Melanie Churella

Melanie Ester Churella is a former Miss Michigan and local Detroit TV personality.

Churella was named Miss Michigan in 1987 after the original Miss Michigan, Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, became Miss America.^[1]

Churella went on to anchor live news updates on Detroit's WXON-TV (now WMYD) until 1995, when the station became a WB affiliate and the news updates were removed from the programming schedule.

References

↑ "Our Previous Pageant Winners". Miss Michigan Scholarship Program.

Preceded by Kaye Lani Rae Rafko	Miss Michigan 1987	Succeeded by Krista Blomgren

Michigan pageant winners

Miss Michigan	Patricia Donnelly (1939) Ann Penelope Marston (1959) Nancy Fleming (1960) Toni Jo Abbenante (1967) Pamela Eldred (1969) Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (1987) Melanie Churella (1987) Kirsten Haglund (2007) Ashlee Baracy (2008) Nicole Blaszczyk (2009) Elizabeth Wertenberger (2011)

Miss Michigan USA	Carole Gist (1990) Kenya Moore (1993) Jill Dobson (2000) Kenya Howard (2001) Crystal Hayes (2005) Danelle Gay (2006) Kelly Best (2007) Rima Fakih (2010) Channing Pierce (2011)

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