Tara Gray

Tara Tucker
Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	Tara Tucker Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Hair color	Auburn
Eye color	Brown
Title(s)	Miss Alabama Teen USA 1997 Miss Alabama USA 2002
Major competition(s)	Miss Teen USA 1997 Miss USA 2002

Tara Gray (née Tucker) is a TV host, writer and producer, as well as a former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants. She has worked as a local journalist, reporter and entertainment presenter, as well as a national TV host and reporter. Gray and Brook Roberts star in the reality television series The Good Buy Girls on TLC.^[1]

Pageantry

Gray won the Miss Alabama Teen USA 1997 title in 1996 and went on to represent Alabama in the Miss Teen USA 1997 competition. In 2000, she competed in the Miss Alabama USA pageant for the first time and placed first runner-up to Laura Hoffman. She returned the following year and won Miss Alabama USA 2002, becoming the third Miss Alabama Teen USA to win the Miss title. Gray competed in the Miss USA 2002 pageant in March 2002, and made the top 12. She placed seventh in swimsuit during the final competition and 10th in evening gown, placing ninth overall.

Journalism

Gray got her first job in television as a producer for FOX6, WBRC in Birmingham in 2000. In 2002 she was hired as the on-air spokesperson for WABM-TV UPN68 and later became known as "The Face of MY68." While working for WABM, Tara also worked for Metro Networks/Westwood One, where she provided daily local news reports to a number of radio stations throughout Alabama. She also worked as a traffic reporter for Fox6 News’ Daybreak and Good Day Alabama, and as a traffic and news reporter for Cox Radio stations, 95.7 JAMZ, 98.7 KISS FM, and Heaven 610 WAGG.

She anchored MY68's entertainment news segment, "Tara Talk" and "Tara's Takes", and had her own feature segment as an entertainment reporter for CW21 News at Nine before moving to Los Angeles to work as a TV host. She has worked as on-air talent for GemsTV, KDOC-TV Los Angeles, and own her own production company, salesRUSH. The company produces content for TV stations, and reality TV shows, and includes media buying, publication and internet divisions.

References

↑ "TLC's "The Good Buy Girls" Sell What's Next to Bring in the Checks". The Futon Critic. May 14, 2013.

External links

Preceded by Luann Roberts	Miss Alabama Teen USA 1997	Succeeded by Heather Baugh
Preceded by Laura Hoffman	Miss Alabama USA 2002	Succeeded by Michelle Arnette

Miss USA 2002 delegates

AL: Tara Tucker DC: Shauntay Hinton IN: Kelly Lloyd KY: Elizabeth Arnold MO: Melana Scantlin NH: Audra Paquette NV: Jenny Valdez OH: Kim Mullen OK: Kasie Head TN: Allison Alderson TX: Kasi Kelly VT: Brooke Angus VA: Julie Laipply

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Alabama pageant winners

Miss Alabama	Betty Jane Rase (1944) Yolande Betbeze (1950) Dellynne Catching (1968) Ann Fowler (1969) Pam Long (1974) Teresa Cheatham (1978) Kim Wimmer (1992) Kalyn Chapman (1993) Heather Whitestone (1994) Amie Beth Dickinson (1994) Leigh Sherer (1995) Alison McCreary (1996) Beth Stomps (1997) Ashley Halfman (1998) Julie Smith (1999) Jana Sanderson (2000) Kelly Jones (2001) Scarlotte Deupree (2002) Catherine Crosby (2003) Deidre Downs* (2004) Shannon Camper (2004*) Alexa Jones (2005) Melinda Toole (2006) Jamie Langley (2007) Amanda Tapley (2008) Liz Cochran (2009) Ashley Davis (2010) Courtney Porter (2011) Anna Laura Bryan (2012) Chandler Champion (2013) Caitlin Brunell (2014)

Miss Alabama USA	Sylvia Hitchcock (1967) Candace Michelle Brown (1992) Paige Brooks (1998) Tara Tucker (2002) Jessica Tinney (2005) Haleigh Stidham (2006) Rebecca Moore (2007) Madeline Mitchell (2011) Katherine Webb (2012) Madison Guthrie (2015)

Miss Alabama Teen USA	Tara Tucker (1997) Carla Baumann (2006)

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