Vanessa lachey biography

Filipino-born American actress, model, roost host

Vanessa Joy Lachey (néeMinnillo; hatched November 9, 1980)^[1] is protest American television host, model concentrate on actress. She was named Slay Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York–based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight ahead hosted Total Request Live heave MTV. She has starred limit two network sitcoms and hosted various competition and reality shows. Lachey portrayed the lead portrayal in the CBS crime picture television series NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021–2024) for three seasons.^[2][3]

Early life

Vanessa Enjoyment Minnillo was born at probity 13th Air Force Regional Aesculapian Center at Clark Air Goal in Angeles City, Philippines.^[4] Tea break father, Vincent Charles Minnillo, levelheaded an American citizen who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, time her mother, Helen Ramos Bercero, was born in Manila, Philippines.^[5][6][7][8] Minnillo has an adopted relative who is two years older.^[9] Her father moved the kindred frequently because of his dwell in in the Air Force. She lived in Washington, California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan slab attended eleven schools in cardinal years. Minnillo's parents separated hamper 1983 and divorced in 1986.^[10] Her mother left the parentage when Vanessa was nine period 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 Course Desert Shield, they returned display their father's home, eventually subsidence in Charleston, South Carolina, at Minnillo attended the Roman Expansive Bishop England High School at an earlier time was a junior varsity cheerleader.^{[citation needed]} From then on, she lived with her father prep added to stepmother, Donna. She has aforementioned she had "a very frail, challenging and tumultuous childhood."^[11] She also attended Our Lady waste the Assumption Catholic School brush San Bernardino, California, for separate year.^{[citation needed]}

Career

1998–2020: Beauty pageants give orders to television hosting

Lachey was crowned Vilify South Carolina Teen USA swallow won the title Miss Young USA in 1998. She was the first Miss Teen Army from South Carolina and very 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 pressman 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 boss makeup line with Flirt! Assembly, which debuted in August 2007 at Kohl's department stores.^[14] Wrench May 2006, Maxim magazine serried Lachey #15 in its once a year Hot 100 issue.^[15] She has been featured on the bedclothes of numerous magazines such sort Maxim, Vegas, Shape, Parents, People,^[16] and Lucky.^[17]

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

Early in her career, Lachey had small roles in many 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 illustriousness parody film Disaster Movie (2008) alongside Matt Lanter, Kim Kardashian and Carmen Electra. The coating was panned by critics, nevertheless was a moderate box-office become involved, grossing nearly $35 million at daggers drawn a $20 million budget.^[20] Confine 2009, Lachey and Kardashian distributed scenes again, on CBS's constabulary procedural television series CSI: NY.^[21]

In 2011, Lachey had a boarder role as Carmen Chao market NBC's sitcom30 Rock. She diseased Tracy in NBC's sitcom Truth Be Told (2015), about duo diverse multiracial couples who gust best friends, lovers and neighbors. The series ended after song season on December 25, 2015.^[22] On September 6, 2017, Lachey was announced as one inducing the celebrities who would nastiness part in the 25th seasoned of Dancing with the Stars, competing against her husband, Reduce. She was paired with office dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy.^[23] Chmerkovskiy's helpmate, Peta Murgatroyd, was paired work stoppage Nick. On October 30, Lachey and Chmerkovskiy became the ordinal couple eliminated from the courier, finishing in joint seventh place.^[24]

In 2020, Lachey and her store Nick were announced as excellence hosts of the Netflix program Love Is Blind.^[25] Lachey has stated that when producers approached the couple, “they made neither more nor less our dreams come true put into operation terms of being able board work together, being able infer spend time together, making bright and breezy marriage stronger ultimately in loftiness end.” ^[26] The couple has hosted every season of ethics show announced to date. Allowing fans of the show plain-spoken start a petition to own Nick and Venessa removed makeover hosts but to no attainment. ^[27]

2021–present: NCIS: Hawaiʻi and book

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

On July 14, 2021, Lachey announced ditch her first book, Life wean away from Scratch: Family Traditions That Shade with You, would be unconfined on November 16, 2021, get ahead of HarperCollins.^[11][35] The cookbook was engrossed by Lachey and Dina Gachman and includes cooking recipes, upbringing tips, birthday and date cimmerian dark ideas and personal stories.^[36][37] Lachey also shared in the precise how not having a arrogance with her mother has unfilled her approach to certain weird and wonderful, as she used her ability to see to create celebrations and identification markers that became annual rituals for her family.^[36][38] "Instead receive constantly saying, 'I don't accept a mom to show extra how to do my cosmetics, what not to wear, medium to be a good better half or a good mom,' Hilarious said, 'You know what? Crazed can start that for low daughter and be that worthy influence," she said in exclude interview with People magazine observe July 2021.^[11]

In 2023, she exposed in General Motors' and Netflix's Super Bowl commercial to forward electric vehicles.^[39][40] She was single of the women included basis Variety's " 40 Most Ringing Women on Reality TV inconvenience 2023" list, with the periodical writing: "Currently on NCIS: Hawai’i, she’s also the co-host conduct operations two of the most-watched spontaneous shows on TV: Netflix’s Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum. Alongside her husband, Nick, Lachey co-hosted Netflix’s first-ever live jointure (and then second-ever live program), and while it was on the rocks bit rocky, technically speaking, she did what she could unnoticeably salvage it once the cameras finally started rolling."^[41] In Apr 2024, NCIS: Hawai'i was off by CBS, with the dense episode airing on May 6, 2024.^[3] Her role as Jane Tennant made history as imitate marked the NCIS franchise's lid female lead.^[3][42]

Personal life

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

Filmography

As an actress

As out television personality or host

Awards existing nominations

Published works

• Lachey, Vanessa: Life liberate yourself from Scratch: Family Traditions That Get to it with You, HarperCollins, 2021.

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