Miss Venezuela 2008
Miss Venezuela 2008 was the 55th Miss Venezuela pageant, held at the Poliedro de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 10, 2008.
Dayana Mendoza of Amazonas crowned Stefania Fernández of Trujillo as her successor at the end of the event.
On July 29, Osmel Sousa assumed further control of the selection process by directly appointing the 28 final contestants from a pool of 73 candidates. Although winners of regional and state contests have never been guaranteed participation in the final Miss Venezuela pageant, this direct selection resulted in the unprecedented elimination of the representatives of Falcón, Lara, Sucre, Vargas and Nueva Esparta. In addition to the two aforementioned titleholders from Zulia, a total of seven state winners were consequently stripped of their titles, which will be carried in the final pageant by other candidates.
Contestants
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- Stefanía Fernández won the 2009 Miss Universe pageant in Nassau, Bahamas, marking the first time that a country won two times in a row.
- Laksmi Rodríguez placed as Semifinalist in Miss International 2009 in Chengdu, China. She also competed in Miss Supranational 2010 in Plock, Poland, when she placed as Semifinalist.
- Gabriela Concepción placed as 1st runner-up in Top Model of [The World 2010] in Dortmund, Germany. and semifinalist the Miss Continente Americano 2010
- Ligia Hernández placed as 4th runner-up in Reina Hispanoamericana 2008 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
- Natasha Domínguez placed as 2nd runner-up in Reinado Internacional del Café 2009 in Manizales, Colombia.
- Viviana Ramos previously won Miss Globe International 2006 in Saranda, Albania.