Shandi Finnessey

About Shandi Finnessey

Known for her beauty pageant titles of Miss USA 2004, Miss Missouri USA 2004, and Miss Missouri 2002, she was also the first runner-up in the 2004 Miss Universe competition. She went on to host a number more Game Show Network shows.

Shandi Ren Finnessey is an American actress, model, TV host and beauty queen. She is best known for winning the Miss USA title, as Miss Missouri USA. She previously held the title of Miss Missouri 2002 and competed in Miss America, where she won a preliminary award. She placed as first runner-up at the Miss Universe 2004 competition. She is one of three women to have been both Miss Missouri USA and Miss Missouri and the only Missourian to have been Miss USA. Her first runner-up finish at Miss Universe was the best placement in the 2000s and was the best United States placement between Brook Mahealani Lee's Miss Universe 1997 competition victory and Olivia Culpo's Miss Universe 2012 pageant win. In 2002, Finnessey authored an award-winning children's book, The Furrtails, on individuality and disabilities. In the mid-2000s, she was Chuck Woolery's co-host for the game show Lingo on the Game Show Network.

Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Born	Shandi Ren Finnessey, June 9, 1978, Florissant, Missouri, U.S.
Title(s)	Miss Missouri 2002, Miss Missouri USA 2004, Miss USA 2004
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Blonde
Major, competition(s)	Miss America 2003, (Unplaced), Miss USA 2004, (Winner), Miss Universe 2004, (1st Runner-Up)

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Trivia

She penned an acclaimed 2012 children's book titled The Furrtails.

Shandi Finnessey before fame

She received bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from Lindenwood University after being a teenage victim of verbal bullying.

Achievement of Shandi Finnessey

She wrote the critically acclaimed children's book The Furrtails in 2012.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Shandi Finnessey family life

Her parents, Linda and Patrick Finnessey, raised her and her three brothers in Missouri. She was briefly romantically involved with both Anheuser-Busch beer heir and CEO August Busch IV and with sports attorney and businessman Italo Zanzi.

Associations of Shandi Finnessey

She and Carson Kressley, a television celebrity, co-hosted the 2006 Miss Universe competition (held in Los Angeles, California).

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