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Jenny McCarthy - Biography |
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Jenny McCarthy has a great
personality. Her vivacious charisma, snappy banter, and amusing facial
expressions on MTV's Singled Out, a hyper-charged nineties version of The
Dating Game, made the should-be stupid game show somehow bearable.
But McCarthy's show-business attributes extend beyond mere
personality--the twenty-three-year-old former Playboy centerfold exhibits
such profound perkiness that Hollywood producers have ignored her meager
rTsumT and inundated her with proposals for game shows, talk shows, and
sitcoms. Just a few short years ago, in 1992, McCarthy was scrambling for
funds to finance her second year of nursing studies at Southern Illinois
University. She decided to quit school and embark on a modeling career,
only to be told she was too curvy.
She realized that Playboy prefers full-figured women over waifs, and
hand-delivered photographs of herself to the magazine's Chicago office.
The editors liked what they saw and paid McCarthy $20,000 to pose as Miss
October 1993. A few months later, she won the Playmate of the Year title
and $100,000 in cash and prizes. Now a certified babe, McCarthy moved from
her native Chicago--where she grew up with three sisters, a stay-at-home
mom, and her father, a steel-plant foreman--to Los Angeles in search of
stardom. Hollywood auditions proved difficult to come by, and it took
incessant badgering from Ray Manzella, McCarthy's forty-seven-year-old
manager and live-in boyfriend, to land an interview at MTV.
The network's producer liked what they saw and hired McCarthy to CO-host
Singled Out, which debuted in the summer of 1995. Funny, photogenic, and
able to manhandle fifty testosterone-swollen contestants without incurring
(or committing) bodily harm, McCarthy was an immediate success. MTV was
eager to retain its hot property and coughed up a $500,000, one-year
contract that promoted McCarthy to full-fledged VJ and gave her carte
blanche to create a program of any format that best suits her talents.
McCarthy subsequently bowed out of her host responsibilities on Singled
Out to concentrate her attention on creating a new MTV sketch-variety
series, The Jenny McCarthy Show (in her words, it's "kind of like
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous on acid"). She also developed a sitcom
for NBC called Jenny, in which she portrays an East Coast grocery clerk
who inherits a Hollywood mansion. Hey, it could happen. Playboy, too, was
keen to further its relationship with McCarthy; it offered $500,000 to
snap more nude photos. When McCarthy demurred, claiming that this was not
the career path she was presently pursuing, the magazine settled for
rerunning old pictures Although she also declined proposals from Fox and
NBC, McCarthy is nonetheless venturing beyond teen-oriented cable channels
and gentlemen's magazines.
She appeared as "blonde nurse" in To Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
and, later, portrayed her first substantive screen character (a neurotic
movie star) in The Stupids (1996), opposite Tom Arnold. It seems McCarthy
is heeding and exceeding advice that her mother proffered years ago: "Be
like Vanna White." |
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Jenny McCarthy - Personal Quotes |
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"Sarah wants respect, and
she's not getting it. I like her because she's got spirit and
spunk." - on the character she plays in Scream 3 (2000)
"I was a puke brunette."
I don't sleep in anything. I have to be nude, and if I'm not, I end
up ripping my clothes off in the middle of the night.
"I think the whole computer geek thing is totally attractive...I
mean, like all I'd get is total obedience." On finding Mr. Right. |
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Jenny McCarthy - Filmography |
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Witless Protection (2008)
Wieners (2007) (completed) .... Ms. Isaac
Santa Baby (2006) (TV) .... Mary Class
"My Name Is Earl" .... Wendy (1 episode, 2006)
- Mailbox (2006) TV Episode .... Wendy
John Tucker Must Die (2006) .... Lori
Lingerie Bowl (2006) (TV)
Untitled Patricia Heaton Project (2006) (TV) .... Hilary
"Stacked" .... Eve (1 episode, 2005)
- Two Faces of Eve (2005) TV Episode .... Eve
"The Bad Girl's Guide" .... JJ (6 episodes, 2005)
- The Guide to in and Out (2005) TV Episode .... JJ
- The Guide to Baby Talk (2005) TV Episode .... JJ
- The Guide to Doing It Now (2005) TV Episode .... JJ
- The Guide to Being in the Mood (2005) TV Episode .... JJ
- The Guide to Switching Partners (2005) TV Episode .... JJ
(1 more)
"What I Like About You" .... Michelle (1 episode, 2005)
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying to Be a Lesbian
(2005) TV Episode .... Michelle
Dirty Love (2005) .... Rebecca Sommers
"Hope & Faith" .... Mandi Radnor (3 episodes, 2004)
- Stand by Your Mandi (2004) TV Episode .... Mandi Radnor
- Natal Attraction (2004) TV Episode .... Mandi Radnor
- Jack's Back (2004) TV Episode .... Mandi Radnor
"One on One" .... Holly Spears / ... (4 episodes, 2003-2004)
- Bright Lights, Big City (2004) TV Episode .... Holly Spears
- The Play's the Thing (2004) TV Episode .... Holly
- He's Not Heavy, He's My Half-Brother (2004) TV Episode .... Holly
Spears
- Tears of a Clown (2003) TV Episode .... Holly Spears
"All About the Andersons" .... Lauren (1 episode, 2004)
- Face the Music (2004) TV Episode .... Lauren
"Wild Card" .... Candy LaRue (2 episodes, 2004)
... aka Zoe Busiek: Wild Card (Canada: English title) (USA)
- Queen Bea (2004) TV Episode .... Candy LaRue
- Candy Land (2004) TV Episode .... Candy LaRue
"Less Than Perfect" .... Dani (3 episodes, 2003)
- Santa Claude (2003) TV Episode .... Dani
- Breaking Up (2003) TV Episode .... Dani
- High Maintenance (2003) TV Episode .... Dani
"Wanda at Large" .... Leader (1 episode, 2003)
- Clowns to the Left of Me (2003) TV Episode .... Leader
Scary Movie 3 (2003) .... Kate
... aka Scary Movie 3.5 (USA: DVD box title)
"Charmed" .... Mitzy Stillman (1 episode, 2003)
- The Power of Three Blondes (2003) TV Episode .... Mitzy Stillman
"Just Shoot Me!" .... 'Blush' Magazine Covergirl / ... (3 episodes,
2000-2003)
- There's Something About Allison (2003) TV Episode .... Burt.Brandi
- The Proposal: Part 1 (2001) TV Episode .... 'Blush' Magazine
Covergirl
- Brandi, You're a Fine Girl (2000) TV Episode .... Burt/Brandi
"Fastlane" .... Gretchen Bix (1 episode, 2003)
- Popdukes (2003) TV Episode .... Gretchen Bix
Untitled Jenny McCarthy Project (2003) (TV) .... Portia
The Perfect You (2002) .... Whitney Ann Barnsley
... aka Crazy Little Thing (USA: video title)
"The Drew Carey Show" .... Marlo Kelly (1 episode, 2002)
- A Shot in the Dark (2002) TV Episode .... Marlo Kelly
"Going to California" .... Amber Beamis (1 episode, 2001)
- The Big Padoodle (2001) TV Episode .... Amber Beamis
Thank Heaven (2001) .... Julia
Honey Vicarro (2001) (TV) .... Honey Vicarro
Python (2000) (TV) .... Francesca Garibaldi
Scream 3 (2000) .... Sarah Darling
Diamonds (1999) .... Sugar
... aka Gauner mit dem Diamantenherz, Der (Germany: TV title)
"Home Improvement" .... Alex (1 episode, 1999)
- Young at Heart (1999) TV Episode .... Alex
BASEketball (1998) .... Yvette Denslow
"Jenny" (1997) TV Series .... Jenny McMillan (unknown episodes)
"Wings" .... Dani (1 episode, 1996)
- Maybe It's You (1996) TV Episode .... Dani
The Stupids (1996) .... Glamorous Actress
"Baywatch" .... April Winters (1 episode, 1996)
... aka Baywatch Hawaii (USA: new title)
- Freefall (1996) TV Episode .... April Winters
"Mr. Show with Bob and David" .... Rhonda (1 episode, 1995)
... aka Mr. Show (USA: short title)
- The Cry of a Hungry Baby (1995) TV Episode .... Rhonda
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) .... Blonde Nurse
"Silk Stalkings" .... Totally Positive Rush Model (1 episode, 1994)
- The Deep End (1994) TV Episode (as Jennifer McCarthy) .... Totally
Positive Rush Model |
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Jenny McCarthy - Related Links |
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Wikipedia: Jenny McCarthy
YouTube: Jenny McCarthy
Jenny McCarthy at Babemania.com
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