A pageant competitor is looking to bring Hertfordshire its first national win since Love Island Star Molly Mae Hague. 

Marcie Reid, 27, has already placed in the top 10 in two national pageant competitions. 

She is now looking to win Miss Earth GB, the national stage of one of the biggest pageants in the world.  

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Office manager and student Marcie has strong ties to the Croxley Green area where she has lived most of her life.

Watford Observer: Marcie Reid, image by Charlotte ClemieMarcie Reid, image by Charlotte Clemie She said: “I've had a great time here, it’s such a lovely close-knit community.

"If you walk down the street, it’s one of those villages where you can’t walk past a single person without knowing them and saying hi.

“That is something I absolutely love.”

She added: “I was in foster care for a little while and moved to South Oxhey to be with my foster carers.

Watford Observer: Marcie Reid at Rickmansworth MarketMarcie Reid at Rickmansworth Market “Luckily, I was a foster care success story and I got to go back home and live with mum forever."

Marcie says she never expected to compete in pageants.

“I watched a friend of mine compete and I hadn’t ever though it was for me, I had thought it was just an American thing.

“Then over a few years I gathered the courage and the self-development to feel I was deserving of competing.

Watford Observer: Marcie Reid, image by Charlotte ClemieMarcie Reid, image by Charlotte Clemie

“I started in 2019 and now I’m going for Miss Earth UK, which is one of the top four competitions in the entire world.”

The competition, in July, assesses competitors across a range of categories, requiring charity and publicity work in the build up to the event.

Marcie has won the Miss Charity and Miss Publicity awards at previous pageants.

A win in the national competition would see Marcie travelling to Vietnam to represent the UK internationally.

Watford Observer: Marcie Reid at Rickmansworth Canal FestivalMarcie Reid at Rickmansworth Canal Festival

She added: “It would mean the world to me.

“Hertfordshire has never won one of these competitions, though Molly Mae won World Teen Supermodel UK which is a national crown.”

“This area has done so much for me, I’ve got goosebumps just talking about it, but it would make me so proud to represent Rickmansworth on the world stage.”