Kimberley Busteed
{{Short description|Australian beauty pageant titleholder (born 1988)}}
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{{Infobox pageant titleholder
| name = Kimberley Busteed
| competitions = Miss Universe Australia 2007
(Winner)
Miss Universe 2007 (Unplaced)
| title = Miss Universe Australia 2007
| birth_place = Gladstone, Queensland, Australia
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|06|04|df=y}}
| eye_color = Brown
| hair_color = Blonde
}}
Kimberley Busteed (born 4 June 1988) is an Australian TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Australia 2007 and represented Australia in the 2007 Miss Universe pageant. She is from Gladstone in Central Queensland, Australia{{cite news | title = National catwalk beckons Charley | newspaper = Port Curtis Post | pages = 6 | date = July 9, 2012 }} and is a former teen swimming champion and surf lifesaving competitor. In 2006 she was the Fashion on the Field winner at the Doomben races in Brisbane, following that she won the Melbourne Cup Fashions on the Field.{{Cite news|url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/qld-beautys-countdown-to-miss-universe-final-20070526-ge8ppj.html|title=Qld beauty's countdown to Miss Universe final|last=Casey|first=Scott|date=26 May 2007|work=Brisbane Times|access-date=26 November 2019}} In 2012 Busteed resumed her competitive swimming by competing in the Noosa Tri, swimming the 1500m ocean stretch for her team.{{cite news | title = Beautiful swim leg? Tri two | newspaper = Sunshine Coast Daily | pages = 3 | date = November 3, 2012 }}
Personal life
Busteed is married to retired cricketer Chris Simpson. They have two daughters Victoria and Evie.{{Cite news|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/confidential/nova-1069-presenter-kimberley-busteed-gives-birth-to-baby-girl/news-story/cf6ded7f8e08400955e68ebb96f6b000|title=Nova 106.9 presenter Kimberley Busteed gives birth to a baby girl.|last=Symonds|first=Kristy|date=3 June 2018|work=The Courier Mail|access-date=26 November 2019}}
Career
While competing in Mexico during the Miss Universe 2007 contest, she was heavily criticized for wearing her "tacky" national costume. Some of Australia's top designers branded the red lifesaving themed costume as "trashy" and "nothing to do with Australia's culture". However she was endorsed by designers Wayne Cooper and Peter Morrissey in the same year.{{cite news | last = Cummings | first = Bronwyn | title = Glittering night of fashion; Champers and diamonds as top designers show off | newspaper = The Cairns Post | pages = 4 | date = October 13, 2007 }}
Busteed has worked extensively with the Leukaemia Foundation, inspired by the death of her brother at the age of 9.{{cite news | last = Carne | first = Lucy | title = Kimberley Busteed - Miss Universe Australia | newspaper = The Sunday Mail | location = Australia | pages = 64 | date = September 30, 2007 }}{{cite news | title = Kimberley adds plenty of colour in quest to raise $3 million | newspaper = The Gold Coast Bulletin | date = February 14, 2008 }}
Near the end of 2008, Busteed obtained a position as a TV presenter on Channel 7's Creek to Coast and Queensland's Weekender.{{cite news | title = Judging our best talents | newspaper = The Gold Coast Bulletin | pages = 17 | date = January 31, 2012 }}[http://www.greatsoutheast.com.au/c2c/the_team.asp#kimberley Creek to Coast The Team]{{Cite news|url=https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/hive-gets-its-new-glamour-queen-b/1624604/|title=Hive gets its new glamour queen B|last=Hoffman|first=Bill|date=16 November 2012|work=Sunshine Coast Daily|access-date=26 November 2019}} She later went on to work as a presenter for radio with Nova 106.9.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100401105723/http://www.kimberleybusteed.com.au/ Kimberley Busteed Official Website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706105538/http://www.kimberleybusteed.com.au/blog/ Kimberley Busteed Official Blog]
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{{Succession box
| before={{flagicon|Australian Capital Territory}} Erin McNaught
| title=Miss Universe Australia
| years=2007
| after={{flagicon|New South Wales}} Laura Dundovic
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{{Miss Universe 2007 delegates}}
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Category:Miss Universe 2007 contestants
Category:People from Gladstone, Queensland
Category:Australian beauty pageant winners
Category:Miss Universe Australia winners
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