Alyse Eady

Eady is from Fort Smith, Arkansas, and was a caretaker for both of her parents, who were ill when she was growing up.[3] Eady's father became blind and her mother had lupus and had multiple surgeries when Eady was younger.[4] Eady helped out by learning to cook, and assisting her mother to bathe and dress.[4] During high school, she worked as a tutor for the local Boys and Girls Club.[5]

Eady graduated from Ouachita Baptist University with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications and Speech Communication.

In 2004, she won the title of Miss Teen Arkansas-America 2004, which is now known as Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen.[6] She performed in the Variety Act as a special guest during one of the Preliminary Competitions at Miss America 2007 including her yodeling abilities.[7] In 2010, she competed at Miss Arkansas as Miss South Central Arkansas and also won a Preliminary Talent Award and the Coleman Overall Talent Award at the pageant. Her platform was the Boys and Girls Club of America and her talent is a Variety Act, in which she both sings and does ventriloquism to the song "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart."[8] Her act, which also included yodeling, was called "daring and skillful" by The Washington Post.[9]

At the Miss America pageant in 2011, Eady was named the first runner-up[2] and won $25,000 in scholarships.[10] In 2011, she also appeared on the Late Night Show With David Letterman.[11]

In 2013, Eady married her college sweetheart, Patrick Lemmond, on December 7, 2013.[12]

Eady previously worked as a news anchor for TEGNA-owned KTHV-TV, the local CBS-affiliated television station in Little Rock, Arkansas.[13] In August 2016, Eady joined WAGA-TV in Atlanta, GA as a morning news anchor.[14]

• Alyse Eady at IMDb
• Alyse Eady's THV11.com biography