Vanessa Minnillo (born
November 9,
1980) is an
American television personality. She is a host on
TRL and was
Miss Teen USA 1998.
Minnillo was born in the Clark Air Base, Philippines to Vince Minnillo and Helen Berecero. She has stated in two interviews that her father is an American of Italian and Irish descent and her mother is a Polynesian Filipina of from the province of Leyte;[1] [2].
As a child, her family moved numerous times due to her father's work in the
United States Air Force. Her
family spent time in
California,
Nevada,
Florida,
Germany and
Japan before eventually settling in
Charleston, South Carolina. Her parents are divorced and she has a step-mother Donna Minnillo, and an older adopted brother, Vincent.
Minnillo was one of the finalists in E!'s competition to find a replacement for
Brooke Burke as hostess for the show
Wild On. The job eventually went to
Cindy Taylor. Minnillo has been hosting
TRL on
MTV since 2003. Her first interview on TRL was with
hip-hop artist
Chingy. In 2005, she also became a
New York-based reporter for the entertainment news show,
Entertainment Tonight. Before joining MTV, she had minor roles in
The Bold and the Beautiful,
television series City Guys,
That's Life, and
Maybe It's Me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Minnillo
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Official website:
http://www.vanessaminnillo.com/