Daisy
Fuentes (born
November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-born American model
and actress. Fuentes was born to a Cuban father and Spanish mother.
When Fuentes was three years old, the family moved to her mother's
relatives
in Madrid during the five years her sister Rosana was born. Later
the family emigrated to Harrison, New Jersey, four years later, living
on Sussex Street. Fuentes studied communications and journalism at
Bergen Community College and then was hired as the weather-girl for
WNJU-TV, Channel 47, a Telemundo station. She quickly moved up the
ranks, eventually becoming a news anchor and reporter for the evening
news.
MTV took notice of the 19-year-old Daisy
Fuentes and made her host of MTV International which was a success, it
later became MTV en Español
and later MTV Latin America. She later landed a role on the ABC soap
opera Loving. Fuentes appeared on shows such as Dream On, The Larry
Sanders Show, and Cybill. From 1994 to 1995, she hosted her own talk
show, Daisy, on CNBC. She was the host of America's Funniest Home
Videos for three seasons. She hosted The ALMA Awards, Dick Clark's
New Year's Rockin' Eve, the 1998 World Music Awards, the 1999 Billboard
Latin Awards, and the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, and Miss Universe
pageants. She Guest starred in the TV series Queen Of Swords episode "runaways" 2000.
She has been a spokeswoman for the companies Revlon, American Express,
Pantene, M&M's, and Miller Lite.
Hugh Hefner reportedly invited Fuentes numerous times in the early
90's to pose nude in Playboy magazine, but she has insisted that
she will never do nude modeling.
Daisy Fuentes played on
the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital
charity. She also has
designed a clothing line bearing her name, sold exclusively by Kohl's
Department Stores. In June 2007, her clothing line came under
intense scrutiny after the National Labor Committee reported that
they were using a Guatemalan sweatshop to produce their clothes.
According to Gossip Girls, "The workers are paid only twenty-five
cents to make Fuentes’ blouses which sell for $22 to $38 in
the U.S."
She was married to actor Timothy Adams, but
later divorced him. She currently resides with her fiancé,
ex-Bros member Matt Goss, twin brother of actor Luke Goss, in the
Los Angeles area, with
their two dogs, Alfie and Rita, who were featured on National Geographic's
show Dog Whisperer.
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