Leanza Cornett was an American television personality and beauty pageant titleholder who has crowned Miss Florida 1992 and Miss America 1993.
Cornett was born on June 10, 1971, in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Her full name was Eva Leanza Cornett. She died on October 28, 2020.
Age
She was 49 years old.
Education
Cornett was a 1989 graduate of Terry Parker High School. She inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2006.
Career
She was previously National Sweetheart 1991.
As Miss America 1993, she became the first beauty queen to adopt AIDS awareness and prevention as her platform for her year of service. She became one of the first Miss America titleholders to refuse to wear the Miss America crown at public appearances.
She was the principal entertainer to play a surprisingly realistic rendition of Ariel, the title character from The Little Mermaid, at the “Journey of The Little Mermaid” show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in 1991 and was an individual from the contemporary Christian music bunch Area Code, which delivered their single collection, One Big World, before Leanza’s huge break.
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She likewise filled in as a host for a few TV programs, including Entertainment Tonight (1994–1995), New Attitudes (1998), and Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (2000), and showed up in TV arrangement, for example, Melrose Place, The Tick, and Fear Factor. What’s more, she filled in as a correspondent for Animal Planet’s inclusion of the Eukanuba AKC National Dog Show programs and facilitated the “On The Block” show on DIY Network.
Her stage credits included: Barefoot in the Park, Godspell, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Bye Birdie, and Voyage of the Little Mermaid.
Husband And Children
Cornett married broadcast journalist, Mark Steines, on July 22, 1995. Weeks after their wedding, Cornett was let go from her Entertainment Tonight position, only to be immediately replaced by Steines himself. Cornett and Steines had two sons, Kai Harper (born on February 19, 2002), and Avery James (born on November 4, 2003). The couple later divorced after 17 years of marriage.
Leanza Cornett Death Cause
Leanza Cornett, Miss America 1993, has died two weeks after sustaining a brain injury. She was 49.
Cornett, who died Wednesday, was crowned at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City in September 1992. She was the first Miss Florida to win the national title.
