The actress and veteran TV personality formerly known as Vanessa Minnillo hosted TRL from 2003 until 2007 (pausing to co-star in the 2006 video for future husband Nick Lachey's "What's Left of Me") before moving on as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and host of Wipeout and True Beauty.
Over the years she's been on the big screen in Disaster Movie and on TV starring in the series Dads and Truth Be Told and in the Lifetime Movie A Twist of Christmas, as well as taking guest spots on How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, Psych and Hawaii 5-0. She played the unfaithful publicist wife of "Jason Priestly" in the meta-reboot BH90210, made a splash co-hosting the breakout 2020 hit Love Is Blind on Netflix with Nick and is a star of NCIS: Hawai'i, premiering Sept. 20, 2021.
Vanessa married Nick in 2011 and they have three kids, sons Camden and Phoenix and daughter Brooklyn.