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Ananda Lewis Biography

Ananda Lewis is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on March 21, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, United States. TV personality who worked as a veejay for MTV before getting her own talk show, The Ananda Lewis Show.

She interviewed a variety of stars for the show The Insider, one of whom was Paris Hilton.

Ananda Lewis (born March 21, 1973) is an American television personality, model and social activist. She was an MTV veejay from the late 1990s until 2001, when she left the network to host her own broadcast syndicated television talk show, The Ananda Lewis Show.

Lewis struggled with a speech impediment, stuttering until she was eight years old. In grade school she earned a reputation for outspokenness; her comments provoked her teachers’ ire or, less often, their amusement. In 1981 Lewis entered herself in the Little Miss San Diego Contest, a beauty pageant, and won. During the talent portion of the competition, Lewis performed a dance routine, which she had choreographed herself, to Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney’s ballad “Ebony and Ivory.” After her win, Lewis attracted the attention of a talent agent and began working in local theater productions and on television. In fourth grade she enrolled at the San Diego School of Creative and Performance Arts (SCPA), a public magnet school, where she remained for nine years. At the age of thirteen, Lewis began volunteering as a tutor and counselor at a Head Start facility. Lewis was inspired by the work and decided to become a teacher or a psychologist, with the goal of helping young people. However, Lewis’s family urged her to follow a more lucrative career path specifically law. She majored in history at Howard University, in Washington, D.C., from which she graduated, cum laude, in 1995.

She has a sister named Lakshmi; they were raised by their grandmother for a year following their parent’s divorce. In 2011 she welcomed a son named Langston with Harry Smith.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 1998, Lewis made headlines while at MTV when she announced, that she intended to remain abstinent for at least six months. She states:

Ananda Lewis Net Worth

Ananda Lewis is one of the richest TV Show Host from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ananda Lewis's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She won a San Diego Youth Beauty Pageant.

She was on the 2000 People’s magazine list of the 50 Most Beautiful People.

Lewis was born on March 21, 1973, in Los Angeles, California. She is of African American and Native American descent, specifically of the Creek and Blackfoot tribes. Her name means “bliss” in Sanskrit. Lewis’s mother worked as an account manager for Pacific Bell, and her father as a computer-animation specialist. Her sister, Lakshmi, is a physician. Lewis’s parents divorced when Ananda was two years old, and her mother moved with her daughters to San Diego, California, to be near her own mother. Her mother took an extended trip to Europe to escape the pain of her failed marriage, leaving Ananda and Lakshmi with their grandmother. During her absence, which lasted less than a year, Lewis felt abandoned. She states:

Lewis hosted and VJed a variety of shows includingTotal Request Live, a daily top ten video-countdown show, and Hot Zone, which offered both music videos and Lewis’s interviews of musicians and others. On one notable installment of The Hot Zone, she berated the rapper Q-Tip about the number of scantily clad dancers in one of his videos. In a reference to Lewis’s broadcasting savvy, Bob Kusbit, MTV’s senior vice president for production, told Douglas Century for the New York Times on November 21, 1999, “In the past our talent was sometimes just pretty people who could read cue cards. But when we brought Ananda to MTV, we decided we were going to do a lot more live television.” MTV also called upon Lewis to host other, topical programs, including two MTV forums on violence in schools, which aired after the Columbine High School massacre and several memorial tributes for the singer Aaliyah, who perished in a plane crash in 2001. In 2001 Lewis earned another NAACP Image Award, for her hosting of the MTV special True Life: I Am Driving While Black.

In 2000 People included Lewis on its list of the world’s “50 Most Beautiful People.” In 2001, Lewis decided to leave MTV in order to start her own talk show. The Ananda Lewis Show debuted on September 10, 2001, after much advance press in which Lewis was compared to Oprah Winfrey, the wildly popular talk-show host long considered to be one of the most powerful women of African American descent in television. Lewis continued to do special presentations for MTV after her show had begun. Lewis’s series, which was syndicated by King World Productions, targeted women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four by addressing such issues as domestic violence and breast cancer; it was billed as an alternative to the sensationalism and provocative offerings of Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake, whose talk shows were then dominating daytime ratings. Lewis’s show aired on some WB and NBC stations before being canceled after one season. Her show’s producers stated: “We started on a Monday and then there was the World Trade Center bombing the next day, and everything has become a mess since then,” Roger King, the chairman and CEO of King World Productions and CBS Enterprises. Lewis then worked briefly for BET.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Lewis’s audition would be a success and she became the host of Teen Summit. For three seasons she discussed serious issues affecting teenagers for a television audience of several million. The show’s topical, debate-driven format enabled Lewis to follow her passion for helping young people, and use her skills she had acquired at the performing-arts school in San Diego. Lewis is known for having the courage to openly discuss taboo subjects without flinching. Her executives knew that this kind of gumption was the right stuff for a live show host,” In 1996, on an installment of the show entitled “It Takes a Village,” Lewis interviewed then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, whose book with that title had been published earlier in the year. Also in 1996 Teen Summit was nominated for a CableACE Award, and the next year the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) presented Lewis with an Image Award for her work on Black Entertainment Television (BET). Soon afterward the cable network MTV offered Lewis a position as a program host and video jockey. The thought of leaving Teen Summit was painful for her; indeed, several sources quoted her as recalling that she “cried for three weeks” while pondering her choices. In opting to move to MTV, the deciding factor was the possibility of greatly increasing the size of her viewing audience and, therefore, her potential for influencing America’s youth.

In 2004 Lewis became the chief correspondent on celebrity subjects for the nationally syndicated, nightly entertainment program The Insider, a spin-off of the popular Entertainment Tonight. In the spring of 2005, she interviewed Paris Hilton, Dylan Ryder, Don Cheadle and Ryan Phillippe (two of the stars of Paul Haggis’s ensemble film Crash), and actress Dyan Cannon. Lewis herself has made guest appearances on several sitcoms.

Who is Ananda Lewis Dating?

According to our records, Ananda Lewis married to Harry Smith. As of December 1, 2023, Ananda Lewis’s is not dating anyone.

In 2004 Ms. Lewis also appeared on the ABC network’s reality show called Celebrity Mole: Yucatán. This reality series won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced Television.

Facts & Trivia

Ananda Ranked on the list of most popular TV Show Host. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ananda Lewis celebrates birthday on March 21 of every year.

Lewis has credited her mother, grandmother, and sister for providing her with a positive, supportive environment. By her own account, as she grew older she felt increasingly upset by her parents’ divorce. In adulthood, Lewis has healed her rifts with both parents. Lewis was a good friend of singer and actress Aaliyah before her accidental death. She has six godchildren. In 2011, Lewis gave birth to a boy, her first child. She currently resides in the San Fernando Valley.

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What happened to Ananda Lewis?

Then, without warning, Lewis disappeared from the spotlight — leaving many wondering where the popular television host disappeared to. But she hasn’t gone anywhere: These days, Lewis is in the construction business; tearing down walls, painting, and renovating homes in her new career as a carpenter.

How old is Ananda Lewis?

49 years (March 21, 1973)

Who is Ananda Lewis married to?

Harry Smith

What happened to AJ Hutto now?

What does AJ say now? Has he changed his mind and has he spoken to his mother since? Amanda has not seen her son since the trial, nor has she spoken to him or received any letters. AJ has been adopted by the family that has cared for him since Amanda’s arrest and is no longer named Hutto.

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