About Vanessa Lachey
Vanessa Joy Lachey is an American television host, model and actress. She was named Miss Teen USA in 1998. She has been a New York–based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and hosted Total Request Live on MTV. She has starred in two network sitcoms and hosted various competition and reality shows. Lachey portrayed the lead role in the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021–2024) for three seasons. She has said she had "a very rocky, challenging, and tumultuous childhood." Lachey was crowned Miss South Carolina Teen USA and won the title Miss Teen USA in 1998. Lachey became a co-host of ABC's game show Wipeout in December 2011. On October 30, Lachey and Chmerkovskiy became the seventh couple eliminated from the competition, finishing in joint seventh place.
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