Birthday: January 11

To be crowned Miss Brick Veneer Housing and Miss Boybutante all in one calendar year (1996) would be a coup in anyone's book, but for Wild Cherry Sucret, it was well-deserved recognition, long overdue. Once part of a singing group called The Sucrets, she found herself alone after chemical pursuits and unwarranted pregnancies took their toll on this talented ensemble. Undaunted, Wild Cherry began a new career designing a line of skin products called "Macon Highway Mud Masks," which opened "new vistas of dermatology," according to subsequent court records. Her bitter disputes with the FDA went on for years, but this feisty trouper has put her past and her former wig where they belong. Discovered by Coretta Scott Queen doing "colors" at Eckerd's, Wild Cherry says, "I'll never have to tell some pasty honky that she's an 'autumn' again." Her best-selling autobiography I Know Why the Caged Dancer Stinks, and her critically acclaimed performance as Mammy in the stage version of The Wig Done Gone make every return appearance at Boybutante extra "bling-bling" special. In 2000, Wild Cherry became an Armorette at the Armory and is soothing throats thoughout Atlanta. Also in 2000, Wild Cherry was crowned Miss Homecoming raising well over $30,000!