Miss USA 1988
| Miss USA 1988 | |
|---|---|
| Date | March 1, 1988 |
| Presenters | Alan Thicke and Tracy Scoggins |
| Venue | El Paso Civic Center, El Paso, Texas |
| Broadcaster | CBS, KDBC-TV |
| Entrants | 51 |
| Placements | 10 |
| Winner |
Courtney Gibbs Texas
|
| Congeniality | Elva Anderson District of Columbia
|
| Best State Costume | Lagracella Omran Nevada
|
| Photogenic | Rowanne Brewer Maryland
|
Miss USA 1988, the 37th Miss USA pageant, was televised live from the El Paso Civic Center in El Paso, Texas on March 1, 1988. At the conclusion of the final competition, Courtney Gibbs of Texas was crowned Miss USA, becoming the fourth consecutive winner from Texas.
The pageant was hosted by Growing Pains star Alan Thicke, the first time in twenty years that Bob Barker did not host, and the pageant commentator was Tracy Scoggins. Barker, an animal rights activist, refused to be involved because one of the winner's prizes was a fur coat. There had been controversy surrounding the fur coats since the previous year, and Barker claimed he had asked pageant officials not to give away coats for years but that he had been ignored. Other animal rights activists threatened to picket the pageant in protest at its fur policy and disrupted a pre-pageant press conference. In an unrelated attack, Scoggins was attacked in an elevator following pageant rehearsals. The attacker was charged with attempted sexual assault.
This was the first time that the pageant was held in Texas and the only time it was ever held in El Paso. El Paso had hosted the Miss Teen USA 1987 pageant the previous year, and it was announced in November 1987 that the city would likely host Miss USA 1988.
The following is the contestants average scores in the Preliminary swimsuit competition.
The Miss USA 1988 delegates were:
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