'Days of our Lives' Star to Serve as a Judge at This Year's Miss Teen USA Competition

BuddyTV - USA - The 25th Miss Teen USA competition will be aired live on Friday, August 24, with Days of our Lives star Shelley Hennig serving as one of the celebrity judges.

The 20-year-old actress, who plays Stephanie Johnson on Days of Our Lives, won the crown for Louisiana in 2004, becoming the first to do so for the state.  She was also the first Louisiana native to capture a national title since Ali Landry was named Miss USA 1996.  Winning the pageant secured Hennig a one-year-modeling contract with Trump Modeling Management, a scholarship to the School for Film and Television in New York and a guest role on another NBC soap opera, Passions.

Shelley Hennig joined the cast of Days of Our Lives early this year.  She was brought in as the replacement of actress Shayna Rose, who played the role from July 2006 to January of this year.  Hennig's Stephanie is the daughter of the show's supercouple Steve Johnson (Stephen Nichols) and Kayla Brady (Mary Beth Evans).