Vanessa Minnillo (born November 9, 1980 in the Philippines) is a television personality who was Miss Teen USA 1998.

She was born at Clark Air Base to an American serviceman father of Irish/Italian extraction, Vince Minnillo, and a Filipina mother, Helen Berecero. She moved around, but eventually grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. She became Miss Teen South Carolina in 1997 and then Miss Teen USA in 1998. She has hosted TRL on MTV since 2003. Also, in 2005, she became a reporter for the entertainment news shows, Entertainment Tonight.

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