Rex Holt of GuyRex beauty queen fame on life support
ABC-7’s news partners El Paso Inc. reported Wednesday that Rex Holt, half of the famous El Paso pageant team of GuyRex, died in California on Wednesday of a heart attack.
Richard Guy, Holt’s lifelong partner, told ABC-7’s Estela Casas that Holt is not dead but is on life support. Doctors told him they don’t believe he has any brain activity.
Guy said he is hoping for a miracle but that he needs to accept God’s will. Holt is 74.
GuyRex was the creative force behind 29 Miss El Paso contests and 16 Miss Texas pageants. They coached six young women to become Miss USA pageant winners, including five in a row.
Read the full El Paso Inc. article at http://bit.ly/1Kw6GN6
For more on GuyRex, click on the links below from recent articles to features during their incredible run in the 1980s.
El Paso Inc. 2011: Return of GuyRex, pageant kings
Pageantry Magazine 2003: You Be the Judge: Richard Guy – Pageantry magazine People Magazine1987: The Crowning Touch of Richard Guy and Rex Holt Shapes Texas Teens into Lovelies Who Just Can’t Lose New York Times 1988: In Texas, Two Kings of the Beauty Queen Business
Los Angeles Times 1988: Winning Ways : Pageant Pygmalions Are Reinforcing a Standard Look for Beauty Queens Los Angeles Times 1987: They Reign as Kings in the Land of the Beauty Queens Los Angeles Confidential 2008: The Girl Who Couldn’t Whistle
