- Age: 36
- Birth Place: Dallas, Texas
- Marital Status: Married
- Full Name: Melissa Rycroft-Strickland
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: March 11, 1983
- Occupation: Reality television contestant and former cheerleader
- Children: 1
Melissa Rycroft has also earned considerable wealth from other television shows. She has also appeared in the CMT reality television series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. She was one of the 35 cowboy cheerleaders. Melissa is a former contestant of Dancing with the Stars (8th season).
Melissa has worked and earned money is a television host too. Together with Chris Harrison, she did the Bachelor Pad reality show on ABC. She was the co-host for one season.
In recent times, Melissa Rycroft has got engaged to Tye Strickland (June 2009), and later on December 2009 they got married. In February 2011 Melissa delivered a baby girl. The couple named her Ava Grace Strickland.