1. Maria Menounos is an American television host, model and actress.
41 Facts About Maria Menounos
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Maria Menounos co-created and is currently CEO of online podcast series network AfterBuzz TV.
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Maria Menounos is currently signed to WWE where she has served as an ambassador since 2013, having even competed in some tag team events as a pro since 2009.
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Maria Menounos co-hosted Miss Universe 2023 pageant on November 18,2023.
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Maria Menounos later worked as a janitor in the nightclub The Channel with her parents.
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Maria Menounos competed for the title of Miss Massachusetts USA 2000 and was the first runner-up.
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Maria Menounos attended Emerson College, participating there in the organization Emerson Independent Video; she graduated in 2000.
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Maria Menounos left the program in 2005 to focus on her acting career, although she joined rival program Access Hollywood that fall as a correspondent.
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Maria Menounos went on to co-host a few episodes of the Today show in the late summer and fall of 2006 as well as in April 2007.
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In 2004, Maria Menounos appeared in an episode of the UPN series One on One as Glenda, an eccentric, self-proclaimed "Fairy Godmother to the Stars".
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Maria Menounos presented the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Athens.
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Maria Menounos acted in and produced Adventures of Serial Buddies, which is credited with being the first serial killer buddy comedy.
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At the age of 17, Maria Menounos produced In the Land of Merry Misfits, an independent film fairy tale.
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Maria Menounos maintains AfterBuzzTV, an online entertainment network she founded with Undergaro, for which she was named the 2014 CES Entertainment Matters Ambassador.
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Maria Menounos appeared on the Scrubs episode "My Extra Mile", which aired in May 2006 where she is attracted to John Dorian because she likes his hair.
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In May 2008, Maria Menounos played in the AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open but was eliminated in the qualifying round.
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Maria Menounos appeared on the 2008 Knight Rider series episode "Fly By Knight", which aired on February 11,2009; she played a DEA agent who is in charge of investigating a plane crash.
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Maria Menounos had on-air duties at Dr Drew's Lifechangers, with plans to develop new projects.
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Maria Menounos was a contestant on the 14th season of Dancing with the Stars partnering with Derek Hough.
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On March 18,2014, Menounos' reality TV series Chasing Maria Menounos premiered on the Oxygen Network.
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In July 2017, Maria Menounos stepped down due to an ongoing battle with a brain tumor.
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Maria Menounos continues to host a pre-movie show named Noovie.
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In 2020, GSTV announced a partnership to air short-form videos called Better Together with Maria Menounos on GSTV-affiliated gas pump video screens in more than 28,000 locations.
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The brief videos feature Maria Menounos providing tips for physical and emotional health, relationship advice, and other wellness-based information.
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In June 2021, Maria Menounos hosted the reunion show for season one of The Challenge: All Stars, a special-limited series of the MTV reality-competition series The Challenge, alongside Nate Burleson.
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In 2025, Maria Menounos worked with Taye Diggs in the Lifetime short film I'll Be Home for Margarita Day which was presented by Chili's.
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Maria Menounos is a long-time WWE fan and has made several appearances with WWE.
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Maria Menounos made her in-ring debut that night in a six diva tag team match with Gail Kim and Kelly Kelly against Alicia Fox, Beth Phoenix, and Rosa Mendes; Menounos' team was victorious; a highlight was Menounos slapping the much larger-stature Phoenix.
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On December 11,2011, at WWE Tribute to the Troops, Maria Menounos returned and teamed with Alicia Fox, Eve Torres, and Kelly Kelly to defeat the team of The Bella Twins and The Divas of Doom.
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Maria Menounos got the win for her team by pinning Phoenix.
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Maria Menounos continued her feud with WWE Divas Champion Phoenix after Phoenix and Eve Torres interrupted an interview segment with Kelly Kelly on Extra.
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Maria Menounos was actually nominated by McMahon's father and chairman of WWE, Vince McMahon.
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Maria Menounos has hosted the WWE Hall of Fame red carpet pre-show for six years in a row.
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Maria Menounos appeared during the event as a guest backstage interviewer for WrestleMania 31, WrestleMania 32 and WrestleMania 33.
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In 2016, Maria Menounos appeared in one episode of the WWE Network's Swerved and was a backstage interviewer for SummerSlam.
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Maria Menounos created the Cosmo Girl Cup, a national, annual competition and award given to the group of teens who do the most in their communities to affect for positive social change.
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Maria Menounos presented at the Earth Day Network's Climate Rally in Washington, DC on April 25,2010.
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In 2012, Maria Menounos posed nude for the May issue of Allure magazine.
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Maria Menounos married Keven Undergaro in Times Square during the 2017 New Year's festivities in a ceremony officiated by Steve Harvey and then again in a 2018 Greek Orthodox wedding in her father's village of Akovos, Greece.
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Maria Menounos announced her dual citizenship between the United States and Greece on May 19,2023.
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Maria Menounos was Spike TV's 2005 "Cyber Vixen of the Year", and the 2010 Madden NFL Pro-AM MVP.