Over the years there have been several beauty pageant winners who have gone on to host national news programs. But whoever heard of someone who actually left being a reporter to take part in a beauty pageant. Well, my area has now had two. The first being Christina Thompson, who left being a reporter over at ABC13 in Lynchburg, Virginia to compete and eventually win Miss Virginia. And now it seems Ava Braatz, who is the cohost of Living In The Heart of Virginia on ABC13 has the same ambition. She posted on her Instagram asking for votes in order to become a finalist in the upcoming Miss Virginia pageant.
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