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Our girl Gracey is Miss Priscilla 2025

She has the hair, she's got the moves and she has the voice.

Gracey Denham-Jones isn't impersonating Elvis Presley though, instead she is the Parkes Elvis Festival's 2025 Miss Priscilla.

In front of a sold-out Miss Priscilla Dinner on Thursday night at the Parkes Services Club, the 22-year-old from Parkes was announced this year's winner ahead of four others, much to her absolute surprise and delight.

All five Miss Priscilla entrants chose to wear Priscilla Presley's iconic white shift dress, all but one with the black bow, her going away outfit after her wedding.

The remaining entrants were Vivian Tosetti also of Parkes, Jessica Borg from Jervis Bay, Lulu Wagner of Sydney and Samantha Corrone from the Gold Coast.

"I'm so excited!" Gracey said.

"I have always wanted to enter Miss Priscilla since I was a little girl.

"I have the long, dark hair to do it."

Entering this year's competition was never really the plan for Gracey, who is usually tied up each year with dancing and duties with Parkes Dance Co at the festival, since she's a dance teacher as well.

But this year she's been able to step back and on Sunday she made the impulsive decision to enter the competition she's always dreamed of.

"I've just always been a dance girl," she added.

Gracey is a marketing specialist with Ray White and a singer and musician herself too.

Parkes hairdresser Nicole Rosser styled her hair, while Kim Boardmann from Kindred Beauty Lounge did her makeup.

And yep, all that hair of hers is real.

"It only took an hour to do my hair, which is pretty good compared to the other girls who I spoke to," Gracey said.

"I have a lot of it, it holds well."

Her dress was made by local seamstress from Sew and Go Jenny Kingham who impressively whipped up her outfit from scratch in four days.

"It's a simple dress and I had the pattern already, it's just what we do," Jenny said.

"The hardest part was the bow because it's quite unique and getting it right.

"I fitted her on Monday and handed her the dress on Thursday morning."

"It's so iconic," Gracey said, describing the dress.

With some very big days ahead of her, Gracey was up early this morning for her first photo shoot out at the Dish and she'll be appearing in the famous Parkes Elvis Festival Street Parade in the morning at 10am.

She's excited for it all.

"I'm super stoked," she said.

"It's a great way to represent the community, it's always good to have a local girl.

"I'm looking forward to making people happy and chatting with people."

As for her stamina to get her through the festival, she said "no problem".

And her feet?

"I wear heals everyday to work," she said.