The Resume

(June 21, 1966- )
Born in Anoka, Minnesota
Crowned Miss America (1989)
CBS Early Show (2000-2005)
Hostess of 'Fox & Friends' (2005- )
Celebrity spokesperson for March of Dimes (2006-2007)

Why she might be annoying:

What's her middle name, Helga?
She was a beauty queen.
She didn't want to be ridiculed by her peers, so she kept her pageant ambitions secret.
She called Ted Kennedy a 'hostile enemy on the home front.'
Because she could stick fingers between her two front teeth, classmates dubbed her 'Goalpost Gretchen.'
She is squeamish.
For example, she became nauseated by the story about a logger trapped under a tree who amputated his own leg with his pocket knife. She covered her ears with her hands and walked off the set singing.

Why she might not be annoying:

She plays classical violin.
She studied at Oxford and Stanford.
At 5' 3, she became one of the shortest Miss America winners ever.
Like everyone else, she dislikes Rosie O'Donnell.
She has been described as bright, beautiful, talented, and driven.
She wears short skirts.
She is 100 percent Swedish.

Credit: Sockboy

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Beauty Pageant Contestants
• Bill O'Reilly Doesn't Like Me
• Finding Your Roots
• I Appeared on Barbara Walter’s Farewell Special on ‘The View’ [2014]
• I Attended Oxford
• I Attended Stanford
• I Guest Hosted The View at Least Three Times
• Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority
• Little People [5'3 and Shorter] - Female A-K
• Miss America (Ranked: 1989)
• News
• Profiles 21001-21250 (Ranked: 21171)
• Scrumptious Scandinavians
• Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2017 [April 2017]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 102 Votes: 39.22% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 74 Votes: 48.65% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 13 Votes: 30.77% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 167 Votes: 55.09% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 57 Votes: 42.11% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 22 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1489 Votes: 64.94% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 25 Votes: 52.00% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 25 Votes: 64.00% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 60 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 129 Votes: 73.64% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 270 Votes: 78.15% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 120 Votes: 61.67% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 196 Votes: 39.80% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 133 Votes: 46.62% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 125 Votes: 66.40% Annoying