September 1st’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate is Audrina Patridge. Text your vote to the Bill & Spence Show (29909) today between 2-6pm. You can also participate in our online poll below.
Audrina Cathleen Patridge was born May 9, 1985. She is known for being one of the four original primary cast members featured on the MTV reality series, The Hills. She also hosts The Talent Contest Network, YOBI.tv,and has starred in the films Sorority Row and Into The Blue 2.
Patridge has a new reality series in the series in the works, tenatively titled The Audrina Show.
After moving to Los Angeles, she was hired for a job at Quixote Studios as a receptionist. In 2005, Laguna Beach star Lauren Conrad and her best friend and roommate Heidi Montag moved into her building to shoot their MTV show The Hills. Audrina became friends with both girls and joined the cast of the series. In the 2nd through 5th Hills seasons, Audrina had been working for Epic Records.
On May 28, 2009, she confirmed during an interview on On Air with Ryan Seacrest that she was leaving The Hills to star in her own reality program documenting her life outside The Hills. Her final episode of the series was supposed to be on December 1, 2009. However, she later signed on for the series’ sixth (and final) season while her new series, produced by Mark Burnett, set to air on MTV in mid 2010, was put on hold due to The Hills. Patridge appeared in more episodes than any other cast member, and is the only original cast member to have lasted the entire run of the show.
On August 31st Patridge was confirmed as a contestant of Season 11 of Dancing With The Stars and her professional partner will be Tony Dovolani.
Patridge appeared in seven Carl’s Jr. commercials during 2009. She also has a small minor role/cameo in the 2011 comedy/drama Kids in America. She has denied rumors that she will play the part based on her friend Lauren Conrad in the film LA Candy based on the book by Conrad. If she signs to the role, this will be her first lead role.
August 25th’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate is Kendra Wilkinson. You voted. She’s:
Kendra Leigh Baskett was born June 12, 1985. She is also known professionally by her birth name of Kendra Wilkinson. She is well known for her role on the E! reality-television show The Girls Next Door, on which her life as one of Hugh Hefner’s three girlfriends was documented. Although not a Playboy Playmate, she has appeared in three nude pictorials with her Girls Next Door costars and fellow Hefner girlfriends Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. Her own reality series, Kendra, debuted in June 2009.
On September 22, 2008, the International Business Times reported that Wilkinson was engaged to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett.Wilkinson initially denied this, but she later admitted she was in a relationship with Baskett on October 7, 2008 in an interview with Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately. On November 6, 2008, E! Online announced Wilkinson and Baskett were engaged, after he proposed the previous Saturday at the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington.
Wilkinson married Baskett on June 27, 2009, at the Playboy Mansion. Although it was initially announced that Hugh Hefner would give the bride away, Kendra’s brother Colin walked her down the aisle. Wilkinson’s family was in attendance, as well as former Girls Next Door stars Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. Us Weekly paid the couple $120,000 for the wedding pictures. On the wedding episode of Kendra, Kendra and Hank said that Kendra would be taking Hank’s last name.
August 18th’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate is Tila Tequila. You voted. She’s:
Tila Nguyễn was born October 24, 1981 She is better known by her stage names Tila Tequila and Miss Tila. She is known for her appearances in the men’s magazines Stuff, Maxim, Penthouse, her role as host of the Fuse TV show featuring performance striptease, Pants-Off Dance-Off and her position as the most popular artist on MySpace (according to page views) circa April 2006. She was raised in Houston, Texas, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Her MTV reality show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila aired for two seasons.
August 11th’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate was Ali Larter. You voted. She’s:
Alison Elizabeth “Ali” Larter was born February 28, 1976. She began her screen career after several guest stints on television shows in the 1990s. From 2006 to 2010, Larter played the characters of Niki Sanders and then her identical long-separated sister Tracy Strauss on the NBC science fiction drama Heroes.
Larter began her career as a model but soon transitioned herself into acting. She received her breakthrough role in the 1999 film Varsity Blues. This was followed by the horror film House on Haunted Hill (1999), Final Destination (2000), and Legally Blonde (2001). Since then, she has starred in a string of projects including reprising her role in Final Destination 2 (2003), starring as the titular character in the Bollywood film Marigold (2007) and portraying the video game character Claire Redfield in the Resident Evil franchise. More recently, she starred in the 2009 thriller, Obsessed.
August 4th’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate was Carmen Electra. You voted. She’s:
Tara Leigh Patrick, professionally known as Carmen Electra, was born April 20, 1972. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game show Singled Out, on the TV series Baywatch, and dancing with the Pussycat Dolls, and has since had roles in the parody films Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie.
Electra started her professional career in 1990 as a dancer at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio in the show “It’s Magic”, one of the more popular shows in the park’s history. In 1991, she moved to California and met Prince. Soon after meeting Prince, Electra signed a recording contract with Prince’s Paisley Park Records and began a short-lived singing career. During her time at Paisley Park Records, she officially became known as Carmen Electra.
In 1995, Electra started appearing in television programs. In May 1996 she was featured in a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine, the first of several. This exposure led to higher profile television appearances, including Baywatch (cast member from 1997–1998, as Leilani “Lani” McKenzie) and MTV’s Singled Out. She returned to Baywatch for the 2003 reunion movie, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.
Electra was featured in Playboy four more times, with her second appearance in June 1997, third in December 2000, fourth in April 2003 and her fifth in the January 2009 anniversary issue. She was on the cover three times, in December 2000, April 2003 and on the 55th anniversary Issue in January 2009.
In 1999, she appeared in the Bloodhound Gang‘s music video of “The Inevitable Return of the Great White Dope.” In 2005, she joined the voice cast of the animated series Tripping the Rift, replacing Gina Gershon as the voice of the sexy android “Six”. Also in 2005, she began the Naked Women’s Wrestling League, acting as the commissioner for the professional wrestling promotion. In late 2006, Carmen began to be featured in commercials by Taco Bell.
Electra’s video game work includes appearing as characters in Def Jam: Fight for New York and is one of the celebrity challenges in the video game ESPN NFL 2K5.
Electra has produced exercise videos and equipment. Her Carmen Electra Aerobic Striptease is a five-disc DVD series that combines teaching classic stripping moves with a low impact cardio workout, which also starred Jon Eby. She also endorses the Electra Pole, a pole dancing kit released in January 2008.
In 1997, Electra modeled for the covers of the comic books Razor and the Ladies of London Night by London Night Studios.
Electra appeared in commercials for Maxim Men’s Hair Color products (2004–2005).
In 2006, Electra signed on as the spokesmodel for Ritz Camera Centers, appearing in their television and print ads with CEO David Ritz. She is featured in some video spoofs of Lonelygirl15 that advertised Epic Movie. That same year she appeared as the face and spokesperson for the MAX Factor Make-Up line (beginning in 2006) in their television and print ads.
July 28th’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate was Angie Harmon. You voted. She’s:
Angela Michelle “Angie” Harmon was born August 10, 1972. She became a well-known model in the 1990s and developed a career as a television star after roles on Baywatch Nights and Law & Order.
Harmon began acting in 1995 after being discovered on a plane by David Hasselhoff. She then starred in several television series, including Baywatch Nights, Baywatch and C-16: FBI. She also appeared in the 1998 film, Lawn Dogs, which received only a limited theatrical release. In the late 1990s, Harmon became better known by joining the long-running NBC series Law & Order, playing ADA Abbie Carmichael from 1998-2001. During this time, she also voiced Barbara Gordon in the animated film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, succeeding Stockard Channing in that role.
Harmon left Law & Order to concentrate on her film career, saying that she preferred working in film to television. After appearing in the 2001 direct-to-video film Good Advice, she had a supporting role in Agent Cody Banks (2003), playing the CIA handler of a teenage agent (Frankie Muniz). In 2006, Harmon co-starred with Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods in the direct-to-DVD political suspense drama End Game.
In 2006, Harmon starred as the lead in the ABC pilot Secrets of a Small Town, which did not go to series. She also starred in another failed television show on NBC, Inconceivable. The program was canceled after two episodes. The following year, she starred in another ABC pilot, Women’s Murder Club. The police drama was picked up, running 13 episodes.
Harmon was one of five actresses who posed discreetly nude for the May 2008 issue of Allure magazine, along Gabrielle Union, Zoe McLellan, Jill Scott, and Ana Ortiz.
Harmon co-stars with Sasha Alexander in the TNT crime-drama series Rizzoli & Isles, playing Boston, Massachusetts, police detective Jane Rizzoli. The show premiered July 12, 2010.
Harmon is married to former professional football player Jason Sehorn.
July 21st’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate was Scarlett Johansson. You voted. She’s:
Scarlett Johansson was born November 22, 1984. Johansson made her film debut in the 1994 film North and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in 1996′s Manny & Lo. Johansson rose to fame with her roles in 1998′s The Horse Whisperer and 2001′s Ghost World.
She made the transition to adult roles with her performances in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, for which she won a BAFTA Award, and Girl with a Pearl Earring, both of which earned her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003. A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long earned her a third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. Following an appearance in The Island, Johansson garnered a fourth Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Woody Allen’s Match Point. She followed that with another Allen film, Scoop, with Hugh Jackman. A role in Brian de Palma’s film noir The Black Dahlia was followed by a second role opposite Hugh Jackman in The Prestige, also starring Christian Bale.
Following a 2007 appearance in The Nanny Diaries, Johansson starred in the 2008 films The Other Boleyn Girl, opposite Natalie Portman and Eric Bana, and the Woody Allen-directed film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. She appeared in He’s Just Not That into You (2009) and as the anti-heroine Natasha Romanoff in Iron Man 2 (2010), with Robert Downey, Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson. Johansson won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her part in A View From the Bridge.
On May 20, 2008, Johansson debuted as a vocalist on her first album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, which included cover versions of Tom Waits songs. Her second album, Break Up, with Pete Yorn was released in September 2009.
July 14th’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate was Laura Linney. You voted. She’s:
Laura Leggett Linney was born February 5, 1964. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and once for the BAFTA Award. She will star in the upcoming Showtime original series, The Big C with Oliver Platt and Gabourey Sidibe.
Linney appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, including Dave in 1993, before coming to prominence in the public television mini-series Tales of the City. She was then cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including Congo, Primal Fear and Absolute Power. She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998 when she played Jim Carrey’s wife in The Truman Show, for which she received critical acclaim.
In 2000, Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the lower-budget film You Can Count on Me. The same year, she also appeared in the role of an artist’s model in the low-budget, critically praised film Maze with Rob Morrow. In 2003, Linney appeared in several notable films, including Mystic River, Love Actually and The Life of David Gale. Her 2004 performance in Kinsey, as the title character’s wife, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2005, Linney starred in horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose and the comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale; for the latter role, she received a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy”. In 2006, Linney appeared in the political satire Man of the Year, the comedy Driving Lessons (starring Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame), and the Australian drama Jindabyne by Ray Lawrence. Jindabyne was based on Raymond Carver’s short novel So Much Water so Close to Home.
In 2007, Linney appeared in the spy thriller Breach, The Nanny Diaries, opposite Scarlett Johansson and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, and The Savages, where Linney starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman. She received her third Academy Award nomination for this film – this time as Best Actress.
Recently, Linney starred in The Other Man, alongside Antonio Banderas and Liam Neeson, the latter whom she had acted alongside in Kinsey and Love Actually.
Linney starred as Mary Ann Singleton in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books (1993, 1998, and 2001). She won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie” for Wild Iris. In 2004, she had won her second Emmy Award as “Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series,” for her recurring role as the final love interest of Frasier Crane in the television series Frasier. In 2008, Linney won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Abigail Adams, wife of the second president of the United States, in the HBO mini-series John Adams. She also received a Golden Globe and SAG award for Best Performance by an Actress In a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in 2009 for this role.
In 1994 Linney guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order (episode “Blue Bamboo”) as “Martha Bowen”. She played a Blonde American singer who successfully claimed “Battered Woman Syndrome” as a defense to the murder of a Japanese businessman.
Laura Linney returns to series television as actress and executive producer in Showtime’s half-hour series about cancer, The Big C, which debuts in Summer 2010. She stars as a suburban wife and mother who explores the emotional ups and downs of a cancer battle, and the changes it brings to her life and her sense of who she is.
Linney’s extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler (for which she won a 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award), Holiday (based on the 1938 movie starring Katharine Hepburn), and her Best Actress Tony Award-nominated 2002 role in The Crucible (where she appeared alongside future The Exorcism Of Emily Rose co-star Jennifer Carpenter). She was nominated again in 2005 for Sight Unseen.
Linney also appeared on Sandra Boynton’s children’s CD, Philadelphia Chickens, on which she sings “Please Can I Keep It?”, and played La Marquise de Merteuil in a revival of Christopher Hampton’s play Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Linney recently finished a three month run on Broadway in the drama Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies. She received glowing reviews for her performance opposite Alicia Silverstone and Brian d’Arcy James. She was nominated for a 2010 Tony award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. It was announced on May 5, 2010 that Time Stands Still will return to Broadway with most of the cast from the Manhattan Theatre Club run intact.
Laura Linney was parodied on an episode of “Family Guy” (Ocean’s Three and a Half): Quagmire wanted to use Carter’s money to make a movie. The Cutaway shows Jeff Bridges and Linney starring in ‘Danger in Cincinnati’ with a voice over by Don LaFontaine.
July 7th’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate was Jillian Michaels. You voted. She’s:
Jillian Michaels was born February 18, 1974. She is a personal trainer from Los Angeles, California. Michaels is widely known for her appearance on The Biggest Loser.
Michaels began her career in exercise because she was overweight in her early teenage years. She showed a picture of herself when she was twelve years of age on the daytime syndicated medical talk show, The Doctors on January 6, 2009 saying that she was 175 pounds (79 kg). As a young adult, she was enrolled in a martial arts class by her mother, which was a new beginning for Michaels. Thereafter she dedicated herself to helping the overweight transform their lives and their bodies for the better.
She uses a blend of strength training techniques with her clients, including kickboxing, yoga, Pilates, plyometrics, and weight training.
According to her official homepage, “Jillian lives in Los Angeles. She is a celebrity advisor to National Day of Dance for Heart Health, an organization that encourages people to make exercise fun and to laugh, learn and dance to a healthier heart.” She has several exercise DVDs.
Jillian Michaels hosted a Sunday talk radio show on Los Angeles’ KFI (640 AM).
On October 21, 2008, she launched a new video game called Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for the Nintendo Wii. A year later, she launched a sequel called Fitness Ultimatum 2010.
Michaels’ business partner and manager is Giancarlo Chersich. Together they operate Empowered Media.
On October 20, 2009, NBC announced that she will be starring in a new spin-off reality series entitled Losing It With Jillian. The show debuted on June 1, 2010.
June 13st’s “HOT or NOT?” candidate was Angelina Jolie. You voted. She’s:
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as one of the world’s most attractive people, as well as the world’s “most beautiful” woman, titles for which she has received substantial media attention.
Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin’ to Get Out, Jolie’s acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.
