Starting in 2013, she returned to TV as the host of "La Voz Kids," which lasted until 2015. Pinfield began his MTV legacy in an episode of the first season of The Real World, conducting interviews, before becoming the host of 120 Minutes in 1995. Total Request Live (known commonly as TRL) is an American television program broadcast on MTV that premiered on September 14, 1998. She hosted the game show "Friend or Foe?" She's been married to Martin Schuermann since 2001 and they have a daughter together. "But now that I have it, it's made me actually stronger. Tap to play or pause GIF MTV 2. "I'm more of a rock music person. The MTV regular branched out into acting in the 1990s in the likes of Reality Bites, Dumb Dumber and Blank Check—and in 2009 she was the voice of Linda Otter in the Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. ", Bellamy, 54, voiced Skeeter in Nickelodeon's "Cousin Skeeter" in the early 2000s. Mirra, like Lavin, was a BMX rider and extreme sports athlete, and he hosted two seasons of The Challenge — Inferno and Inferno II. "I envisioned it to be like a really, really cool FM station, only on TV," she recalled to WNYC's Soundcheck in 2013. Recently she enjoyed an impressive run as the Flamingo on The Masked Singer. With her … The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images In the 2000s he hosted Cash in the Attic but Sencio mainly turned to producing after leaving MTV. Lewis also made headlines when she announced she was taking a six-month vow of celibacy in 1998. Kantner has acted on stage and screen, and has logged time as a singer and songwriter with Jefferson Starship, the band that evolved out of the remaining pieces of Jefferson Airplane after a couple of founding members left in the 1970s. We were one of the first productions that went back on air, and we had to really think about what to tell the kids watching 'TRL.". The L.A.-born musician hosted Headbangers Ball from 1989 until 1993 and then became a local legend as co-host of KROQ-FM's Loveline with Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky (until some sort of issue among the three prompted Rachtman's departure in 1996). The model and veteran host is also the author of two books about her battle with neurosarcoidosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system that she was diagnosed with in 1995, contributing to her being out of the spotlight for long stretches at a time. It's not a gift that I would have picked out for myself," Duffy told CNN in 2003, the same year she and husband John Lambros welcomed their son, Jack, via surrogate. He joined Columbia Records as an A&R executive in 2001 but was never far from the music television orbit, returning as host of 120 Minutes on MTV2 in 2011. 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. Scheduled performers include BTS, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, the Black Eyed Peas and Da Baby. He made his film debut in 2001's "Baby Boy," while simultaneously releasing his second album, "2000 Watts. He wrote, directed, and starred in 2009's "Adopted," which was a mockumentary about Shore traveling to Africa to adopt a child. 14 Super Bizarre Moments From '90s MTV Shows That I Can't Really Get Over '90s MTV is just...something else. He joined "Today" in 2013 as the Orange Room anchor — essentially as a social media correspondent. Over the years he's appeared in films including Love Jones, The Brothers, How to Be a Player, Getting Played and Any Given Sunday, and he hosted two seasons of NBC's Last Comic Standing from 2007 to 2008. In 2018, Bellamy appeared on several episodes of HBO's Insecure and in 2020 he was in the Emmy-nominated miniseries Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. In the years since, Camp hasn't been seen much. And in the meantime, he's a proud dad to son Dane. Subscriber She then became a correspondent on "The Insider" in 2004, for which she interviewed celebrities. He released an album, Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz, in 1999 but the true height of his MTV-fueled fame may have been his bit part in the Britney Spears film Crossroads, as "Audition Applicant.". But it's been almost 30 years since we entered the '90s, and our favorite MTV hosts, or VJs, have been up to a lot since then, from thriving film careers to hosting shows of their own on other networks. It's been really incredible.". Five single people agreed to get engaged to total strangers chosen by … Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and ​celebrity gossip. As far as her old stomping grounds go, however, "I really hate to say this, but when I turn it on, I can't watch it," Blackwood told interviewer Gary James in 2009. ... And when Britney Spears and Melissa Joan Hart hosted it: The former VJ (seen here with ex-girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt in 1998) possibly had more hosting gigs on MTV than anyone else in history (except Kurt Loder … Since 2015, Fuentes has been married to musician Richard Marx. He's also part of the "Transformers" franchise, and appeared in the first three films. MTV - The Challenge. Lisa Kennedy Montgomery first became known simply by her middle name as host of 120 Minutes and Hangin' With MTV in the mid-'90s and was ubiquitous on the network throughout the decade. The Massachusetts native rotated in as a TRL host from 2002 until 2007 and has since been a writer-producer-voice actor on Family Guy and a DJ on L.A.'s 104.3 MYfm. $57. TV Host - MTV's The Challenge - BMX Rider . During a segment on "Hot Zone," a show she hosted, she confronted the rapper Q-Tip about the number of "scantily-clad women" in his music videos. In 2010 she co-hosted the NBC reality series School Pride and, while in quarantine in 2020, she filmed a horror short called The Tribe. After starting out as an MTV News correspondent he branched out into MTV Fashion for a Day, VJ for a Day, TRL and The Real World Chicago Reunion—and joined Hilarie Burton on the same episode of Dawson's Creek, playing "Male VJ.". This is a list of people who have been VJs on MTV, the music video channel in the U.S. and around the world. Bravo - Queer Eye for the Straight Guy/ RuPauls Drag Race. Brown, 55, has sporadically acted, and appeared in two of the "Sharknado" films. She describes herself as a libertarian, and co-hosted the show "The Independents" from 2013 to 2015 on Fox Business. "I wasn't happy with the show itself so I felt like my performance was impacted by that. It was only a matter of time before she scored her own shows, La La's Full Court Wedding, when she married NBA star Carmelo Anthony in 2010, and La La's Full Court Life. Rachtman hosts the Cathouse Hollywood podcast, named after his since-shuttered but legendary club of the same name, and lives with his longtime girlfriend, tattoo artist and model Lea Vendetta. There were a lot of highs and lows to that,". MTV VMAs: Riskiest Fashion Moments of All-Time, View More Photos From MTV VJs, Then and Now, Brenda Chase/Getty Images, Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for BET. Carson Daly in the '90s. She was a host of The Independents on Fox Business Channel and has presided over Kennedy since 2015. He has also appeared in multiple TV movies over the years, including 2006's "Getting Played," 2016's "Winning Ugly," and 2019's "Nana. He was still doing morning radio and hosting a weekend countdown show until 2017, when he stepped down to have more time with his family. The event's which is themed "Back To The 90s" features handful of celebrities guest's in attendance. She left the network in 2001 to host The Ananda Lewis Show, but that only lasted for one season amid the crowded daytime talk landscape. Also an original VJ who led viewers into the world … After five years at MTV, he returned to his L.A. radio roots and remained a fixture on those airwaves, hosting The Beatle Years for Westwood One until his death from a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 62. She's been married to Richard Marx, her second husband, since 2015. Fuentes also hosted "America's Funniest Home Videos" from 1998 to 1999, and was a panelist on "Hollywood Squares" from 2001 to 2004. Because there's never been a more perfect mouthpiece of … The 2003 Miss USA winner cut her hosting teeth on MTV Spring Break: Cancun 2005, TRL, and Real World and The Challenge reunion specials while she also got into acting, appearing on House of Payne and in movies such as The Heartbreaker and More Than Stars. Once upon a time, Jenny McCarthy was a Playboy model. A two-time cancer survivor, he's directing a documentary about his journey called Thryvor. Brown has also kept busy as a regular in TV specials chronicling any sort of cultural history, and she is a host and producer of the series A Year in Music. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to get more of it. He hosted the CBS dating show Cupid in 2003 and the first season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek in 2005. Fahey's been married to wife Grasie Mercedes since 2013. Daria (1997-2001) Daria was basically one of the most relatable characters on television. The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards are on Sunday, Aug. 30, starting at 9 p.m. She collaborated with Hunter, Goodman and Blackwood (and co-writer Gavin Edwards) on the 2013 tell-all VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave. Castillo has been married to Matthew Leslie since 2006. 120 Minutes debuted on MTV in 1986 and was originally hosted by J.J. Jackson, Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, and dozens of others in the years to follow including Dave Holmes and Henry Rollins. five member—the first VJ to ever appear onscreen for the network, who also kept his job as a bartender for that first iffy month—stayed at MTV until 1987, starting off in a more stationary position but eventually hitting the road as host of MTV Spring Break, MTV's Amuck in America and MTV's Hedonism Weekend With Bon Jovi in Jamaica. since, “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention”. She hosted "TRL" pre-cursor "MTV US Top 20 Countdown" from 1993 to 1996, as well "House of Style" from 1997 to 2002. His visionary efforts in podcasting, starting in 2005, has earned him the nickname "Podfather" in some circles, and that too turned out to be quite the thing. It's been awhile and I can't thank you all enough for your support. Her MTV fame led to roles as herself in 2002's Queen of the Damned, posthumously starring Aliyah, and 2001's Josie and the Pussycats. After winning "Wanna Be a VJ," Camp frequently appeared on "TRL" in 1998 and 1999. Hey Ladies! "Singled Out" is a dating game show. All rights reserved. One of her first gigs: interviewing her dad for MTV's Summer of Love 20th anniversary coverage in 1987. Vanessa married Nick in 2011 and they have three kids, sons Camden and Phoenix and daughter Brooklyn. Daly, 46, began hosting "Last Call with Carson Daly" in 2002, a year before he left MTV. He now focuses on "No Agenda," which he hosts with John C. Dvorak, a tech columnist. She had a regular spot on Hollywood Squares and was a guest expert on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire before eventually becoming a Fox News pundit and go-to guest host on the likes of Outnumbered and The Five. Kennedy frequently appears on "Outnumbered" on Fox News as well. She played the unfaithful publicist wife of "Jason Priestly" in the meta-reboot BH90210 and made a splash hosting the breakout 2020 hit Love Is Blind on Netflix. Kennedy, 46, stayed on TV after leaving MTV. Entertainment Television, LLC A Division of NBCUniversal. Brown was best known for her catchphrase, "Wubba Wubba Wubba," which originated from when she mistakenly read a camera person's "Muppets" shirt instead of her cue cards. With Riki Rachtman, Rob Zombie, Adam Curry, Chris Barnes. He's also been hosting NBC's New Year's Eve coverage since 2004 and, in 2013, Daly joined Today as its social media correspondent and has since become a go-to fill-in host. Carson Kressley. Daly has been the host of "The Voice" since its first season in 2011, and has remained there for all 16 seasons. They probably would have gone in the same direction, and maybe we would have been behind the scenes, or maybe we would have been in the news department, or more than likely we would have been out.". I thought combining two of America's favorite pastimes, music and TV, would probably work.". Goodman is still celebrating the best of the '80s and its hidden gems, still with Nina Blackwood and Alan Hunter, on SiriusXM's '80s on 8. Fuentes, 52, has branched out into many different things over the years, including acting, fashion design, and video games. A TV series consisting of heavy metal music videos. He was supposed to be the first of MTV's five inaugural VJs to introduce himself when the network launched on Aug. 1, 1981, but due to an editing snafu, he was the last. The series features popular music videos played during its countdown, and was also used as a promotion tool by musicians, actors, and other celebrities to promote their newest works to the show's target teen demographic. But you got Madonna, who became a force of nature, and unfortunately of all the other people who follow in her path, the Britney Spears of the world that I could do without, but that's my opinion.". As the classic song "1985" goes, there was a day when music was still on MTV. With the 2020 MTV VMAs coming up on Sunday, the existence of the virtual ceremony itself representing its own unique notch on the timeline of how MTV has rolled with major changes (in viewing habits, in how people listen to music, when big gatherings like award ceremonies turn into potential super-spreader events in a pandemic...) through the years, we're checking in on what four decades' worth of MTV VJs have been up to since: One of MTV's original five VJs when the network first launched, Blackwood and her fellow trailblazers spent several years literally just talking about the videos they were playing, before the programming was divided up into shows. In fact, according to LA Weekly, it's the lowest-selling album of all time. Camp, 39, released his 1999 album, "Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz," to little fanfare. Pitch Perfect Riff-Off with Anna Kendrick & The Filharmonics - Duration: 9:35. He is often credited with coining the term "booty call. MTV is hopping in a time machine -- … ", His last MTV appearance was in 2001, on "MTV 20: Live & Almost Legal. His show will be succeeded by "A Little Late with Lilly Singh," hosted by former YouTuber Lilly Singh. Looking for smart ways to get more from life? MTV is an American cable television channel which was the first television channel … Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows! She also co-hosted MTV's "House of Style" in the late '90s with fellow supermodel Amber Valletta. Recently, she appeared on "RuPaul's Drag Race," "Wife Swap," "Retrosexual: The '80s," and "Then and Now with Andy Cohen.". In July 2020 he shared a photo of himself at a taping, writing, "One chapter closes, another begins! During that decade, arguably MTV's peak, viewers were greeted with faces they trusted: Possibly the most famous of all, Carson Daly, has gone on to find mainstream success, but not all have become household names. ", Bellamy was also a frequent guest on fellow MTV alum Carson Daly's talk show, "Last Call with Carson Daly," and a panelist on "Chelsea Lately.". "I like VH-1 Classic because there are a lot of documentaries on there. There were some good [episodes], there were some highlights, but for me, it wasn't what I felt like I signed up for," Lewis said. He's been married to wife Kristen since 2001 and they have two children. Lewis left MTV in 2001 to host her own daytime talk show, "The Ananda Lewis Show." After leaving MTV in 2002, he hosted FX's  DVD on TV for 10 seasons and has been a frequent contributor across the cable lineup when a pop culture talking head is needed. In March 2019, it was announced that Gibson would be joining the Spider-Man spin-off film "Morbius," starring Jared Leto. media: 14204693 quicklist: 5 title: J.J. Jackson text: A former entertainment … The daughter of Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick and guitarist Paul Kantner was MTV's youngest-ever VJ, getting her start on the network at 15. Kennedy hosted "Alternative Nation" from 1992 until 1997. She's been married to second husband Seth Isler since 2011. That was followed by an astronaut planting a fluorescent-pink flag stamped with the acid-green MTV logo on the moon (in case you ever wondered why the physical MTV Video Music Awards are moon people)—a mash-up of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing and pop culture history. Commenting on MTV's penchant for constantly adding new, young faces to its lineup, Goodman told WNYC's Soundcheck, "Whether the five of us stayed or didn't stay, MTV made a decision in terms of their future, and that was: We will not grow old with our audience. And since any foray into new territory benefits from a wise shepherd, so did MTV provide guides into this fun, young, subversive world in the form of video jockeys—veejays, or VJs for short. The One Tree Hill star got her start on MTV, appearing on TRL (her scripted TV debut on Dawson's Creek was playing herself, thanks to her MTV fame) and joining the revolving door of hosts after Carson Daly left. They have three children. The 1990s were a darned good decade, and everybody’s now coming to realize this, but people also need to know that when the 1990s began, it felt … In February 2019 it was announced that she would be the host of the rebooted "While You Were Out," a home renovation show. Lewis is mom to a son and she's an experienced carpenter, posting tutorials on how to change your locks and other home-improvement tasks on Instagram. The actor and comedian started out hosting MTV Beach House in 1993 and presided over specials like MTV Spring Break: Panama City Beach and MTV Rock 'N' Jock Basketball VI. Kennedy Lisa Kennedy Montgomery first became known simply by her middle name as host of 120 Minutes and Hangin' With MTV in the mid-'90s … Tales and Tips for Curious Girls.". At the same time as his MTV tenure, Bellamy was also a successful comedian, and frequently appeared on HBO's "Comedy Def Jam." After starting out on the radio, he made his debut on MTV in 1997 as the host of Total Request Live, interviewing pop princesses, boy bands, alt-rockers, actors and more for the show—an after-school must-watch for so many—until 2003. ", Moreover, "I'm not much of a pop music person," she said. So happy to be back doing what I love!" In 1995, 120 Minutes was hosted by musical black-belt Matt Pinfield and focused primarily on some of the greatest alternative music from the '80s and '90s. And if you were to think of the phrases "MTV" and "alternative rock of the '90s," the man who will automatically come to mind is Matt Pinfield, who hosted MTV's popular alt-rock specialty show, 120 Minutes (as well as a variety of other programs on the channel), and now has his own podcast, 2 Hours with Matt Pinfield. Hosted by Los Angeles DJ Sean Valentine, Married By America was a six-episode series, also on Fox in 2003. In 2016 he published All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life and has been a DJ on terrestrial and satellite radio. Every weekday during the late '90s, kids would run home, turn on MTV for the 3:30 airing of "TRL," and fan out for their favorites like Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and *NSYNC. He continued hosting the show through numerous time slot changes, studio changes, and a turbulent late-night TV landscape until May 2019 — for 2,000 episodes. David & Annie 90 Day Fiance. The early- to mid-’90s represented something of a golden age for animation on MTV, with Mike Judge’s subversive Beavis and Butt-Head, Peter Chung’s ultra-violent Aeon Flux, and Sam Kieth’s mind-bending The Maxx earning varying degrees of popular and critical success. Still culturally ubiquitous, Camp's Instagram is full of photos of him with luminaries including John Travolta, Larry David, and then-presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, and his profile pic is himself with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Since her run as Peyton Sawyer ended in 2009, her TV work has included White Collar, Castle, Hallmark Original Movies Naughty or Nice and Surprised by Love, and an arc on Fox's Lethal Weapon. It first began covering political news in the 1992 American presidential elections, through its "Choose or Lose" campaign. The aspiring journalist began working with the network in 1997, hosting Hot Zone and appearing on TRL, as well as contributing to their rather robust news coverage at the time, presiding over specials about violence in schools after the mass shooting in Columbine in 1999 and reporting on Aaliyah's untimely death in a plane crash in 2000. It ended after a season. It shut down in 2013. He may have been runner-up to Jesse Camp on MTV's first Wanna Be a VJ competition in 1998, but the network hired him anyway, bringing him on to host 120 Minutes, Real World reunion specials and Say What? announced that she would be the host of the rebooted, playlists of music videos in heavy metal's prime, joined "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, it's the lowest-selling album of all time, The 15 biggest celebrity scandals of the '90s, 55 of the most iconic music videos of all time, 20 iconic photos of the '90s from Y2K hysteria to Princess Diana's 'revenge dress'. The Cheetah Girls singer co-hosted MTV's New Year's Eve coverage and MTV News Presents: Top 9 of '09, flexing her hosting muscles a few years before she joined The Real, sharing the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host with her co-hosts in 2018. But in the mid-’90s, Miller was in his prime, and he displayed that with his typical smug, sarcastic and witty humor at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. After "Pauly Shore Is Dead," Shore, 51, stuck with the mockumentary format. Fuentes is currently host of A New Leaf, which connects people with their roots with the help of Ancestry.com, and she's an active fundraiser for breast cancer research. Brown also hosts a show on the SiriusXM channel '90s on 9, called "'90s on 9 with Julie Brown" every day. The O.G. Lewis, 46, told Shondaland that she earned a degree in carpentry from the Los Angeles Trade Technical College in 2010, because she was unsatisfied with her life on TV. Born Benjamin Quddus Philippe, the Uptown Girls actor (he played "Party Guy") was a TRL host from 2001 to 2006 before moving on to host TV One Access and Nickelodeon's Dance on Sunset and appearing on CSI: Miami, Half & Half and Girlfriends. Walker with Octavia Spencer. host as raunchy emcee/sidekick. The Welsh entertainer went on to dabble in acting, popping up on the likes of Burke's Law and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and more recently she had a cameo in the 2017 Adam Sandler comedy Sandy Wexler and has been a familiar face in a couple of the Sharknado movies. Keep scrolling to see what some of the most prominent MTV VJs from the '90s are up to today. Then it was on to work for BET, interviewing celebs as a correspondent for The Insider, and competing on Celebrity Mole: Yucatán in 2004 with the likes of Dennis Rodman and Angie Everhart. And back in the '90s, it was on MTV essentially all day long, on shows like "Club MTV," "MTV Jams," "Alternative Nation" and "Total Request Live (TRL).". The former MTV News Unfiltered anchor did a tour on TRL before moving onto CNN and her role as a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning. The pandemic has put a stop to live shows for now, but he has also hosted The Friday Forty with The Walking Dead executive producer Scott Gimple since 2003. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. In 2016, she married Israel Houghton and is stepmom to his four kids. He is the founder of the social justice campaign Ally Now. Fuentes made her first MTV appearance in 1988 on "MTV Internacional," and then became a fixture on the network. Burton has two children with longtime partner (turned husband in 2019) Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and in 2020 she released a memoir, The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm. The success inspired four more films in the '90s starring Shore: "Son In Law," "In the Army Now," "Jury Duty," and "Bio-Dome.". That led to her run as the host of House of Style and these days she presides over a name-brand empire of clothing, eyeglasses, fragrances and hair care. "There were a lot of highs and lows to that," Daly told Today in 2008. Shore recently appeared as himself in an episode of the sitcom "Alone Together." His show, "Daily Source Code," was one of the first. The mother of two has been married to David Michael Lee since 2000. Shalom Harlow hosted MTV's House of Style alongside her friend and fellow model, Valletta, and she was another famous face in the 90s, modeling for … According to IMDB, he appeared on "TRL's" final show, as well as on two episodes of Dan Harmon's show "Harmontown.". $75. Shore hosted "Totally Pauly" from 1991 to 1993. It then aired again between 2000 and 2009, although this was on a less frequent basis. In 2009, she created a Wii game called "Daisy Fuentes Pilates," which encouraged Wii users to get into pilates. He went on to host the late-late-late-night NBC show Last Call with Carson Daly from 2002 until 2019, when he handed the keys to that time slot over to Lilly Singh, and he's been hosting The Voice since 2011. Daly married long-time girlfriend Siri Pinter in 2015. Soon enough, "I want my MTV" was more than a brilliant marketing slogan. Curry began appearing on MTV in the late '80s, and worked with MTV until he quit in 1994 due to his faith in the internet taking off, something that seemed far-fetched at the time. In addition to his brass-tacks music video duties, Goodman went on to host The Week in Rock, 120 Minutes and MTV's first-ever syndicated special, MTV: The Top 20 Video Countdown. One of the original five VJs, Jackson would often go by "Triple J" in his heyday. MTV Unplugged is a series that showcases musical artists that was aired on MTV from 1989 to 1999. I'm more of a musicologist. He and John C. Dvorak have been hosting the twice-weekly political podcast No Agenda since 2007. Then came Pat Benatar's "You Better Run," and the kids started flocking. History. MTV VJs Mark Goodman and Alan Hunter. He is known for introducing and hosting playlists of music videos in heavy metal's prime. $69. "Today is my very last day on AMP Radio…," Daly explained in his farewell message on Instagram. He's been an actor, a correspondent for World Championship Wrestling, a nightclub owner, a skateboarding entrepreneur, an avid motorcycle rider (his Riki's Ride is an annual charity event) and, always, a music man and raconteur. Sensing something was up with this Internet business back in the 1990s, Curry registered "mtv.com" in 1993, a sanctioned move at the time but one that caused some legal friction once Curry left the network. Then she was the borderline-manic host of MTV's dating show, Singled Out. MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program The Week in Rock, hosted by Kurt Loder, the first official MTV News correspondent.Since 1990, the opening riff to Megadeth's "Peace Sells" has been the main opening theme for The Week in Rock.. The brilliance of Beavis and Butt-head is that it was equally enjoyed by both the people who were in on the joke and… Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. by Ryan Schocket. In 2018, Camp was reported missing by his sister after not hearing from him for a week, but he was found safely. Nina Blackwood: MTV VJ from 1981 until 1986. They have a classic album show about the making of a classic album. He joined MTV in 1987 and went on to host Headbangers Ball and the MTV Top 20 Video Countdown. In the years since, Camp hasn't been seen much. In more recent years he was in Portland, Ore., as a morning and evening news anchor until 2017—and it appears he'll be back in front of the camera soon. Nothing screams '90s like Ben Stein hosting a game show with his own money on the line, with the current Jimmy Kimmel Live! ", She describes herself as a libertarian, and, Marion Curtis/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. The member of the original five auditioned for her first-ever on-air job by riffing about Earth, Wind and Fire for a few minutes—and she was hired, first through 1986 and then she returned in 1989, staying at MTV until 1992. The Cuban-born TV presenter and model made history as MTV's first Latina VJ, signing on with both the U.S. network and MTV Latin America. Anthony, who's mom to son Kiyan, has been in films such as Think Like a Man, Baggage Claim and the Spike Lee-directed Chi-Raq, and enjoyed recurring roles on the Starz drama Power and Showtime's The Chi. MTV's resident morning person hosted Rude Awakening, which aired at 6 a.m., while the kids were getting ready for school. Like what you see here? in 2002. This is what our demo is. © 2021 E! Because in the '90s, MTV wasn't afraid to be weird with its promos. I wasn't happy with the show itself so I felt like my performance was impacted by that. It's not just '80s, it's any classic album, basically. Lewis worked at BET before switching over to MTV in 1997, where she made quite a splash. Remembering The Dog Brothers from MTV’s Sex in the 90s. "I'm proud of what we did in New York there after 9/11 — I was part of the team that went back to work right away. I really thought that video music was going to catch on. In 1999 the movie buff and Birmingham, Ala., native co-founded the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (now the Sidewalk Film Festival), and the Alan Hunter Best Alabama Film Award is still given out to this day. The show was dedicated to playing videos from alternative bands, as opposed to the more mainstream focus of MTV. "Sarcoidosis isn't some burden that I carry. 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