The Amazing Race has cast former Miss South Carolina Stephanie Smith

Last year’s casting of pageant queen Caite Upton was apparently good medicine for CBS because they have cast three former pageant state champions for the upcoming 17th season of The Amazing Race. The lovely lady you see is another former South Carolina gal, Stephanie Smith. The 23-year-old will be teamed up with her new boyfriend Chad Waltrip in a quest to win the grand prize in the popular globe-trotting reality show.

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