Linda Hooks

Linda Hooks

Infobox_person
name=Linda Hooks


birth_date=1952
birth_place=Liverpool, England, Great Britain

Linda Hooks (born Liverpool, 1952) is the second delegate from England to win the Miss International crown in 1972, [citeweb|title=Pageant Almanac|url=http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-international/former-titleholders.php Retrieved on 11 Apr 2008.] three years after Valerie Susan Holmes earned the title.

Hooks' success in the Miss International in Tokyo, Japan paved the way towards a modeling and acting career. During the mid-1970s, she appeared regularly on Anglia Television as an assistant to Nicholas Parsons in the United Kingdom version of the popular quiz show Sale of the Century. She also appeared in several Carry On movies made during the mid-1970s.

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* [http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/int_1972.htm Images and details of Hooks at 1972 "Miss International"]


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