{"id":301275,"date":"2026-06-09T13:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301275\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:28:16","slug":"miss-ocala-and-miss-gainesville-prepare-for-miss-florida-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301275\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Ocala and Miss Gainesville prepare for Miss Florida 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Miss Ocala Madison Parolini and Miss Gainesville Tia Unsell will head to the Miss Florida stage in two weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 2026 competition is June 24-27th in Lakeland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The winner will be crowned at the conclusion of this event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Miss Ocala Madison Parolini is a BFA Musical Theatre student at the University of Florida, and hopes to become a Broadway performer. This is her first year competing for Miss Florida. She advocates for the performing arts industry and mentoring young performers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Miss Gainesville Tia Unsell is a graduate of FSU and hopes to become a speech pathologist. This is her final year taking the Miss Florida stage. Tia\u2019s Community Service Initiative is Dancers Against Cancer. This helps provide financial assistance to dancers, dance teachers, and their families battling cancer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TV20\u2019s Kristin Chase sat down with both ladies in the above video. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Miss Ocala Madison Parolini and Miss Gainesville Tia Unsell will head to the Miss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-301275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}