Denton to host Miss America
James Denton, who plays a hunky plumber on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” will host the 2006 Miss America pageant, which is heading to the Las Vegas Strip in hopes of boosting ratings and updating the contest’s image.
Country Music Television, a Nashville-based cable channel, will air the contest live from the Aladdin Resort & Casino on Jan. 21.
The beauty pageant announced last week that it was moving to Las Vegas after 84 years in Atlantic City, N.J. The event has been dogged by financial troubles and slipping viewership. ABC dropped the show last year, leaving Miss America without a network TV contract for the first time since 1954.
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