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Jenny McCarthy

Actor / Model

Born: 1 November 1972
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Best known as: The hostess of MTV's Singled Out
A buxom blonde with a wicked jaw and a goofball bearing, Jenny McCarthy was briefly hyped in the 1990s as some kind of Lucille Ball-Marilyn Monroe hybrid. She posed nude for Playboy magazine in 1993 and ended up being the magazine's Playmate of the Year. McCarthy parlayed that fame into a breakthrough role hosting the MTV dating show Singled Out. That led to her own sketch comedy show on MTV, The Jenny McCarthy Show, and then the 1997 NBC sitcom Jenny. Her movie credits include BASEketball (1998), Scream 3 (2000) , Scary Movie 3 (2003, with Pamela Anderson Lee) and John Tucker Must Die (2006).
Extra credit: McCarthy is said to be romantically linked with comedian Jim Carrey.

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