13 Facts About Meral Tasbas

Meral Izabelle Tasbas was born on 4 April 1979 and is a Swedish television personality, singer, actress and television host.

Meral Tasbas became a household name when she participated in all five seasons of the reality show The Bar between 2000 and 2004 on Swedish station TV3.

Meral Tasbas received death threats during the second season after an incident in her private life when she was ejected from a mosque in Stockholm for wearing inappropriate clothing.

Meral Tasbas participated in Club Goa broadcast on Strix Television, and spent one night inside the Big Brother house in 2003 as a celebrity guest.

Meral Tasbas has taken part in the Swedish version of 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow on Kanal 5.

In 2000, Meral Tasbas released her first music single "Versene" which she performed along with singer Marcus Ohrn from the reality show Villa Medusa and Fame Factory.

Meral Tasbas sang the Turkish language lyrics with Ohrn rendering the English language verses.

In 2011, Meral Tasbas continued her acting career by playing herself in the reality show spoof series called Den Sista Dokusapan in which some of Sweden's best-known reality show stars took part and acted as zombies on TV6.

Meral Tasbas was born into a Turkish family living in Gothenburg.

Meral Tasbas participated in the reality show Club Goa which was filmed on location in India in 2005 but had to leave the show for personal reasons, she divorced Emil Kokot not long after.

Meral Tasbas has admitted that she has undergone at least three plastic surgeries since the age of nineteen: one liposuction on her stomach, one separate surgery on her nose and one on her lips.

In 2009, Meral Tasbas appeared in an episode of Plastikkirurgerna on TV4 to discuss her surgeries.

In 2011, Meral Tasbas gained world attention after being seen with American actor John Cusack and revealing they had shown interest in each other.