1. Teresa Strasser was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work that season.
26 Facts About Teresa Strasser
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Teresa Strasser is the author of two memoirs, most recently, "Making It Home: Life Lessons From a Season of Little League," which was named one of the best books of 2023 by USA Today.
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Teresa Strasser attended The Brandeis School of San Francisco as well as Lick-Wilmerding High School on a low-income scholarships.
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Teresa Strasser went on to study journalism at New York University.
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Teresa Strasser began writing for Win Ben Stein's Money in 1997, winning a Daytime Emmy Award, and had several small film roles and writing jobs, including a writing credit for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
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Teresa Strasser can be seen playing a reporter in the cheerleading film, Bring It On: All or Nothing.
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In 2002, Teresa Strasser hosted fifty episodes of While You Were Out when former host Anna Bocci left the show.
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Teresa Strasser had previously served as a writer for the show.
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Teresa Strasser did not consider herself handy, but she compensated with her dark sense of humor and empathy, as she cried after several renovations.
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Teresa Strasser replaced Rachel Perry on The Adam Carolla Show on May 8,2006, as the news anchor for the radio program.
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Teresa Strasser had previously served as a fill-in before Perry officially left the show.
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Teresa Strasser was replaced by "radio co-host and News Girl," Alison Rosen.
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The segment debuted September 6,2006 with writer Greg Lee, whom Teresa Strasser dated for eight months.
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Teresa Strasser is known to have dated former American Idol host Brian Dunkleman.
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Teresa Strasser left the Parent Experiment due to other commitments, and was replaced by Susanna Brisk.
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Teresa Strasser was a feature story reporter for several episodes of Good Day New York in 2004, while being the New York correspondent for both Good Day Live and On-Air With Ryan Seacrest.
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Teresa Strasser worked as a "love coach" along with Shop 'Til You Drop host JD Roberto on the 2006 ABC series How to Get the Guy until its cancellation.
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Teresa Strasser guest starred on Alicia Silverstone led dramedy, Miss Match.
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Teresa Strasser served a brief stint as a correspondent on the entertainment and gossip news show TMZ on TV which premiered in September 2007.
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Teresa Strasser quit TMZ due to a time conflict with the Adam Carolla Show.
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Teresa Strasser has worked regularly as a freelance columnist for the Los Angeles Times and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, and won an award on June 24,2006, for columnist of the year from the Los Angeles Press Club.
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Teresa Strasser is currently a regular contributor for the calendar section of the Los Angeles Times.
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Teresa Strasser wrote a book titled, EXPLOITING MY BABY: Because It's Exploiting Me, which was published in January 2011.
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In October 2011, ABC ordered a pilot, "Mother Teresa" to be written by Strasser based on her book, "Exploiting My Baby".
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In 2023, Teresa Strasser released her most recent memoir, "Making It Home: Life Lessons From a Season of Little League" which was published by Penguin Books.
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Teresa Strasser married Daniel Wachinski, an IBM accountant, in a small ceremony at the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 25,2007.