Miss Venezuela 2008

{{Short description|South American beauty pageant}}

{{Infobox beauty pageant

| photo = Miss Universe Visit to earth Earth infra Earth Infrastructures Limited (cropped).jpg

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| winner = Stefanía Fernández

| represented = Trujillo

| date = September 10, 2008

| venue = Poliedro de Caracas, Caracas

| broadcaster = Venevisión

| presenters = Daniel Sarcos
Maite Delgado

| acts = David Bisbal, Oscar D'León, Wisin & Yandel{{cite web|title=Miss Universo 2008 coronó a la nueva Miss Venezuela, Stefanía Fernández|date=11 September 2008|website=Los Secretos De La Vida|lang=es|url=http://www.lossecretosdelavida.com/miss-universo-2008-corono-a-la-nueva-miss-venezuela-stefania-fernandez/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630062618/http://www.lossecretosdelavida.com/miss-universo-2008-corono-a-la-nueva-miss-venezuela-stefania-fernandez/|archive-date=30 June 2009}}

| entrants = 28{{cite web|url=http://www.venevision.net/missvenezuela/2008/esp/candidatas/candidatas.asp |title=Candidatas oficiales en el 'Miss Venezuela 2009' |publisher=VeneVision |date=2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927030832/http://www.venevision.net/missvenezuela/2008/esp/candidatas/candidatas.asp |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}

| placements=10

| before = 2007

| next = 2009

}}

Miss Venezuela 2008 was the 55th Miss Venezuela pageant, held at the Poliedro de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 10, 2008.

Dayana Mendoza of Amazonas crowned Stefania Fernández of Trujillo as her successor at the end of the event.{{cite web|publisher=El Universal|title=Miss Trujillo Stefanía Fernández fue electa Miss Venezuela 2008|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/09/10/til_ava_miss-trujillo-stefan_10A1979003.shtml|accessdate=2008-09-10}}

On July 29, Osmel Sousa assumed further control of the selection process by directly appointing the 28 final contestants from a pool of 73 candidates. Although winners of regional and state contests have never been guaranteed participation in the final Miss Venezuela pageant, this direct selection resulted in the unprecedented elimination of the representatives of Falcón, Lara, Sucre, Vargas and Nueva Esparta. In addition to the two aforementioned titleholders from Zulia, a total of seven state winners were consequently stripped of their titles, which will be carried in the final pageant by other candidates.{{cite news|url=http://www.panorama.com.ve/panodi/449326.html|publisher=Panorama.com.ve|title=Eligen las candidatas al Miss Venezuela|accessdate=2012-12-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}