Vanessa Minnillo is a Filipino-American TV character, glamorous lady, design model, TV host and entertainer. She was named Miss Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York-based reporter for Entertainment Tonight and facilitated Total Request Live on MTV. She has featured in two system sitcoms, and has facilitated different rivalry and unscripted TV dramas through the 2010s and 2020s. 

Minnillo started dating vocalist Nick Lachey in 2006 (preceding his partition from Jessica Simpson in December the earlier year and separated from later toward the finish of June around the same time) after they met when she showed up in the music video for his melody "What's Left of Me". 

In June 2009, they separated, yet in October 2009, Lachey affirmed that they were back together in the wake of having been "single for a moment". 

Minnillo and Lachey got occupied with November 2010. 

The couple wedded on July 15, 2011 at Sir Richard Branson's private Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. Scratch and Vanessa Minnillo have three youngsters together. 

Full Name: Vanessa Joy Minnillo

Birth Date: November 9, 1980 (age 39)
Birth Place: Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
Occupation: Television personality, beauty queen, model, television host, actress
Years active: 1998–present
Title: Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1998, Miss Teen USA 1998
Spouse: Nick Lachey (m. 2011)
Children: 3

Beauty pageant titleholder
Major competition(s): Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1998(Winner), Miss Teen USA 1998(Winner)

Personal life 

Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born at USAF Clark Regional Medical Center in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. Her dad, Vincent Charles Minnillo, is an American resident from Cleveland, Ohio of Italian and Irish plummet, while her mom, Helen Ramos Bercero, is from Manila, Philippines. Minnillo has a received sibling who is two years more established. Her dad moved the family as often as possible in light of his administration in the Air Force. She lived in Washington, California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan and went to eight unique schools in nine years. Minnillo's folks isolated in 1983 and were separated in 1986. 

Minnillo's folks both remarried. She and her sibling Vincent Jr. migrated to Turkey with their mom and new stepfather. By 1991, in the wake of Operation Desert Shield, they came back to their dad's home, inevitably settling in Charleston, South Carolina, where Minnillo went to the Roman Catholic Bishop England High School and was a team promoter. From that point on, she lived with her dad and stepmother, Donna. She likewise went to Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School, in San Bernardino, California, for one year. 

Career

in 1998, Minnillo was delegated Miss South Carolina Teen USA and proceeded to win the title Miss Teen USA , the primary Miss Teen USA from South Carolina and furthermore the first from South Carolina to be named the show's Miss Congeniality. 

She was a host on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL) from 2003 until 2007 and turned into a New York City reporter for Entertainment Tonight in 2005. Minnillo facilitated Miss Teen USA (2004) and co-facilitated Miss Universe (2007). 

In the wake of leaving MTV and Entertainment Tonight, Minnillo was highlighted in print and online promoting for BONGO Jeans' Spring/Summer 2007 assortment. She has been representative for Flirt! Beautifying agents, a line she made which appeared in August 2007, in Kohl's retail chains. 

In May 2006, Maxim magazine positioned Minnillo #15 in its yearly Hot 100 issue. 

She has been included on the fronts of Maxim (October 2005, October 2006), Shape (March 2007), and Lucky (July 2007). 

Minnillo was a finalist in E's! opposition to supplant Brooke Burke as host of Wild On!. She likewise facilitated True Beauty, an opposition wherein 10 competitors strive for $100,000 and consideration in People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People issue. 

The arrangement debuted on ABC on January 5, 2009, with a first season that went through February 23, 2009. ABC restored the arrangement for a second season which ran from May 31, 2010 through July 19, 2010. 

Minnillo turned into a co-host of ABC's Wipeout starting in winter 2011. Her first appearance was on December 8, 2011. Because of her pregnancy, Minnillo left the show in late 2012 and was supplanted by Jill Wagner. 

In 2008, she played Ashlee in the How I Met Your Mother scene "No Tomorrow". She featured in the 2008 satire Disaster Movie, a parody of large spending Hollywood catastrophe films. Discharged on August 29, 2008, the film had moderate film industry achievement, procuring $34,624,652 around the world. The film got amazingly negative audits, gaining six Razzie Award selections. It remains at number one on the IMDb Bottom 100. 

In November 2009, TVGuide.com reported that Minnillo would visitor star close by Disaster Movie co-star Kim Kardashian on CBS's CSI: NY. "The women [Vanessa and Kim] depict two ladies who've figured out how to compose an exceptionally fascinating plan that closes in murder," affirmed official maker Pam Veasey. Minnillo's previous MTV partner and dear companion, La Vasquez, just as the band Train, additionally showed up in the scene. 

In 2011, she visitor featured on 30 Rock as Carmen Chao, Avery's colleague at NBC who is seeking a similar advancement. Minnillo later visitor featured on the then-new arrangement Hawaii Five-0 with then life partner Nick Lachey. 

On September 6, 2017, Lachey was reported as one of the big names who will partake on the 25th period of Dancing with the Stars, going up against her better half Nick. She was combined with proficient artist Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Chmerkovskiy's better half, Peta Murgatroyd, was matched with Nick. 

On October 30, Lachey and Chmerkovskiy turned into the seventh couple to be wiped out from the opposition, completing in joint seventh spot.