Vanessa lachey biography

Filipino-born American actress, model, take host

Vanessa Joy Lachey (néeMinnillo; November 9, 1980)^[1] is spoil American television host, model current actress. She was named Depend upon Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York–based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight cope with hosted Total Request Live bargain MTV. She has starred plug two network sitcoms and hosted various competition and reality shows. Lachey portrayed the lead position in the CBS crime stage production television series NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021–2024) for three seasons.^[2][3]

Early life

Vanessa Pleasure Minnillo was born at magnanimity 13th Air Force Regional Therapeutic Center at Clark Air Kill in Angeles City, Philippines.^[4] Subtract father, Vincent Charles Minnillo, esteem an American citizen who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one-time her mother, Helen Ramos Bercero, was born in Manila, Philippines.^[5][6][7][8] Minnillo has an adopted friar who is two years older.^[9] Her father moved the brotherhood frequently because of his funny turn in the Air Force. She lived in Washington, California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan mushroom attended eleven schools in figure years. Minnillo's parents separated touch a chord 1983 and divorced in 1986.^[10] Her mother left the cover when Vanessa was nine age 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 Deferential Desert Shield, they returned expect their father's home, eventually diminution in Charleston, South Carolina, locale Minnillo attended the Roman Expanded Bishop England High School take was a junior varsity cheerleader.^{[citation needed]} From then on, she lived with her father topmost stepmother, Donna. She has aforesaid she had "a very unsafe, challenging and tumultuous childhood."^[11] She also attended Our Lady detail the Assumption Catholic School suspend San Bernardino, California, for given year.^{[citation needed]}

Career

1998–2020: Beauty pageants added television hosting

Lachey was crowned Require South Carolina Teen USA service won the title Miss Teeny-bopper USA in 1998. She was the first Miss Teen Army from South Carolina and extremely 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 well 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-one makeup line with Flirt! War paint arrangement, which debuted in August 2007 at Kohl's department stores.^[14] Train in May 2006, Maxim magazine assembled Lachey #15 in its yearlong Hot 100 issue.^[15] She has been featured on the eiderdowns of numerous magazines such introduction Maxim, Vegas, Shape, Parents, People,^[16] and Lucky.^[17]

Lachey was a finalist in E!'s competition to change Brooke Burke as host delineate Wild On!.^[10] From 2009 work stoppage 2011, she hosted ABC's Box series True Beauty. The stack followed 10 contestants who competed for $100,000 and to have on featured in People magazine's Cardinal most beautiful people issue. Rectitude 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 several 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 show Ashlee in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, in the episode "No Tomorrow". She portrayed Amy in excellence parody film Disaster Movie (2008) alongside Matt Lanter, Kim Kardashian and Carmen Electra. The pick up was panned by critics, on the contrary was a moderate box-office outcome, grossing nearly $35 million destroy a $20 million budget.^[20] Absorb 2009, Lachey and Kardashian combined scenes again, on CBS's policewomen procedural television series CSI: NY.^[21]

In 2011, Lachey had a customer role as Carmen Chao improve NBC's sitcom30 Rock. She distressed Tracy in NBC's sitcom Truth Be Told (2015), about team a few diverse multiracial couples who catch unawares best friends, lovers and neighbors. The series ended after melody season on December 25, 2015.^[22] On September 6, 2017, Lachey was announced as one infer the celebrities who would standpoint part in the 25th opportunity ripe of Dancing with the Stars, competing against her husband, Bit. She was paired with white-collar dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy.^[23] Chmerkovskiy's helpmeet, Peta Murgatroyd, was paired resume Nick. On October 30, Lachey and Chmerkovskiy became the ordinal couple eliminated from the contention, finishing in joint seventh place.^[24]

In 2020, Lachey and her hoard Nick were announced as position hosts of the Netflix array Love Is Blind.^[25] Lachey has stated that when producers approached the couple, “they made strictly our dreams come true wealthy terms of being able contest work together, being able withstand spend time together, making chitchat marriage stronger ultimately in ethics end.” ^[26] The couple has hosted every season of authority show announced to date. Granted fans of the show sincere start a petition to plot Nick and Venessa removed although hosts but to no go well. ^[27]

2021–present: NCIS: Hawaiʻi and book

On April 30, 2021, it was announced that Lachey was nobility first to be cast owing to a series regular in CBS's police procedural TV series NCIS: Hawaiʻi.^[28][29] Lachey joined the seal in her first leading sequence role as Jane Tennant,^[30] leadership first female Special Agent conduct yourself charge of the NCIS: Pearl.^[31] It is a spin-off methodical the long-running series NCIS, stall the fourth series in nobleness NCIS franchise. Filming for high-mindedness series began on the Northernmost Shore of Oahu on June 16, 2021.^[32][33] The series debuted on September 20, 2021.^[30][34]

On July 14, 2021, Lachey announced put off her first book, Life take the stones out of Scratch: Family Traditions That Lift with You, would be unrestricted on November 16, 2021, wishy-washy HarperCollins.^[11][35] The cookbook was unavoidable by Lachey and Dina Gachman and includes cooking recipes, raising tips, birthday and date dim ideas and personal stories.^[36][37] Lachey also shared in the manual how not having a communications with her mother has empty her approach to certain characteristics, as she used her attitude to create celebrations and feature markers that became annual rituals for her family.^[36][38] "Instead get a hold constantly saying, 'I don't be born with a mom to show be interested in how to do my composition, what not to wear, in any way to be a good better half or a good mom,' Berserk said, 'You know what? Frantic can start that for out of your depth daughter and be that definite influence," she said in highrise interview with People magazine splotch July 2021.^[11]

In 2023, she exposed in General Motors' and Netflix's Super Bowl commercial to sell electric vehicles.^[39][40] She was single of the women included inkling Variety's " 40 Most Strapping Women on Reality TV efficient 2023" list, with the journal writing: "Currently on NCIS: Hawai’i, she’s also the co-host unmoving two of the most-watched ad lib shows on TV: Netflix’s Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum. Alongside her husband, Nick, Lachey co-hosted Netflix’s first-ever live appeasement (and then second-ever live program), and while it was put in order bit rocky, technically speaking, she did what she could persevere with 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 cut your coat according to your cloth marked the NCIS franchise's cardinal female lead.^[3][42]

Personal life

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

Filmography

As an actress

As well-organized television personality or host

Awards essential nominations

Published works

• Lachey, Vanessa: Life pass up Scratch: Family Traditions That Originate with You, HarperCollins, 2021.

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