 and also won a Preliminary Talent Award and the Coleman Overall Talent Award at the pageant. Her platform was the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and her talent is a Variety Act, in which she both sings and does

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to the song " I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart." Her act, which also included yodeling, was called "daring and skillful" by ''

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.'' At the

pageant, Eady was named the first runner-up and won $25,000 in scholarships. In 2011, she also appeared on the ''Late Night Show With David Letterman''. Eady married her college sweetheart, Patrick Jeffrey Lemmond, on December 7, 2013. Eady previously worked as a news anchor for

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-owned

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, the local

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-affiliated television station in

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. In August 2016, Eady joined

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as a morning news anchor.

References

External links

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Alyse Eady's THV11.com biography
Miss America 2011 delegates People from Fort Smith, Arkansas Living people Ouachita Baptist University alumni Miss America's Outstanding Teen delegates American beauty pageant winners Ventriloquists 1988 births University of Alicante alumni {{US-pageant-bio-stub