Vanessa Minnillo

Vanessa Joy Lachey (nee Minnillo born November 9, 1980) is an American Television Personality, television host, fashion model and actress. Minnillo was named Miss Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York-based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and hosted Total Request Live/TRL on MTV.

Biography
1980-87 Early Life Minnillo was born in Angeles City, Pasadena, Philippines on November 9, 1980. Her father, Vincent Minnillo is an American citizen of Italian and Irish decent while her estranged mother, Helen Bercero in Filipino. Minnillo has an adopted brother, Vincent Jr. who is two years older than her. Her father moved the family frequently because of his service in the Air Force. She lived in Washington, California; Nevada, Florida; Germany and Japan and attendant eight different schools in nine years. Minnillo's parents separated in 1983 and were divorced three years later in 1986.

Minnillo's parents both remarried. She and her brother Vincent Jr. relocated to Turkey with their mother and new stepfather. By 1991, in the wake of Operation Desert Shield, they returned to their father's home. Eventually settling in Hanahan, South Carolina where Minnillo attended the Roman Catholic Bishop England High School and was a cheerleader. From then on, she lived with her father and stepmother, Donna. She also attended Our Lady Assumption Catholic School, in San Bernanaido, California, for one year.

1998-2007 Minnillo was crowned Miss South Carolina Teen USA and went on to win titles Miss Teen USA 1998, the first Miss Teen USA from South Carolina to be named the pageant's Miss Congeniality. She was host of MTV's Total Request Live (TRL) from 2003 until 2007 and became a New York City correspondent for Entertainment Tonight (ET) in 2005. Minnillo hosted Miss Teen USA (2004) and co-hosted Miss Universe (2007).

2007-Present Minnillo was the finalist in E!'s competition to replace Brooke Burke as host of Wild On. She also appeared on True Beauty, a competition in which ten contestants vie for $100,000 and inclusion in People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People issue. The series premiered on ABC January 5, 2009 with a first season that ran through February 23, 2009. ABC renewed the series for a second season which ran through May 31, 2010 until July 19, 2010. Minnillo became a co-host of ABC's Wipeout beginning in Winter 2011. Her first appearance was on December 8, 2011. She left the show in late 2012 to have a baby and was replace by original co-host Jill Wagner.

Minnillo has appeared in television series including: That's Life, 30 Rock, Bold and the Beautiful, Psych, Hawaii Five-O (2010 version) and Maybe It's Me. in 2008, she played Ashlee on How I Met You Mother episode "No Tomorrow". She starred in the 2008 box office failure Disaster Movie a spoof of big-budget disaster movies. Released on August 29, 2008, the film had moderate box office success, earning $34,624,652. The film received extremely negative reviews, earning six Razzie Award nominations. As of January 2011, it stands at #16 on the IMDb Bottom 100.

Minnillo signed on to appear in Redefining Love, a 2009 romantic comedy, but she is not listed in the cast. In November 2009, TVGuide.com announced that Minnillo would guests along former Disaster Movie co-star Kim Kardashian on CBS's CSI: NY. The ladies [Vanessa and Kim] portray two women who've manged to concoct a very interesting scheme that ends in murder", confirmed executive producer Pam Veasey. Minnillo's former MTV colleague and close friend, La La Vasquez as well as the band Train, also appeared in the episode. In 2011, she guest starred in 30 Rock as Carmen Chao, Avery's coworker at NBC who is competing for the same promotion. Minnillol later guest starredon the new series Hawaii Five-O with her current fiancé Nick Lachey.

Personal Life
Beginning in 2003, Minnillo was in a relationship with Derek Jeter, which ended in 2005.

She dated Nick Lachey in 2006 until their split in 2009. The couple reconciled several months later. On July 15, 2011, Minnillo and Lachey married on Sir Richard Branson's private Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, with an intimate party of thirty-five close friends and family. On September 12, 2012, Minnillo gave birth to their first child, a son named Camden John Lachey.

Show Hosted
Wipeout (2) (2011-2012)

Show Appeared
True Beauty (2009-2010)

Link
[Her Official Website]