Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born on November 9, 1980. Minnillo is an American television personality and actress. A former Miss Teen USA, she is mostly known for hosting Total Request Live on MTV from 2003–2007 as well her past reporting as a New York-based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight.
Minnillo was born march 29 at Clark Air Force Base in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines, the daughter of Helen Berecero and Vince Minnillo, who was a U.S. Air Force Aircrew member [1]. Her father is an American of Italian and Irish descent and her mother is a Filipina (though Vanessa has claimed her to be Polynesian on at least one occasion) from the province of Pampanga on Luzon. Helen met Vince when he was based in the Philippines. Minnillo has an adopted brother Vincent, who is two years older than she.
As a child, Minnillo's family moved numerous times due to her father's work in the United States Air Force, including living in Washington, California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan and placing Minillo in eight different schools within nine years Minillo's parents separated in 1983, divorced in 1986.
Subsequent to Helen's remarriage to another United States Air Force serviceman, Vincent and Vanessa moved to Turkey with their mother and stepfather. By 1990, as a result of Desert Shield, Minnillo and her brother returned to their father's home, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina where she attended Bishop England High School and was a cheerleader. Vanessa was raised from then on by her father and his second wife Donna.
Minnillo entered the public eye as Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1998, and went on to be crowned as the winner of the 1998 Miss Teen USA pageant. She was the first delegate from South Carolina to capture the title and the first winner of the pageant to be chosen as Miss Congeniality.
She later co-hosted the Miss Teen USA 2004 pageant with Tony Potts and Miss Universe 2007 with Mario López.
She is best known for hosting MTV's Total Request Live (TRL), 2003–2007[8] and as an Entertainment Tonight NYC correspondent, 2005-2007.
She hosted Miss Teen USA (2004) and co-hosted Miss Universe (2007).
Minnillo was a finalist in E!'s competition to find a replacement for Brooke Burke as host for the show Wild On losing out to Cindy Taylor.
Minnillo's first acting role was in the 2007 film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Minnillo was featured in Vegas magazine (2008) where she revealed her next path of career is acting. She later confirmed to People magazine she indeed got a role in the movie "Redefining Love" out (2009). She appeared in the spoof movie/comedy Disaster Movie, released on August 29, 2008.
Vanessa Minnillo Sexy Celebrity Photos 101
No comments:
Post a Comment