Jessica Boyington
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Jessica Boyington is a beauty queen from Sicklerville, New Jersey
Sicklerville, New Jersey
Sicklerville is an unincorporated community located primarily within Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey. It was founded in 1851 by John Sickler, who lived in the area where the present-day town is located within Gloucester Township...

 who competed in the Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

 pageant.

In 2003, Boyington graduated from Paul VI High School
Paul VI High School
Paul VI High School is a private Catholic high school located in Haddon Township, New Jersey. As there is no post office in Haddon Township, the mailing address is Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States. The school is named in honor of Pope Paul VI, and was founded in 1966. The Paul VI sports and...

. She then pursued a degree in Communications focusing on Radio/TV/Film from Rowan University
Rowan University
Rowan University is a public university in Glassboro, New Jersey, USA with a satellite campus in Camden, New Jersey. The school was founded in 1923 as Glassboro Normal School on a twenty-five acre tract of land donated by the town...

. She also attended Camden County College
Camden County College
Camden County College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Camden County, New Jersey. Camden County College has three distinct campuses located in Blackwood, Camden and Cherry Hill...

 and was on the President's List. She is trained in tap, jazz, ballet, and hip-hop and danced for several years in the Marica Hyland Dance Company in New Jersey where she was also a dance instructor.

In 2005, Boyington made her first attempt to gain the title of Miss New Jersey in the Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

 pageant and placed first runner-up to Sylvia Pogorzelski
Sylvia Pogorzelski
Sylvia Carolina Pogorzelski Birnbaum is a beauty queen from East Hanover, New Jersey who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Pogorzelski won the Miss New Jersey USA 2005 title in a state pageant held in Parsippany, New Jersey on 31 October 2004...

. In 2006, Boyington competed a second time and won the title of Miss New Jersey
Miss New Jersey USA
The Miss New Jersey USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Jersey in the Miss USA pageant.New Jersey has had only moderate success at Miss USA, and has never produced a winner. New Jersey's best streak was from 1989 to 1991 when they had two 2nd...

. On April 20, 2006, Boyington appeared as the delegate from New Jersey in the Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

 pageant, broadcast live from Baltimore, Maryland, but failed to place in the top ten.

Jessica was featured on the hit game show Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht produced by Dutch producer Endemol. It is played with up to 26 cases with certain sums of money...

 where she held case #11. Jessica also works for the Covino and Rich Show on Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...

 in New York City.

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