Thursday, November 26, 2009

Vanessa Minnillo

Vanessa Minnillo
Vanessa Minnillo Biography
Vanessa Joy Minnillo (born November 9, 1980) is an American television personality. A former Miss Teen USA, she is mostly known for hosting Total Request Live on MTV from 2003รข€"2007 as well her past reporting as a New York-based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. She was born at Clark Air Force Base in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. She is currently dating Aria Karimi and Nick Lachey

Her father, Vince, is an American of Italian and Irish descent. Her mother, Helen Berecero, is a Filipina from the province of Pampanga on Luzon, whom Vince met while based in the Philippines, though Minnillo referred to her mother as Polynesian on at least one occasion. Vanessa has an adopted brother, Vincent, who is two years older than her.

As a child, Minnillo's family moved numerous times due to her father's work in the United States Air Force, including living in Washington, California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan and placing Minillo in eight different schools within nine years. Minillo's parents separated in 1983, divorced in 1986.

Vanessa Minnillo
Subsequent to Helen's remarriage to a United States Air Force serviceman, Minnillo and her brother moved to Turkey with their mother and stepfather. By 1990, as a result of Desert Shield, Minnillo and her brother returned to their father's home, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina where she attended Bishop England High School and was a cheerleader.

Vanessa Minnillo
Minnillo is fluent in English and has passing knowledge of two languages spoken in the Philippines: Kapampangan and Tagalog. She has a close relationship with her stepmother Donna Minnillo and brother Vincent, but is estranged from her mother.




Vanessa Minnillo site: http://www.vanessaminnillo.com/
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