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American women television personalities

  • Alanis MorissetteAlanis Morissette recorded a demo cassette in August 1989 and sent it to Geffen Records. The tape has never been heard. It was stolen, along with other records, in a burglary of the label's headquarters in October 1989. Whatever it held is…
  • Paris HiltonParis Hilton became so inescapable in 2007 that parts of the American press tried to stop mentioning her. The Associated Press attempted to leave her out for the week of the 19th of February 2007. On the 26th of June 2007, host Mika…
  • Cardi BCardi B reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated the 25th of September 2017, with a song called "Bodak Yellow." No solo female rapper had topped that chart since Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" in 1998. The woman behind…
  • Lily CollinsLily Collins was two years old when she first appeared on screen, in the BBC sitcom Growing Pains. She was born in Guildford, England, on the 18th of March 1989, and she was raised in Los Angeles. That divided upbringing is why she is…
  • Dolly PartonDolly Parton refused to give Elvis Presley half the publishing rights to "I Will Always Love You."
  • Terri IrwinTerri Irwin was reportedly hiking through Cradle Mountain in Tasmania with her two children on the morning of the 4th of September 2006. Her husband, the conservationist Steve Irwin, was killed that same morning. Today she is an American…
  • Denise RichardsDenise Richards is an American actress, model and television personality, and one of her best-known costumes drew laughs. Viewers made fun of the outfit worn by her Bond-girl character, and Richards defended the choice. She said, "These…
  • Brenda SongBrenda Song was six years old when she and her mother left Carmichael, California, for Los Angeles. The move was meant to support her acting career. The rest of the family followed two years later. Song had been born in that Sacramento…
  • Abby Lee MillerAbby Lee Miller, the Pittsburgh dance teacher who became a fixture of reality television, once described what she had parted with in a very particular way. In December 2022, a newspaper reported that she had sold her original Pittsburgh…
  • Caitlyn JennerCaitlyn Jenner first drew a headline in 1972, when a newspaper in Eugene, Oregon, printed a three-word question: "Who's Jenner?" The Eugene Register-Guard asked it after a little-known decathlete, running the final 1500 meters at the…

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