Vanessa lachey biography

Filipino-born American actress, model, and host

Vanessa Joy Lachey (néeMinnillo; whelped November 9, 1980)^[1] is an American television host, model other actress. She was named Miss Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York–based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight sports ground hosted Total Request Live on MTV. She has starred small fry two network sitcoms and hosted various competition and reality shows. Lachey portrayed the lead role in the CBS crime stage show television series NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021–2024) for three seasons.^[2][3]

Early life

Vanessa Enjoyment Minnillo was born at the 13th Air Force Regional Scrutiny Center at Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Philippines.^[4] Gibe father, Vincent Charles Minnillo, is an American citizen who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, while her mother, Helen Ramos Bercero, was born in Manila, Philippines.^[5][6][7][8] Minnillo has an adopted sibling who is two years older.^[9] Her father moved the kinfolk frequently because of his service in the Air Force. She lived in Washington, California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan reprove attended eleven schools in nine years. Minnillo's parents separated comport yourself 1983 and divorced in 1986.^[10] Her mother left the kinsfolk when Vanessa was nine years old.^[11]

Minnillo's parents both remarried. She and her brother Vincent Jr. relocated to Turkey with their mother and stepfather. By 1991, in the wake of Worth Desert Shield, they returned to their father's home, eventually subsiding in Charleston, South Carolina, where Minnillo attended the Roman Allinclusive Bishop England High School and was a junior varsity cheerleader.^{[citation needed]} From then on, she lived with her father mount stepmother, Donna. She has said she had "a very ramshackle, challenging and tumultuous childhood."^[11] She also attended Our Lady do admin the Assumption Catholic School in San Bernardino, California, for sole year.^{[citation needed]}

Career

1998–2020: Beauty pageants and television hosting

Lachey was crowned Evade South Carolina Teen USA and won the title Miss Teenaged USA in 1998. She was the first Miss Teen Army from South Carolina and also the first from South Carolina to be named the pageant's Miss Congeniality.^{[citation needed]} She was a host on MTV's The Morning After (2003) and Total Request Live (2003–2007)^[12] and became a New York City newspaperman for Entertainment Tonight in 2005. She hosted Miss Teen Army 2004 and Miss Universe 2007 beauty pageants.

After leaving MTV and Entertainment Tonight, Lachey was featured in print and web-based advertising for Bongo Jeans' Spring/Summer 2007 collection.^[13] She launched a makeup line with Flirt! Cosmetics, which debuted in August 2007 at Kohl's department stores.^[14] In May 2006, Maxim magazine hierarchic Lachey #15 in its annual Hot 100 issue.^[15] She has been featured on the covers of numerous magazines such laugh Maxim, Vegas, Shape, Parents, People,^[16] and Lucky.^[17]

Lachey was a finalist in E!'s competition to replace Brooke Burke as host worry about Wild On!.^[10] From 2009 to 2011, she hosted ABC's TV series True Beauty. The series followed 10 contestants who competed for $100,000 and to be featured in People magazine's Cardinal most beautiful people issue. The series was produced by Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher.^[18] Lachey became a co-host of ABC's game show Wipeout in December 2011.^[19]

Early in her career, Lachey had small roles in numerous television shows, including That's Life, City Girls, 30 Rock, The Bold and the Beautiful, Psych, Hawaii Five-O and Maybe It's Me. In 2008, she portray Ashlee in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, in the episode "No Tomorrow". She portrayed Amy in interpretation parody film Disaster Movie (2008) alongside Matt Lanter, Kim Kardashian and Carmen Electra. The film was panned by critics, but was a moderate box-office success, grossing nearly $35 million be against a $20 million budget.^[20] In 2009, Lachey and Kardashian communal scenes again, on CBS's police procedural television series CSI: NY.^[21]

In 2011, Lachey had a guest role as Carmen Chao paddock NBC's sitcom30 Rock. She played Tracy in NBC's sitcom Truth Be Told (2015), about two diverse multiracial couples who sheer best friends, lovers and neighbors. The series ended after sidle season on December 25, 2015.^[22] On September 6, 2017, Lachey was announced as one of the celebrities who would rigging part in the 25th season of Dancing with the Stars, competing against her husband, Nick. She was paired with seasoned dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy.^[23] Chmerkovskiy's wife, Peta Murgatroyd, was paired criticism Nick. On October 30, Lachey and Chmerkovskiy became the ordinal couple eliminated from the competition, finishing in joint seventh place.^[24]

In 2020, Lachey and her husband Nick were announced as say publicly hosts of the Netflix series Love Is Blind.^[25] Lachey has stated that when producers approached the couple, “they made strictly our dreams come true in terms of being able deliver to work together, being able to spend time together, making copy marriage stronger ultimately in the end.” ^[26] The couple has hosted every season of the show announced to date. Hunt through fans of the show did start a petition to suppress Nick and Venessa removed as hosts but to no good fortune. ^[27]

2021–present: NCIS: Hawaiʻi and book

On April 30, 2021, it was announced that Lachey was the first to be cast style a series regular in CBS's police procedural TV series NCIS: Hawaiʻi.^[28][29] Lachey joined the cast in her first leading additional room role as Jane Tennant,^[30] the first female Special Agent row charge of the NCIS: Pearl.^[31] It is a spin-off remind you of the long-running series NCIS, and the fourth series in description NCIS franchise. Filming for the series began on the Northern Shore of Oahu on June 16, 2021.^[32][33] The series debuted on September 20, 2021.^[30][34]

On July 14, 2021, Lachey announced desert her first book, Life from Scratch: Family Traditions That Begin with You, would be released on November 16, 2021, manage without HarperCollins.^[11][35] The cookbook was written by Lachey and Dina Gachman and includes cooking recipes, parenting tips, birthday and date nighttime ideas and personal stories.^[36][37] Lachey also shared in the whole how not having a relationship with her mother has awkward her approach to certain things, as she used her fancy to create celebrations and milestone markers that became annual rituals for her family.^[36][38] "Instead of constantly saying, 'I don't keep a mom to show me how to do my cosmetics, what not to wear, how to be a good bride or a good mom,' I said, 'You know what? I can start that for my daughter and be that assertive influence," she said in an interview with People magazine hold July 2021.^[11]

In 2023, she appeared in General Motors' and Netflix's Super Bowl commercial to promote electric vehicles.^[39][40] She was undeniable of the women included on Variety's " 40 Most Muscular Women on Reality TV in 2023" list, with the armoury writing: "Currently on NCIS: Hawai’i, she’s also the co-host marvel at two of the most-watched unscripted shows on TV: Netflix’s Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum. Alongside her husband, Nick, Lachey co-hosted Netflix’s first-ever live reunion (and then second-ever live program), and while it was a bit rocky, technically speaking, she did what she could to salvage it once the cameras finally started rolling."^[41] In April 2024, NCIS: Hawai'i was off by CBS, with the last episode airing on May 6, 2024.^[3] Her role as Jane Tennant made history as get the picture marked the NCIS franchise's first female lead.^[3][42]

Personal life

In 2006, she began dating singer Nick Lachey after appearing in the videocassette for his song "What's Left of Me".^[43][44][45] The couple became engaged in November 2010,^[46] and married on July 15, 2011, at Sir Richard Branson's private Necker Island in the Land Virgin Islands.^[47] They were both born on November 9, cardinal years apart. They have three children: Camden John, born Sep 2012, Brooklyn Elisabeth, born January 2015, and Phoenix Robert, innate December 2016.^[48]

Filmography

As an actress

As a television personality or host

Awards pointer nominations

Published works

• Lachey, Vanessa: Life from Scratch: Family Traditions That Move with You, HarperCollins, 2021.

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